Tales From Shakespeare,THE TEMPEST,First Part

There was a certain  island in the sea,the only inhabitants of which were an old man,whose name was Prospero,and his daughter Miranda,a very beautiful young lady.She came to this island so young,that she had no memory  of having seen any other human fce than her father.

The live in a cave or cell,made out of a rock;It was divided into several apartments,one of which prospero called his study;there he kept this book,which chiefly treated of magic,a study at that time much affected by all learned men:and the knowledge of this art he found very useful to him;for being thrown by a strange chance upon this island,which had been enchanted by a witch called Sycorax,who died there a short time before his arrival,Prospero,by virtue of his art,released many good spirits that Sycorax had imprisoned in the bodies of large tree,because they had refused to exceute her wicked commands.These gentle spirits were ever after obedient to the will of Prospero.Of these Ariel was the chief.

The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature,except that he look rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban,for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.This Caliban,prospero found in the woods a strange misshapen thing,far less human in from than an ape:he look him home to his cell,and taught him to speak;and prospero would have been very kind to him,but the bad nature which Caliban inherited from his mother Sycorax,would not let him learn anything good of useful:therefore he was employed like a slave,to fetch wood,and do the most laborious offices;and Ariel had the charge of compelling him these servies.