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Boydell, John, 1719-1804 / The gallery of illustrations for Shakespeare's dramatic works
(1874)

[Plate III.-Plate VI.] The tempest


             PLATE III.
   The
      Tern/es 1.
             Act I.  Scene IL
 THE ISLAND.   BEFORE PROSPERO'S CELL.
      The Shipwreck as related by ARIEL.
 Arid.-                     Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
Some tricks of desperation.  All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring, -then like reeds, not hair,-
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.'
         Painted by GEORGE ROMNEY.


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