by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874)
All hail, great master! Grave Sir, hail!...
Language: English
Arial: All hail, great master! Grave Sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; be it to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curled clouds, -- to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality. [Prospero: Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?]1 Ariel: I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement: sometime [I'ld]2 divide, And burn in many [places;]3 [on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake.]1
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View original text (without footnotes)1 omitted by Saariaho.
2 Saariaho: "I'd"
3 Saariaho: "places."
Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2 (Ariel) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Kaija Saariaho (1952 - 2023), "Ariel's Hail", 2000, published 2004? [ soprano, harp, and flute ], from The Tempest Songbook, no. 1
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Andrea Maffei) , no title, first published 1869
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-21
Line count: 20
Word count: 125
Profond salut, mon noble maître ; sage...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Ariel: Profond salut, mon noble maître ; sage seigneur, salut ! Je suis là pour attendre ton bon plaisir : soit qu'il faille voler, ou nager, ou plonger dans les flammes, ou voyager sur les nuages onduleux, soumets à tes ordres puissants Ariel et toutes ses facultés. Prospero : Esprit, as-tu exécuté de point en point la tempête que je t'ai commandée ? Ariel : Jusqu'au plus petit détail. J'ai abordé le vaisseau du roi, et tour à tour sur la proue, dans les flancs, sur le tillac, dans les cabines, partout j'ai allumé l'épouvante. Tantôt, je me divisais et je brûlais en plusieurs endroits à la fois, tantôt je flambais séparément sur le grand mât, le mât de beaupré, les vergues ; puis je rapprochais et unissais toutes ces flammes : les éclairs de Jupiter, précurseurs des terribles éclats du tonnerre, n'étaient pas plus passagers, n'échappaient pas plus rapidement à la vue ; le feu, les craquements du soufre mugissant, semblaient assiéger le tout-puissant Neptune, faire trembler ses vagues audacieuses, et secouer jusqu'à son trident redouté.
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Text Authorship:
- by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2 (Ariel)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-01
Line count: 21
Word count: 165