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| <H3>SCENE IV. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter CERIMON and THAISA</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>CERIMON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Lay with you in your coffer: which are now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>At your command. Know you the character?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>THAISA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>It is my lord's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Even on my eaning time; but whether there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Deliver'd, by the holy gods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>A vestal livery will I take me to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>And never more have joy.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>CERIMON</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Diana's temple is not distant far,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Where you may abide till your date expire.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Shall there attend you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>THAISA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>My recompense is thanks, that's all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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| <i>Enter GOWER</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>GOWER</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Welcomed and settled to his own desire.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Unto Diana there a votaress.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Now to Marina bend your mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Whom our fast-growing scene must find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>In music, letters; who hath gain'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Of education all the grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Which makes her both the heart and place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Of general wonder. But, alack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>That monster envy, oft the wrack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Of earned praise, Marina's life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Seeks to take off by treason's knife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>And in this kind hath our Cleon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>One daughter, and a wench full grown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Hight Philoten: and it is said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>For certain in our story, she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Would ever with Marina be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Be't when she weaved the sleided silk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>With fingers long, small, white as milk;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Or when she would with sharp needle wound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>The cambric, which she made more sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>By hurting it; or when to the lute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>She sung, and made the night-bird mute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>That still records with moan; or when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>She would with rich and constant pen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Vail to her mistress Dian; still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>This Philoten contends in skill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>With absolute Marina: so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>With the dove of Paphos might the crow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Vie feathers white. Marina gets</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>All praises, which are paid as debts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>And not as given. This so darks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>In Philoten all graceful marks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>That Cleon's wife, with envy rare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>A present murderer does prepare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>For good Marina, that her daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Might stand peerless by this slaughter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>And cursed Dionyza hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>The pregnant instrument of wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Prest for this blow. The unborn event</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>I do commend to your content:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Only I carry winged time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>Post on the lame feet of my rhyme;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>Which never could I so convey,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Unless your thoughts went on my way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Dionyza does appear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>With Leonine, a murderer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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