Not a hair perished;
On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
In troops I have dispersed them ’bout the isle.
The king’s son have I landed by himself;
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
His arms in this sad knot.
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2. In reply to Prospero, Ariel assures that the shipwreck passengers are all safe, not a hair on their head was harmed and there was not even a blemish on their garments. In keeping with Prospero’s orders, they were scattered over the island, Ariel himself brought the king’s son Ferdinand to safety and he was sitting in a corner of the island feeling sad.