Beautiful song: Loreena McKennitt – Prospero’s speech (lyrics)

From The Tempest by Shakespeare
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More music by Loreena McKennitt

Lines from Prospero: https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/characters/charlines.php?CharID=Prospero&WorkID=tempest&cues=1 include this speech, the full version:

Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine own,
Which is most faint: now, ’tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon’d the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon’d be,
Let your indulgence set me free.

Also:

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.

Aldous Huxley took the title of his most famous novel from the above line in the Tempest. One of the methods used by the scientific dicatorship in Brave New World (besides drugs) is immersive entertainment with its hypnotic false realities.