WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess. Miranda: Sweet lord, you play me false. Ferdinand: No, my dearest love, I would not for the world. Miranda: Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, And I would call it fair play. Alonso: If this prove A vision of the island, one dear son Shall I twice lose. Sebastian: A most high miracle! Ferdinand: Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have curs'd them without cause. [Kneels] Alonso: Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise, and say how thou cam'st here. Miranda: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in't! Prospero: 'Tis new to thee. Alonso: What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours; Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together? Ferdinand: Sir, she is mortal; But by immortal Providence she's mine. I chose her when I could not ask my father For his advice, nor thought I had one. She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown But never saw before; of whom I have Receiv'd a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me. Alonso: I am hers. But, O, how oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness! Prospero: There, sir, stop; Let us not burden our remembrances with A heaviness that's gone. [from Act 5 Scene 1]