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Ariel speaks to the sinners
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Ariel speaks to the sinners

William Shakespeare, from The Tempest

Here’s the scene. You’re Alonso, the king of Naples, and you have a very uneasy conscience. Many years ago, your greed and ambition got the better of you, and you helped a wicked man set his brother Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, on board a rotten and leaky hull, with his baby daughter Miranda, to die at sea without the people of Milan suspecti…

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