1 Here is everything advantageous to life.
2 For one thing she did They would not take her life.
3 If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber and beware.
4 Mooncalf, speak once in thy life, if thou be'st a good mooncalf.
5 I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.
6 We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
7 I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and his confederates Against my life.
8 So, with good life And observation strange, my meaner ministers Their several kinds have done.
9 These three have robbed me, and this demi-devil, For he's a bastard one, had plotted with them To take my life.
10 She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown, But never saw before, of whom I have Received a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me.
11 Sir, I invite your Highness and your train To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest For this one night, which part of it I'll waste With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it Go quick away: the story of my life And the particular accidents gone by Since I came to this isle.
12 Thee of thy son, Alonso, They have bereft; and do pronounce by me Ling'ring perdition, worse than any death Can be at once, shall step by step attend You and your ways, whose wraths to guard you from--Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads--is nothing but heart's sorrow And a clear life ensuing.
13 As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can shall never melt Mine honor into lust to take away The edge of that day's celebration When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are foundered Or night kept chained below.'