, I can. By what? by any other house or person? Of any thing the image tell me that Hath kept with thy remembrance. 'Tis far off And rather like a dream than an assurance That my remembrance warrants. Had I not Four or five women once that tended me? Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here, How thou camest here thou mayst. But that I do not. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Thy father was the Duke of Milan and A prince of power. Sir, are not you my father? Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir And princess no worse issued. O the heavens! What foul play had we, that we came from thence? Or blessed was't we did? Both, both, my girl: By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence, But blessedly holp hither. O, my heart bleeds To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to, Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio-- I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself Of all the world I loved and to him put The manage of my state; as at that time Through all the signories it was the first And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed In dignity, and for the liberal arts Without a parallel; those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-- Dost thou attend me? Sir, most heedfully. Being once perfected how to grant suits, How to deny them, who to advance and who To trash for over-topping, new created The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em, Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not. O, good sir, I do. I pray thee, mark me. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind With that which, but by being so retired, O'er-prized all popular rate,