ABSTRACT

That hath to Instrument, this lower World And what is in’t, the never-surfeited Sea Hath caus’d to belch up: [3.3.53ff.]

This whole Speech of Ariel’s is beautifully imagined, to set the Sense of their Guilt in such a glaring Light as to awaken their Remorse (which all their Sufferings had not been able to do) and to point out the only Means of Relief,

…Hearts Sorrow, And a clear Life ensuing. [3.3.81f.]

These moral Strokes which abound in Shakespeare prove him a good Man, as well as a great Poet.