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<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>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>First Knight</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1>Good morrow to the good Simonides.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2>Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,</A><br>
<A NAME=3>That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake</A><br>
<A NAME=4>A married life.</A><br>
<A NAME=5>Her reason to herself is only known,</A><br>
<A NAME=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=7>May we not get access to her, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=8>'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied</A><br>
<A NAME=9>Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible.</A><br>
<A NAME=10>One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery;</A><br>
<A NAME=11>This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd</A><br>
<A NAME=12>And on her virgin honour will not break it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>Third Knight</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=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=14>So,</A><br>
<A NAME=15>They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter:</A><br>
<A NAME=16>She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,</A><br>
<A NAME=17>Or never more to view nor day nor light.</A><br>
<A NAME=18>'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;</A><br>
<A NAME=19>I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,</A><br>
<A NAME=20>Not minding whether I dislike or no!</A><br>
<A NAME=21>Well, I do commend her choice;</A><br>
<A NAME=22>And will no longer have it be delay'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=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=24>All fortune to the good Simonides!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=25>To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you</A><br>
<A NAME=26>For your sweet music this last night: I do</A><br>
<A NAME=27>Protest my ears were never better fed</A><br>
<A NAME=28>With such delightful pleasing harmony.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=29>It is your grace's pleasure to commend;</A><br>
<A NAME=30>Not my desert.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=31>Sir, you are music's master.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=32>The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=33>Let me ask you one thing:</A><br>
<A NAME=34>What do you think of my daughter, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=35>A most virtuous princess.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=36>And she is fair too, is she not?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=37>As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=38>Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;</A><br>
<A NAME=39>Ay, so well, that you must be her master,</A><br>
<A NAME=40>And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=41>I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=42>She thinks not so; peruse this writing else.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=43>[Aside]  What's here?</A><br>
<A NAME=44>A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!</A><br>
<A NAME=45>'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life.</A><br>
<A NAME=46>O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=47>A stranger and distressed gentleman,</A><br>
<A NAME=48>That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=49>But bent all offices to honour her.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=50>Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art</A><br>
<A NAME=51>A villain.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=52>By the gods, I have not:</A><br>
<A NAME=53>Never did thought of mine levy offence;</A><br>
<A NAME=54>Nor never did my actions yet commence</A><br>
<A NAME=55>A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=56>Traitor, thou liest.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=57>Traitor!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=58>Ay, traitor.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=59>Even in his throat--unless it be the king--</A><br>
<A NAME=60>That calls me traitor, I return the lie.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=61>[Aside]  Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=62>My actions are as noble as my thoughts,</A><br>
<A NAME=63>That never relish'd of a base descent.</A><br>
<A NAME=64>I came unto your court for honour's cause,</A><br>
<A NAME=65>And not to be a rebel to her state;</A><br>
<A NAME=66>And he that otherwise accounts of me,</A><br>
<A NAME=67>This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=68>No?</A><br>
<A NAME=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=70>Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,</A><br>
<A NAME=71>Resolve your angry father, if my tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=72>Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe</A><br>
<A NAME=73>To any syllable that made love to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=74>Why, sir, say if you had,</A><br>
<A NAME=75>Who takes offence at that would make me glad?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=76>Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=77>I am glad on't with all my heart.--</A><br>
<A NAME=78>I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection.</A><br>
<A NAME=79>Will you, not having my consent,</A><br>
<A NAME=80>Bestow your love and your affections</A><br>
<A NAME=81>Upon a stranger?</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=82>who, for aught I know,</A><br>
<A NAME=83>May be, nor can I think the contrary,</A><br>
<A NAME=84>As great in blood as I myself.--</A><br>
<A NAME=85>Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame</A><br>
<A NAME=86>Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,</A><br>
<A NAME=87>Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--</A><br>
<A NAME=88>Man and wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=89>Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:</A><br>
<A NAME=90>And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;</A><br>
<A NAME=91>And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--</A><br>
<A NAME=92>What, are you both pleased?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>THAISA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=93>Yes, if you love me, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=94>Even as my life, or blood that fosters it.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=95>What, are you both agreed?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>BOTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=96>Yes, if it please your majesty.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>SIMONIDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=97>It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;</A><br>
<A NAME=98>And then with what haste you can get you to bed.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter GOWER</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>GOWER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=99>Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout;</A><br>
<A NAME=100>No din but snores the house about,</A><br>
<A NAME=101>Made louder by the o'er-fed breast</A><br>
<A NAME=102>Of this most pompous marriage-feast.</A><br>
<A NAME=103>The cat, with eyne of burning coal,</A><br>
<A NAME=104>Now crouches fore the mouse's hole;</A><br>
<A NAME=105>And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,</A><br>
<A NAME=106>E'er the blither for their drouth.</A><br>
<A NAME=107>Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.</A><br>
<A NAME=108>Where, by the loss of maidenhead,</A><br>
<A NAME=109>A babe is moulded. Be attent,</A><br>
<A NAME=110>And time that is so briefly spent</A><br>
<A NAME=111>With your fine fancies quaintly eche:</A><br>
<A NAME=112>What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech.</A><br>
<A NAME=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=114>By many a dern and painful perch</A><br>
<A NAME=115>Of Pericles the careful search,</A><br>
<A NAME=116>By the four opposing coigns</A><br>
<A NAME=117>Which the world together joins,</A><br>
<A NAME=118>Is made with all due diligence</A><br>
<A NAME=119>That horse and sail and high expense</A><br>
<A NAME=120>Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,</A><br>
<A NAME=121>Fame answering the most strange inquire,</A><br>
<A NAME=122>To the court of King Simonides</A><br>
<A NAME=123>Are letters brought, the tenor these:</A><br>
<A NAME=124>Antiochus and his daughter dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=125>The men of Tyrus on the head</A><br>
<A NAME=126>Of Helicanus would set on</A><br>
<A NAME=127>The crown of Tyre, but he will none:</A><br>
<A NAME=128>The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress;</A><br>
<A NAME=129>Says to 'em, if King Pericles</A><br>
<A NAME=130>Come not home in twice six moons,</A><br>
<A NAME=131>He, obedient to their dooms,</A><br>
<A NAME=132>Will take the crown. The sum of this,</A><br>
<A NAME=133>Brought hither to Pentapolis,</A><br>
<A NAME=134>Y-ravished the regions round,</A><br>
<A NAME=135>And every one with claps can sound,</A><br>
<A NAME=136>'Our heir-apparent is a king!</A><br>
<A NAME=137>Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'</A><br>
<A NAME=138>Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:</A><br>
<A NAME=139>His queen with child makes her desire--</A><br>
<A NAME=140>Which who shall cross?--along to go:</A><br>
<A NAME=141>Omit we all their dole and woe:</A><br>
<A NAME=142>Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,</A><br>
<A NAME=143>And so to sea. Their vessel shakes</A><br>
<A NAME=144>On Neptune's billow; half the flood</A><br>
<A NAME=145>Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood</A><br>
<A NAME=146>Varies again; the grisly north</A><br>
<A NAME=147>Disgorges such a tempest forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=148>That, as a duck for life that dives,</A><br>
<A NAME=149>So up and down the poor ship drives:</A><br>
<A NAME=150>The lady shrieks, and well-a-near</A><br>
<A NAME=151>Does fall in travail with her fear:</A><br>
<A NAME=152>And what ensues in this fell storm</A><br>
<A NAME=153>Shall for itself itself perform.</A><br>
<A NAME=154>I nill relate, action may</A><br>
<A NAME=155>Conveniently the rest convey;</A><br>
<A NAME=156>Which might not what by me is told.</A><br>
<A NAME=157>In your imagination hold</A><br>
<A NAME=158>This stage the ship, upon whose deck</A><br>
<A NAME=159>The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<A NAME=160>SCENE I:</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PERICLES, on shipboard</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=161>Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,</A><br>
<A NAME=162>Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast</A><br>
<A NAME=163>Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,</A><br>
<A NAME=164>Having call'd them from the deep! O, still</A><br>
<A NAME=165>Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench</A><br>
<A NAME=166>Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,</A><br>
<A NAME=167>How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;</A><br>
<A NAME=168>Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle</A><br>
<A NAME=169>Is as a whisper in the ears of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=170>Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O</A><br>
<A NAME=171>Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle</A><br>
<A NAME=172>To those that cry by night, convey thy deity</A><br>
<A NAME=173>Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs</A><br>
<A NAME=174>Of my queen's travails!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant</i></p>
<A NAME=175>Now, Lychorida!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=176>Here is a thing too young for such a place,</A><br>
<A NAME=177>Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I</A><br>
<A NAME=178>Am like to do: take in your arms this piece</A><br>
<A NAME=179>Of your dead queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=180>How, how, Lychorida!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=181>Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.</A><br>
<A NAME=182>Here's all that is left living of your queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=183>A little daughter: for the sake of it,</A><br>
<A NAME=184>Be manly, and take comfort.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech42><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=185>O you gods!</A><br>
<A NAME=186>Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,</A><br>
<A NAME=187>And snatch them straight away? We here below</A><br>
<A NAME=188>Recall not what we give, and therein may</A><br>
<A NAME=189>Use honour with you.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech43><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=190>Patience, good sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=191>Even for this charge.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=192>Now, mild may be thy life!</A><br>
<A NAME=193>For a more blustrous birth had never babe:</A><br>
<A NAME=194>Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for</A><br>
<A NAME=195>Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world</A><br>
<A NAME=196>That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!</A><br>
<A NAME=197>Thou hast as chiding a nativity</A><br>
<A NAME=198>As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,</A><br>
<A NAME=199>To herald thee from the womb: even at the first</A><br>
<A NAME=200>Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,</A><br>
<A NAME=201>With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods</A><br>
<A NAME=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=203>What courage, sir? God save you!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=204>Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;</A><br>
<A NAME=205>It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love</A><br>
<A NAME=206>Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,</A><br>
<A NAME=207>I would it would be quiet.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=208>Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?</A><br>
<A NAME=209>Blow, and split thyself.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>Second Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=210>But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss</A><br>
<A NAME=211>the moon, I care not.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=212>Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,</A><br>
<A NAME=213>the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be</A><br>
<A NAME=214>cleared of the dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=215>That's your superstition.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>First Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=216>Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still</A><br>
<A NAME=217>observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore</A><br>
<A NAME=218>briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=219>As you think meet. Most wretched queen!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>LYCHORIDA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=220>Here she lies, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=221>A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;</A><br>
<A NAME=222>No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements</A><br>
<A NAME=223>Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time</A><br>
<A NAME=224>To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight</A><br>
<A NAME=225>Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze;</A><br>
<A NAME=226>Where, for a monument upon thy bones,</A><br>
<A NAME=227>And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale</A><br>
<A NAME=228>And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,</A><br>
<A NAME=229>Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,</A><br>
<A NAME=230>Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,</A><br>
<A NAME=231>My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander</A><br>
<A NAME=232>Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe</A><br>
<A NAME=233>Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say</A><br>
<A NAME=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=235>Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked</A><br>
<A NAME=236>and bitumed ready.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=237>I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>Second Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=238>We are near Tarsus.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=239>Thither, gentle mariner.</A><br>
<A NAME=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=241>By break of day, if the wind cease.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>PERICLES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=242>O, make for Tarsus!</A><br>
<A NAME=243>There will I visit Cleon, for the babe</A><br>
<A NAME=244>Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it</A><br>
<A NAME=245>At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:</A><br>
<A NAME=246>I'll bring the body presently.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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