1 The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
2 I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat.
3 Shortly shall all my labors end, and thou Shalt have the air at freedom.
4 The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
5 solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boiled within thy skull.
6 The King's son have I landed by himself, Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot.
7 Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the King my father's wrack, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air.
8 I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking, So full of valor that they smote the air For breathing in their faces, beat the ground For kissing of their feet; yet always bending Towards their project.
9 These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.