SHAKESPEARE AND THE SEA. 



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But neither he nor his master the king suffers death by shipwreck, for amiable and 

 tender-hearted Miranda intercedes with her father. Prospero reassures her, though Ariel, it 



AFTER THE STORM. 



will be remembered, had been playing many a prank on the unsuspecting mariners, and 



with lightning and thunder-claps and " sulphurous roaring," had fairly frightened them 



out of their wits. All but the mariners had "plunged in the foaming brine and quitted 

 the vessel " : 



