Readers familiar with Shakespeare's late plays will see the strong similarities, and equally strong differences, between this underwater vision and that described in Ariel's second song in The Tempest, where again we find skulls and jewels beneath the sea, but imagined as free from the macabre terror of death that seizes upon Clarence: Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. The Tempest 1.2.400–405
