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<H3>ACT I</h3>
<h3>PROLOGUE</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter GOWER</i>
</blockquote>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Before the palace of Antioch</i>
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<A NAME=1.0.1>To sing a song that old was sung,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.2>From ashes ancient Gower is come;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.3>Assuming man's infirmities,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.4>To glad your ear, and please your eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.5>It hath been sung at festivals,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.6>On ember-eves and holy-ales;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.7>And lords and ladies in their lives</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.8>Have read it for restoratives:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.9>The purchase is to make men glorious;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.10>Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.11>If you, born in these latter times,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.12>When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.13>And that to hear an old man sing</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.14>May to your wishes pleasure bring</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.15>I life would wish, and that I might</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.16>Waste it for you, like taper-light.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.17>This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.18>Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.19>The fairest in all Syria,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.20>I tell you what mine authors say:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.21>This king unto him took a fere,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.22>Who died and left a female heir,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.23>So buxom, blithe, and full of face,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.24>As heaven had lent her all his grace;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.25>With whom the father liking took,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.26>And her to incest did provoke:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.27>Bad child; worse father! to entice his own</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.28>To evil should be done by none:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.29>But custom what they did begin</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.30>Was with long use account no sin.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.31>The beauty of this sinful dame</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.32>Made many princes thither frame,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.33>To seek her as a bed-fellow,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.34>In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.35>Which to prevent he made a law,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.36>To keep her still, and men in awe,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.37>That whoso ask'd her for his wife,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.38>His riddle told not, lost his life:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.39>So for her many a wight did die,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.40>As yon grim looks do testify.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.41>What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye</A><br>
<A NAME=1.0.42>I give, my cause who best can justify.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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<h3>SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.1>Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.2>The danger of the task you undertake.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>PERICLES</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.3>I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.4>Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.5>Think death no hazard in this enterprise.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.6>Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.7>For the embracements even of Jove himself;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.8>At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.9>Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.10>The senate-house of planets all did sit,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.11>To knit in her their best perfections.</A><br>
<p><i>Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>PERICLES</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.12>See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.13>Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.14>Of every virtue gives renown to men!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.15>Her face the book of praises, where is read</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.16>Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.17>Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.18>Could never be her mild companion.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.19>You gods that made me man, and sway in love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.20>That have inflamed desire in my breast</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.21>To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.22>Or die in the adventure, be my helps,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.23>As I am son and servant to your will,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.24>To compass such a boundless happiness!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.25>Prince Pericles,--</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>PERICLES</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.26>That would be son to great Antiochus.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.27>Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.28>With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.29>For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.30>Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.31>Her countless glory, which desert must gain;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.32>And which, without desert, because thine eye</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.33>Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.34>Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.35>Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.36>Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.37>That without covering, save yon field of stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.38>Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.39>And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.40>For going on death's net, whom none resist.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>PERICLES</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.41>Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.42>My frail mortality to know itself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.43>And by those fearful objects to prepare</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.44>This body, like to them, to what I must;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.45>For death remember'd should be like a mirror,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.46>Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.47>I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.48>Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.49>Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.50>So I bequeath a happy peace to you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.51>And all good men, as every prince should do;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.52>My riches to the earth from whence they came;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.53>But my unspotted fire of love to you.</A><br>
<p><i>To the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.54>Thus ready for the way of life or death,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.55>I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.56>Scorning advice, read the conclusion then:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.57>Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.58>As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>Daughter</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.59>Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.60>Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>PERICLES</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.61>Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.62>Nor ask advice of any other thought</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.63>But faithfulness and courage.</A><br>
<p><i>He reads the riddle</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.64>I am no viper, yet I feed</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.65>On mother's flesh which did me breed.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.66>I sought a husband, in which labour</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.67>I found that kindness in a father:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.68>He's father, son, and husband mild;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.69>I mother, wife, and yet his child.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.70>How they may be, and yet in two,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.71>As you will live, resolve it you.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.72>Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.73>That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.74>Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.75>If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.76>Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,</A><br>
<p><i>Takes hold of the hand of the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.77>Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.78>But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.79>For he's no man on whom perfections wait</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.80>That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.81>You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.82>Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.83>Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.84>But being play'd upon before your time,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.85>Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.86>Good sooth, I care not for you.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.87>Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.88>For that's an article within our law,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.89>As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.90>Either expound now, or receive your sentence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.91>Great king,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.92>Few love to hear the sins they love to act;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.93>'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.94>Who has a book of all that monarchs do,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.95>He's more secure to keep it shut than shown:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.96>For vice repeated is like the wandering wind.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.97>Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.98>And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.99>The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.100>To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.101>Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.102>By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.103>Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.104>their will;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.105>And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.106>It is enough you know; and it is fit,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.107>What being more known grows worse, to smother it.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.108>All love the womb that their first being bred,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.109>Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.110>[Aside] Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.111>the meaning:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.112>But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.113>Though by the tenor of our strict edict,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.114>Your exposition misinterpreting,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.115>We might proceed to cancel of your days;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.116>Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.117>As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.118>Forty days longer we do respite you;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.119>If by which time our secret be undone,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.120>This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.121>And until then your entertain shall be</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.122>As doth befit our honour and your worth.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but PERICLES</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.123>How courtesy would seem to cover sin,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.124>When what is done is like an hypocrite,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.125>The which is good in nothing but in sight!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.126>If it be true that I interpret false,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.127>Then were it certain you were not so bad</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.128>As with foul incest to abuse your soul;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.129>Where now you're both a father and a son,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.130>By your untimely claspings with your child,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.131>Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.132>And she an eater of her mother's flesh,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.133>By the defiling of her parent's bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.134>And both like serpents are, who though they feed</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.135>On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.136>Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.137>Blush not in actions blacker than the night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.138>Will shun no course to keep them from the light.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.139>One sin, I know, another doth provoke;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.140>Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.141>Poison and treason are the hands of sin,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.142>Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.143>Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.144>By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter ANTIOCHUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.145>He hath found the meaning, for which we mean</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.146>To have his head.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.147>He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.148>Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.149>In such a loathed manner;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.150>And therefore instantly this prince must die:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.151>For by his fall my honour must keep high.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.152>Who attends us there?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter THALIARD</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.153>Doth your highness call?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.154>Thaliard,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.155>You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.156>Her private actions to your secrecy;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.157>And for your faithfulness we will advance you.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.158>Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.159>We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.160>It fits thee not to ask the reason why,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.161>Because we bid it. Say, is it done?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.162>My lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.163>'Tis done.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.164> Enough.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.165>Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.166>My lord, prince Pericles is fled.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.167>As thou</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.168>Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.169>From a well-experienced archer hits the mark</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.170>His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.171>Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.172>My lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.173>If I can get him within my pistol's length,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.174>I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>ANTIOCHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.175>Thaliard, adieu!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit THALIARD</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.176>Till Pericles be dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.177>My heart can lend no succor to my head.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Tyre. A room in the palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter PERICLES</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.1>[To Lords without] Let none disturb us.--Why should</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.2>this change of thoughts,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.3>The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.4>Be my so used a guest as not an hour,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.5>In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.6>The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.7>Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.8>And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.9>Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.10>Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.11>Nor yet the other's distance comfort me.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.12>Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.13>That have their first conception by mis-dread,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.14>Have after-nourishment and life by care;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.15>And what was first but fear what might be done,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.16>Grows elder now and cares it be not done.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.17>And so with me: the great Antiochus,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.18>'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.19>Since he's so great can make his will his act,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.20>Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.21>Nor boots it me to say I honour him.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.22>If he suspect I may dishonour him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.23>And what may make him blush in being known,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.24>He'll stop the course by which it might be known;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.25>With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.26>And with the ostent of war will look so huge,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.27>Amazement shall drive courage from the state;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.28>Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.29>And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.30>Which care of them, not pity of myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.31>Who am no more but as the tops of trees,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.32>Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.33>Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.34>And punish that before that he would punish.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.35>Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.36>And keep your mind, till you return to us,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.37>Peaceful and comfortable!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.38>Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.39>They do abuse the king that flatter him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.40>For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.41>The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.42>To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.43>Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.44>Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.45>When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.46>He flatters you, makes war upon your life.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.47>Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.48>I cannot be much lower than my knees.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.49>All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.50>What shipping and what lading's in our haven,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.51>And then return to us.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Lords</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.52>Helicanus, thou</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.53>Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.54>An angry brow, dread lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.55>If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.56>How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.57>How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.58>They have their nourishment?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.59>Thou know'st I have power</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.60>To take thy life from thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.61>[Kneeling]</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.62>I have ground the axe myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.63>Do you but strike the blow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.64>Rise, prithee, rise.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.65>Sit down: thou art no flatterer:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.66>I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.67>That kings should let their ears hear their</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.68>faults hid!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.69>Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.70>Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.71>What wouldst thou have me do?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.72>To bear with patience</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.73>Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.74>Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.75>That minister'st a potion unto me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.76>That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.77>Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.78>Where as thou know'st, against the face of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.79>I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.80>From whence an issue I might propagate,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.81>Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.82>Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.83>The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.84>Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.85>Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.86>know'st this,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.87>'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.88>Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.89>Under the covering of a careful night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.90>Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.91>Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.92>I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.93>Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.94>And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.95>That I should open to the listening air</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.96>How many worthy princes' bloods were shed,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.97>To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.98>To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.99>And make pretence of wrong that I have done him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.100>When all, for mine, if I may call offence,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.101>Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.102>Which love to all, of which thyself art one,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.103>Who now reprovest me for it,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.104>Alas, sir!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.105>Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.106>Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.107>How I might stop this tempest ere it came;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.108>And finding little comfort to relieve them,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.109>I thought it princely charity to grieve them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.110>Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.111>Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.112>And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.113>Who either by public war or private treason</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.114>Will take away your life.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.115>Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.116>Till that his rage and anger be forgot,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.117>Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.118>Your rule direct to any; if to me.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.119>Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.120>I do not doubt thy faith;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.121>But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.122>We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.123>From whence we had our being and our birth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.124>Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.125>Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.126>And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.127>The care I had and have of subjects' good</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.128>On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.129>I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.130>Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.131>But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.132>That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.133>Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter THALIARD</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.1>So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.2>kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.3>be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.4>he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.5>being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.6>he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.7>had some reason for't; for if a king bid a man be a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.8>villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.9>be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.10>You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.11>Further to question me of your king's departure:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.12>His seal'd commission, left in trust with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.13>Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.14>[Aside] How! the king gone!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.15>If further yet you will be satisfied,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.16>Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.17>He would depart, I'll give some light unto you.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.18>Being at Antioch--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.19>[Aside] What from Antioch?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.20>Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.21>Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.22>And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.23>To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.24>So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.25>With whom each minute threatens life or death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.26>[Aside] Well, I perceive</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.27>I shall not be hang'd now, although I would;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.28>But since he's gone, the king's seas must please:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.29>He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.30>I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.31>Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>THALIARD</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.32>From him I come</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.33>With message unto princely Pericles;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.34>But since my landing I have understood</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.35>Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.36>My message must return from whence it came.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.37>We have no reason to desire it,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.38>Commended to our master, not to us:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.39>Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.40>As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEON, the governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA, and others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.1>My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.2>And by relating tales of others' griefs,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.3>See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.4>That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.5>For who digs hills because they do aspire</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.6>Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.7>O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.8>Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.9>But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.10>O Dionyza,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.11>Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.12>Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.13>Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.14>Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.15>Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.16>That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.17>They may awake their helps to comfort them.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.18>I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.19>And wanting breath to speak help me with tears.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.20>I'll do my best, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.21>This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.22>A city on whom plenty held full hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.23>For riches strew'd herself even in the streets;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.24>Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.25>And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.26>Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.27>Like one another's glass to trim them by:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.28>Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.29>And not so much to feed on as delight;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.30>All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.31>The name of help grew odious to repeat.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.32>O, 'tis too true.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.33>But see what heaven can do! By this our change,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.34>These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.35>Were all too little to content and please,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.36>Although they gave their creatures in abundance,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.37>As houses are defiled for want of use,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.38>They are now starved for want of exercise:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.39>Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.40>Must have inventions to delight the taste,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.41>Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.42>Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.43>Thought nought too curious, are ready now</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.44>To eat those little darlings whom they loved.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.45>So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.46>Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.47>Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.48>Here many sink, yet those which see them fall</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.49>Have scarce strength left to give them burial.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.50>Is not this true?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.51>Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.52>O, let those cities that of plenty's cup</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.53>And her prosperities so largely taste,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.54>With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.55>The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Lord</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.56>Where's the lord governor?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.57>Here.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.58>Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.59>For comfort is too far for us to expect.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.60>We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.61>A portly sail of ships make hitherward.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.62>I thought as much.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.63>One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.64>That may succeed as his inheritor;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.65>And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.66>Taking advantage of our misery,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.67>Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.68>To beat us down, the which are down already;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.69>And make a conquest of unhappy me,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.70>Whereas no glory's got to overcome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.71>That's the least fear; for, by the semblance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.72>Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.73>And come to us as favourers, not as foes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.74>Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.75>Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.76>But bring they what they will and what they can,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.77>What need we fear?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.78>The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.79>Go tell their general we attend him here,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.80>To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.81>And what he craves.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.82>I go, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.83>Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.84>If wars, we are unable to resist.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PERICLES with Attendants</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.85>Lord governor, for so we hear you are,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.86>Let not our ships and number of our men</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.87>Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.88>We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.89>And seen the desolation of your streets:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.90>Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.91>But to relieve them of their heavy load;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.92>And these our ships, you happily may think</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.93>Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.94>With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.95>Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.96>And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.97>The gods of Greece protect you!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.98>And we'll pray for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.99>Arise, I pray you, rise:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.100>We do not look for reverence, but to love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.101>And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.102>The which when any shall not gratify,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.103>Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.104>Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.105>The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.106>Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.107>Your grace is welcome to our town and us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.108>Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.109>Until our stars that frown lend us a smile.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT II</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter GOWER</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.110>Here have you seen a mighty king</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.111>His child, I wis, to incest bring;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.112>A better prince and benign lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.113>That will prove awful both in deed and word.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.114>Be quiet then as men should be,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.115>Till he hath pass'd necessity.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.116>I'll show you those in troubles reign,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.117>Losing a mite, a mountain gain.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.118>The good in conversation,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.119>To whom I give my benison,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.120>Is still at Tarsus, where each man</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.121>Thinks all is writ he speken can;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.122>And, to remember what he does,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.123>Build his statue to make him glorious:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.124>But tidings to the contrary</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.125>Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.126>DUMB SHOW.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON; all the train with them. Enter at another door a Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES; PERICLES shows the letter to CLEON; gives the Messenger a reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one door, and CLEON at another</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.127>Good Helicane, that stay'd at home,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.128>Not to eat honey like a drone</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.129>From others' labours; for though he strive</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.130>To killen bad, keep good alive;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.131>And to fulfil his prince' desire,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.132>Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.133>How Thaliard came full bent with sin</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.134>And had intent to murder him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.135>And that in Tarsus was not best</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.136>Longer for him to make his rest.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.137>He, doing so, put forth to seas,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.138>Where when men been, there's seldom ease;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.139>For now the wind begins to blow;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.140>Thunder above and deeps below</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.141>Make such unquiet, that the ship</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.142>Should house him safe is wreck'd and split;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.143>And he, good prince, having all lost,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.144>By waves from coast to coast is tost:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.145>All perishen of man, of pelf,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.146>Ne aught escapen but himself;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.147>Till fortune, tired with doing bad,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.148>Threw him ashore, to give him glad:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.149>And here he comes. What shall be next,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.150>Pardon old Gower,--this longs the text.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter PERICLES, wet</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.1>Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.2>Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.3>Is but a substance that must yield to you;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.4>And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.5>Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.6>Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.7>Nothing to think on but ensuing death:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.8>Let it suffice the greatness of your powers</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.9>To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.10>And having thrown him from your watery grave,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.11>Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter three FISHERMEN</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.12>What, ho, Pilch!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.13>Ha, come and bring away the nets!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.14>What, Patch-breech, I say!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Third Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.15>What say you, master?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.16>Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.17>fetch thee with a wanion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Third Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.18>Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.19>were cast away before us even now.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.20>Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.21>pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.22>well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Third Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.23>Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.24>porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.25>they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.26>they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.27>marvel how the fishes live in the sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.28>Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.29>little ones: I can compare our rich misers to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.30>nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.31>tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.32>last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.33>have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.34>till they've swallowed the whole parish, church,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.35>steeple, bells, and all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.36>[Aside] A pretty moral.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Third Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.37>But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.38>been that day in the belfry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.39>Why, man?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Third Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.40>Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.41>had been in his belly, I would have kept such a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.42>jangling of the bells, that he should never have</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.43>left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.44>parish up again. But if the good King Simonides</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.45>were of my mind,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.46>[Aside] Simonides!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Third Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.47>We would purge the land of these drones, that rob</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.48>the bee of her honey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.49>[Aside] How from the finny subject of the sea</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.50>These fishers tell the infirmities of men;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.51>And from their watery empire recollect</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.52>All that may men approve or men detect!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.53>Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.54>Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.55>fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.56>look after it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.57>May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.58>What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.59>way!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.60>A man whom both the waters and the wind,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.61>In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.62>For them to play upon, entreats you pity him:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.63>He asks of you, that never used to beg.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.64>No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.65>country Greece gets more with begging than we can do</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.66>with working.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.67>Canst thou catch any fishes, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.68>I never practised it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.69>Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.70>to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.71>What I have been I have forgot to know;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.72>But what I am, want teaches me to think on:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.73>A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.74>And have no more of life than may suffice</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.75>To give my tongue that heat to ask your help;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.76>Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.77>For that I am a man, pray see me buried.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.78>Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.79>come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.80>handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.81>we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.82>fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.83>and thou shalt be welcome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.84>I thank you, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.85>Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.86>I did but crave.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.87>But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.88>shall 'scape whipping.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.89>Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.90>O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.91>beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.92>than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.93>net.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit with Third Fisherman</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.94>[Aside] How well this honest mirth becomes their labour!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.95>Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.96>Not well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.97>Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.98>our king the good Simonides.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.99>The good King Simonides, do you call him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.100>Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.101>peaceable reign and good government.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.102>He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.103>the name of good by his government. How far is his</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.104>court distant from this shore?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.105>Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.106>you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.107>birth-day; and there are princes and knights come</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.108>from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.109>Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.110>to make one there.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.111>O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.112>cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.113>Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.114>like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.115>come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.116>'tis turned to a rusty armour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.117>An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.118>Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.119>Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.120>And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.121>Which my dead father did bequeath to me.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.122>With this strict charge, even as he left his life,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.123>'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.124>Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.125>'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.126>The which the gods protect thee from!--may</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.127>defend thee.'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.128>It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.129>Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.130>Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.131>I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.132>Since I have here my father's gift in's will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.133>What mean you, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.134>To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.135>For it was sometime target to a king;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.136>I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.137>And for his sake I wish the having of it;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.138>And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.139>Where with it I may appear a gentleman;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.140>And if that ever my low fortune's better,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.141>I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.142>Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.143>I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>First Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.144>Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.145>Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.146>this garment through the rough seams of the waters:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.147>there are certain condolements, certain vails. I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.148>hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.149>whence you had it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.150>Believe 't, I will.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.151>By your furtherance I am clothed in steel;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.152>And, spite of all the rapture of the sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.153>This jewel holds his building on my arm:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.154>Unto thy value I will mount myself</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.155>Upon a courser, whose delightful steps</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.156>Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.157>Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.158>Of a pair of bases.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>Second Fisherman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.159>We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.160>make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.161>Then honour be but a goal to my will,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.162>This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. The same. A public way or platform leading to the</h3>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.1>lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.2>reception of King, Princess, Lords, & c.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.3>Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.4>They are, my liege;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.5>And stay your coming to present themselves.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.6>Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.7>In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.8>Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.9>For men to see, and seeing wonder at.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit a Lord</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.10>It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.11>My commendations great, whose merit's less.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.12>It's fit it should be so; for princes are</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.13>A model which heaven makes like to itself:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.14>As jewels lose their glory if neglected,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.15>So princes their renowns if not respected.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.16>'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.17>The labour of each knight in his device.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.18>Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Knight; he passes over, and his Squire presents his shield to the Princess</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.19>Who is the first that doth prefer himself?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.20>A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.21>And the device he bears upon his shield</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.22>Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.23>The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.24>He loves you well that holds his life of you.</A><br>
<p><i>The Second Knight passes over</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.25>Who is the second that presents himself?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.26>A prince of Macedon, my royal father;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.27>And the device he bears upon his shield</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.28>Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.29>The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.'</A><br>
<p><i>The Third Knight passes over</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.30>And what's the third?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.31>The third of Antioch;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.32>And his device, a wreath of chivalry;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.33>The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'</A><br>
<p><i>The Fourth Knight passes over</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.34>What is the fourth?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.35>A burning torch that's turned upside down;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.36>The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.37>Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.38>Which can as well inflame as it can kill.</A><br>
<p><i>The Fifth Knight passes over</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.39>The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.40>Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.41>The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'</A><br>
<p><i>The Sixth Knight, PERICLES, passes over</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.42>And what's</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.43>The sixth and last, the which the knight himself</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.44>With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.45>He seems to be a stranger; but his present is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.46>A wither'd branch, that's only green at top;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.47>The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.48>A pretty moral;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.49>From the dejected state wherein he is,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.50>He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.51>He had need mean better than his outward show</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.52>Can any way speak in his just commend;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.53>For by his rusty outside he appears</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.54>To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Second Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.55>He well may be a stranger, for he comes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.56>To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>Third Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.57>And on set purpose let his armour rust</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.58>Until this day, to scour it in the dust.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.59>Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.60>The outward habit by the inward man.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.61>But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.62>Into the gallery.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><i>Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!'</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and Knights, from tilting</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.1>Knights,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.2>To say you're welcome were superfluous.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.3>To place upon the volume of your deeds,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.4>As in a title-page, your worth in arms,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.5>Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.6>Since every worth in show commends itself.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.7>Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.8>You are princes and my guests.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.9>But you, my knight and guest;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.10>To whom this wreath of victory I give,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.11>And crown you king of this day's happiness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.12>'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.13>Call it by what you will, the day is yours;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.14>And here, I hope, is none that envies it.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.15>In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.16>To make some good, but others to exceed;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.17>And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.18>the feast,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.19>For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.20>Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>KNIGHTS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.21>We are honour'd much by good Simonides.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.22>Your presence glads our days: honour we love;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.23>For who hates honour hates the gods above.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Marshal</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.24>Sir, yonder is your place.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.25>Some other is more fit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>First Knight</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.26>Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.27>That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.28>Envy the great nor do the low despise.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.29>You are right courteous knights.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.30>Sit, sir, sit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.31>By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.32>These cates resist me, she but thought upon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.33>By Juno, that is queen of marriage,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.34>All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.35>Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.36>He's but a country gentleman;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.37>Has done no more than other knights have done;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.38>Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.39>To me he seems like diamond to glass.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.40>Yon king's to me like to my father's picture,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.41>Which tells me in that glory once he was;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.42>Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.43>And he the sun, for them to reverence;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.44>None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.45>Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.46>Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.47>The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.48>Whereby I see that Time's the king of men,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.49>He's both their parent, and he is their grave,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.50>And gives them what he will, not what they crave.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.51>What, are you merry, knights?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Knights</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.52>Who can be other in this royal presence?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.53>Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.54>As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.55>We drink this health to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>KNIGHTS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.56>We thank your grace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.57>Yet pause awhile:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.58>Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.59>As if the entertainment in our court</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.60>Had not a show might countervail his worth.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.61>Note it not you, Thaisa?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.62>What is it</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.63>To me, my father?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.64> O, attend, my daughter:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.65>Princes in this should live like gods above,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.66>Who freely give to every one that comes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.67>To honour them:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.68>And princes not doin g so are like to gnats,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.69>Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.70>Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.71>Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.72>Alas, my father, it befits not me</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.73>Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.74>He may my proffer take for an offence,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.75>Since men take women's gifts for impudence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.76>How!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.77>Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.78>[Aside] Now, by the gods, he could not please me better.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.79>And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.80>Of whence he is, his name and parentage.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.81>The king my father, sir, has drunk to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.82>I thank him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.83>Wishing it so much blood unto your life.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.84>I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.85>And further he desires to know of you,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.86>Of whence you are, your name and parentage.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.87>A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.88>My education been in arts and arms;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.89>Who, looking for adventures in the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.90>Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.91>And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.92>He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.93>A gentleman of Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.94>Who only by misfortune of the seas</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.95>Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.96>Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.97>And will awake him from his melancholy.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.98>Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.99>And waste the time, which looks for other revels.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.100>Even in your armours, as you are address'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.101>Will very well become a soldier's dance.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.102>I will not have excuse, with saying this</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.103>Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.104>Since they love men in arms as well as beds.</A><br>
<p><i>The Knights dance</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.105>So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.106>Come, sir;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.107>Here is a lady that wants breathing too:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.108>And I have heard, you knights of Tyre</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.109>Are excellent in making ladies trip;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.110>And that their measures are as excellent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.111>In those that practise them they are, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.112>O, that's as much as you would be denied</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.113>Of your fair courtesy.</A><br>
<p><i>The Knights and Ladies dance</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.114>Unclasp, unclasp:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.115>Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well.</A><br>
<p><i>To PERICLES</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.116>But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.117>These knights unto their several lodgings!</A><br>
<p><i>To PERICLES</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.118>Yours, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.119>We have given order to be next our own.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.120>I am at your grace's pleasure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.121>Princes, it is too late to talk of love;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.122>And that's the mark I know you level at:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.123>Therefore each one betake him to his rest;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.124>To-morrow all for speeding do their best.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.1>No, Escanes, know this of me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.2>Antiochus from incest lived not free:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.3>For which, the most high gods not minding longer</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.4>To withhold the vengeance that they had in store,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.5>Due to this heinous capital offence,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.6>Even in the height and pride of all his glory,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.7>When he was seated in a chariot</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.8>Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.9>A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.10>Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.11>That all those eyes adored them ere their fall</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.12>Scorn now their hand should give them burial.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ESCANES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.13>'Twas very strange.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.14>And yet but justice; for though</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.15>This king were great, his greatness was no guard</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.16>To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ESCANES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.17>'Tis very true.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter two or three Lords</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.18>See, not a man in private conference</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.19>Or council has respect with him but he.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.20>It shall no longer grieve without reproof.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Third Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.21>And cursed be he that will not second it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.22>Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.23>With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.24>Know that our griefs are risen to the top,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.25>And now at length they overflow their banks.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.26>Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince you love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.27>Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.28>But if the prince do live, let us salute him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.29>Or know what ground's made happy by his breath.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.30>If in the world he live, we'll seek him out;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.31>If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.32>And be resolved he lives to govern us,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.33>Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.34>And leave us to our free election.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>Second Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.35>Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.36>And knowing this kingdom is without a head,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.37>Like goodly buildings left without a roof</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.38>Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.39>That best know how to rule and how to reign,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.40>We thus submit unto,--our sovereign.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.41>Live, noble Helicane!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.42>For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.43>If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.44>Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.45>Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.46>A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.47>Forbear the absence of your king:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.48>If in which time expired, he not return,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.49>I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.50>But if I cannot win you to this love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.51>Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.52>And in your search spend your adventurous worth;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.53>Whom if you find, and win unto return,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.54>You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.55>To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.56>And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.57>We with our travels will endeavour us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.58>Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.59>When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door: the Knights meet him</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>First Knight</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.1>Good morrow to the good Simonides.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.2>Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.3>That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.4>A married life.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.5>Her reason to herself is only known,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.6>Which yet from her by no means can I get.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Knight</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.7>May we not get access to her, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.8>'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.9>Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.10>One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.11>This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.12>And on her virgin honour will not break it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Third Knight</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.13>Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Knights</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.14>So,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.15>They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.16>She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.17>Or never more to view nor day nor light.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.18>'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.19>I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.20>Not minding whether I dislike or no!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.21>Well, I do commend her choice;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.22>And will no longer have it be delay'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.23>Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PERICLES</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.24>All fortune to the good Simonides!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.25>To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.26>For your sweet music this last night: I do</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.27>Protest my ears were never better fed</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.28>With such delightful pleasing harmony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.29>It is your grace's pleasure to commend;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.30>Not my desert.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.31>Sir, you are music's master.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.32>The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.33>Let me ask you one thing:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.34>What do you think of my daughter, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.35>A most virtuous princess.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.36>And she is fair too, is she not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.37>As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.38>Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.39>Ay, so well, that you must be her master,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.40>And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.41>I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.42>She thinks not so; peruse this writing else.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.43>[Aside] What's here?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.44>A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.45>'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.46>O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.47>A stranger and distressed gentleman,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.48>That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.49>But bent all offices to honour her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.50>Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.51>A villain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.52>By the gods, I have not:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.53>Never did thought of mine levy offence;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.54>Nor never did my actions yet commence</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.55>A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.56>Traitor, thou liest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.57>Traitor!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.58>Ay, traitor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.59>Even in his throat--unless it be the king--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.60>That calls me traitor, I return the lie.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.61>[Aside] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.62>My actions are as noble as my thoughts,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.63>That never relish'd of a base descent.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.64>I came unto your court for honour's cause,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.65>And not to be a rebel to her state;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.66>And he that otherwise accounts of me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.67>This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.68>No?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.69>Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter THAISA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.70>Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.71>Resolve your angry father, if my tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.72>Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.73>To any syllable that made love to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.74>Why, sir, say if you had,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.75>Who takes offence at that would make me glad?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.76>Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.77>I am glad on't with all my heart.--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.78>I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.79>Will you, not having my consent,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.80>Bestow your love and your affections</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.81>Upon a stranger?</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.82>who, for aught I know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.83>May be, nor can I think the contrary,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.84>As great in blood as I myself.--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.85>Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.86>Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.87>Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.88>Man and wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.89>Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.90>And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.91>And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.92>What, are you both pleased?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.93>Yes, if you love me, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.94>Even as my life, or blood that fosters it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.95>What, are you both agreed?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>BOTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.96>Yes, if it please your majesty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.97>It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.98>And then with what haste you can get you to bed.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT III</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter GOWER</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.99>Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.100>No din but snores the house about,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.101>Made louder by the o'er-fed breast</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.102>Of this most pompous marriage-feast.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.103>The cat, with eyne of burning coal,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.104>Now crouches fore the mouse's hole;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.105>And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.106>E'er the blither for their drouth.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.107>Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.108>Where, by the loss of maidenhead,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.109>A babe is moulded. Be attent,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.110>And time that is so briefly spent</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.111>With your fine fancies quaintly eche:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.112>What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.113>DUMB SHOW.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter, PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door, with Attendants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES shows it SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to him. Then enter THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse. The KING shows her the letter; she rejoices: she and PERICLES takes leave of her father, and depart with LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt SIMONIDES and the rest</i></p>
<A NAME=3.5.114>By many a dern and painful perch</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.115>Of Pericles the careful search,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.116>By the four opposing coigns</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.117>Which the world together joins,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.118>Is made with all due diligence</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.119>That horse and sail and high expense</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.120>Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.121>Fame answering the most strange inquire,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.122>To the court of King Simonides</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.123>Are letters brought, the tenor these:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.124>Antiochus and his daughter dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.125>The men of Tyrus on the head</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.126>Of Helicanus would set on</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.127>The crown of Tyre, but he will none:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.128>The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.129>Says to 'em, if King Pericles</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.130>Come not home in twice six moons,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.131>He, obedient to their dooms,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.132>Will take the crown. The sum of this,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.133>Brought hither to Pentapolis,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.134>Y-ravished the regions round,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.135>And every one with claps can sound,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.136>'Our heir-apparent is a king!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.137>Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.138>Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.139>His queen with child makes her desire--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.140>Which who shall cross?--along to go:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.141>Omit we all their dole and woe:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.142>Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.143>And so to sea. Their vessel shakes</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.144>On Neptune's billow; half the flood</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.145>Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.146>Varies again; the grisly north</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.147>Disgorges such a tempest forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.148>That, as a duck for life that dives,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.149>So up and down the poor ship drives:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.150>The lady shrieks, and well-a-near</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.151>Does fall in travail with her fear:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.152>And what ensues in this fell storm</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.153>Shall for itself itself perform.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.154>I nill relate, action may</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.155>Conveniently the rest convey;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.156>Which might not what by me is told.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.157>In your imagination hold</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.158>This stage the ship, upon whose deck</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.159>The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<A NAME=3.5.160>SCENE I:</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PERICLES, on shipboard</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.161>Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.162>Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.163>Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.164>Having call'd them from the deep! O, still</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.165>Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.166>Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.167>How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.168>Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.169>Is as a whisper in the ears of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.170>Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.171>Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.172>To those that cry by night, convey thy deity</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.173>Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.174>Of my queen's travails!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant</i></p>
<A NAME=3.5.175>Now, Lychorida!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.176>Here is a thing too young for such a place,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.177>Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.178>Am like to do: take in your arms this piece</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.179>Of your dead queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.180>How, how, Lychorida!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.181>Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.182>Here's all that is left living of your queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.183>A little daughter: for the sake of it,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.184>Be manly, and take comfort.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.185>O you gods!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.186>Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.187>And snatch them straight away? We here below</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.188>Recall not what we give, and therein may</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.189>Use honour with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.190>Patience, good sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.191>Even for this charge.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.192>Now, mild may be thy life!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.193>For a more blustrous birth had never babe:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.194>Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.195>Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.196>That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.197>Thou hast as chiding a nativity</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.198>As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.199>To herald thee from the womb: even at the first</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.200>Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.201>With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.202>Throw their best eyes upon't!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter two Sailors</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.203>What courage, sir? God save you!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.204>Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.205>It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.206>Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.207>I would it would be quiet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.208>Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.209>Blow, and split thyself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>Second Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.210>But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.211>the moon, I care not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.212>Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.213>the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.214>cleared of the dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.215>That's your superstition.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.216>Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.217>observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.218>briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.219>As you think meet. Most wretched queen!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.220>Here she lies, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.221>A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.222>No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.223>Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.224>To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.225>Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.226>Where, for a monument upon thy bones,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.227>And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.228>And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.229>Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.230>Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.231>My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.232>Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.233>Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.234>A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LYCHORIDA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>Second Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.235>Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.236>and bitumed ready.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.237>I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>Second Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.238>We are near Tarsus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.239>Thither, gentle mariner.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.240>Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>Second Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.241>By break of day, if the wind cease.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.242>O, make for Tarsus!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.243>There will I visit Cleon, for the babe</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.244>Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.245>At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.246>I'll bring the body presently.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CERIMON, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwrecked</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.1>Philemon, ho!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PHILEMON</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>PHILEMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.2>Doth my lord call?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.3>Get fire and meat for these poor men:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.4>'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.5>I have been in many; but such a night as this,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.6>Till now, I ne'er endured.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.7>Your master will be dead ere you return;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.8>There's nothing can be minister'd to nature</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.9>That can recover him.</A><br>
<p><i>To PHILEMON</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.10>Give this to the 'pothecary,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.11>And tell me how it works.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but CERIMON</i></p>
<p><i>Enter two Gentlemen</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.12>Good morrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.13>Good morrow to your lordship.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.14>Gentlemen,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.15>Why do you stir so early?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.16>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.17>Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.18>Shook as the earth did quake;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.19>The very principals did seem to rend,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.20>And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.21>Made me to quit the house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.22>That is the cause we trouble you so early;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.23>'Tis not our husbandry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.24>O, you say well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.25>But I much marvel that your lordship, having</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.26>Rich tire about you, should at these early hours</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.27>Shake off the golden slumber of repose.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.28>'Tis most strange,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.29>Nature should be so conversant with pain,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.30>Being thereto not compell'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.31>I hold it ever,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.32>Virtue and cunning were endowments greater</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.33>Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.34>May the two latter darken and expend;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.35>But immortality attends the former.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.36>Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.37>Have studied physic, through which secret art,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.38>By turning o'er authorities, I have,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.39>Together with my practise, made familiar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.40>To me and to my aid the blest infusions</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.41>That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.42>And I can speak of the disturbances</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.43>That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.44>A more content in course of true delight</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.45>Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.46>Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.47>To please the fool and death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.48>Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.49>Your charity, and hundreds call themselves</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.50>Your creatures, who by you have been restored:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.51>And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.52>Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.53>Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter two or three Servants with a chest</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.54>So; lift there.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.55> What is that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.56>Sir, even now</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.57>Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.58>'Tis of some wreck.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.59>Set 't down, let's look upon't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.60>'Tis like a coffin, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.61>Whate'er it be,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.62>'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.63>If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.64>'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.65>'Tis so, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.66> How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.67>Did the sea cast it up?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.68>I never saw so huge a billow, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.69>As toss'd it upon shore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.70>Wrench it open;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.71>Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.72>A delicate odour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.73>As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.74>O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.75>Most strange!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.76>Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.77>With full bags of spices! A passport too!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.78>Apollo, perfect me in the characters!</A><br>
<p><i>Reads from a scroll</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.79>'Here I give to understand,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.80>If e'er this coffin drive a-land,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.81>I, King Pericles, have lost</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.82>This queen, worth all our mundane cost.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.83>Who finds her, give her burying;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.84>She was the daughter of a king:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.85>Besides this treasure for a fee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.86>The gods requite his charity!'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.87>If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.88>That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.89>Most likely, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.90> Nay, certainly to-night;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.91>For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.92>That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.93>Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit a Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.94>Death may usurp on nature many hours,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.95>And yet the fire of life kindle again</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.96>The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.97>That had nine hours lien dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.98>Who was by good appliance recovered.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.99>Well said, well said; the fire and cloths.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.100>The rough and woeful music that we have,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.101>Cause it to sound, beseech you.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.102>The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.103>The music there!--I pray you, give her air.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.104>Gentlemen.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.105>This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.106>Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.107>Above five hours: see how she gins to blow</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.108>Into life's flower again!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.109>The heavens,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.110>Through you, increase our wonder and set up</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.111>Your fame forever.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.112> She is alive; behold,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.113>Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.114>Which Pericles hath lost,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.115>Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.116>The diamonds of a most praised water</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.117>Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.118>And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.119>Rare as you seem to be.</A><br>
<p><i>She moves</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.120>O dear Diana,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.121>Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.122>Is not this strange?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.123>Most rare.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.124>Hush, my gentle neighbours!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.125>Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.126>Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.127>For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.128>And AEsculapius guide us!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt, carrying her away</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with MARINA in her arms</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.1> Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.2>My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.3>In a litigious peace. You, and your lady,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.4>Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.5>Make up the rest upon you!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.6>Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.7>Yet glance full wanderingly on us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.8>O your sweet queen!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.9>That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.10>To have bless'd mine eyes with her!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.11>We cannot but obey</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.12>The powers above us. Could I rage and roar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.13>As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.14>Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.15>For she was born at sea, I have named so, here</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.16>I charge your charity withal, leaving her</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.17>The infant of your care; beseeching you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.18>To give her princely training, that she may be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.19>Manner'd as she is born.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.20>Fear not, my lord, but think</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.21>Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.22>For which the people's prayers still fall upon you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.23>Must in your child be thought on. If neglection</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.24>Should therein make me vile, the common body,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.25>By you relieved, would force me to my duty:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.26>But if to that my nature need a spur,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.27>The gods revenge it upon me and mine,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.28>To the end of generation!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.29>I believe you;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.30>Your honour and your goodness teach me to't,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.31>Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.32>By bright Diana, whom we honour, all</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.33>Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.34>Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.35>Good madam, make me blessed in your care</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.36>In bringing up my child.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.37>I have one myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.38>Who shall not be more dear to my respect</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.39>Than yours, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.40>Madam, my thanks and prayers.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.41>We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.42>Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.43>The gentlest winds of heaven.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.44>I will embrace</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.45>Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.46>Lychorida, no tears:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.47>Look to your little mistress, on whose grace</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.48>You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CERIMON and THAISA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.1>Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.2>Lay with you in your coffer: which are now</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.3>At your command. Know you the character?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.4>It is my lord's.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.5>That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.6>Even on my eaning time; but whether there</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.7>Deliver'd, by the holy gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.8>I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.9>My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.10>A vestal livery will I take me to,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.11>And never more have joy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.12>Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.13>Diana's temple is not distant far,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.14>Where you may abide till your date expire.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.15>Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.16>Shall there attend you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.17>My recompense is thanks, that's all;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.18>Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT IV</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter GOWER</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.19>Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.20>Welcomed and settled to his own desire.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.21>His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.22>Unto Diana there a votaress.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.23>Now to Marina bend your mind,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.24>Whom our fast-growing scene must find</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.25>At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.26>In music, letters; who hath gain'd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.27>Of education all the grace,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.28>Which makes her both the heart and place</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.29>Of general wonder. But, alack,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.30>That monster envy, oft the wrack</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.31>Of earned praise, Marina's life</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.32>Seeks to take off by treason's knife.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.33>And in this kind hath our Cleon</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.34>One daughter, and a wench full grown,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.35>Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.36>Hight Philoten: and it is said</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.37>For certain in our story, she</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.38>Would ever with Marina be:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.39>Be't when she weaved the sleided silk</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.40>With fingers long, small, white as milk;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.41>Or when she would with sharp needle wound</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.42>The cambric, which she made more sound</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.43>By hurting it; or when to the lute</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.44>She sung, and made the night-bird mute,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.45>That still records with moan; or when</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.46>She would with rich and constant pen</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.47>Vail to her mistress Dian; still</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.48>This Philoten contends in skill</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.49>With absolute Marina: so</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.50>With the dove of Paphos might the crow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.51>Vie feathers white. Marina gets</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.52>All praises, which are paid as debts,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.53>And not as given. This so darks</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.54>In Philoten all graceful marks,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.55>That Cleon's wife, with envy rare,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.56>A present murderer does prepare</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.57>For good Marina, that her daughter</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.58>Might stand peerless by this slaughter.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.59>The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.60>Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.61>And cursed Dionyza hath</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.62>The pregnant instrument of wrath</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.63>Prest for this blow. The unborn event</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.64>I do commend to your content:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.65>Only I carry winged time</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.66>Post on the lame feet of my rhyme;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.67>Which never could I so convey,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.68>Unless your thoughts went on my way.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.69>Dionyza does appear,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.70>With Leonine, a murderer.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE I. Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.1>Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.2>'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.3>Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.4>To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.5>Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.6>Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.7>Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.8>A soldier to thy purpose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.9>I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.10>The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.11>she comes weeping for her only mistress' death.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.12>Thou art resolved?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.13>I am resolved.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.14>No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.15>To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.16>The purple violets, and marigolds,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.17>Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.18>While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.19>Born in a tempest, when my mother died,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.20>This world to me is like a lasting storm,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.21>Whirring me from my friends.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.22>How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.23>How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.24>Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.25>A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.26>With this unprofitable woe!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.27>Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.28>Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.29>And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.30>Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.31>No, I pray you;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.32>I'll not bereave you of your servant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.33>Come, come;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.34>I love the king your father, and yourself,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.35>With more than foreign heart. We every day</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.36>Expect him here: when he shall come and find</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.37>Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.38>He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.39>Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.40>No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.41>Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.42>That excellent complexion, which did steal</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.43>The eyes of young and old. Care not for me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.44>I can go home alone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.45>Well, I will go;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.46>But yet I have no desire to it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.47>Come, come, I know 'tis good for you.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.48>Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.49>Remember what I have said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.50>I warrant you, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.51>I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.52>Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.53>What! I must have a care of you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.54>My thanks, sweet madam.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit DIONYZA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.1.55>Is this wind westerly that blows?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.56>South-west.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.57>When I was born, the wind was north.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.58>Was't so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.59>My father, as nurse said, did never fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.60>But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.61>His kingly hands, haling ropes;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.62>And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.63>That almost burst the deck.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.64>When was this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.65>When I was born:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.66>Never was waves nor wind more violent;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.67>And from the ladder-tackle washes off</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.68>A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.69>And with a dropping industry they skip</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.70>From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.71>The master calls, and trebles their confusion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.72>Come, say your prayers.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.73>What mean you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.74>If you require a little space for prayer,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.75>I grant it: pray; but be not tedious,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.76>For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.77>To do my work with haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.78>Why will you kill me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.79>To satisfy my lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.80>Why would she have me kill'd?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.81>Now, as I can remember, by my troth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.82>I never did her hurt in all my life:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.83>I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.84>To any living creature: believe me, la,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.85>I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.86>I trod upon a worm against my will,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.87>But I wept for it. How have I offended,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.88>Wherein my death might yield her any profit,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.89>Or my life imply her any danger?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.90>My commission</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.91>Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.92>You will not do't for all the world, I hope.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.93>You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.94>You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.95>When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.96>Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.97>Your lady seeks my life; come you between,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.98>And save poor me, the weaker.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.99>I am sworn,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.100>And will dispatch.</A><br>
<p><i>He seizes her</i></p>
<p><i>Enter Pirates</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>First Pirate</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.101>Hold, villain!</A><br>
<p><i>LEONINE runs away</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>Second Pirate</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.102>A prize! a prize!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Third Pirate</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.103>Half-part, mates, half-part.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.104>Come, let's have her aboard suddenly.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Pirates with MARINA</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter LEONINE</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>LEONINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.105>These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.106>And they have seized Marina. Let her go:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.107>There's no hope she will return. I'll swear</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.108>she's dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.109>And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.110>Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.111>Not carry her aboard. If she remain,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.112>Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.1>Boult!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.2>Sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.3>Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.4>gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.5>too wenchless.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.6>We were never so much out of creatures. We have but</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.7>poor three, and they can do no more than they can</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.8>do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.9>Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.10>them. If there be not a conscience to be used in</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.11>every trade, we shall never prosper.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.12>Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.13>bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.14>Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.15>shall I search the market?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.16>What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.17>will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.18>Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.19>conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.20>lay with the little baggage.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.21>Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.22>for worms. But I'll go search the market.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.23>Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.24>proportion to live quietly, and so give over.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.25>Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.26>when we are old?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.27>O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.28>the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.29>if in our youths we could pick up some pretty</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.30>estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.31>Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.32>will be strong with us for giving over.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.33>Come, other sorts offend as well as we.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.34>As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.35>Neither is our profession any trade; it's no</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.36>calling. But here comes Boult.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.37>[To MARINA] Come your ways. My masters, you say</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.38>she's a virgin?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>First Pirate</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.39>O, sir, we doubt it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.40>Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.41>if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.42>Boult, has she any qualities?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.43>She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.44>good clothes: there's no further necessity of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.45>qualities can make her be refused.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.46>What's her price, Boult?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.47>I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.48>Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.49>money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.50>what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.51>entertainment.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Pandar and Pirates</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.52>Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.53>hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.54>virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.55>have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.56>thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.57>as I command you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.58>Performance shall follow.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.59>Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.60>He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.61>Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.62>For to seek my mother!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.63>Why lament you, pretty one?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.64>That I am pretty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.65>Come, the gods have done their part in you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.66>I accuse them not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.67>You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.68>The more my fault</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.69>To scape his hands where I was like to die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.70>Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.71>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.72>Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.73>fashions: you shall fare well; you shall have the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.74>difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.75>Are you a woman?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.76>What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.77>An honest woman, or not a woman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.78>Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.79>something to do with you. Come, you're a young</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.80>foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.81>you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.82>The gods defend me!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.83>If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.84>must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.85>you up. Boult's returned.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter BOULT</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.86>Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.87>I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.88>I have drawn her picture with my voice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.89>And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.90>inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.91>'Faith, they listened to me as they would have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.92>hearkened to their father's testament. There was a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.93>Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.94>her very description.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.95>We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.96>To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.97>French knight that cowers i' the hams?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.98>Who, Monsieur Veroles?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.99>Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.100>proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.101>he would see her to-morrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.102>Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.103>hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.104>come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.105>sun.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.106>Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.107>should lodge them with this sign.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.108>[To MARINA] Pray you, come hither awhile. You</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.109>have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.110>seem to do that fearfully which you commit</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.111>willingly, despise profit where you have most gain.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.112>To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.113>lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.114>opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.115>I understand you not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.116>O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.117>blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.118>Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.119>bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.120>with warrant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.121>'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.122>I have bargained for the joint,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.123>Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.124>I may so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.125>Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.126>manner of your garments well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.127>Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.128>Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.129>sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.130>When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.131>turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.132>hast the harvest out of thine own report.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.133>I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.134>the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.135>the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.136>Come your ways; follow me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.137>If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.138>Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.139>Diana, aid my purpose!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.140>What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEON and DIONYZA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.1>Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.2>O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.3>The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.4>I think</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.5>You'll turn a child again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.6>Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.7>I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.8>Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.9>To equal any single crown o' the earth</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.10>I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.11>Whom thou hast poison'd too:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.12>If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.13>Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.14>When noble Pericles shall demand his child?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.15>That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.16>To foster it, nor ever to preserve.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.17>She died at night; I'll say so. Who can cross it?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.18>Unless you play the pious innocent,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.19>And for an honest attribute cry out</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.20>'She died by foul play.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.21>O, go to. Well, well,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.22>Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.23>Do like this worst.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.24>Be one of those that think</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.25>The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.26>And open this to Pericles. I do shame</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.27>To think of what a noble strain you are,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.28>And of how coward a spirit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.29>To such proceeding</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.30>Who ever but his approbation added,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.31>Though not his prime consent, he did not flow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.32>From honourable sources.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.33>Be it so, then:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.34>Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.35>Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.36>She did disdain my child, and stood between</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.37>Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.38>But cast their gazes on Marina's face;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.39>Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.40>Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.41>And though you call my course unnatural,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.42>You not your child well loving, yet I find</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.43>It greets me as an enterprise of kindness</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.44>Perform'd to your sole daughter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.45>Heavens forgive it!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.46>And as for Pericles,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.47>What should he say? We wept after her hearse,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.48>And yet we mourn: her monument</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.49>Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.50>In glittering golden characters express</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.51>A general praise to her, and care in us</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.52>At whose expense 'tis done.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CLEON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.53>Thou art like the harpy,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.54>Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.55>Seize with thine eagle's talons.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>DIONYZA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.56>You are like one that superstitiously</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.57>Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.58>But yet I know you'll do as I advise.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.59>SCENE IV:</A><br>
<p><i>Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.60>Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.61>Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.62>Making, to take your imagination,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.63>From bourn to bourn, region to region.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.64>By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.65>To use one language in each several clime</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.66>Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.67>To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.68>The stages of our story. Pericles</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.69>Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.70>Attended on by many a lord and knight.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.71>To see his daughter, all his life's delight.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.72>Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.73>Advanced in time to great and high estate,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.74>Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.75>Old Helicanus goes along behind.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.76>Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.77>This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.78>So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.79>To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.80>Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.81>Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.82>DUMB SHOW.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train; CLEON and DIONYZA, at the other. CLEON shows PERICLES the tomb; whereat PERICLES makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a mighty passion departs. Then exeunt CLEON and DIONYZA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.83>See how belief may suffer by foul show!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.84>This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.85>And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.86>With sighs shot through, and biggest tears</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.87>o'ershower'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.88>Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.89>Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.90>He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.91>A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.92>And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.93>The epitaph is for Marina writ</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.94>By wicked Dionyza.</A><br>
<p><i>Reads the inscription on MARINA's monument</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.95>'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.96>Who wither'd in her spring of year.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.97>She was of Tyrus the king's daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.98>On whom foul death hath made this slaughter;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.99>Marina was she call'd; and at her birth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.100>Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.101>Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.102>Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.103>Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.104>Make raging battery upon shores of flint.'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.105>No visor does become black villany</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.106>So well as soft and tender flattery.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.107>Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.108>And bear his courses to be ordered</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.109>By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.110>His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.111>In her unholy service. Patience, then,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.112>And think you now are all in Mytilene.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.1>Did you ever hear the like?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.2>No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.3>being once gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.4>But to have divinity preached there! did you ever</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.5>dream of such a thing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.6>No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.7>shall's go hear the vestals sing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.8>I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.9>am out of the road of rutting for ever.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VI. The same. A room in the brothel.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.1>Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.2>had ne'er come here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.3>Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.4>Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.5>either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.6>should do for clients her fitment, and do me the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.7>kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.8>her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.9>knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.10>if he should cheapen a kiss of her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.11>'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.12>of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Pandar</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.13>Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.14>'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.15>way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.16>We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.17>baggage would but give way to customers.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LYSIMACHUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.18>How now! How a dozen of virginities?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.19>Now, the gods to-bless your honour!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.20>I am glad to see your honour in good health.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.21>You may so; 'tis the better for you that your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.22>resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.23>wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.24>withal, and defy the surgeon?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.25>We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.26>came her like in Mytilene.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.27>If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.28>Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.29>Well, call forth, call forth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.30>For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.31>see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.32>What, prithee?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.33>O, sir, I can be modest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.34>That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.35>gives a good report to a number to be chaste.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit BOULT</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.36>Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.37>plucked yet, I can assure you.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter BOULT with MARINA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.6.38>Is she not a fair creature?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.39>'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.40>Well, there's for you: leave us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.41>I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.42>I'll have done presently.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.43>I beseech you, do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.44>[To MARINA] First, I would have you note, this is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.45>an honourable man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.46>I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.47>Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.48>whom I am bound to.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.49>If he govern the country, you are bound to him</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.50>indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.51>Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.52>you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.53>What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.54>Ha' you done?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.55>My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.56>pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.57>leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and BOULT</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.58>Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.59>What trade, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.60>Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.61>I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.62>How long have you been of this profession?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.63>E'er since I can remember.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.64>Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.65>five or at seven?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.66>Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.67>Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.68>creature of sale.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.69>Do you know this house to be a place of such resort,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.70>and will come into 't? I hear say you are of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.71>honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.72>Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.73>Who is my principal?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.74>Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.75>of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.76>of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.77>wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.78>authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.79>upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.80>come, come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.81>If you were born to honour, show it now;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.82>If put upon you, make the judgment good</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.83>That thought you worthy of it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.84>How's this? how's this? Some more; be sage.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.85>For me,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.86>That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.87>Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.88>Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.89>O, that the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.90>Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.91>Though they did change me to the meanest bird</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.92>That flies i' the purer air!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.93>I did not think</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.94>Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.95>Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.96>Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.97>Persever in that clear way thou goest,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.98>And the gods strengthen thee!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.99>The good gods preserve you!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.100>For me, be you thoughten</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.101>That I came with no ill intent; for to me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.102>The very doors and windows savour vilely.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.103>Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.104>I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.105>Hold, here's more gold for thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.106>A curse upon him, die he like a thief,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.107>That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.108>Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter BOULT</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.109>I beseech your honour, one piece for me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.110>Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.111>Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.112>Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.113>How's this? We must take another course with you.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.114>If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.115>breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.116>shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.117>a spaniel. Come your ways.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.118> Whither would you have me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.119>I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.120>hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.121>have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Bawd</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.122>How now! what's the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.123>Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.124>words to the Lord Lysimachus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.125>O abominable!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.126>She makes our profession as it were to stink afore</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.127>the face of the gods.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.128>Marry, hang her up for ever!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.129>The nobleman would have dealt with her like a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.130>nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.131>snowball; saying his prayers too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.132>Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.133>crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.134>An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.135>is, she shall be ploughed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.136>Hark, hark, you gods!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>Bawd</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.137>She conjures: away with her! Would she had never</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.138>come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.139>to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.140>Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.141>Come, mistress; come your ways with me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.142>Whither wilt thou have me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.143>To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.144>Prithee, tell me one thing first.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.145>Come now, your one thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.146>What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.147>Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.148>Neither of these are so bad as thou art,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.149>Since they do better thee in their command.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.150>Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.151>Of hell would not in reputation change:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.152>Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.153>Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.154>To the choleric fisting of every rogue</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.155>Thy ear is liable; thy food is such</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.156>As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.157>What would you have me do? go to the wars, would</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.158>you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.159>of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.160>buy him a wooden one?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.161>Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.162>OLD receptacles, or common shores, of filth;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.163>Serve by indenture to the common hangman:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.164>Any of these ways are yet better than this;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.165>For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.166>Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.167>Would safely deliver me from this place!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.168>Here, here's gold for thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.169>If that thy master would gain by thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.170>Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.171>With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.172>And I will undertake all these to teach.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.173>I doubt not but this populous city will</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.174>Yield many scholars.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.175>But can you teach all this you speak of?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.176>Prove that I cannot, take me home again,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.177>And prostitute me to the basest groom</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.178>That doth frequent your house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.179>Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.180>place thee, I will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.181>But amongst honest women.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>BOULT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.182>'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.183>But since my master and mistress have bought you,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.184>there's no going but by their consent: therefore I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.185>will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.186>doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.187>Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT V</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter GOWER</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.6.188>Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.189>Into an honest house, our story says.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.190>She sings like one immortal, and she dances</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.191>As goddess-like to her admired lays;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.192>Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.193>Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.194>That even her art sisters the natural roses;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.195>Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.196>That pupils lacks she none of noble race,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.197>Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.198>She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.199>And to her father turn our thoughts again,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.200>Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.201>Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.202>Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.203>Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.204>God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.205>Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.206>His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.207>And to him in his barge with fervor hies.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.208>In your supposing once more put your sight</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.209>Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.210>Where what is done in action, more, if might,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.6.211>Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE I. On board PERICLES' ship, off Mytilene. A close</h3>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.1>pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.2>within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.3>beside the Tyrian vessel.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Tyrian Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.4>[To the Sailor of Mytilene] Where is lord Helicanus?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.5>he can resolve you.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.6>O, here he is.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.7>Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.8>And in it is Lysimachus the governor,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.9>Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.10>That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Tyrian Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.11>Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter two or three Gentlemen</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.12>Doth your lordship call?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.13>Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.14>I pray ye, greet them fairly.</A><br>
<p><i>The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go on board the barge</i></p>
<p><i>Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with the Gentlemen and the two Sailors</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Tyrian Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.15>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.16>This is the man that can, in aught you would,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.17>Resolve you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.18>Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.19>And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.20>And die as I would do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.21>You wish me well.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.22>Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.23>Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.24>I made to it, to know of whence you are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.25>First, what is your place?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.26>I am the governor of this place you lie before.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.27>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.28>Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.29>A man who for this three months hath not spoken</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.30>To any one, nor taken sustenance</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.31>But to prorogue his grief.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.32>Upon what ground is his distemperature?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.33>'Twould be too tedious to repeat;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.34>But the main grief springs from the loss</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.35>Of a beloved daughter and a wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.36>May we not see him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.37>You may;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.38>But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.39>Yet let me obtain my wish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.40>Behold him.</A><br>
<p><i>PERICLES discovered</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.41>This was a goodly person,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.42>Till the disaster that, one mortal night,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.43>Drove him to this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.44>Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.45>Hail, royal sir!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.46>It is in vain; he will not speak to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>First Lord</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.47>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.48>We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.49>Would win some words of him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.50>'Tis well bethought.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.51>She questionless with her sweet harmony</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.52>And other chosen attractions, would allure,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.53>And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.54>Which now are midway stopp'd:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.55>She is all happy as the fairest of all,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.56>And, with her fellow maids is now upon</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.57>The leafy shelter that abuts against</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.58>The island's side.</A><br>
<p><i>Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.59>Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.60>That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.61>We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.62>That for our gold we may provision have,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.63>Wherein we are not destitute for want,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.64>But weary for the staleness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.65>O, sir, a courtesy</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.66>Which if we should deny, the most just gods</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.67>For every graff would send a caterpillar,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.68>And so afflict our province. Yet once more</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.69>Let me entreat to know at large the cause</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.70>Of your king's sorrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.71>Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.72>But, see, I am prevented.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter, from the barge, Lord, with MARINA, and a young Lady</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.73>O, here is</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.74>The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.75>Is't not a goodly presence?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.76>She's a gallant lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.77>She's such a one, that, were I well assured</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.78>Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.79>I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.80>Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.81>Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.82>If that thy prosperous and artificial feat</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.83>Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.84>Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.85>As thy desires can wish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.86>Sir, I will use</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.87>My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.88>That none but I and my companion maid</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.89>Be suffer'd to come near him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.90>Come, let us leave her;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.91>And the gods make her prosperous!</A><br>
<p><i>MARINA sings</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.92>Mark'd he your music?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.93>No, nor look'd on us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.94>See, she will speak to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.95>Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.96>Hum, ha!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.97>I am a maid,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.98>My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.99>But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.100>My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.101>Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.102>Though wayward fortune did malign my state,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.103>My derivation was from ancestors</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.104>Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.105>But time hath rooted out my parentage,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.106>And to the world and awkward casualties</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.107>Bound me in servitude.</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.108>I will desist;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.109>But there is something glows upon my cheek,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.110>And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.111>My fortunes--parentage--good parentage--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.112>To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.113>I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.114>You would not do me violence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.115>I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.116>You are like something that--What country-woman?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.117>Here of these shores?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.118>No, nor of any shores:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.119>Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.120>No other than I appear.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.121>I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.122>My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.123>My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.124>Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.125>As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.126>And cased as richly; in pace another Juno;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.127>Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.128>The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.129>Where I am but a stranger: from the deck</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.130>You may discern the place.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.131>Where were you bred?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.132>And how achieved you these endowments, which</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.133>You make more rich to owe?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.134>If I should tell my history, it would seem</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.135>Like lies disdain'd in the reporting.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.136>Prithee, speak:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.137>Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.138>Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.139>For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.140>believe thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.141>And make my senses credit thy relation</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.142>To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.143>Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.144>Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.145>Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.146>From good descending?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.147>So indeed I did.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.148>Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.149>Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.150>And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.151>If both were open'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.152>Some such thing</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.153>I said, and said no more but what my thoughts</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.154>Did warrant me was likely.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.155>Tell thy story;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.156>If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.157>Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.158>Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.159>Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.160>Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.161>How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.162>Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.163>My name is Marina.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.164> O, I am mock'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.165>And thou by some incensed god sent hither</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.166>To make the world to laugh at me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.167>Patience, good sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.168>Or here I'll cease.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.169>Nay, I'll be patient.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.170>Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.171>To call thyself Marina.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.172>The name</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.173>Was given me by one that had some power,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.174>My father, and a king.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.175>How! a king's daughter?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.176>And call'd Marina?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.177> You said you would believe me;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.178>But, not to be a troubler of your peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.179>I will end here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.180> But are you flesh and blood?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.181>Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.182>Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.183>And wherefore call'd Marina?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.184>Call'd Marina</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.185>For I was born at sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.186>At sea! what mother?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.187>My mother was the daughter of a king;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.188>Who died the minute I was born,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.189>As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.190>Deliver'd weeping.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.191> O, stop there a little!</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.192>This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.193>Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.194>My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.195>I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.196>And never interrupt you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.197>You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.198>I will believe you by the syllable</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.199>Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.200>How came you in these parts? where were you bred?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.201>The king my father did in Tarsus leave me;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.202>Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.203>Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.204>A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.205>A crew of pirates came and rescued me;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.206>Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.207>Whither will you have me? Why do you weep?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.208>It may be,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.209>You think me an impostor: no, good faith;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.210>I am the daughter to King Pericles,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.211>If good King Pericles be.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.212>Ho, Helicanus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.213>Calls my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.214>Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.215>Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.216>What this maid is, or what is like to be,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.217>That thus hath made me weep?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.218>I know not; but</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.219>Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.220>Speaks nobly of her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.221>She would never tell</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.222>Her parentage; being demanded that,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.223>She would sit still and weep.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.224>O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.225>Give me a gash, put me to present pain;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.226>Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.227>O'erbear the shores of my mortality,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.228>And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.229>Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.230>Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.231>And found at sea again! O Helicanus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.232>Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.233>As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.234>What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.235>For truth can never be confirm'd enough,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.236>Though doubts did ever sleep.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.237>First, sir, I pray,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.238>What is your title?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.239>I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.240>My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.241>Thou hast been godlike perfect,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.242>The heir of kingdoms and another like</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.243>To Pericles thy father.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.244>Is it no more to be your daughter than</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.245>To say my mother's name was Thaisa?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.246>Thaisa was my mother, who did end</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.247>The minute I began.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.248>Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.249>Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.250>She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.251>By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.252>When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.253>She is thy very princess. Who is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.254>Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.255>Who, hearing of your melancholy state,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.256>Did come to see you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.257>I embrace you.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.258>Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.259>O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.260>Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.261>O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.262>How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.263>My lord, I hear none.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.264>None!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.265>The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.266>It is not good to cross him; give him way.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.267>Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.268>My lord, I hear.</A><br>
<p><i>Music</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.269>Most heavenly music!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.270>It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.271>Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest.</A><br>
<p><i>Sleeps</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.272>A pillow for his head:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.273>So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.274>If this but answer to my just belief,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.275>I'll well remember you.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but PERICLES</i></p>
<p><i>DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>DIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.276>My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.277>And do upon mine altar sacrifice.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.278>There, when my maiden priests are met together,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.279>Before the people all,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.280>Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.281>To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.282>And give them repetition to the life.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.283>Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.284>Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.285>Awake, and tell thy dream.</A><br>
<p><i>Disappears</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.286>Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.287>I will obey thee. Helicanus!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.288>Sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.289>My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.290>The inhospitable Cleon; but I am</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.291>For other service first: toward Ephesus</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.292>Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why.</A><br>
<p><i>To LYSIMACHUS</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.293>Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.294>And give you gold for such provision</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.295>As our intents will need?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.296>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.297>With all my heart; and, when you come ashore,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.298>I have another suit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.299>You shall prevail,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.300>Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.301>You have been noble towards her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>LYSIMACHUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.302>Sir, lend me your arm.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.303>Come, my Marina.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.304>SCENE II:</A><br>
<p><i>Enter GOWER, before the temple of DIANA at Ephesus</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.305>Now our sands are almost run;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.306>More a little, and then dumb.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.307>This, my last boon, give me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.308>For such kindness must relieve me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.309>That you aptly will suppose</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.310>What pageantry, what feats, what shows,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.311>What minstrelsy, and pretty din,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.312>The regent made in Mytilene</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.313>To greet the king. So he thrived,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.314>That he is promised to be wived</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.315>To fair Marina; but in no wise</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.316>Till he had done his sacrifice,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.317>As Dian bade: whereto being bound,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.318>The interim, pray you, all confound.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.319>In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.320>And wishes fall out as they're will'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.321>At Ephesus, the temple see,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.322>Our king and all his company.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.323>That he can hither come so soon,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.324>Is by your fancy's thankful doom.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus; THAISA standing</h3>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.1>near the altar, as high priestess; a number of</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.2>Virgins on each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.3>of Ephesus attending.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.4>Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.5>I here confess myself the king of Tyre;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.6>Who, frighted from my country, did wed</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.7>At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.8>At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.9>A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.10>Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.11>Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.12>He sought to murder: but her better stars</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.13>Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.14>Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.15>Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.16>Made known herself my daughter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.17>Voice and favour!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.18>You are, you are--O royal Pericles!</A><br>
<p><i>Faints</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.19>What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.20>Noble sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.21>If you have told Diana's altar true,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.22>This is your wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.23> Reverend appearer, no;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.24>I threw her overboard with these very arms.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.25>Upon this coast, I warrant you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.26>'Tis most certain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.27>Look to the lady; O, she's but o'erjoy'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.28>Early in blustering morn this lady was</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.29>Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.30>Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and placed her</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.31>Here in Diana's temple.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.32>May we see them?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.33>Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.34>Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.35>O, let me look!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.36>If he be none of mine, my sanctity</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.37>Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.38>But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.39>Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.40>Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.41>A birth, and death?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.42>The voice of dead Thaisa!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.43>That Thaisa am I, supposed dead</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.44>And drown'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.45>Immortal Dian!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.46> Now I know you better.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.47>When we with tears parted Pentapolis,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.48>The king my father gave you such a ring.</A><br>
<p><i>Shows a ring</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.49>This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.50>Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.51>That on the touching of her lips I may</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.52>Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.53>A second time within these arms.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech17><b>MARINA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.54>My heart</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.55>Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.</A><br>
<p><i>Kneels to THAISA</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.56>Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.57>Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.58>For she was yielded there.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech19><b>THAISA</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.3.59>Blest, and mine own!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech20><b>HELICANUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.60>Hail, madam, and my queen!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech21><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.61>I know you not.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech22><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.62>You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.63>I left behind an ancient substitute:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.64>Can you remember what I call'd the man?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.65>I have named him oft.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech23><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.66>'Twas Helicanus then.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech24><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.67>Still confirmation:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.68>Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.69>Now do I long to hear how you were found;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.70>How possibly preserved; and who to thank,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.71>Besides the gods, for this great miracle.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech25><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.72>Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.73>Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.74>From first to last resolve you.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech26><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.75>Reverend sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.76>The gods can have no mortal officer</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.77>More like a god than you. Will you deliver</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.78>How this dead queen re-lives?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech27><b>CERIMON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.79>I will, my lord.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.80>Beseech you, first go with me to my house,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.81>Where shall be shown you all was found with her;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.82>How she came placed here in the temple;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.83>No needful thing omitted.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech28><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.84>Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.85>Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.86>This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.87>Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.88>This ornament</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.89>Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.90>And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.91>To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech29><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.92>Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.93>My father's dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.94>Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.95>We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.96>Will in that kingdom spend our following days:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.97>Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.98>Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.99>To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><i>Enter GOWER</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.100>In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.101>Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.102>In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.103>Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.104>Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.105>Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.106>In Helicanus may you well descry</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.107>A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.108>In reverend Cerimon there well appears</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.109>The worth that learned charity aye wears:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.110>For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.111>Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.112>Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.113>That him and his they in his palace burn;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.114>The gods for murder seemed so content</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.115>To punish them; although not done, but meant.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.116>So, on your patience evermore attending,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.117>New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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