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 First Edition of this issue of " Pericles, Prince of Tyre printed August 1806. 
 Second Edition, February 1807. Third Edition, March 1808. Fourth 
 Edition, June 180Q. Fifth Edition, June IQOO. Sixth Edition, October 1001. 
 Seventh Edition, September 1902. Eighth Edition, May 1004. Ninth Edition , 
 September zooj.
 
 We dare not charge the whole unequal play 
 
 Of Pericles on him ; yet let us say, 
 
 As gold though mix'd with baser matter shines, 
 
 So do his bright inimitable lines 
 
 Throughout those rude wild scenes distinguish'd stand. 
 
 As shew he touch'd them with no sparing hand. 
 
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 Hard is the task, in this discerning age, 
 
 To find new subjects that will bear the stage ; 
 
 And bold our bards, their low harsh strains to bring 
 
 Where Avon's swan has long been heard to sing ; 
 
 Blest parent of our scene ! whose matchless wit, 
 
 Tho' yearly reap'd, is our best harvest yet. 
 
 Well may that genius every heart command, 
 
 Who drew all Nature with her own strong hand 
 
 As various, as harmonious, fair and great, 
 
 With the same vigour and immortal heat ; 
 
 As thro' each element and form she shines : 
 
 We view heaVn's hand-maid in her Shakespeare's lines. 
 
 Though some mean scenes, injurious to his fame, 
 
 Have long usurp'd the honour of his name ; 
 
 To glean and clear from chaff his least remains 
 
 Is just to him, and richly worth our pains. 
 
 We dare not charge the whole unequal play 
 
 Of Pericles on him ; yet let us say, 
 
 As gold tho' mix'd with baser metal shines, 
 
 So do his bright inimitable lines 
 
 Throughout those rude wild scenes distinguish'd stand 
 
 And shew he touch'd them with no sparing hand. 
 
 G. Lillo : Prologue to Marina (an 
 adaptation of Pericles, 1738).
 
 Preface. 
 
 The Early EdltiODS. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, was first 
 published, in quarto, in 1609, with the following title-page : — 
 
 "The late, | And much admired Play, ] Called | Pericles, 
 Prince | of Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole Historie, 
 I aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince: | As also, | The 
 no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, | in the Birth and Life, 
 of his Daughter j MARIANA. | As it hath been diuers and 
 sundry times acted by | his Maiesties Seruanta, at the Globe 
 on I the Banckside. | By William Shakespeare. | Imprinted at 
 London for Henry Gosson, and are | to be sold at the signe of the 
 Sunne in | Paternoster row, &c. | 1609. | "* 
 
 A second quarto appeared in the same year ; a third in 161 1 ; 
 a fourth in 1619 ; a fifth in 1630 ; a sixth in 1635. 
 
 These quarto editions are sufficient evidence for the popularity 
 of the play ; its omission from the First and Second Folios is all 
 the more significant : it was reprinted, however, from the Sixth 
 Quarto, in the Folios of 1664 and 1685, which included "seven 
 plays never before printed in Folio," viz.: Pericles, Prince of Tyre; 
 The London Prodigal ; Tke History of Thomas, Lord Cromwell • Sir 
 John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham ; The Puritan Wido-w ; A Yorkshire 
 Tragedy ; The Tragedy of Locrine. 
 
 The Authenticity of the Play. In dealing with the 
 authorship of Pericles two facts must be borne in mind: — (i) 
 
 * This quarto and the Second have been reproduced in facsimile in Dr 
 FurnivalTs Quarto-Series.
 
 Preface. ess Pericles, 
 
 the verdict of the Editors of the First Folio in rejecting it from 
 their volume; (ii) the early allusions and early traditions which 
 associate the play with Shakespeare's name; thus, in 1646, 
 S, Shepherd wrote : — 
 
 " with Sophocles we may 
 Compare great Shakespeare : A ristophanes 
 Never like him his Fancy could display, 
 Witness the Prince of Tyre, his Pericles." 
 The writer of these lines must have been voicing the opinion 
 of many enthusiastic spectators of " the much-admired play " ; 
 J. Tatham, however, uttered the views of the more critical 
 faction, when in 1651 he quoted this censure : — 
 " Shakespeare, the Plebeian driller, was 
 Foundered in's Pericles, and must not pass." 
 "Pericles" indeed seems to have become almost proverbial for a 
 bad play successful in hitting the tastes of the masses. 
 " And if it prove so happy as to please, 
 We'll say Hit fortunate like Pericles ; " 
 so wrote Robert Tailor, in the Prologue to " The Hog hath lost 
 his Pearl.' 1 
 
 Ben Jonson in his Ode M Come leaue the loathed stage" ( 1629-30;, 
 singled out for special scorn 
 
 " some mouldy tale 
 Like Pericles" ; 
 while Owen Feltham reminded him frankly that certain portions 
 of his own " Nov Inn " 
 
 1 ' throw a stain 
 Through all the unlikely plot, and do displease 
 As deep as Pericles." 
 
 It must be observed that there is no reference in these latter 
 quotations to Shakespeare's alleged authorship. Subsequently,
 
 Prince of Tyre 3** Preface. 
 
 Dryden accepted the play, while Pope rejected It, and the early 
 editors down to the time of Malone followed his example; since 
 the time of Steevens it has been included in the Canon, its doubt- 
 ful character, however, being generally recognised. " I must 
 acquit," wrote Steevens in opposition to Malone's views, " even 
 the irregular and lawless Shakespeare of having constructed the 
 fabric of the drama, though he has certainly bestowed some 
 decoration on its parts. Yet even this decoration, like em- 
 broidery on a blanket, only serves by contrast to expose the 
 meanness of the original materials." Happily modern criticism 
 corroborates the judgment of the First Editors, condemns a great 
 part of Pericles as altogether un-Shakespearian, and relieves the 
 poet of all the offensive and loathsome scenes of " the mouldy 
 tale." Shakespeare's hand cannot be traced in the first two Acts, 
 nor in the coarse portions of Act IV. , viz. scenes ii. , v., and vi. ; his 
 work is " the strange and worthy accidents in the Birth and Life 
 of Marina," and is to be found in the last three acts of the play. 
 Mr Fleay has extracted the precious metal from the alloy, and 
 the result is a charming Shakespearian Romance* — "a kind ot 
 prologue " to the glorious group of " Romances " belonging to 
 the close of his literary career {vide Prefaces to Cymbelinc, Tempest, 
 Winter's Tale). 
 
 Date of Composition. The date inferred from the con- 
 nection of the " Marina portion " of Pericles with the last plays 
 of Shakespeare is borne out by external evidence, as well as by 
 more minute internal considerations. The title-page of the first 
 edition, the reference to it as "a new play" in a metrical pam- 
 phlet entitled Pimlyco published in 1609, the publication in 1608 
 * Published by the New Shakespeare Society, 1S74. 
 vii
 
 Preface. «^s Pericles, 
 
 of a novel based upon It "as lately represented," all point to circa 
 1607-8 as the date of Shakespeare's part : this view is strongly 
 confirmed by metrical tests which make it contemporary with 
 
 " Antony and Cleopatra" 
 
 No scholar would now venture to support Dryden's statement 
 in his Prologue to Davenant's Circe, 1675: — 
 
 M Shakespear 's own Must her Pericles first bore, 
 The Prince of Tyre was elder than the Moor ; 
 'Tis miracle to see a first good play ; 
 All Hawthorns do not bloom on Christmas-day." 
 
 George Wilkins and Pericles. It is possible to dif- 
 ferentiate no less than three styles in the play of Pericles. Shake- 
 speare's share has already been assigned to him : in all probability 
 Act IV. Sc. v. and vi. are not by the author of the first two Acts 
 and the short line chorus. The author of the latter portion was 
 certainly George Wilkins, who in 1608 brought out a novel, 
 " being the true history of the play, as it was lately presented by 
 the worthy and ancient poet, John Gower ; " he lays claim to the 
 play as a ' poor infant of his brain,' and his claim is justifiable, 
 (vide Delins, Preface to Pericles, and especially Mr Fleay's valuable 
 essay on " Pericles," read before the Nezv Shakespeare Society, 1874). 
 
 The third author may have been W. Rowley, who was joined 
 with Wilkins and John Day in writing " The Travels of the three 
 English Brotiurs" etc.; this point is, however, a matter of conjec- 
 ture, and the evidence is not altogether convincing. 
 
 Sources of the Plot. The direct sources of Pericles were 
 Laurence Twine's Patternt of Paineful Adventures, published in 
 viii
 
 Prince of Tyre && Preface. 
 
 1576, and Gower's collection ot metrical tales called " Conpsslo 
 Amantis ''; both these works were consulted for the famous story 
 of Apollonius of Tyre. Gower was indebted for his tale to 
 Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon, a Latin work of the 12th century ; 
 Twine probably reprinted an earlier 16th century version, 
 derived from a French source. The story was among the most 
 widespread stories of the Middle Ages ; its original was prob- 
 ably in Greek ; the earliest allusion to the Latin version belongs 
 to the middle of the 8th century. A West-Saxon translation 
 was made in the nth century (cp. Ward's Catalogue of Romances in 
 the British Museum; P. Z. Round's Preface to Quarto- Factimile ; 
 Dunlop's History of Fiction, &c). 
 
 The name ' Pericles ' in place of • Apollonius ' may have been 
 derived from Sidney's Arcadia. 
 
 Duration of Action. The action of the play covers a 
 period of from fifteen to sixteen years, of which fourteen days 
 are represented on the stage : the chief intervals are accounted 
 for in the Choruses : — 
 
 Day I. Act I. Sc. i. — Interval. 
 
 Day 2. Act I. Sc. ii., iii. — Interval. 
 
 Day 3. Act I. Sc. iv. — Interval, 2nd Chortu. 
 
 Day 4. Act II. Sc. i. 
 
 Day 5. Act II. Sc. ii., iii., iv. 
 
 Day 6. Act II. Sc. V. — Interval, yd Choru*. 
 
 Day 7. Act III. Sc. i. 
 
 Day 8. Act III. Sc. ii.— Interval. 
 
 Day 9. Act III. Sc. iii., iv. — Interval, 14 years, fyh Chorus, 
 
 Day 10. Act IV. Sc. i. — Interval, 
 
 is
 
 Preface. «sgs Pericles, Prince of Tyre 
 
 Day II. Act IV. Sc. ii., Hi.— Interval, $th Chorus (Act IV. 
 
 Sc. iv.). 
 Day 12. Act IV. Sc. v., vi. — Interval, 6th Chorus. 
 Day 13. Act V. Sc. i.— Interval, Jth Chorus (Act V. Sc. ii. ). 
 Day 14. Act V. Sc. iii. (cf, Daniel's u Tim.- Analysis of Shake- 
 
 shears' s Plays," 
 
 *A
 
 PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE,
 
 DRAMATIS PERSONS. 
 
 AnTIOCHUS, king of Antioch, 
 
 Pericles, prince of Tyre. 
 
 Helicanus, \ _ 
 
 _ Y txuo lords of Tyre, 
 
 ESCANES, J J J 
 
 SlMONLDES, king of Ptntapolit. 
 Cleon, governor of Tarsui. 
 LysiMACHUS, governor of Mytilcnt. 
 Cerimon, a lord of Ephesus. 
 Thaliard, a lord of Antioch. 
 Philemon, servant to Cerimon, 
 Leonine, servant to Dionyxa. 
 Marshal. 
 A Pandar. 
 BoulT, his servant. 
 
 The daughter of Antiochus 
 
 DlONYZA, "wife to Cleon. 
 
 Thaisa, daughter to Simonides. 
 
 MARINA, daughter to Pericles ar.d Thaisa. 
 
 Lychorida, nurse to Marina. 
 
 A Bawd. 
 
 Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors. Pirates, Fishermen, 
 and Messengers. 
 
 Diana. 
 
 Gower, as Chorus. 
 
 Scene : Dispersedly tn various countrU*
 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 
 
 Act First. 
 
 Enter Gotuer. 
 
 Before the palace of Antioch* 
 
 To sing a song that old was sung, 
 
 From ashes ancient Gower is come, 
 
 Assuming man's infirmities, 
 
 To glad your ear and please your eyes. 
 
 It hath been sung at festivals, 
 
 On ember-eves and holy-ales ; 
 
 And lords and ladies in their lives 
 
 Have read it for restoratives: 
 
 The purchase is to make men glorious \ 
 
 Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius. IO 
 
 If you, born in these latter times 
 
 When wit 's more ripe, accept my rhymes, 
 
 And that to hear an old man sing 
 
 May to your wishes pleasure bring, 
 
 37 a i
 
 Act I. cs Pericles, 
 
 I life would wish, and that I might 
 
 Waste it for you like taper-light. 
 
 This Antioch then Antiochus the Great 
 
 Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat, 
 
 The fairest in all Syria : 
 
 I tell you what mine authors say : 20 
 
 This king unto him took a fere, 
 
 Who died and left a female heir, 
 
 So buxom, blithe and full of face 
 
 As heaven had lent her all his grace ; 
 
 With whom the father liking took, 
 
 And her to incest did provoke : 
 
 Bad child, worse father ! to entice his own 
 
 To evil should be done by none : 
 
 But custom what they did begin 
 
 Was with long use account no sin. 30 
 
 The beauty of this sinful dame 
 
 Made many princes thither frame, 
 
 To seek her as a bed-fellow, 
 
 In marriage-pleasures play-fellow : 
 
 Which to prevent he made a law, 
 
 To keep her still and men in awe, 
 
 That whoso ask'd her for his wife, 
 
 His riddle told not, lost his life : 
 
 So for her many a wight did die,
 
 Prince of Tyre » Act I. Sci 
 
 As yon grim looks do testify. 40 
 
 What now ensues, to the judgement of your eye 
 
 I give, my cause who best can justify. \Extt. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Antioch. A room in the palace. 
 Enter Antiochus, Prince Pericles and Follower*. 
 
 Ant. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received 
 The danger of the task you undertake. 
 
 Per. I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul 
 
 Embolden'd with the glory of her praise, 
 Think death no hazard in this enterprise. 
 
 Ant. Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride, 
 For the embracements even of Jove himself; 
 At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd, 
 Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence, 
 The senate-house of planets all did sit, 10 
 
 To knit in her their best perfections. 
 
 Music. Enter Antiochus 1 Daughter. 
 Per. See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, 
 Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king 
 Of every virtue gives renown to men ! 
 Her face the book of praises, where is read 
 3
 
 Act I. Sc. i. « Pericles , 
 
 Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence 
 
 Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath 
 
 Could never be her mild companion. 
 
 You gods that made me man and sway in love, 
 
 That have inflamed desire in my breast 20 
 
 To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree 
 
 Or die in the adventure, be my helps, 
 
 As I am son and servant to your will, 
 
 To compass such a boundless happiness ! 
 
 Ant. Prince Pericles, — 
 
 Per. That would be son to great Antiochus. 
 
 Ant. Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, 
 
 With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd ; 
 For death-like dragons here affright thee hard : 
 Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view 30 
 
 Her countless glory, which desert must gain ; 
 And which, without desert, because thine eye 
 Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must 
 
 die. 
 Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself, 
 Drawn by report, adventurous by desire, 
 Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance 
 
 pale, 
 That without covering, save yon field of stars, 
 Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars ;
 
 Prince of Tyre »• Act I. Sc i. 
 
 And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist 
 
 For going on death's net, whom none resist. 40 
 
 Per. Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught 
 My frail mortality to know itself, 
 And by those fearful objects to prepare 
 This body, like to them, to what I must ; 
 For death remember'd should be like a mirror, 
 Who tells us life 's but breath, to trust it error. 
 I Ml make my will then, and, as sick men do, 
 Who know the world, see heaven, but feeling 
 
 woe 
 Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did, 
 So I bequeath a happy peace to you 50 
 
 And all good men, as every prince should do ; 
 My riches to the earth from whence they came ; 
 But my unspotted fire of love to you. 
 
 [To the Princess. 
 Thus ready for the way of life or death, 
 I wait the sharpest blow. 
 
 Ant. Scorning advice : read the conclusion then : 
 Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed. 
 As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed. 
 
 Daugh. Of all 'say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous ! 
 Of all 'say'd yet, I wish thee happiness ! 60 
 
 Per. Like a bold champion I assume the lists.
 
 Act I. Sc i. «=s Pericies, 
 
 Nor ask advice of any other thought 
 But faithfulness and courage. 
 
 He reads the riddle. 
 
 * I am no viper, yet I feed 
 
 On mother's flesh which did me breed. 
 
 I sought a husband, in which labour 
 
 I found that kindness in a father : 
 
 He 's father, son, and husband mild ; 
 
 I mother, wife, and yet his child. 
 
 How they may be, and yet in two, 70 
 
 As you will live, resolve it you.' 
 \jAs\de~\ Sharp physic is the last : but, O you powers 
 That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts. 
 Why cloud they not their sights perpetually, 
 If this be true, which makes me pale to read it ? 
 Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still, 
 Were not this glorious casket stored with ill : 
 But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt; 
 For he 's no man on whom perfections wait 
 That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate. 80 
 You are a fair viol and your sense the strings, 
 Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music, 
 Would draw heaven down and all the gods, to hearken. 
 But being play'd upon before your time,
 
 Prince of Tyre s^ Act I. Sc. i. 
 
 Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime. 
 Good sooth, I care not for you. 
 Ant. Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life, 
 For that *s an article within our law, 
 As dangerous as the rest. Your time 's expired : 
 Either expound now or receive your sentence. 90 
 Per. Great king, 
 
 Few love to hear the sins they love to act ; 
 'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it. 
 Who has a book of all that monarchs do, 
 He 's more secure to keep it shut than shown : 
 For vice repeated is like the wandering wind, 
 Blows dust in others' eyes, to spread itself; 
 And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, 
 The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear 
 To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole 
 
 casts 100 
 
 Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is 
 
 throng'd 
 By man's oppression ; and the poor worm doth die 
 
 for't. 
 Kings are earth's gods ; in vice their law 's their will ; 
 And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill ? 
 It is enough you know ; and it is fit, 
 What being more known grows worse, to smother it.
 
 Act I. Sc. i. *s Pericles, 
 
 All love the womb that their first being bred, 
 Then give my tongue like leave to love my head. 
 
 Ant. [_Aside~] Heaven, that I had thy head! He has 
 found the meaning : 
 But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre, 
 Though by the tenour of our strict edict, 1 1 1 
 
 Your exposition misinterpreting, 
 We might proceed to cancel of your days ; 
 Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree 
 As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise : 
 Forty days longer we do respite you ; 
 If by which time our secret be undone, 
 This mercy shows we '11 joy in such a son : 
 And until then your entertain shall be 
 As doth befit our honour and your worth. 1 20 
 
 \_Exeunt all but Pericles. 
 
 Per. How courtesy would seem to cover sin, 
 When what is done is like an hypocrite, 
 The which is good in nothing but in sight ! 
 If it be true that I interpret false, 
 Then were it certain you were not so bad 
 As with foul incest to abuse your soul ; 
 Where now you 're both a father and a son, 
 By your untimely claspings with your child, 
 Which pleasure fits a husband, not a father ;
 
 Prince of Tyres* Act i. Sc. i. 
 
 And she an eater of her mother's flesh, 1 30 
 
 By the defiling of her parent's bed ; 
 And both like serpents are, who though they feed 
 On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed. 
 Antioch, farewell ! for wisdom sees, those men 
 Blush not in actions blacker than the night, 
 Will shun no course to keep them from the light. 
 One sin, I know, another doth provoke ; 
 Murder 's as near to lust as flame to smoke : 
 Poison and treason are the hands of sin, 
 Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame : 140 
 
 Then, lest my life be cropp'd to keep you clear, 
 By flight I '11 shun the danger which I fear. [Exit, 
 
 Re-enter Antiochus. 
 Ant. He hath found the meaning, for the which we mean 
 To have his head. 
 
 He must not Jive to trumpet forth my infamy, 
 Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin 
 In such a loathed manner : 
 And therefore instantly this prince must die ; 
 For by his fall my honour must keep high. 
 Who attends us there ? 
 
 Enter Thaliard. 
 Thai. Doth your highness call ? 1 50
 
 Act I. Sc. L cs Pericles, 
 
 Ant. Thaliard, 
 
 You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes 
 
 Her private actions to your secrecy : 
 
 And for your faithfulness we will adrance you. 
 
 Thaliard, behold, here *s poison, and here 'a gold ; 
 
 We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him : 
 
 It fits thee not to ask the reason why, 
 
 Because we bid it. Say, is it done ? 
 Thai. My lord, 
 
 'Tis done. 
 Ant. Enough. 1 60 
 
 Enter a Messenger. 
 
 Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste. 
 
 Mess. My lord, prince Pericles is fled. \_Exit. 
 
 Ant. As thou 
 
 Wilt live, fly after : and like an arrow shot 
 From a well experienced archer hits the mark 
 His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return 
 Unless thou say * Prince Pericles is dead.' 
 
 Thai. My lord, 
 
 If I can get him within my pistol's length, 
 I '11 make him sure enough : so, farewell to your 
 highness.
 
 Prince of Tyre s^ Act I. Sc. ii. 
 
 Ant. Thaliard, adieu! [Exit Thai."] Till Pericles be 
 
 dead, 170 
 
 My heart can lend no succour to my head. [Exit. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Tyre. A room in the palace. 
 Enter Pericles. 
 
 Per, [To Lords without^ Let none disturb us. Why 
 
 should this change of thoughts, 
 The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, 
 Be my so used a guest as not an hour, 
 In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night, 
 The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me 
 
 quiet ? 
 Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun 
 
 them, 
 And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch, 
 Whose arm seems far too short to hit me here : 
 Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits, 
 Nor yet the other's distance comfort me. 10 
 
 Then it is thus : the passions of the mind, 
 That have their first conception by mis-dread,
 
 Act I. Sc ii. ^ Pericles, 
 
 Have after-nourishment and life by care ; 
 
 And what was first but fear what might be done, 
 
 Grows elder now and cares it be not done. 
 
 And so with me : the great Antiochus, 
 
 'Gainst whom I am too little to contend, 
 
 Since he *s so great can make his will his act, 
 
 Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence ; 
 
 Nor boots it me to say I honour him, 20 
 
 If he suspect I may dishonour him : 
 
 And what may make him blush in being known, 
 
 He '11 stop the course by which it might be known : 
 
 With hostile forces he '11 o'erspread the land, 
 
 And with the ostent of war will look so huge, 
 
 Amazement shall drive courage from the state, 
 
 Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist, 
 
 And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence : 
 
 Which care of them, not pity of myself, 
 
 Who am no more but as the tops of trees 30 
 
 Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them, 
 
 Makes both my body pine and soul to languish, 
 
 And punish that before that he would punish. 
 
 Enter Helicanus, with other Lords. 
 
 First Lord. Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast ! 
 Sec. Lord. And keep your mind, till you return to us,
 
 Prince of Tyre »• Act I. Sc ii, 
 
 Peaceful and comfortable ! 
 Hel. Peace, peace, and give experience tongue. 
 
 They do abuse the king that flatter him : 
 
 For flattery is the bellows blows up sin ; 
 
 The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark, 40 
 
 To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing ; 
 
 Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, 
 
 Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. 
 
 When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace, 
 
 He flatters you, makes war upon your life. 
 
 Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please ; 
 
 I cannot be much lower than my knees. 
 Per. All leave us else ; but let your cares o'erlook 
 
 What shipping and what lading's in our haven, 
 
 And then return to us. \_Exeunt Lords. ~\ Helicanus, 
 thou 50 
 
 Hast moved us : what seest thou in our looks ? 
 Hel. An angry brow, dread lord. 
 Per. If there be such a dart in princes' frowns, 
 
 How durst thy tongue move anger to our face ? 
 Hel. How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence 
 
 They have their nourishment ? 
 Per. Thou know'st I have power 
 
 To take thy life from thee. 
 Hel. [Kneeling~] I have ground the axe myself;
 
 Act I. Sc. ii. «=is Pericles, 
 
 Do you but strike the blow. 
 
 Per. Rise, prithee, rise : sit down : thou art no flatterer : 
 I thank thee for it ; and heaven forbid 6 1 
 
 That kings should let their ears hear their faults hid ! 
 Fit counsellor and servant for a prince, 
 Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant, 
 What wouldst tho;, have me do ? 
 
 Hel. To bear with patience 
 
 Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself. 
 
 Per. Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus, 
 That minister'st a potion unto me 
 That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself. 
 Attend me then : I went to Antioch, 70 
 
 Where, as thou know'st, against the face of death, 
 I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty, 
 From whence an issue I might propagate, 
 Are arms to princes and bring joys to subjects. 
 Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder ; 
 The rest — hark in thine ear — as black as incest : 
 Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father 
 Seem'd not to strike, but smooth : but thou know'st 
 
 this, 
 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. 
 Which fear so grew in me, I hither fled, 80 
 
 Under the covering of a careful night, 
 
 J4
 
 P rince of Tyre at* Act I. Sc ii. 
 
 Who seem'd my good protector ; and, being here, 
 
 Bethought me what was past, what might succeed. 
 
 I knew him tyrannous ; and tyrants' fears 
 
 Decrease not, but grow faster than the years : 
 
 And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, 
 
 That I should open to the listening air 
 
 How many worthy princes' bloods were shed, 
 
 To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, 
 
 To lop that doubt, he '11 fill this land with arms, 90 
 
 And make pretence of wrong that I have done 
 
 him ; 
 When all, for mine, if I may call offence, 
 Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence : 
 Which love to all, of which thyself art one, 
 Who now reprovest me for it, — 
 
 Hel. Alas, sir! 
 
 Per. Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my 
 cheeks, 
 Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts 
 How I might stop this tempest ere it came ; 
 And finding little comfort to relieve them, 
 I thought it princely charity to grieve them. 100 
 
 Hel. Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to 
 speak, 
 Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear, 
 15
 
 Act I. Sc. li, *e Pericles, 
 
 And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant, 
 
 Who either by public war or private treason 
 
 Will take away your life. 
 
 Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while, 
 
 Till that his rage and anger be forgot, 
 
 Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life. 
 
 Your rule direct to any ; if to me, 
 
 Day serves not light more faithful than I Ml be. no 
 
 Per. I do not doubt thy faith ; 
 
 But should he wrong my liberties in my absence ? 
 
 Hel. We '11 mingle our bloods together in the earth, 
 From whence we had our being and our birth. 
 
 Per, Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus 
 Intend my travel, where I Ml hear from thee ; 
 And by whose letters I '11 dispose myself. 
 The care I had and have of subjects* good 
 On thee I lay, whose wisdom'6 strength can 
 
 bear it. 
 I 'II take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath : 120 
 Who shuns not to break one will sure crack 
 
 both : 
 But in our orbs we '11 live so round and safe, 
 That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince, 
 Thou ghow'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince. 
 
 [Exeunt.
 
 Prince of Tyre ss* Act I. Sc. iii. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 Tyre, An ante-chamber in the palace. 
 
 Enter Thaliard. 
 
 Thai. So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here 
 must I kill King Pericles ; and if I do it not, I 
 am sure to be hanged at home : 'tis dangerous. 
 Well, I perceive he was a wise fellow and had 
 good discretion, that, being bid to ask what he 
 would of the king, desired he might know none 
 of his secrets : now I do see he had some reason 
 for 't ; for if a king bid a man be a villain, he *s 
 bound by the indenture of his oath to be one. 
 Hush ! here come the lords of Tyre. 10 
 
 Enter Helicanus and Escanes, with other Lords, 
 Hel. You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, 
 Further to question me of your king's departure : 
 His seaPd commission left in trust with me 
 Doth speak sufficiently he \ gone to travel. 
 Thai \_Asidc~~\ How ! the king gone ! 
 Hel. If further yet you will be satisfied, 
 
 Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves, 
 
 He would depart, I '11 give some light unto you. 
 
 Being at Antioch — 
 
 37 b l 7
 
 Act I. Sc iii. ess Pericles, 
 
 Thai. [_Jside] What from Antioch ? 
 
 Hel. Royal Antiochus — on what cause I know not — 20 
 Took some displeasure at him ; at least he judged 
 
 so: 
 And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd, 
 To show his sorrow, he 'Id correct himself; 
 So puts himself unto the shipman's toil, 
 With whom each minute threatens life or death. 
 
 Thai. \_Aside~\ Well, I perceive I shall not be 
 hanged now, although I would ; but since he \ 
 gone, the king's seas must please : he 'scaped 
 the land, to perish at the sea. I '11 present 
 myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre ! 
 
 Hel. Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome. 30 
 
 Thai. From him I come 
 
 With message unto princely Pericles ; 
 But since my landing I have understood 
 Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels, 
 My message must return from whence it came. 
 
 Hel. We have no reason to desire it, 
 
 Commended to our master, not to us : 
 Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire, 
 As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre. 40 
 
 [Exeunt.
 
 Prince of Tyre s* Act I. Sc. ir. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house. 
 
 Enter Cleon the Governor of Tarsus, 'with Dionyza and 
 others. 
 
 Cle. My Dionyza, shall we rest us here, 
 And by relating tales of others' griefs, 
 See if 'twill teach us to forget our own ? 
 
 Dio. That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it ; 
 For who digs hills because they do aspire 
 Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. 
 
 my distressed lord, even such our griefs are ; 
 Here they 're but felt, and seen with mischiefs eyes, 
 But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise. 
 
 Cle. O Dionyza, 10 
 
 Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it, 
 Or can conceal his hunger till he famish ? 
 Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep 
 Our woes into the air ; our eyes do weep, 
 Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them 
 
 louder ; 
 That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want, 
 They may awake their helps to comfort them. 
 
 1 '11 then discourse our woes, felt several years, 
 And wanting breath to speak help me with tears. 
 
 *)
 
 Acti.Sc.tv. ess Pericles, 
 
 Dio. I '11 do my best, sir. 20 
 
 Cle. This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government, 
 A city on whom plenty held full hand, 
 For riches strew' d herself even in the streets ; 
 Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the 
 
 clouds, 
 And strangers ne'er beheld but wonder'd at ; 
 Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd, 
 Like one another's glass to trim them by : 
 Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight, 
 And not so much to feed on as delight ; 
 All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great, 30 
 The name of help grew odious to repeat. 
 
 Dio. O, 'tis too true. 
 
 Cle. But see what heaven can do ! By this our change, 
 These mouths, who but of late earth, sea and air, 
 Were all too little to content and please, 
 Although they gave their creatures in abundance, 
 As houses are defiled for want of use, 
 They are now starved for want of exercise : 
 Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, 
 Must have inventions to delight the taste, 40 
 
 Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it : 
 Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes, 
 Thought nought too curious, are ready now
 
 Prince of Ty re » Act ,. Sc . iv . 
 
 To eat those little darlings whom they loved. 
 
 So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife 
 
 Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life : 
 
 Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping ; 
 
 Here many sink, yet those which see them fall 
 
 Have scarce strength left to give them burial. 
 
 Is not this true ? 50 
 
 Dio. Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it. 
 
 Cle. O, let those cities that of plenty's cup 
 And her prosperities so largely taste, 
 With their superfluous riots, hear these tears ! 
 The misery of Tarsus may be theirs. 
 
 Enter a Lord. 
 
 Lord. Where 's the lord governor ? 
 Cle. Here. 
 
 Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring' st in haste, 
 
 For comfort is too far for us to expect. 
 Lord. We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore, 
 
 A portly sail of ships make hitherward. 61 
 
 Cle. I thought as much. 
 
 One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, 
 
 That may succeed as his inheritor ; 
 
 And so in ours : some neighbouring nation, 
 
 Taking advantage of our misery,
 
 Act I. Sc. iv. *s Pericles, 
 
 Hath stufPd these hollow vessels with their power, 
 To beat us down, the which are down already, 
 And make a conquest of unhappy me, 
 Whereas no glory 's got to overcome. 70 
 
 Lord. That 's the least fear ; for, by the semblance 
 
 Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace, 
 And come to us as favourers, not as foes. 
 
 Cle. Thou speak' st like him *s untutor'd to repeat : 
 Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. 
 But bring they what they will and what they can, 
 What need we fear ? 
 
 The ground 's the lowest, and we are halfway there. 
 Go tell their general we attend him here, 
 To know for what he comes and whence he comes 
 And what he craves. 81 
 
 Lord. I go, my lord. [Exit. 
 
 Cle, Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist ; 
 If wars, we are unable to resist. 
 
 Enter Pericles with Attendants, 
 
 Per. Lord governor, for so we hear you are, 
 Let not our ships and number of our men 
 Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes. 
 We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre* 
 And seen the desolation of your street* :
 
 Prince of Tyre » Act I. Sc. iv. 
 
 Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears, 90 
 
 But to relieve them of their heavy load ; 
 
 And these our ships, you happily may think 
 
 Are like the Trojan horse was stuff 'd within 
 
 With bloody veins expecting overthrow, 
 
 Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, 
 
 And give them life whom hunger starved half dead. 
 
 All. The gods of Greece protect you ! 
 And we '11 pray for you. 
 
 Per. Arise, I pray you, rise : 
 
 We do not look for reverence, but for love 
 And harbourage for ourself, our ships and men. 100 
 
 Cle. The which when any shall not gratify, 
 
 Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought, 
 Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves, 
 The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils ! 
 Till when, — the which I hope shall ne'er be seen— 
 Your grace is welcome to our town and us. 
 
 Per. Which welcome we '11 accept ; feast here awhile, 
 Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. [Exeunt. 
 
 *><$&,$%/&*
 
 Act II. *e Pericles, 
 
 Act Second. 
 
 Enter Gotver, 
 
 Gow. Here have you seen a mighty king 
 His child, I wis, to incest bring ; 
 A better prince and benign lord, 
 That will prove awful both in deed and word. 
 Be quiet then as men should be, 
 Till he hath pass'd necessity. 
 I '11 show you those in troubles reign, 
 Losing a mite, a mountain gain. 
 The good in conversation, 
 
 To whom I give my benison, 10 
 
 Is still at Tarsus, where each man 
 Thinks all is writ he speken can ; 
 And, to remember what he does, 
 Build his statue to make him glorious : 
 But tidings to the contrary 
 Are brought your eyes ; what need speak I ? 
 
 Dumb Show. 
 
 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
 
 Prince of Tyre s* Act II. 
 
 to Cleon ; gives the Messenger a reward, and 
 
 knights him. Exit Pericles at one door y and Clean 
 
 at another. 
 
 Good Helicane, that stay'd at home, 
 
 Not to eat honey like a drone 
 
 From others' labours ; for though he strive 
 
 To killen bad, keep good alive ; 20 
 
 And to fulfil his prince* desire, 
 
 Sends word of all that haps in Tyre : 
 
 How Thaliard came full bent with sin 
 
 And had intent to murder him ; 
 
 And that in Tarsus was not best 
 
 Longer for him to make his rest, 
 
 He, doing so, put forth to seas, 
 
 Where when men been, there *s seldom ease ; 
 
 For now the wind begins to blow ; 
 
 Thunder above and deeps below 30 
 
 Make such unquiet that the ship 
 
 Should house him safe is wreck'd and split ; 
 
 And he, good prince, having all lost, 
 
 By waves from coast to coast is tost : 
 
 All perishen of man, of pelf, 
 
 Ne aught escapen but himself; 
 
 Till fortune, tired with doing bad, 
 
 Threw him ashore, to give him glad :
 
 Act II. Sc. i. « Pericles, 
 
 And here he oomes. What shall be next, 
 Pardon old Gower, — this longs the text. [Exit. 40 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side. 
 Enter Pericles, wet. 
 
 Per. Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven ! 
 Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man 
 1 8 but a substance that must yield to you ; 
 And I, as fits my nature, do obey you : 
 Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks, 
 Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath 
 Nothing to think on but ensuing death : 
 Let it suffice the greatness of your powers 
 To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes ; 
 And having thrown him from your watery grave, 10 
 Here to have death in peace is all he '11 crave. 
 
 Enter three Fishermen. 
 
 First Fish. What, ho, Pilch ! 
 
 Sec. Fish. Ha, come and bring away the nets ! 
 
 First Fish. What, Patchbreech, I eay !
 
 Prince of Tyre a* Act n. S c. i. 
 
 Third Fish. What say you, master ? 
 
 First Fish. Look how thou stirrest now ! come 
 away, or I '11 fetch thee with a wanion. 
 
 Third Fish. Faith, master, I am thinking of 
 the poor men that were cast away before us 
 even now. 20 
 
 First Fish. Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to 
 hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help 
 them, when, well-a-day, we could scarce help 
 ourselves. 
 
 Third Fish. Nay, master, said not I as much when 
 I saw the porpus, how he bounced and 
 tumbled ? they say they 're half fish, half flesh : 
 a plague on them, they ne'er come but I look to 
 be washed. Master, I marvel how the fishes 
 live in the sea. 30 
 
 First Fish. Why, as men do a-land ; the great 
 ones eat up the little ones : I can compare our 
 rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale ; a' 
 plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before 
 him, and at la«t devours them all at a mouthful : 
 such whales have I heard on o' the land, who 
 never leave gaping till they 've swallowed the 
 whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. 
 
 Per. \^Aside'\ A pretty moral
 
 Act II. Sc i «*s Pericles, 
 
 Third Fish, But, master, if I had been the sexton, 40 
 I would have been that day in the belfry. 
 
 See. Fish. Why, man ? 
 
 Third Fith. Because he should have swallowed 
 me too : and when I had been in his belly, I 
 would have kept such a jangling of the bells, 
 that he should never have left till he cast bells, 
 steeple, church, and parish, up again. But if the 
 good King Simonides were of my mind, — 
 
 Per. \_Aside~\ Simonides ! 
 
 Third Fish. We would purge the land of these 50 
 drones, that rob the bee of her honey. 
 
 Per. \^Aside~\ How from the finny subject of the sea 
 These fishers tell the infirmities of men ; 
 And from their watery empire recollect 
 All that may men approve or men detect !— 
 Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen. 
 
 Sec. Fish. Honest ! good fellow, what 's that ? If 
 it be a day fits you, search out of the calendar, 
 and nobody look after it. 
 
 Per. May see the sea hath cast upon your coast. 60 
 
 See. Fish. What a drunken knave was the sea to 
 cast thee in our way ! 
 
 Per. A man whom both the waters and the wind, 
 In that va»t tennis-court, have made the ball 
 el
 
 Prince of Tyre s* Act n. Sc. i. 
 
 For them to play upon, entreats you pity him ; 
 He asks of you, that never used to beg. 
 
 First Fish. No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's 
 them in our country of Greece gets more with 
 begging than we can do with working. 
 
 Sec. Ftsh. Canst thou catch any fishes then ? 70 
 
 Per. I never practised it. 
 
 Sec. Fish. Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure ; for 
 here 's nothing to be got now-a-days, unless 
 thou canst fish for 't. 
 
 Per. What I have been I have forgot to know ; 
 But what I am, want teaches me to think on : 
 A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are 
 
 chill, 
 And have no more of life than may suffice 
 To give my tongue that heat to ask your help ; 
 Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead, 80 
 For that I am a man, pray see me buried. 
 
 First Fish. Die quoth-a ? Now gods forbid 't ! 
 And I have a gown here ; come, put it on ; keep 
 thee warm. Now, afore me, a handsome fellow ! 
 Come, thou shalt go home, and we '11 have flesh 
 for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er 
 puddings and flap- jacks, and thou shalt be welcome. 
 
 Per. I thank you, sir. 
 
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 Act II. Sc i. .as Pericles, 
 
 Sec. Fish. Hark you, my friend ; you said you 
 
 could not beg. 90 
 
 Per. I did but crave. 
 Sec. Fish. But crave ! Then I '11 turn craver too, 
 
 and so I shall 'scape whipping. 
 Per. Why, are all your beggars whipped then ? 
 Sec. Fish. O, not all, my friend, not all ; for if all 
 
 your beggars were whipped, I would wish no 
 
 better office than to be beadle. But, master, 
 
 I '11 go draw up the net. 
 
 [Exit with Third Fisherman. 
 Per. \_Aside~] How well this honest mirth becomes their 
 
 labour ! 
 First Fish. Hark you, sir, do you know where ye 100 
 
 are? 
 Per. Not well. 
 First Fish. Why, I '11 tell you : this is called Penta- 
 
 polis, and our king the good Simonides. 
 Per. The good Simonides, do you call 
 
 him ? 
 First Fish. Ay, sir ; and he deserves so to be called 
 
 for his peaceable reign and good government. 
 Per. He is a happy king, since he gains from his 
 
 subjects the name of good by his government, no 
 
 How far is his court distant from this shore ?
 
 Prince of Tyre s*» Act n. Sc. u 
 
 First Fish. Marry, sir, half a day's journey : and 
 I '11 tell you, he hath a fair daughter, and to- 
 morrow is her birthday ; and there are princes 
 and knights come from all parte of the world 
 to just and tourney for her lore. 
 
 Per. Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could 
 wish to make one there. 
 
 First Fish. O, sir, things must be as they may ; and 
 
 what a man cannot get, he may lawfully deal 1 20 
 for — his wife's soul. 
 
 Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing 
 up a net. 
 
 Sec. Fish. Help, master, help ! here 's a fish hangs 
 in the net, like a poor man's right in the law ; 
 'twill hardly come out. Ha ! bots on \ 'tis 
 come at last, and 'tis turned to a rusty armour. 
 
 Per. An armour, friends ! I pray you, let me see it. 
 Thanks, fortune, yet, that after all thy crosses 
 Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself; 
 And though it was mine own, part of my heritage, 
 Which my dead father did bequeath to me, 1 30 
 With this strict charge, even as he left his life, 
 1 Keep it, my Pericles ; it hath been a shield 
 'Twixt me and death : ' — and pointed to this brace —
 
 Act II. Sc. i. cs Pericles, 
 
 ♦For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity — 
 The which the gods protect thee from ! — may defend 
 
 thee.' 
 It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it; 
 Till the rough seas, that spare not any man, 
 Took it in rage, though calm'd haye given 't 
 
 again : 
 I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill, 
 Since I have here my father's gift in's will. 140 
 
 First Fish. What mean you, sir ? 
 
 Per. To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth, 
 For it was sometime target to a king ; 
 I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly, 
 And for his sake I wish the having of it ; 
 And that you 'Id guide me to your sovereign's court. 
 Where with it I may appear a gentleman ; 
 And if that ever my low fortune's better, 
 I '11 pay your bounties ; till then rest your debtor. 
 
 First Fish. Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady? 150 
 
 Per. I '11 show the virtue I have borne in arms. 
 
 First Fish. Why, do'e take it, and the gods give 
 thee good on 't! 
 
 Sec. Fish. Ay, but hark you, my friend ; 'twas we that 
 made up this garment through the rough seams 
 of the waters : there are certain condolements, 
 3*
 
 Prince of Tyre 3* Act „. Sc . ii. 
 
 certain vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, you Ml 
 
 remember from whence you had them. 
 Per. Believe 't, I will. 
 
 By your furtherance I am clothed in steel ; 16c 
 
 And spite of all the rapture of the sea 
 
 This jewel holds his building on my arm : 
 
 Unto thy value I will mount myself 
 
 Upon a courser, whose delightful steps 
 
 Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread. 
 
 Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided 
 
 Of a pair of bases. 
 Sec. Fish. We '11 sure provide : thou shalt have 
 
 my best gown to make thee a pair ; and I '11 
 
 bring thee to the court myself. 17c 
 
 Per. Then honour be but a goal to my will, 
 
 This day I '11 rise, or else add ill to ill. [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 The same. A public way or platform leading to the lists. 
 A pavilion by the side of it for the reception of the 
 King, Princess, Lords, &c. 
 
 Enter Simonides, Thaisa, Lords, and Attendants. 
 
 Sim. Are the knights ready to begin the triumph ? 
 First Lord. They are, my liege, 
 
 37 C 33
 
 Act ii. Sc ii. « Pericles, 
 
 And stay your coming to present themselves. 
 
 Sim. Return them, we are ready ; and our daughter, 
 In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, 
 Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat 
 For men to see and seeing wonder at. [Exit a Lord. 
 
 Thai. It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express 
 My commendations great, whose merit 's less. 
 
 Sim. It *8 fit it should be so ; for princes are 10 
 
 A model which heaven makes like to itself: 
 As jewels lose their glory if neglected, 
 So princes their renowns if not respected. 
 'Tis now your honour, daughter, to entertain 
 The labour of each knight in his device. 
 
 Thai. Which, to preserve mine honour, I '11 perform. 
 
 Enter a Knight ; he parses over, and his Squire presents 
 his shield to the Princess. 
 
 Sim. Who is the first that doth prefer himself? 
 
 Thai. A knight of Sparta, my renowned father ; 
 And the device he bears upon his shield 
 Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun ; 20 
 
 The word, * Lux tua vita mini.' 
 
 Sim, He loves you well that holds his life of you. 
 
 [The Second Knight passes. 
 Who is the second that presents himself? 
 
 Thai. A prince of Macedon, my royal father ; 
 3*
 
 Prince of Tyre ©«• Actll. Scii. 
 
 And the device he bears upon his shield 
 
 Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady ; 
 
 The motto thus, in Spanish , ' Piu por dulzura que por 
 fuerza.' [The Third Knight passes. 
 
 Sim. And what 's the third ? 
 Thai. The third of Antioch ; 
 
 And his device, a wreath of chivalry ; 
 
 The word, ' Me pompae provexit apex.' 30 
 
 [The Fourth Knight passes. 
 Sim. What is the fourth ? 
 Thai. A burning torch that 's turned upside down ; 
 
 The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit. , 
 Sim. Which shows that beauty hath his power and will, 
 
 Which can as well inflame as it can kill. 
 
 [The Fifth Knight passes. 
 Thai. The fifth, an hand environed with clouds, 
 
 Holding out gold that 's by the touchstone tried ; 
 
 The motto thus, * Sic spectanda fides.' 
 
 [_ The Sixth Knight ', Pericles, passes. 
 Sim. And what's 
 
 The sixth and last, the which the knight himself 40 
 
 With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd ? 
 Thai. He seems to be a stranger ; but his present is 
 
 A wither'd branch, that 's only green at top ; 
 
 The motto, * In hac spe vivo.' 
 
 35
 
 Act II. Sc. iii. «ss Pericles, 
 
 Sim. A pretty moral ; 
 
 From the dejected state wherein he is, 
 
 He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish. 
 First Lord. He had need mean better than his outward 
 show 
 
 Can any way speak in his just commend ; 
 
 For by his rusty outside he appears 50 
 
 To have practised more the whipstock than the lance. 
 Sec. Lord. He well may be a stranger, for he comes 
 
 To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished. 
 Third Lord. And on set purpose let his armour mat 
 
 Until this day, to scour it in the dust. 
 Sim. Opinion 's but a fool, that makes us scan 
 
 The outward habit by the inward man. 
 
 But stay, the knights are coming : we will withdraw 
 
 Into the gallery. {Exeunt. 
 
 {Great shouts within, and all cry 'The mean knight! ' 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 The same. A hall of state : a Banquet prepared. 
 
 Enter Simonides, Tbaisa, Lords, Knights, and Attendants. 
 
 Sim. Knights, 
 
 To say you're welcome were superfluous. 
 To place upon the volume of your deeds,
 
 Prince of Tyre a* Act n. Sc. iii. 
 
 As in a title-page, jour worth in arms, 
 Were more than you expect, or more than *s fit, 
 Since every worth in show commends itself. 
 Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast: 
 You are princes and my guests. 
 
 Thai. But you, my knight and guest ; 
 
 To whom this wreath of victory I give, 10 
 
 And crown you king of this day's happiness. 
 
 Per. 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than my merit. 
 
 Sim. Call it by what you will, the day is yours ; 
 And here, I hope, is none that envies it. 
 In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, 
 To make some good, but others to exceed ; 
 And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o' 
 
 the feast, — 
 For, daughter, so you are, — here take your place : 
 Marshal the rest as they deserve their grace. 
 
 Knights. We are honour'd much by good Simonides. 20 
 
 Sim. Your presence glads our days : honour we love ; 
 For who hates honour hates the gods above. 
 
 Marshal. Sir, yonder is your place. 
 
 Per. Some other is more fit 
 
 First Knight. Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen 
 That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes 
 Envy the great nor do the low despise. 
 w
 
 Act II. Sc. iii. ^ Pericles, 
 
 Per. You are right courteous knights. 
 
 Sim. Sit, sir, sit. 
 
 \_Aside~\ By Jove, T wonder, that is king of thoughts, 
 These cates resist me, he not thought upon. 
 
 Thai, \_Aside~\ By Juno, that is queen of marriage, 30 
 All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury, 
 Wishing him my meat. — Sure he's a gallant gentle- 
 man. 
 
 Sim. He 's but a country gentleman ; 
 
 Has done no more than other knights have done; 
 Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass. 
 
 Thai. \_Aside~\ To me he seems like diamond to glass. 
 
 Per. [ Aside"] Yon king's to me like to my father's 
 picture, 
 Which tells me in that glory once he was; 
 Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne, 
 And he the sun, for them to reverence; 40 
 
 None but beheld him but, like lesser lights, 
 Did vail their crowns to his supremacy: 
 Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night, 
 The which hath fire in darkness, none in light : 
 Whereby I see that Time's the king of men; 
 He 's both their parent, and he is their grave, 
 And gives them what he will, not what they crave. 
 
 Sim. What, are you merry, knights? 
 38
 
 Prince of Tyre 3* Act II. Sc iii. 
 
 Knights. "Who can be other in this royal presence? 
 
 Sim. Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim, — 50 
 As you do lore, fill to your mistress* lips, — 
 We drink this health to you. 
 
 Knights. We thank your grace. 
 
 Sim. Yet pause awhile : 
 
 Yon knight doth sit too melancholy, 
 
 As if the entertainment in our court 
 
 Had not a show might countervail his worth. 
 
 Note it not you, Thaisa ? 
 
 Thai. What is it to me, my father? 
 
 Sim. O, attend, my daughter: 
 
 Princes, in this, should live like gods above, 
 Who freely give to every one that comes 60 
 
 To honour them : 
 
 And princes not doing so are like to gnats, 
 Which make a sound, but kilPd are wonder'd at. 
 Therefore to make his entrance more sweet, 
 Here, say we drink this 8tanding-bowl of wine to 
 him. 
 
 Thai. Alas, my father, it befits not me 
 
 Unto a stranger knight to be so bold : 
 He may my proffer take for an offence, 
 Since men take women's gifts for impudence. 
 
 Sim. How ! *jo 
 
 39
 
 Act II. Sc iit. eg Pericles, 
 
 Do as I bid you, or you '11 move me else. 
 That. \_Aside~] Now, by the gods, he could not please me 
 
 better. 
 Sim. And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of 
 him, 
 
 Of whence he is, his name and parentage. 
 Thai. The king my father, sir, has drunk to you. 
 Per. I thank him. 
 
 Thai. Wishing it so much blood unto your life. 
 Per. I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely. 
 Thai. And further he desires to know of you 
 
 Of whence you are, your name and parentage. 80 
 Per. A gentleman of Tyre ; my name, Pericles ; 
 
 My education been in arts and arms ; 
 
 Who, looking for adventures in the world, 
 
 Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men, 
 
 And after shipwreck driven upon this shore. 
 Thai. He thanks your grace ; names himself Pericles, 
 
 A gentleman of Tyre, 
 
 Who only by misfortune of the seas 
 
 Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore. 
 Sim. Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune, 90 
 
 And will awake him from his melancholy. 
 
 Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, 
 
 And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
 
 Prince of Tyre s*> Act »• Sc- *"• 
 
 Even in your armours, as you are address'd, 
 Will very well become a soldier's dance. 
 I will not have excuse, with saying this 
 Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads, 
 Since they love men in arms as well as beds. 
 
 [The Knights dance. 
 So, this was well ask'd, 'twas so well performed. 
 Come, sir, ioo 
 
 Here's a lady that wants breathing too: 
 And I have heard, you knights of Tyre 
 Are excellent in making ladies trip, 
 And that their measures are as excellent. 
 
 Per. In those that practise them they are, my lord. 
 
 Sim. O, that's as much as you would be denied 
 
 Of your fair courtesy. [ The Knights and Ladies dance. 
 
 Unclasp, unclasp : 
 Thanks, gentlemen, to all ; all have done well, 
 [To Pericles'] But you the best. Pages and lights, to 
 
 conduct 
 These knights unto their several lodgings ! Yours, 
 sir, no 
 
 We have given order to be next our own. 
 
 Per. I am at your grace's pleasure. 
 
 Sim. Princes, it is too late to talk of love, 
 
 And that 's the mark I know you level at : 
 
 4*
 
 Act II. Sc. iv. «s Pericles, 
 
 Therefore each one betake him to his rest ; 
 To-morrow all for speeding do their best. [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 Tyre. A room in the Governor's bouse. 
 Enter Helicanus and Escanes. 
 
 Hel. No, Escanes, know this of me, 
 
 Antiochus from incest lived not free : 
 
 For which, the most high gods not minding longer 
 
 To withhold the vengeance that they had in store, 
 
 Due to this heinous capital offence, 
 
 Even in the height and pride of all his glory, 
 
 When he was seated in a chariot 
 
 Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him, 
 
 A fire from heaven came, and shrivell'd up 
 
 Their bodies, even to loathing ; for they so stunk, 10 
 
 That all those eyes adored them ere their fall 
 
 Scorn now their hand should give them burial. 
 
 Esca. 'Twas very strange. 
 
 Hel. And yet but justice ; for though 
 
 This king were great, his greatness was no guard 
 
 4»
 
 Prince of Tyre 5* Act II. Sc iv. 
 
 To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward. 
 Esca. 'Tis very true. 
 
 Enter ttvo or three Lords. 
 
 First Lord. See, not a man in private conference 
 Or council has respect with him but he. 
 
 See. Lord. It shall no longer grieve without reproof. 19 
 
 Third Lord. And cursed be he that will not second it. 
 
 First Lord. Follow me then. Lord Helicane, a word. 
 
 Hel. With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords. 
 
 First Lord. Know that our griefs are risen to the top, 
 And now at length they overflow their banks. 
 
 Hel. Your griefs ! for what ? wrong not your prince you 
 love. 
 
 First Lord. Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane ; 
 But if the prince do live, let us salute him, 
 Or know what ground's made happy by his 
 
 breath. 
 If in the world he live, we '11 seek him out ; 
 If in his grave he rest, we '11 find him there ; 30 
 
 And be resolved he lives to govern us, 
 Or dead, give f 8 cause to mourn his funeral, 
 And leave us to our free election. 
 
 Sec. Lord. Whose death 's indeed the strongest in our 
 censure : 
 
 43
 
 Act II. Sc. iv. <s Pericles, 
 
 And knowing this kingdom is without a head,— 
 Like goodly buildings left without a roof 
 Soon fall to ruin — your noble self, 
 That best know how to rule and how to reign, 
 We thus submit unto, our sorereign. 
 
 All. Live, noble Helicane ! 40 
 
 Hel. For honour' 8 cause, forbear your suffrages : 
 If that you lore Prince Pericles, forbear. 
 Take I your wish, I leap into the seas, 
 Where 's hourly trouble for a minute's ease. 
 A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you 
 To forbear the absence of your king ; 
 If in which time expired he not return, 
 I shall with aged patience bear your yoke. 
 But if I cannot win you to this love, 
 Go search like nobles, like noble subjects, 50 
 
 And in your search spend your adventurous worth ; 
 Whom if you find and win unto return, 
 You shall like diamonds sit about his crown. 
 
 First Lord. To wisdom he 's a fool that will not 
 yield ; 
 And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us, 
 We with our travels will endeavour it. 
 
 Hel, Then you love us, we you, and we '11 clasp hands : 
 When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. [Exeunt.
 
 P rince of Tyre a*> Act II. Sc v. 
 
 Scene V 
 
 i 
 
 PentapoRs. A room in the palace. 
 
 Enter Simonidts, reading a letter •, at one door : the Knights 
 meet him. 
 
 First Knight. Good morrow to the good Simonides. 
 
 ''■Sim. Knights, from my daughter this I let you know, 
 That for this twelvemonth she '11 not undertake 
 A married life. 
 
 Her reason to herself is only known, 
 Which from her by no means can I get. 
 
 Sec. Knight. May we not get access to her, my lord ? 
 
 Sim. Faith, by no means ; she hath so strictly 
 
 Tied her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible. 
 One twelve moons more she '11 wear Diana's livery ; i o 
 This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd, 
 And on her virgin honour will not break it. 
 
 Third Knight. Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. 
 
 [Exeunt Knights. 
 
 Sim. So, 
 
 They are well dispatch'd ; now to my daughter's 
 
 letter : 
 She tells me here, she '11 wed the stranger knight, 
 Or never more to view nor day nor light. 
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 Act II. Sc v. «e Pericles, 
 
 'Tis well, mistress ; your choice agrees with mine ; 
 I like that well : nay, how absolute she 's in \ 
 Not minding whether I dislike or no ! 20 
 
 Well, I do commend her choice ; 
 And will no longer have it be delay'd. 
 Soft ! here he comes : I must dissemble it. 
 
 Enter Pericles, 
 
 Per. All fortune to the good Simonides ! 
 
 Sim. To you as much, sir ! I am beholding to you 
 For your sweet music this last night : I do 
 Protest my ears were never better fed 
 With such delightful pleasing harmony. 
 
 Per. It is your grace's pleasure to commend ; 
 Not my desert. 
 
 Sim. Sir, you are music's master. 30 
 
 Per. The worst of all her scholars, my good lord. 
 
 Sim, Let me ask you one thing : what do you think of 
 my daughter, sir ? 
 
 Per, A most virtuous princess. 
 
 Sim. And she is fair too, is she not ? 
 
 Per. As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. 
 
 Sim. Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you ; 
 Ay, so well, that you must be her master, 
 And ihe will be your scholar : therefore look to it. 
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 Prince of Tyre a& Actn. Sc. v. 
 
 Per. I am unworthy for her schoolmaster. 40 
 
 Sim. She thinks not so ; peruse this writing else. 
 Per. \_Aside~\ What 's here ? 
 
 A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre ! 
 
 'Tis the king's subtilty to have my life. — 
 
 O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord, 
 
 A stranger and distressed gentleman, 
 
 That never aim'd so high to love your daughter, 
 
 But bent all offices to honour her. 
 Sim. Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art 
 
 A villain. 50 
 
 Per. By the gods, I have not : 
 
 Never did thought of mine levy offence ; 
 
 Nor never did my actions yet commence 
 
 A deed might gain her love or your displeasure. 
 
 Traitor, thou liest. 
 
 Traitor ! 
 
 Ay, traitor. 
 Even in his throat — unless it be the king — 
 
 That calls me traitor, I return the lie. 
 Sim. [_Aside~\ Now, by the gods, I do applaud his 
 
 courage. 
 Per. My actions are as noble as my thoughts, 
 
 That never relish'd of a base descent. 60 
 
 I came unto your court for honour's cause, 
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 Act II. Scv. ** Pericles, 
 
 And not to be a rebel to her state ; 
 And he that otherwise accounts of me, 
 This sword shall prove he 's honour's enemy. 
 Sim. No ? 
 
 Here comes my daughter, she can witness it. 
 
 Enter Thaua. 
 
 Per. Then, as you are as rirtuous as fair, 
 
 Resolve your angry father, if my tongue 
 
 Did e'er solicit, or my hand subscribe 
 
 To any syllable that made love to you. 7 c 
 
 Thai. Why, sir, say if you had, 
 
 Who takes offence at that would make me glad ? 
 
 Sim. Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory ? 
 
 \Aade\ I am glad on 't with all my heart. — 
 
 I '11 tame you ; I '11 bring you in subjection. 
 
 Will you, not having my consent, 
 
 Bestow your love and your affections 
 
 Upon a stranger ? [_Aside~\ who, for aught I 
 
 know, 
 May be, nor can I think the contrary, 
 As great in blood as I myself. — 80 
 
 Therefore hear you, mistress ; either frame 
 Your will to mine, — and you, sir, hear you, 
 Either be ruled by me, or I Ml make you — 
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 Prince of Tyre && Act III. 
 
 Man and wife : 
 
 Nay, come, your hands and lips must sea! it too 
 
 And being join'd, I '11 thus your hopes destroy ; 
 
 And for a further grief, — God give you joy ! 
 
 What, are you both pleased ? 
 Thai. Yes, if you love me, sir. 
 
 Per. Even as my life my blood that fosters it. 
 Sim. What, are you both agreed ? 90 
 
 Both. Yes, if 't please your majesty. 
 Sim. It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed ; 
 
 And then, with what haste you can, get you to bed. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
 Act Third. 
 
 Enter Gower. 
 
 Goiv. Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout ; 
 No din but snores the house about, 
 Made louder by the o'er-fed breast 
 Of this most pompous marriage- feast. 
 The cat, with eyne of burning coal, 
 Now couches 'fore the mouse's hole ; 
 And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, 
 E'er the blither for their drouth. 
 
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 Act III. « Pericles, 
 
 Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, 
 
 Where, by the loss of maidenhead, i o 
 
 A babe is moulded. Be attent, 
 
 And time that is so briefly spent 
 
 With your fine fancies quaintly eche : 
 
 What '8 dumb in show I '11 plain with speech. 
 
 Dumb Show. 
 
 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 the former. Then enter Thaisa with child, with 
 Lychorida, a nurse : the King shows her the letter ; 
 she rejoices : she and Pericles take leave of her father, 
 and depart with Lychorida and their Attendants. 
 Then exeunt Simonides and the rest. 
 
 By many a dern and painful perch 
 
 Of Pericles the careful search, 
 
 By the four opposing coigns 
 
 Which the world together joins, 
 
 Is made with all due diligence 
 
 That horse and sail and high expense 20 
 
 Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre, 
 
 Fame answering the most strange inquire,
 
 Prince of Tyre s*» Act III. 
 
 To the court of King Simonides 
 
 Are letters brought, the tenour these : 
 
 Antiochus and his daughter dead ; 
 
 The men of Tyrus on the head 
 
 Of Helicanus would set on 
 
 The crown of Tyre, but he will none : 
 
 The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress • 
 
 Says to 'em, if King Pericles 30 
 
 Come not home in twice six moons, 
 
 He, obedient to their dooms, 
 
 Will take the crown. The sum of this, 
 
 Brought hither to Pentapolis, 
 
 Y-ravished the regions round, 
 
 And every one with claps can sound, 
 
 * Our heir-apparent is a king ! 
 
 Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing ? ' 
 
 Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre : 
 
 His queen with child makes her desire— 40 
 
 Which who shall cross ? — along to go. 
 
 Omit we all their dole and woe : 
 
 Lychorida, her nurse, she takes, 
 
 And so to sea : their vessel shakes 
 
 On Neptune's billow ; half the flood 
 
 Hath their keel cut : but fortune's mood 
 
 Varies again ; the grisled north
 
 Act in. Sc i. «e Pericles, 
 
 Disgorges such a tempest forth, 
 
 That, as a duck for life that dives, 
 
 So up and down the poor ship drives : 50 
 
 The lady shrieks and well-a-near 
 
 Does fall in travail with her fear : 
 
 And what ensues in this fell storm 
 
 Shall for itself itself perform. 
 
 I nill relate, action may 
 
 Conveniently the rest convey ; 
 
 Which might not what by me is told. 
 
 In your imagination hold 
 
 This stage the ship, upon whose deck 
 
 The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak. [Exit. 60 
 
 Scene I 
 
 Enter Pericles, on shipboard, 
 
 Per. Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges, 
 Which wash both heaven and hell ; and thou, that hast 
 Upon the winds command, bind them in brass, 
 Having call'd them from the deep ! O, still 
 Thy deafening dreadful thunders ; gently quench 
 Thy nimble sulphurous flashes ! O, how, Lychortda, 
 How does my queen ? Thou stormest venomously ; 
 Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle 
 
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 Prince of Tyre a* Act in. Sc. i. 
 
 Is a 8 a whisper in the ears of death, 
 
 Unheard. Lychorida ! — Lucina, O io 
 
 Divinest patroness and midwife gentle 
 
 To those that cry by night, convey thy deity 
 
 Aboard our dancing boat ; make swift the pangs 
 
 Of my queen's travails ! Now, Lychorida ! 
 
 Enter Lychorida, with an Infant, 
 
 Lye. Here is a thing too young for such a place, 
 Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I 
 Am like to do : take in your arms this piece 
 Of your dead queen. 
 
 Per. How, how, Lychorida ! 
 
 Lye. Patience, good sir ; do not assist the storm. 
 
 Here 's all that is left living of your queen, 20 
 
 A little daughter : for the sake of it, 
 Be manly, and take comfort. 
 
 Per. O you gods ! 
 
 Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, 
 And snatch them straight away ? We here below 
 Recall not what we give, and therein may 
 Use honour with you. 
 
 Lye. Patience, good sir, 
 
 Even for this charge. 
 
 Per. Now, mild may be thy life !
 
 Act in. Sc L ee Pericles, 
 
 For a more blustrous birth had never babe : 
 
 Quiet and gentle thy conditions ! for 
 
 Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world 30 
 
 That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows ! 
 
 Thou hast as chiding a nativity 
 
 As fire, air, water, earth and heaven can make, 
 
 To herald thee from the womb : even at the first 
 
 Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit, 
 
 With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods 
 
 Throw their best eyes upon 't ! 
 
 Enter two Sailors. 
 
 First Sail. What courage, sir ? God save you ! 
 Per. Courage enough : I do not fear the flaw ; 
 
 It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love 40 
 
 Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer, 
 
 I would it would be quiet. 
 First Sail. Slack the bolins there ! Thou wilt not, 
 
 wilt thou ? Blow, and split thyself. 
 Sec. Sail. But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy 
 
 billow kiss the moon, I care not. 
 First Sail. Sir, your queen must overboard : the sea 
 
 works high, the wind is loud, and will not lie 
 
 till the ship be cleared of the dead. 
 Per. That f s your superstition. 5c
 
 Prince of Tyre s*> Act III. Sc i. 
 
 First Sail. Pardon us, sir ; with us at sea it hath been 
 still observed ; and we are strong in custom. 
 Therefore briefly yield her ; for she must over- 
 board straight. 
 
 Per. As you think meet. Most wretched queen ! 
 
 Lye. Here she lies, sir. 
 
 Per. A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear ; 
 No light, no fire : the unfriendly elements 
 Forgot thee utterly ; nor have I time 
 To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight 60 
 Must cast thee, scarcely cofhVd, in the ooze ; 
 Where, for a monument upon thy bones, 
 And aye-remaining lamps, the belching whale 
 &.nd humming water must o'er whelm thy corpse, 
 ikying with simple shells. O Lychorida, 
 Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, 
 My casket and my jewels ; and bid Nicander 
 Bring me the satin coffer : lay the babe 
 Upon the pillow : hie thee, whiles I say 
 A priestly farewell to her : suddenly, woman. 70 
 
 \_Exit Lychorida 
 
 Sec. Sail. Sir, we have a che8t beneath the hatches, 
 caulked and bitumed ready. 
 
 Per. I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this ? 
 
 Sec. Sail. We are near Tarsus.
 
 Act in. Sc ii « Pericles, 
 
 Per. Thither, gentle mariner, 
 
 Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach 
 it? 
 
 Sec. Sail. By break of day, if the wind cease. 
 
 Per. O, make for Tarsus ! 
 
 There will I visit Cleon, for the babe 
 Cannot hold out to Tyrus : there I '11 leave it 80 
 At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner : 
 I '11 bring the body presently [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Ephesus. A room in Cerimon* s house. 
 
 Enter Cerimon, a Servant, and some Persons who have 
 been shipwrecked. 
 
 Ccr. Philemon, ho ! 
 
 Enter Philemon. 
 
 Phil. Doth my lord call >. 
 
 Cer. Get fire and meat for these poor men : 
 
 'T has been a turbulent and stormy night. 
 Serv. I have been in many ; but such a night as this 
 
 Till now, I ne'er endured. 
 Cer. Your master will be dead ere you return ; 
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 Prince of Tyre » Act III. Sc. ii. 
 
 There 's nothing can be minister'd to nature 
 
 That can recover him. [To Philemon'] Give this 
 
 to the 'pothecary, 
 And tell me how it works. 
 
 [Exeunt all but Cerimon. 
 
 Enter two Gentlemen. 
 
 First Gent. Good morrow. 10 
 
 Sec. Gent. Good morrow to your lordship. 
 
 Cer. Gentlemen, 
 
 Why do you stir so early ? 
 Pint Gent. Sir, 
 
 Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea 
 
 Shook as the earth did quake ; 
 
 The very principals did seem to rend 
 
 And all-to topple : pure surprise and fear 
 
 Made me to quit the house. 
 Sec. Gent. That is the cause we trouble you so early ; 
 
 'Tis not our husbandry. 
 Cer. O, you say well. 20 
 
 First Gent. But I much marvel that your lordship, having 
 
 Rich tire about you, should at these early hours 
 
 Shake off the golden slumber of repose. 
 
 'Tis most strange, 
 
 Nature should be so conversant with pain,
 
 Act in. Sc. H. cs Pericles, 
 
 Being thereto not compell'd. 
 
 Cer. I hold it ever, 
 
 Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
 Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs 
 May the two latter darken and expend, 
 But immortality attends the former, 30 
 
 Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever 
 Have studied physic, through which secret art, 
 By turning o'er authorities, I have, 
 Together with my practice, made familiar 
 To me and to my aid the blest infusions 
 That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones ; 
 And I can speak of the disturbances 
 That nature works, and of her cures ; which doth 
 
 give me 
 A more content in course of true delight 
 Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, 40 
 
 Or tie my treasure up in silken bags, 
 To please the fool and death. 
 
 Sec. Gent. Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth 
 Your charity, and hundreds call themselves 
 Your creatures, who by you have been restored : 
 And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even 
 Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon 
 Such strong renown as time shall never. . . . 
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 Prince of Tyre e* Act ill. Se. ti. 
 
 Enter two or three Servants with a chest. 
 
 First Serv. So ; lift there. 
 Cer. What 's that ? 
 First Serv. Sir, 
 
 Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore 50 
 
 This chest : 'tis of some wreck. 
 Cer. Set 't down, let 's look upon 't. 
 Sec. Gent. 'Tis like a coffin, sir. 
 Cer. Whate'er it be, 
 
 'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight : 
 
 If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold, 
 
 'Tig a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us. 
 Sec. Gent. 'Tis 80, my lord. 
 Cer. How close 'tis caulk'd And bitumed ! Did the 
 
 sea cast it up ? 
 First Serv. I never saw so huge a billow, sir, as 
 
 toss'd it upon shore. 
 Cer. Wrench it open : 
 
 Soft ! it smells most sweetly in my sense. 60 
 
 Sec. Gent. A delicate odour. 
 Cer. As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it. 
 
 O you most potent gods ! what 's here ? a corse ! 
 First Gent. Most strange ! 
 Cer. Shrouded in cloth of state ; balmed and entreasured 
 
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 Act in. Sc. ii. c& Pericles, 
 
 With full bags of spices ! A passport too ! 
 A polio, perfect me in the characters ! 
 
 [Reads from a scroll 
 
 * Here I give to understand, 
 
 If e'er this coffin drive a-land, 
 
 I, King Pericles, have lost 70 
 
 This queen, worth all our mundane cost. 
 
 Who finds her, give her burying ; 
 
 She was the daughter of a king : 
 
 Besides thia treasure for a fee, 
 
 The gods requite his charity ! ' 
 
 If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart 
 
 That even cracks for woe ! This chanced to-night. 
 
 See. Gent. Most likely, sir. 
 
 Cer. Nay, certainly to-night ; 
 
 For look how fresh she looks ! They were too rough 
 That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within : 80 
 Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet. 
 
 \_Exit a servant. 
 Death may usurp on nature many hours, 
 And yet the fire of life kindle again 
 The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian 
 That had nine hours lien dead, 
 Who was by good appliance recovered.
 
 Prince of Tyre »» Act in. Sc. ii. 
 
 Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire. 
 Well said, well said ; the fire and cloths. 
 The rough and woful music that we have, 
 Cause it to sound, beseech you. 
 The viol once more : how thou stirr'st, thou block ! 
 The music there ! I pray you, give her air. 9 1 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 This queen will live : nature awakes ; a warmth 
 Breathes out of her : she hath not been entranced 
 Above five hours : see how she 'gins to blow 
 Into life's flower again ! 
 
 First Gent. The heavens, 
 
 Through you, increase our wonder, and set up 
 Your fame for ever. 
 
 Cer. She is alive ; behold, 
 
 Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels 
 Which Pericles hath lost, begin to part 100 
 
 Their fringes of bright gold : the diamonds 
 Of a most praised water do appear 
 To make the world twice rich. Live, 
 And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature, 
 Rare as you seem to be. [She moves. 
 
 Thai. O dear Diana, 
 
 Where am I ? Where *s my lord ? What world 
 is this ? 
 
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 Act in. Sc iiL •*£ Pericles, 
 
 Sec. Gent. Is not this strange f 
 
 First Gent. Most rare. 
 
 Cer. Hush, my gentle neighbours ! 
 
 Lend me your hands ; to the next chamber bear her. 
 Get linen : now this matter must be look'd to, 
 For her relapse is mortal. Come, come; no 
 
 And -£sculapiu8 guide us ! 
 
 \_Exeunt, carrying her away. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 Tarsus. A room in the Governor' s house. 
 
 Enter Pericles, C/con, Dionyza, and Lychorida with 
 Marina in her arms. 
 
 Per. Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone ; 
 My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands 
 In a litigious peace. You, and your lady, 
 Take from my heart all thankfulness ! The gods 
 Make up the rest upon you ! 
 
 Cle. Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally, 
 Yet glance full wanderingly on us. 
 
 Dion. O your sweet queen ! 
 
 That the strict fates had pleased you had brought 
 her hither, 
 
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 P rince of Tyre s* Act in. Sc. iii. 
 
 To have bless'd mine eyes with her ! 
 
 Per. We cannot but obey 
 
 The powers above us. Could I rage and roar 10 
 As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end 
 Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom, 
 For she was born at sea, I have named so, here 
 I charge your charity withal, leaving her 
 The infant of your care ; beseeching you 
 To give her princely training, that she may be 
 Manner'd as she is born. 
 
 Cle. Fear not, my lord, but think 
 
 Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, 
 For which the people's prayers still fall upon you, 
 Must in your child be thought on. If neglection 20 
 Should therein make me vile, the common body, 
 By you relieved, would force me to my duty ; 
 But if to that my nature need a spur, 
 The gods revenge it upon me and mine, 
 To the end of generation ! 
 
 Per. I believe you ; 
 
 Your honour and your goodness teach me to *t, 
 Without your vows. Till she be married, madam, 
 By bright Diana, whom we honour, all 
 Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain, 
 Though I show ill in 't. So I take my leave. 30 
 
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 Act ill. Sc iT. « Pericles, 
 
 Good madam, make me blessed in your care 
 
 In bringing up my child. 
 Dion. I have one myself, 
 
 Who shall not be more dear to my respect 
 
 Than yours, my lord. 
 Per. Madam, my thanks and prayers. 
 
 Cle. We '11 bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore, 
 
 Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and 
 
 The gentlest winds of heaven. 
 Per. I will embrace 
 
 Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears, 
 
 Lychorida, no tears : 
 
 Look to your little mistress, on whose grace 40 
 
 You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord. [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Ephesus. A room in Cerimon't house. 
 Enter Cerimon and Tkaisa. 
 
 Cer. Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, 
 Lay with you in your coffer : which are 
 At your command. Know you the character ? 
 
 Thai. It is my lord's. 
 
 That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, 
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 Prince of Tyre 3*. Act III. Sew 
 
 Even on my eaning time ; but whether there 
 
 Delivered, by the holy gods, 
 
 I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles, 
 
 My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again, 
 
 A vestal livery will I take me to, 10 
 
 And never more have joy. 
 Cer. Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak, 
 
 Diana's temple is not distant far, 
 
 Where you may abide till your date expire. 
 
 Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine 
 
 Shall there attend you. 
 Thai. My recompense is thanks, that 's all ; 
 
 Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
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 37 e 65
 
 Act iv. ^ Pericles, 
 
 Act Fourth. 
 
 Enter Gewer. 
 
 Goto. Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre, 
 
 Welcomed and settled to his own desire. 
 
 His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus, 
 
 Unto Diana there as a votaress. 
 
 Now to Marina bend your mind, 
 
 Whom our fast-growing scene must find 
 
 At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd 
 
 In music, letters ; who hath gain'd 
 
 Of education all the grace, 
 
 Which makes her both the heart and place 10 
 
 Of general wonder. But, alack, 
 
 That monster envy, oft the wrack 
 
 Of earned praise, Marina's life 
 
 Seeks to take off by treason's knife. 
 
 And in this kind hath our Cleon 
 
 One daughter, and a wench full grown, 
 
 Even ripe for marriage rite ; this maid 
 
 Hight Philoten : and it is said 
 
 For certain in our story, she 
 
 Would ever with Marina be : 20
 
 Prince of Tyre sss. Activ. 
 
 Be 't when she weaved the sleided silk 
 With fingers long, small, white as milk ; 
 Or when she would with sharp needle wound 
 The cambric, which she made more sound 
 By hurting it ; or when to the lute 
 She sung, and made the night-bird mute, 
 That still records with moan ; or when 
 She would with rich and constant pen 
 Vail to her mistress Dian ; still 
 This Philoten contends in skill 30 
 
 With absolute Marina : so 
 With the dove of Paphos might the crow 
 Vie feathers white. Marina gets 
 All praises, which are paid as debts, 
 And not as given. This so darks 
 In Philoten all graceful marks, 
 That Cleon's wife, with envy rare, 
 A present murderer does prepare 
 For good Marina, that her daughter 
 Might stand peerless by this slaughter. 40 
 
 The sooner her vile thoughts to stead, 
 Lychorida, our nurse, is dead : 
 And cursed Dionyza hath 
 The pregnant instrument of wrath 
 Prest for this blow. The unborn event 
 67
 
 Act IV. Sc i. «se Pericles, 
 
 I do commend to your content : 
 
 Only I carry winged time 
 
 Post on the lame feet of my rhyme ; 
 
 Which never could I so convey, 
 
 Unless your thoughts went on my way. 50 
 
 Dionyza does appear, 
 
 With Leonine, a murderer. [Exit. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore. 
 Enter Dionyza -with Leonine. 
 
 Dion. Thy oath remember ; thou hast sworn to do *t : 
 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known. 
 Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon, 
 To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience, 
 Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom, 
 Inflame too nicely ; nor let pity, which 
 Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be 
 A soldier to thy purpose. 
 
 Leon. I will do 't ; but yet she is a goodly creature. 
 
 Dion. The fitter then the gods should have her. 10 
 Here she comes weeping for her only mistress' 
 death. Thou art resolved ? 
 
 Leon. I am resolved.
 
 Prince of Tyre 5+ Activ. Sc i. 
 
 Enter Marina, with a basket ofjlowers. 
 
 Mar. No, I will rob Tellus of her weed, 
 
 To strew thy green with flowers : the yellows, blues, 
 
 The purple violets, and marigolds, 
 
 Shall, as a carpet, hang upon thy grave, 
 
 While summer-days do last. Ay me ! poor maid, 
 
 Born in a tempest, when my mother died, 
 
 This world to me is like a lasting storm, 20 
 
 Whirring me from my friends. 
 
 Dion. How now, Marina ! why do you keep alone? 
 How chance my daughter is not with you ? 
 Do not consume your blood with sorrowing : 
 You have a nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's 
 Changed with this unprofitable woe ! 
 Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it. 
 Walk with Leonine ; the air is quick there, 
 And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. 
 Come, Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her. 
 
 Mar. No, I pray you ; 3 1 
 
 I Ml not bereave you of your servant. 
 
 Dion. Come, come ; 
 
 I love the king your father and yourself 
 With more than foreign heart. We every day 
 Expect him here : when he shall come, and find 
 
 Our paragon to all reports thus blasted, 
 69
 
 Act IV. Sc. i. **e Pericles, 
 
 He will repent the breadth of his great voyage ; 
 
 Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken 
 
 No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you, 
 
 Walk, and be cheerful once again ; reserve 40 
 
 That excellent complexion, which did steal 
 
 The eyes of young and old. Care not for me ; 
 
 I can go home alone. 
 Mar. Well, I will go ; 
 
 But yet I have no desire to it. 
 Dion. Come, come, I know 'tis good for you. 
 
 Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least : 
 
 Remember what I have said. 
 Leon. I warrant you, madam. 
 
 Dion. I '11 leave you, my sweet lady, for a while : 
 
 Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood : 
 
 What ! I must have care of you. 
 Mar. My thanks, sweet madam. 50 
 
 [Exit Dionyza. 
 
 1 8 this wind westerly that blows ? 
 Leon. South-west. 
 
 Mar. When I was born, the wind was north. 
 Leon. Was 't so ? 
 
 Mar. My father, as nurse said, did never fear, 
 
 But cried * Good seamen ! ' to the sailors, galling 
 
 His kingly hands, haling ropes ;
 
 Prince of Tyre 9+ Act IV. Sc. i 
 
 And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea 
 That almost burst the deck. 
 
 Leon. When was this ? 
 
 Mar. When I was bora : 
 
 Never was waves nor wind more violent ; 60 
 
 And from the ladder-tackle washes off 
 
 A canvas-climber. * Ha ! ' says one, ' wilt out ? ' 
 
 And with a dropping industry they skip 
 
 From stem to stern : the boatswain whistles, and 
 
 The master calls and trebles their confusion. 
 
 Leon. Come, say your prayers. 
 
 Mar. What mean you ? 
 
 Leon. If you require a little space for prayer, 
 I grant it : pray ; but be not tedious, 
 For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn 70 
 To do my work with haste. 
 
 Mar. Why will you kill me? 
 
 Leon. To satisfy my lady. 
 
 Mar. Why would she have me kill'd ? 
 
 Now, as I can remember, by my troth, 
 I never did her hurt in all my life : 
 I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn 
 To any living creature : believe me, la, 
 I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly : 
 I trod upon a worm against my will, 
 71
 
 ActlV.Sci. «■ Pericles, 
 
 But I wept for it. How have I offended, 80 
 
 Wherein my death might yield her any profit, 
 Or my life imply her any danger i 
 
 Leon. My commission 
 
 Is not to reason of the deed, but do *t. 
 
 Mar. You will not do y t for all the world, I hope. 
 You are well favour' d, and your looks foreshow 
 You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately, 
 When you caught hurt in parting two that fought : 
 Good sooth, it show'd well in you : do so now : 
 Your lady seeks my life ; come you between, 90 
 And save poor me, the weaker. 
 
 Leon. I am sworn, 
 
 And will dispatch. [_He seizes her. 
 
 Enter Pirates. 
 
 First Pirate. Hold, villain ! [Leonine runs away. 
 
 Sec. Pirate. A prize ! a prize ! 
 Third Pirate. Half-part, mates, half-part. 
 Come let 's have her aboard suddenly. 
 
 [Exeunt Pirates with Marina. 
 
 Re-enter Leonine. 
 
 Leon. These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes ; 
 And they have seized Marina. Let her go : 
 
 7*
 
 Prince of Tyre 3* Act IV. Sc. ii. 
 
 There *s no hope she will return. I '11 swear she 's 
 
 dead, 
 And thrown into the sea. But I Ml see further : ioo 
 Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her, 
 Not carry her aboard. If she remain, 
 Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain. 
 
 [Exit 
 Scene II. 
 
 Mytilene. A room in a brothel. 
 Enter Pandar, Bawd, and Boult. 
 
 Pand. Boult! 
 
 Boult. Sir? 
 
 Pand. Search the market narrowly ; Mytilene is full 
 of gallants. We lost too much money this mart 
 by being too wenchless. 
 
 Bawd. We were never so much out of creatures. 
 We have but poor three, and they can do no 
 more than they can do j and they with con- 
 tinual action are even as good as rotten. 
 
 Pand. Therefore let 's have fresh ones, whate'er we i o 
 pay for them. If there be not a conscience 
 to be used in every trade, we shall never 
 prosper. 
 
 Bawd. Thou say est true : 'tis not our bringing up of 
 
 73
 
 Act iv. Scii. «*s Pericles, 
 
 poor bastards, — as, I think, I have brought up 
 some eleven — 
 
 Boult. Ay, to eleven ; and brought them down again. 
 But shall I search the market ? 
 
 Bawd. What else, man ? The stuff we have, a 
 
 strong wind will blow it to pieces, they are so 20 
 pitifully sodden. 
 
 Pand. Thou sayest true ; they 're too unwholesome, 
 o' conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, 
 that lay with the little baggage. 
 
 Boult. Ay, she quickly pooped him ; she made him 
 roast-meat for worms. But T '11 go search the 
 market [_Exit. 
 
 Pand. Three or four thousand chequins were as 
 pretty a proportion to live quietly, and so give 
 over. 30 
 
 Bawd. Why to give over, I pray you ? is it a shame 
 to get when we are old ? 
 
 Pand. O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, 
 nor the commodity wages not with the danger : 
 therefore, if in our youths we could pick up 
 some pretty estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our 
 door hatched. Besides, the sore terms we stand 
 upon with the gods will be strong with us for 
 giving o'er. 
 
 74
 
 Prince of Tyre s^ Act IV. Sc. ii 
 
 Baivd. Come, other sorts offend as well as we. 40 
 
 Pand. As well as we ! ay, and better too ; we offend 
 
 worse. Neither is our profession any trade ; 
 
 it's no calling. But here comes Boult. 
 
 Re-enter Boult, with the Pirates and Marina. 
 
 Boult. [To Marina~\ Come your ways. My 
 masters, you say she *s a virgin ? 
 
 First Pirate. O, sir, we doubt it not. 
 
 Boult. Master, I have gone through for this piece, 
 you see : if you like her, so ; if not, I have 
 lost my earnest. 
 
 Baivd. Boult, has she any qualities ? 50 
 
 Boult. She has a good face, speaks well, and has 
 excellent good clothes : there 's no farther 
 necessity of qualities can make her be refused. 
 
 Baivd. What 's her price, Boult ? 
 
 Boult. I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand 
 pieces. 
 
 Pand. Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have 
 your money presently. Wife, take her in ; in- 
 struct her what she has to do, that she may not 
 be raw in her entertainment. 60 
 
 [_Exeunt Pandar and Pirates. 
 
 Baivd. Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour 
 
 75
 
 Act iv. Sc. ii. *se Pericles, 
 
 of her hair, complexion, height, her age, with 
 warrant of her virginity ; and cry * He that will 
 give most shall have her first.* Such a maiden- 
 head were no cheap thing, if men were as they 
 have been. Get this done as I command you. 
 
 Boult. Performance shall follow. \_Exit. 
 
 Mar. Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow ! 
 
 He should have struck, not spoke ; or that these 
 
 pirates, 
 Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown 
 me 70 
 
 For to seek my mother . 
 
 Bawd. Why lament you, pretty one ? 
 
 Mar. That I am pretty. 
 
 Bawd. Come, the gods have done their part in 
 you. 
 
 Mar. I accuse them not. 
 
 Bawd. You are light into my hands, where you are 
 like to live. 
 
 Mar. The more my fault, 
 
 To 'scape his hands where I was like to die. 80 
 
 Bawd. Ay, and you shall live in pleasure. 
 
 Mar. No. 
 
 Bawd. Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen 
 of ail fashions : you shall fare well ; you shall 
 76
 
 Prince of Tyre s* Activ. Sc ii. 
 
 hare the difference of all complexions. What ! 
 
 do you stop your ears ? 
 Mar. Are you a woman ? 
 Bawd. What would you have me be, an I be not a 
 
 woman ? 
 Mar. An honest woman, or not a woman. 90 
 
 Bawd. Marry, whip thee, gosling : I think I shall 
 
 have something to do with you. Come, you 're 
 
 a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as 
 
 I would have you. 
 Mar. The gods defend me ! 
 Bawd. If it please the gods to defend you by men, 
 
 then men must comfort you, men must feed you, 
 
 men must stir you up. Boult 's returned. 
 
 Re-enter Boult. 
 
 Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market ? 
 Boult. I have cried her almost to the number of 100 
 
 her hairs ; I have drawn her picture with my 
 
 voice. 
 Bawd. And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find 
 
 the inclination of the people, especially of the 
 
 younger sort ? 
 Boult. Faith, they listened to me as they would 
 
 have hearkened to their father's testament. 
 
 77
 
 Act iv. Sc ii. cgs Pericles, 
 
 There was a Spaniard's mouth so watered, 
 that he went to bed to her very description. 
 
 Bawd. We shall have him here to-morrow with no 
 his best ruff on. 
 
 Boult. To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you 
 know the French knight that cowers i' the 
 hams ? 
 
 Bawd. Who, Monsieur Veroles ? 
 
 Boult. Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the 
 proclamation ; but he made a groan at it, and 
 swore he would see her to-morrow. 
 
 Bawd. Well, well ; as for him, he brought his 
 
 disease hither : here he does but repair it. I 1 20 
 know he will come in our shadow, to scatter 
 his crowns in the 6un. 
 
 Boult. Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, 
 we should lodge them with this sign. 
 
 Bawd. Pray you, come hither awhile. You have 
 fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you 
 must seem to do that fearfully which you 
 commit willingly, despise profit where you 
 have most gain. To weep that you live as 
 ye do makes pity in your lovers : seldom but 1 30 
 that pity begets you a good opinion, and that 
 opinion a mere profit. 
 
 78
 
 Prince of Tyre s* AetlV. Sc. ii. 
 
 Mar. I understand you not. 
 
 Boult. O, take her home, mistress, take her home : 
 
 these blushes of hers must be quenched with 
 
 some present practice. 
 Bawd. Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must ; 
 
 for your bride goes to that with shame which 
 
 is her way to go with warrant. 
 Boult. Faith, some do, and some do not. But, 140 
 
 mistress, if I have bargained for the joint, — 
 Bawd. Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit. 
 Boult. I may so. 
 Bawd. Who should deny it ? Come, young one, I 
 
 like the manner of your garments well. 
 Boult. Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed 
 
 yet. 
 Bawd. Boult, spend thou that in the town : report 
 
 what a sojourner we have ; you '11 lose nothing 
 
 by custom. When nature framed this piece, 150 
 
 she meant thee a good turn ; therefore say 
 
 what a paragon she is, and thou hast the 
 
 harvest out of thine own report. 
 Boult. I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so 
 
 awake the beds of eels as my giving out her 
 
 beauty stir up the lewdly-inclined. I f ll bring 
 
 home some to-night. 
 
 w
 
 Act iv. Sc. iii. «sss Pericles, 
 
 Bawd. Come your ways ; follow me. 
 
 Mar. If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, 
 
 Untied I still my virgin knot will keep. 160 
 
 Diana, aid my purpose ! 
 Bawd. What have we to do with Diana ? Pray 
 
 you, will you go with us ? [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene III 
 
 Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house. 
 Enter Cleon and Dionyza. 
 
 Dion. Why, are you foolish ? Can it be undone ? 
 
 Cle. O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter 
 The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon ! 
 
 Dion. I think 
 
 You Ml turn a child again. 
 
 Cle. Were I chief lord of all this spacious world, 
 I 'Id give it to undo the deed. O lady, 
 Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess 
 To equal any single crown o' the earth 
 V the justice of compare ! O villain Leonine ! 
 Whom thou hast poison'd too : ic 
 
 If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness 
 So
 
 Prince of Tyre s^ Act iv. sc. iii. 
 
 Becoming well thy fact : what canst thou say 
 
 When noble Pericles shall demand his child ? 
 Dion. That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates, 
 
 To foster it, nor ever to preserve. 
 
 She died at night ; I '11 say so. Who can 
 cross it ? 
 
 Unless you play the pious innocent, 
 
 And for an honest attribute cry out 
 
 * She died by foul play.' 
 Cle. O, go to. Well, well, 
 
 Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods 20 
 
 Do like this worst. 
 Dion. Be one of those that think 
 
 The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence 
 
 And open this to Pericles. I do shame 
 
 To think of what a noble strain you are 
 
 And of how coward a spirit. 
 Cle. To such proceeding 
 
 Who ever but his approbation added, 
 
 Though not his prime consent, he did not flow 
 
 From honourable sources. 
 Dion. Be it so, then : 
 
 Yet none does know, but you, how she came 
 dead, 
 
 Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. 30 
 
 37/ 8t
 
 Act IV. Sc. iii. 
 
 5=s Pericles, 
 
 She did distain my child, and stood between 
 
 Her and her fortunes : none would look on her, 
 
 But cast their gazes on Marina's face ; 
 
 Whilst ours was blurted at, and held a malkin, 
 
 Not worth the time of day. It pierced me 
 thorough ; 
 
 And though you call my course unnatural, 
 
 You not your child well loving, yet I find 
 
 It greets me as an enterprise of kindness 
 
 Perform'd to your sole daughter. 
 Cle. Heavens forgive it ! 
 
 Dion. And as for Pericles, 40 
 
 What should he say ? We wept after her hearse, 
 
 And yet we mourn : her monument 
 
 Is almost finished, and her epitaphs 
 
 In glittering golden characters express 
 
 A general praise to her, and care in us 
 
 At whose expense 'tis done. 
 Cle. Thou art like the harpy, 
 
 Which, to betray, dost, with thine angei's face, 
 
 Seize with thine eagle's talons. 
 Dion. You are like one that superstitiously 
 
 Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the 
 flies : 50 
 
 But yet I know you '11 do as I advise. [Exeunt. 
 
 6a
 
 Prince of Tyre » Act IV Sc iv 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Enter Gotver, before the monument of Marina at Tarsus. 
 
 Gow. Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make 
 short ; 
 Sail seas in cockles, have and wish but for 't ; 
 Making, to take our imagination, 
 From bourn to bourn, region to region. 
 By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime 
 To use one language in each several clime 
 Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you 
 To learn of me, who stand i* the gaps to teach you 
 The stages of our story. Pericles 
 Is now again thwarting the wayward seas, 10 
 
 Attended on by many a lord and knight, 
 To see his daughter, all his life's delight. 
 Old Helicanus goes along ; behind 
 Is left to govern it, you bear in mind 
 Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late 
 Advanced in time to great and high estate. 
 Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought 
 This king to Tarsus, — think his pilot thought : 
 So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,— 
 To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone. 20 
 83
 
 Act iv. Sc. iv. tfis Pericles, 
 
 Like motes and shadows see them move awhile ; 
 Your ears unto your eyes I '11 reconcile. 
 
 Dumb Show. 
 
 Enter Pericles at one door, with all his train ; Cleon and 
 Diony%a at the other, Cleon shows Pericles the tomb ; 
 whereat Pericles makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, 
 and in a mighty passion departs. Then exeunt Cleon, 
 Diony%a, and the rest. 
 
 See how belief may suffer by foul show ! 
 
 This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe ; 
 
 And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd, 
 
 With sighs shot through and biggest tears 
 
 o'ershower'd, 
 Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears 
 Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs : 
 He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears 
 A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears, 30 
 
 And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit 
 The epitaph is for Marina writ 
 By wicked Dionyza. 
 
 [Reads the inscription on Marina's monument. 
 ' The fairest, sweet'st and best, lies here, 
 Who wither'd in her spring of year. 
 
 «4
 
 Prince of Tyre s«» Act iv. Sc. v. 
 
 She was of Tyrus the king's daughter, 
 
 On whom foul death hath made this slaughter ; 
 
 Marina was she call'd ; and at her birth, 
 
 Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth : 
 
 Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd : 40 
 
 Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd : 
 
 Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint, 
 
 Make raging battery upon shores of flint.' 
 
 No visor does become black villany 
 
 So well as soft and tender flattery. 
 
 Let Pericles believe his daughter 's dead, 
 
 And bear his courses to be ordered 
 
 By Lady Fortune ; while our scene must play 
 
 His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day 
 
 In her unholy service. Patience, then, 50 
 
 And think you now are all in Mytilene. [Exit, 
 
 Scene V. 
 
 Mytilene. A street before the brothel. 
 
 Enter ', from the brothel, tivo Gentlemen. 
 
 First Gent. Did you ever hear the like ? 
 Sec. Gent. No, nor never shall do in such a place 
 as this, she being once gone.
 
 Act iv. Sc. vi. ^ Pericles, 
 
 First Gent. But to have divinity preached there ! 
 did you ever dream of such a thing ? 
 
 Sec. Gent. No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy- 
 houses : shall 's go hear the vestals sing ? 
 
 First Gent. I '11 do any thing now that is vir- 
 tuous ; but I am out of the road of rutting for 
 ever. \_Exeunt. 10 
 
 Scene VI 
 
 The same. A room in the brothel. 
 Enter Pandar, Bawd, and Boult. 
 
 Pand. Well, I had rather than twice the worth of 
 her she had ne'er come here. 
 
 Bawd. Fie, fie upon her ! she 's able to freeze the 
 god Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We 
 must either get her ravished or be rid of her. 
 When she should do for clients her fitment and 
 do me the kindness of our profession, she has me 
 her quirks, her reasons, her master reasons, her 
 prayers, her knees ; that she would make a puri- 
 tan of the devil, if he should cheapen a kiss of her. I o 
 
 Boult. Faith, I must ravish her, or she '11 disfurnish 
 us of all our cavaliers and make all our swearers 
 priests.
 
 Prince of Tyre e& Act IV - Sc - vi - 
 
 Pand. Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for 
 
 me ! 
 Bawd. Faith, there 's no way to be rid on \ but 
 
 by the way to the pox. Here comes the Lord 
 
 Lysimachus disguised. 
 Boult. We should have both lord and lown, if the 
 
 peevish baggage would but give way to cus- 20 
 
 tomera. 
 
 Enter Lysimachus. 
 
 Lys. How now ! How a dozen of virginities i 
 Bawd. Now, the gods to-bless your honour ! 
 Boult. I am glad to see your honour in good 
 
 health. 
 Lys. You may so ; 'tis the better for you that your 
 
 resorters stand upon sound legs. How now, 
 
 wholesome iniquity have you that a man may 
 
 deal withal, and defy the surgeon ? 
 Bawd. We have here one, sir, if she would — but 30 
 
 there never came her like in Mytilene. 
 Lys. If she 'Id do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst 
 
 say. 
 Bawd. Your honour knows what 'tis to say well 
 
 enough. 
 Lys. Well, call forth, call forth. 
 87
 
 *ct iv. Sc vi. *s Pericles, 
 
 Boult. For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you 
 shall see a rose ; and she were a rose indeed, 
 if she had but — 
 
 Lys. What, prithee ? 40 
 
 Boult. O, sir, I can be modest. 
 
 Lys. That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less 
 than it gives a good report to a number to be 
 chaste. [Exit Boult, 
 
 Bawd. Here comes that which grows to the stalk ; 
 never plucked yet, I can assure you. 
 
 Re-enter Boult with Marina. 
 
 1 8 she not a fair creature ? 
 Lys. Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at 
 
 sea. Well, there 's for you : leave us. 
 Bawd. I beseech your honour, give me leave: a 50 
 
 word, and I Ml have done presently. 
 Lys. I beseech you, do. 
 Bawd. [To Marina~] First, I would have you note, 
 
 this is an honourable man. 
 Mar. I desire to find him so, that I may worthily 
 
 note him. 
 Bawd. Next, he 's the governor of this country, 
 
 and a man whom I am bound to. 
 88
 
 Prince of Tyre » Act iv. Sc. vi. 
 
 Mar. If he govern the country, you are bound to 
 
 him indeed ; but how honourable he is in that, 60 
 
 i know not. 
 Bawd. Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, 
 
 will you use him kindly ? He will line your 
 
 apron with gold. 
 Mar. What he will do graciously, I will thankfully 
 
 receive. 
 Lys. Ha' you done ? 
 Bawd, My lord, she's not paced yet: you must 
 
 take some pains to work her to your manage. 
 
 Come, we will leave his honour and her to- 70 
 
 gether. Go thy ways. 
 
 [_Exeutit Bawdy Pandar, and Boult. 
 Lys. Now, pretty one, how long have you been at 
 
 this trade ? 
 Mar. What trade, sir ? 
 
 Lys. Why, I cannot name \ but I shall offend. 
 Mar. I cannot be offended with my trade. Please 
 
 you to name it. 
 Lys. How long have you been of this profession ? 
 Mar. E'er since I can remember. 
 Lys. Did you go to it so young ? Were you a 80 
 
 gamester at five or at seven ? 
 Alar. Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. 
 89
 
 Act iv. Sc. vi. «s Pericles, 
 
 Lys. Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you 
 to be a creature of sale. 
 
 Mar. Do you know this house to be a place of such 
 resort, and will come into 't? I hear say you 
 are of honourable parts and are the governor of 
 this place. 
 
 Lys. Why, hath your principal made known unto 
 
 you who I am ? 90 
 
 Mar. Who is my principal ? 
 
 Lys. Why, your herb-woman ; she that sets seeds 
 and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have 
 heard something of my power, and so stand 
 aloof for more serious wooing. But I protest 
 to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not see 
 thee, or else look friendly upon thee. Come, 
 bring me to some private place : come, come. 
 
 Mar. If you were born to honour, show it now ; 
 
 If put upon you, make the judgement good 100 
 
 That thought you worthy of it. 
 
 Lys. How 's this ? how 's this I Some more ; be sage 
 
 Mar. For me 
 
 That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune 
 Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came, 
 Diseases have been sold dearer than physic, 
 
 O, that the gods 
 
 90
 
 Prince of Tyre 9* Act iv. Sc vi. 
 
 Would set me free from this unhallow'd place, 
 Though they did change me to the meanest bird 
 That flies V the purer air ! 
 
 Lys. I did not think 
 
 Thou couldst have spoke so well ; ne'er dream'd 
 thou couldst. 1 1 o 
 
 Had I brought hither a corrupted mind, 
 Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here 's gold for 
 
 thee : 
 Persever in that clear way thou goest, 
 And the gods strengthen thee ! 
 
 Mar. The good gods preserve you ! 
 
 Lys. For me, be you thoughten 
 
 That I came with no ill intent ; for to me 
 The very doors and windows savour vilely. 
 Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and 
 I doubt not but thy training hath been noble. 
 Hold, here *s more gold for thee. 120 
 
 A curse upon him, die he like a thief, 
 That robs thee of thy goodness ! If thou dost 
 Hear from me, it shall be for thy good. 
 
 Re-enter Boult. 
 
 Boult. I beseech your honour, one piece for 
 me. 
 
 91
 
 Act iv. Sc vi <s Pericles, 
 
 Lys. A vaunt, thou damned door-keeper ! 
 
 Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it, 
 Would sink, and overwhelm you. Away ! \_Exit. 
 
 Boult. How *8 this ? We must take another course 
 
 with you. If your peevish chastity, which is 1 30 
 not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country 
 under the cope, shall undo a v/hole household, 
 let me be gelded like a spaniel. Come your 
 ways. 
 
 Mar. Whither would you have me ? 
 
 Boult. I must have your maidenhead taken off, or 
 the common hangman shall execute it. Come 
 your ways. We '11 have no more gentlemen 
 driven away. Come your ways, I say. 
 
 Re-enter Bawd, 
 
 Bawd. How now! what ' 8 the matter ? 140 
 
 Boult. Worse and worse, mistress ; she has here 
 
 spoken holy words to the Lord Lysimachus. 
 Bawd. O abominable ! 
 Boult. She makes our profession as it were to stink 
 
 afore the face of the gods. 
 Bawd, Marry, hang her up for ever ! 
 Boult. The nobleman would have dealt with her like 
 9*
 
 Prince of Tyre s* Activ. Scvi. 
 
 a nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as 
 
 a snowball, saying his prayers too. 
 Bawd. Boult, take her away ; use her at thy plea- 150 
 
 sure : crack the glass of her virginity, and make 
 
 the rest malleable. 
 Boult. An if she were a thornier piece of ground 
 
 than she is, she shall be ploughed. 
 Mar, Hark, hark, you gods ! 
 Bawd. She conjures : away with her ! Would she 
 
 had never come within my doors ! Marry, hang 
 
 you ! She 's born to undo us. Will you not 
 
 go the way of women-kind ? Marry, come up, 
 
 my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays ! [Exit. 
 Boult. Come, mistress ; come your ways with 161 
 
 me. 
 Mar. Whither wilt thou have me ? 
 Boult. To take from you the jewel you hold so 
 
 dear. 
 Mar. Prithee, tell me one thing first. 
 Boult. Come now, your one thing. 
 Mar. What canst thou wish thine enemy to be ? 
 Boult. Why, I could wish him to be my master, or 
 
 rather, my mistress. 170 
 
 Mar. Neither of these are so bad at thou art, 
 
 Since they do better thee in their command.
 
 Act IV. Sc vi. « Pericles , 
 
 Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend 
 Of hell would not in reputation change : 
 Thou art the damned door-keeper to every 
 Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib ; 
 To the choleric fisting of every rogue 
 Thy ear is liable ; thy food is such 
 As hath been belch* d on by infected lungs. 
 Boult. What would you have me do ? go to the 1 80 
 wars, would you ? where a man may serve 
 6even years for the loss of a leg, and have not 
 money enough in the end to buy him a wooden 
 
 one 
 
 Mar. Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty 
 Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth ; 
 Serve by indenture to the common hangman : 
 Any of these ways are yet better than this ; 
 For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak. 
 Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods 190 
 Would safely deliver me from this place ! 
 Here, here *8 gold for thee. 
 If that thy master would gain by me, 
 Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, 
 With other virtues, which I '11 keep from boast ; 
 And I will undertake all these to teach. 
 I doubt not but this populous city will 
 94
 
 Prince of Tyre 3* Act iv. Sc. vi. 
 
 Yield many scholars. 
 
 Boult. But can you teach all this you speak of? 
 
 Mar. Prove that I cannot, take me home again, 2CO 
 And prostitute me to the basest groom 
 That doth frequent your house. 
 
 Boult. Well, I will see what I can do for thee : if 
 I can place thee, I will. 
 
 Mar. But amongst honest women. 
 
 Boult. Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst 
 them. But since my master and mistress have 
 bought you, there 's no going but by their con- 
 sent : therefore I will make them acquainted 
 with your purpose, and I doubt not but I shall 210 
 find them tractable enough. Come, I '11 do for 
 thee what I can ; come your ways. [Exeunt. 
 
 4***%^**—
 
 Actv. «e Pericles, 
 
 Act Fifth. 
 
 Enter Goiver. 
 
 Go<w. Marina thus the brothel Scapes, and chances 
 Into an honest house, our story says. 
 She sings like one immortal, and she dances 
 As goddess-like to her admired lays ; 
 Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her needle composes 
 Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, 
 That even her art sisters the natural roses ; 
 Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry : 
 That pupils lacks she none of noble race, 
 Who pour their bounty on her, and her gain 10 
 
 She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place ; 
 And to her father turn our thoughts again, 
 Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost : 
 Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived 
 Here where his daughter dwells ; and on this coast 
 Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived 
 God Neptune's annual feast to keep : from whence 
 Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies, 
 His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense ; 
 And to him in his barge with fervour hies. 20 
 
 96
 
 Prince of Tyre » Act v. Sc. i. 
 
 In your supposing once more put your sight 
 Of heavy Pericles ; think this his bark : 
 Where what is done in action, more, if might, 
 Shall be discover'd ; please you, sit, and hark. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 On board Pericles' ship, off" Mytilene. A close pavilion 
 on deck, 'with a curtain before it; Pericles within it, 
 reclined on a couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian 
 vessel. 
 
 Enter two sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the 
 other to the barge; to them Helicanus, 
 
 Tyr. Sail [To the Sailor of Mytilene] Where is Lord 
 Helicanus ? he can resolve you. 
 O, here he is. 
 
 Sir, there is a barge put off from Mytilene, 
 And in it is Lysimachus the governor, 
 Who craves to come aboard. What is your will ? 
 
 Hel. That he have his. Call up some gentlemen. 
 
 Tyr. Sail. Ho, gentlemen ! my lord calls. 
 
 Enter two or three Gentlemen. 
 First Gent. Doth your lordship call ? 
 
 37 <x 97
 
 Act v. Sc i. -as Pericles, 
 
 Hel. Gentlemen, there is some of worth would 
 
 come aboard ; I pray, greet him fairly. 10 
 
 [The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, 
 
 and go on board the barge. 
 
 Enter from thence, Lysimachus, and Lords; with the 
 Gentlemen and the two Sailors. 
 
 Tyr. Sail. Sir, 
 
 This is the man that can, in aught you would, 
 
 Resolve you. 
 Lys. Hail, reverend sir ! the gods preserve you ! 
 Hel. And you, sir, to outlive the age I am, 
 
 And die as I would do. 
 Lys. You wish me well. 
 
 Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs, 
 
 Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us, 
 
 I made to it, to know of whence you are. 
 Hel. First, what is your place ? 20 
 
 Lys. I am the governor of this place you lie before. 
 Hel. Sir, 
 
 Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king ; 
 
 A man who for this three months hath not spoken 
 
 To any one, nor taken sustenance 
 
 But to prorogue his grief. 
 Lys. Upon what ground is his distemperature ? 
 98
 
 Prince of Tyre 3* Act v. Sc. i. 
 
 Hel. 'Twould be too tedious to repeat; 
 
 But the main grief springs from the loss 
 
 Of a beloved daughter and a wife. 30 
 
 Lys. May we not see him ? 
 Hel. You may j 
 
 But bootless is your sight ; he will not speak 
 
 To any. 
 Lys. Yet let me obtain my wish. 
 Hel. Behold him. [Pericles discovered^ This was a 
 
 goodly person, 
 
 Till the disaster that, one mortal night, 
 
 Drove him to this. 
 Lys. Sir king, all hail ! the gods preserve you ! 
 
 Hail, royal sir ! 40 
 
 Hel. It is in vain ; he will not speak to you. 
 First Lord. Sir, 
 
 We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager, 
 
 Would win some words of him. 
 Lys. 'Tis well bethought. 
 
 She, questionless, with her sweet harmony 
 
 And other chosen attractions, would allure, 
 
 And make a battery through his deafen' d parts, 
 
 Which now are midway stopp'd : 
 
 She is all happy as the fairest of all, 
 
 And with her fellow maids is now upon 50 
 
 99
 
 Act v. Sc. i. *e Pericles, 
 
 The leafy shelter that abuts against 
 The island's side. \_Whispers a Lord, who goes 
 
 off'tn the barge of Lys'tmachus. 
 
 Hel. Sure, all 's effectless ; yet nothing we '11 omit 
 
 That bears recovery's name. But, since your kind- 
 ness 
 We hare stretch' d thus far, let us beseech you 
 That for our gold we may provision have, 
 Wherein we are not destitute for want, 
 But weary for the staleness. 
 
 Lys. O, sir, a courtesy 
 
 Which if we should deny, the most just gods 
 For every graff would send a caterpillar, 60 
 
 And so inflict our province. Yet once more 
 Let me entreat to know at large the cause 
 Of your king's sorrow. 
 
 Hel. Sit, sir, I will recount it to you. 
 
 But, see, I am prevented. 
 
 Re-enter , from the barge, Lord, with Marina, and a young 
 Lady. 
 
 Lys. O, here is 
 
 The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one ! — 
 
 Is 't not a goodly presence : 
 Hel. She 's a gallant lady.
 
 Prince of Tyre a«» Act v. Sc. l 
 
 Lys. She *s such a one, that, were I well assured 
 Came of a gentle kind and noble stock, 
 I 'Id wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed. 
 Fair one, all goodness that consist* in bounty 70 
 Expect even here, where is a kingly patient : 
 If that thy prosperous and artificial feat 
 Can draw him but to answer thee in aught, 
 Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay 
 As thy desires can wish. 
 
 Mar. Sir, I will use 
 
 My utmost skill in his recovery, provided 
 That none but I and my companion maid 
 Be suffer'd to come near him. 
 
 Lys. Come, let us leave her ; 
 
 And the gods make her prosperous ! \_Marina sings. 
 
 Lys. Mark'd he your music ? 
 
 Mar. No, nor look'd on us. 81 
 
 Lys. See, she will speak to him. 
 
 Mar. Hail, sir ! my lord, lend ear. 
 
 Per. Hum, ha ! 
 
 Mar. I am a maid, 
 
 My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes, 
 But have been gazed on like a comet : she speaks, 
 My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief 
 Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd.
 
 Act v. Sc. i. *e Pericles, 
 
 Though wayward fortune did malign my state, 90 
 My derivation was from ancestors 
 Who stood equivalent with mighty kings : 
 But time hath rooted out my parentage, 
 And to the world and awkward casualties 
 Bound me in servitude. \Ande\ I will desist ; 
 But there is something glows upon my cheek, 
 And whispers in mine ear * Go not till he speak.' 
 
 Per. My fortunes — parentage — good parentage — 
 
 To equal mine ! — was it not thus ? what say you ? 
 
 Mar. I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage, 
 You would not do me violence. 10 J 
 
 Per. I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me. 
 You are like something that — What countrywoman \ 
 Here of these shores ? 
 
 Mar. No, nor of any shores : 
 
 Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am 
 No other than I appear. 
 
 Per. I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping. 
 My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one 
 My daughter might have been : my queen's square 
 
 brows ; 
 Her stature to an inch ; as wand-like straight, no 
 As silver- voiced ; her eyes as jewel- like 
 And cased as richly ; in pace another Juno ;
 
 Prince of Tyre ^ Act v. Sc i. 
 
 Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them 
 hungry, 
 
 The more she gives them speech. Where do you 
 Jive ? 
 Mar. Where I am but a stranger : from the deck 
 
 You may discern the place. 
 Per. Where were you bred ? 
 
 And how achieved you these endowments, which 
 
 You make more rich to owe ? 
 Mar. If I should tell my history, it would seem 
 
 Like lies disdain'd in the reporting. 
 Per. Prithee, speak: 120 
 
 Falseness cannot come from thee ; for thou look'st 
 
 Modest as Justice, and thou seem'3t a palace 
 
 For the crown'd Truth to dwell in : I will believe 
 thee, 
 
 And make my senses credit thy relation 
 
 To points that seem impossible ; for thou look'st 
 
 Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends ? 
 
 Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back — 
 
 Which was when I perceived thee — that thou earnest 
 
 From good descending ? 
 Mar. So indeed I did. 
 
 Per. Report thy parents ge. I think thou said'st 130 
 
 Thou hadst been toss'd fiom wrong to injury, 
 103
 
 Actv. Sc i. eg Pericles, 
 
 And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine, 
 
 If both were open'd. 
 Mar. Some such thing 
 
 I said, and said no more but what my thoughts 
 
 Did warrant me was likely. 
 Per. Tell thy story ; 
 
 If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part 
 
 Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I 
 
 Have suffer'd like a girl : yet thou dost look 
 
 Like Patience gazing on kings' graves and smiling 
 
 Extremity out of act. What were thy friends ? 14O 
 
 How lost thou them ? Thy name, my most kind 
 virgin ? 
 
 Recount, I do beseech thee : come, sit by me. 
 Mar. My name is Marina. 
 Per. O, I am mock'd, 
 
 And thou by some incensed god sent hither 
 
 To make the world to laugh at me. 
 Mar. Patience, good sir, 
 
 Or here I '11 cease. 
 Per. Nay, I 'II be patient. 
 
 Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me, 
 
 To call thyself Marina. 
 Mar. The name 
 
 Was given me by one that had some power, 1 50 
 104
 
 Prince of Tyre » Act v - Sc i. 
 
 My father, and a king. 
 Per. How ! a king's daughter ? 
 
 And calPd Marina ? 
 Mar. You said you would believe me ; 
 
 But, not to be a troubler of your peace, 
 
 I will end here. 
 Per. But are you flesh and blood \ 
 
 Have you a working pulse ? and are no fairy ? 
 
 Motion ! Well ; speak on. Where were you born ? 
 
 And wherefore call'd Marina ? 
 Mar. CallM Marina 
 
 For I was born at sea. 
 Per. At sea ! what mother ? 
 
 Mar. My mother was the daughter of a king ; 
 
 Who died the minute I was born, 160 
 
 As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft 
 
 Deliver'd weeping. 
 Per. O, stop there a little ! 
 
 \_Astde\ This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep 
 
 Did mock sad fools withal : this cannot be : 
 
 My daughter 's buried. — Well : where were you 
 bred ? 
 
 I '11 hear you more, to the bottom of your story, 
 
 And never interrupt you. 
 Mar. You scorn : believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er.
 
 Act v. Sc. i. ee Pericles, 
 
 Per. I will beiieve you by the syllable 
 
 Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave : 1 70 
 How came you in these parts ? where were you bred ? 
 
 Mar. The king my father did in Tarsus leave me } 
 Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife, 
 Did seek to murder me : and having woo'd 
 A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do 't, 
 A crew of pirates came and rescued me ; 
 Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir, 
 Whither will you have me ? Why do you weep ? 
 
 It may be, 
 You think me an impostor : no, good faith ; 
 I am the daughter to King Pericles, 180 
 
 If good King Pericles be. 
 
 Per. Ho, Helicanus ! 
 
 Hel. Calls my lord ? 
 
 Per. Thou art a grave and noble counsellor, 
 
 Most wise in general : tell me, if thou canst, 
 What this maid is, or what is like to be, 
 That thus hath made me weep. 
 
 Hel. I know not ; but 
 
 Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene 
 Speaks nobly of her. 
 
 Lys. She never would tell 
 
 Her parentage ; being demanded that, 190 
 
 xo6
 
 Prince of Tyre a> Act v. Sd 
 
 She would sit still and weep. 
 
 Per. O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir ; 
 Give me a gash, put me to present pain ; 
 Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me 
 O'erbear the shores of my mortality, 
 And drown me with their sweetness. O, come 
 
 hither, 
 Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget ; 
 Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus, 
 And found at sea again ! O Helicanus, 
 Down on thy knees ; thank the holy gods as loud 
 As thunder threatens us : this is Marina. 201 
 
 What was thy mother's name ? tell me but that, 
 For truth can never be confirm'd enough, 
 Though doubts did ever sleep. 
 
 Mar. First, sir, I pray, what is your title ? 
 
 Per. I 
 
 Am Pericles of Tyre : but tell me now 
 My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said 
 Thou hast been godlike perfect, the heir of kingdoms, 
 And another like to Pericles thy father. 210 
 
 Mar. Is it no more to be your daughter than 
 To say my mother's name was Thaisa ? 
 Thaisa was my mother, who did end 
 The minute I began. 
 
 107
 
 Act v. Sc i. cs Pericles, 
 
 Per. Now, blessing on thee ! rise ; thou art my child. 
 Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus : 
 She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should hare been, 
 By savage Cleon : she shall tell thee all ; 
 When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge 
 She is thy very princess. Who is this? 220 
 
 Hel. Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene, 
 
 Who, hearing of your melancholy state, 
 Did come to see you. 
 
 Per. I embrace you. 
 
 Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding. 
 O heavens bless my girl ! But, hark, what music ? 
 Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him 
 O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, 
 How sure you are my daughter. But, what music? 
 
 Hel. My lord, I hear none. 
 
 Per. None! 230 
 
 The music of the spheres ! List, my Marina. 
 
 Lys. It is not good to cross him ; give him way. 
 
 Per. Rarest sounds ! Do ye not hear ? 
 
 Lys. My lord, I hear. 
 
 [Music. 
 
 Per. Most heavenly music ! 
 
 It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber 
 Hangs upon mine eyes : let me rest. [Sleeps. 
 
 108
 
 P rince of Tyre » Act v. Sc. i, 
 
 Lys. A pillow for his head : 
 
 So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends, 
 If this but answer to my just belief, 
 I '11 well remember you. 240 
 
 [Exeunt all but Pericles. 
 
 Diana appears to Pericles in a vision. 
 Dia. My temple stands in Ephesus : hie thee thither, 
 
 And do upon mine altar sacrifice. 
 
 There, when my maiden priests are met together, 
 
 Before the people all, 
 
 Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife : 
 
 To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call, 
 
 And give them repetition to the life. 
 
 Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe ; 
 
 Do it, and happy ; by my silver bow ! 
 
 Awake, and tell thy dream. [Disappears. 250 
 
 Per. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine, 
 
 I will obey thee. Helicanus ! 
 
 Re-enter Helicanus, Lysimachus, and Marina. 
 Hel Sir ? 
 
 Per. My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike 
 The inhospitable Cleon ; but I am 
 For other service first : toward Ephesus 
 Turn our blown sails ; eftsoons I Ml tell thee why. 
 109
 
 Act v. Sc. ii. *e Pericles, 
 
 [To Lysimachus~] Shall we refresh us, sir, upon 
 your shore, 
 
 And give you gold for such provision 
 
 As our intents will need ? 
 Lys. Sir, 260 
 
 With all my heart ; and, when you come ashore, 
 
 I have another suit. 
 Per. You shall prevail, 
 
 Were it to woo my daughter ; for it seems 
 
 You have been noble towards her. 
 Lys. Sir, lend me your arm. 
 
 Per. Come, my Marina* [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Enter Goivcr, before the temple of Diana at Ephesus. 
 
 Goiv. Now our sands are almost run ; 
 More a little, and then dumb. 
 This, my last boon, give me, 
 For such kindness must relieve me, 
 That you aptly will suppose 270 
 
 What pageantry, what feats, what shows, 
 What minstrelsy and pretty din, 
 The regent made in Mytilene, 
 To greet the king. So he thrived,
 
 rince of Tyre a* Actv. Sciii. 
 
 That he is promised to be wived 
 
 To fair Marina ; but in no wise 
 
 Till he had done his sacrifice, 
 
 As Dian bade : whereto being bound, 
 
 The interim, pray you, all confound. 
 
 In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd, 280 
 
 And wishes fall out as they're will'd. 
 
 At Ephesus, the temple see, 
 
 Our king and all his company. 
 
 That he can hither come so soon, 
 
 Is by your fancies' thankful doom. [Exit. 
 
 Scene IIJ, 
 
 The temple of Diana at Ephesus ; Thaisa standing near the 
 altar, as high priestess ; a number of Virgins on each 
 side; Cerimon and other Inhabitants of Ephesus 
 attending. 
 
 Enter Pericles, with his train ; Lysimachus, Helicanus, 
 Marina, and a Lady. 
 
 Per. Hail, Dian ! to perform thy just command, 
 I here confess myself the king of Tyre ; 
 Who, frighted from my country, did wed 
 At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.
 
 Actv.3c.iii. eg Pericles , 
 
 At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth 
 A maid-child call'd Marina ; who, O goddess, 
 Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus 
 Was nursed with Cleon ; who at fourteen years 
 He sought to murder : but her better stars 
 Brought her to Mytilene ; 'gainst whose shore 10 
 Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us, 
 Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she 
 Made known herself my daughter. 
 
 Thai. Voice and favour ! 
 
 You are, you are — O royal Pericles ! — [Faints. 
 
 Per. What means the nun ? she dies ! help, gentlemen ! 
 
 Cer. Noble sir, 
 
 If you have told Diana's altar true, 
 This is your wife. 
 
 Per. Reverend appearer, no ; 
 
 I threw her overboard with these very arms. 
 
 Cer. Upon this coast, I warrant you. 
 
 Per. 'Tis most certain. 20 
 
 Cer. Look to the lady. O, she's but overjoy' d. 
 Early in blustering morn this lady was 
 Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin, 
 Found there rich jewels ; recover'd her, and placed 
 
 her 
 Here in Diana's temple.
 
 Prince of Tyre mt* Actv. Sc. Ui. 
 
 Per. May we see them ? 
 
 Cer. Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house, 
 Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is 
 Recovered. 
 
 Thai. O, let me look ! 
 
 If he be none of mine, my sanctity 
 
 Will to my sense bend no licentious ear, 30 
 
 But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord, 
 
 Are you not Pericles ? Like him you spake, 
 
 Like him you are : did you not name a tempest, 
 
 A birth, and death ? 
 
 Per. The voice of dead Thaisa ! 
 
 Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed dead 
 And drown'd. 
 
 Per. Immortal Dian ! 
 
 Thai. Now I know you better. 
 
 When we with tears parted Pentapolis, 
 The king my father gave you such a ring. 
 
 [Shows a ring. 
 
 Per. This, this : no more, you gods 1 your present kind- 
 ness 40 
 Makes my past miseries sports : you shall do well, 
 That on the touching of her lips I may 
 Melt, and no more be seen. O, come, be buried 
 A second time within these arms. 
 n h "3
 
 Actv. So. iii. « Pericles, 
 
 Afar. My heart 
 
 Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. 
 
 \_Kneeh to Thais a. 
 Per. Look, who kneels here ! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa ; 
 
 Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina 
 
 For she was yielded there. 
 Thai. Blest, and mine own ! 
 
 Hel. Hail, madam, and my queen ! 
 Thai. I know you not. 
 
 Per. You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre, 
 
 I left behind an ancient substitute : 5 1 
 
 Can you remember what I call'd the man ? 
 
 I have named him oft. 
 Thai. 'Twas Helicanus then. 
 
 Per. Still confirmation : 
 
 Embrace him, dear Thaisa ; this is he. 
 
 Now do I long to hear how you were found ; 
 
 How possibly preserved ; and who to thank, 
 
 Besides the gods, for this great miracle. 
 Thai. Lord Cerimon, my lord ; this man, 
 
 Through whom the gods have shown their power : 
 that can 60 
 
 From first to laat resolve you. 
 Per. Reverend sir, 
 
 The gods can have no mortal officer 
 
 "4
 
 Prince of Tyre » Actv. Sciii. 
 
 More like a god than you. Will you deliver 
 How this dead queen re-lives ? 
 
 Cer. I will, my lord. 
 
 Beseech you, first go with me to my house, 
 Where shall be shown you all was found with her ; 
 How she came placed here in the temple ; 
 No needful thing omitted. 
 
 Per. Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision ! I 
 
 Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa, 70 
 
 This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter, 
 
 Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now, 
 
 This ornament 
 
 Makes me look dismal will I clip to form ; 
 
 And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd, 
 
 To grace thy marriage-day, I '11 beautify. 
 
 Thai. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir, 
 My father f 8 dead. 
 
 Per. Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my 
 queen, 
 We '11 celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves 80 
 
 Will in that kingdom spend our following days : 
 Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign. 
 Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay 
 To hear the rest untold : «r, lead's the way. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 «5
 
 Actv. Sc. iii. cs Pericles, Prince of Tyre 
 
 Enter Goiver. 
 Gotv. In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard 
 Of monstrous lust the due and just reward : 
 In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen, 
 Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen, 
 Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, 
 Led on by heaven and crown'd with joy at last : 90 
 In Helicanus may you well descry 
 A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty : 
 In reverend Cerimon there well appears 
 The worth that learned charity aye wears : 
 For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame 
 Had spread their cursed deed and honour'd name 
 Of Pericles, to rage the city turn, 
 That him and his they in his palace burn $ 
 The gods for murder seemed so content 
 To punish, although not done, but meant. 
 So, on your patience evermore attending, 100 
 
 New joy wait on you ! Here our play has ending. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 *+*^egr*~
 
 Glossary. 
 
 3. 4. 
 
 Absolute, faultless, perfect ; Prol. IV. 
 
 Account, accounted ; (Qq-i " ac- 
 count 'd", " accounted" ; Ff. 
 "counted"); Prol. i. ^o- 
 
 Address'd, prepared ; fl. iii. 94. 
 
 Afore he, on my word, by my soul ; a 
 slight oath; II. i. 84. 
 
 Amazement, confusion, bewilderment; 
 I. ii. 26. 
 
 Appliance, appliances; III. ii. 86. 
 
 Approve, commend ; II. i. 55. 
 
 Argentine, silver hued ; V. i. 251. 
 
 As, as if; Prol. I. 24 ; I. i. 16. 
 
 , that ; I. ii. 3. 
 
 Attend, await ; I. iv. 79. 
 
 Attend me, listen to me ; I. ii. 70. 
 
 Attribute; "an honest a.", reputa- 
 tion for honesty ; IV. iii. 18. 
 
 Avaunt, out of my sight ; IV. vi. 125. 
 
 Awful, full of awe, reverent; Prol. II. 4. 
 
 Awkward, adverse; (Q. 1, " aug- 
 ward") ; V. i. 94. 
 
 Bases, embroidered^ skirts which hung 
 down from the middle to about the 
 knees, or lower, worn by knights on 
 horseback; II. i. 167. 
 
 Beholding, beholden ; II. v. 25. 
 
 Belching, vomiting ; III. i. 63. 
 
 Blown, swollen ; V. i. 256. 
 
 Blurted at, held in contempt ; IV. 
 iii. 34. 
 
 Bolins, bowlines ; III. i. 43. 
 
 BONUM QUO ANTIQUIUS, EO MELIUS J 
 
 i.e. a good thing for being old, the 
 older the better; Prol. I. 10. 
 Bootless, without gain, profitless; V. 
 i.33. 
 
 Boots, avails, helps; Lit 20. 
 Bot's on't, an execration ; II. \. 124^ 
 Brace, armour worn on the arm ; II. l 
 
 !33« 
 Braid, reproach, upbraid ; (Malone, 
 
 " 'braid '); I. i. 93. 
 Breathing, exercise ; II. iii. 101. 
 Buxom, lively, fresh ; Prol. I. 23. 
 
 CAN = gan, (an old auxiliary form) = 
 did ; Prol. III. 36. 
 
 Cates, delicacies ; II. iii. 29. 
 
 Censure, opinion ; II. iv. 34. 
 
 Chance, chances it ; IV. i. 23. 
 
 Character, handwriting ; III. iv. 3. 
 
 Cheapen, bid for ; IV. vi. 10. 
 
 Chequin, an Italian gold coin ; (Q. 1 
 " Checkins " ; Qq. 2, 3, " Ckickins " , 
 Qq. 4, 5, 6, F. 3, "Chickeens" ; F. 
 4, ^Chickens")', IV. ii. 28. 
 
 Chiding, noisy ; III. i. 32. 
 
 City, inhabitants of the city, citizens ; 
 V. iii. 97. 
 
 Clear, virtuous ; IV. vi. 113. 
 
 Clerks, scholars ; Prol. V. 5. 
 
 Cockles, mussel-shells; IV. iv. 2. 
 
 Coigns, corners ; (Qq., Ff. 3, 4, 
 " Crignes") ; Prol. iii. 17. 
 
 Commend, commendation; II. ii. 49. 
 
 Companion ; " her mild c", the com- 
 panion of her mildness " ; (Daniel 
 conj. " her wild c." ; ":'« her mild 
 company")', I. i. 18. 
 
 Conceit, ability to think ; III. i. 16. 
 
 Conclusion, (?) problem ; I. i. 56. 
 
 Conditions, disposition ; III. i. 29. 
 
 Condolements, blunder for doles ; II. 
 L156. 
 
 Confound, waste, consume ; V. ii. 14.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Pericles, 
 
 Consist, insist ; I. iv. 83. 
 Conversation, conduct ; Prol. II. 9. 
 Convince, overcome, defeat ; I. ii. 123. 
 Copp'd, round-topped; I. i. 100. 
 Countervail, balance, equal; II. Hi. 
 
 56. 
 Countless, infinite; I, i. 31. 
 Cunning, knowledge, skill; III. ii. 
 
 37. 
 Curious, elegant, nice ; I. iv. 43. 
 
 Darks, darkens, obscures ; Prol. IV. 35. 
 Date, appointed term of life ; III. iv. 
 
 14. 
 Death-like, deadly; I. i. 29. 
 Deliver, tell, relate ; V. iii. 63. 
 Deliver'd, told, related ; V. i. 162. 
 Dern, secret, dreary; Prol. III. 15. 
 Desire (trisyllabic); I. i. 20. 
 Distain, stain ; (Steevens conj. ; Qq., 
 
 and Ff. 3, 4, " disdaine"); IV. iii. 
 
 Distemperature, disorder ; V. L 17. 
 Dole, sorrow ; Prol. III. 42. 
 Dooms, judgment ; Prol. III. 32. 
 Doubt, suspect ; I. ii. 86. 
 Doubting, fearing ; I. iii. 22. _ 
 Dropping, dripping wet ; IV. i. 63. 
 Dumbs, makes dumb ; Prol. V. 5. 
 
 Eaning time, time of delivery; III. 
 iv. 6. 
 
 Earnest, money given beforehand ; 
 IV. i. 49- 
 
 Eche, eke out; (Qq., F. 3 {"each")', 
 Prol. III. 13. 
 
 Eftsoons, soon, by and by; V. i. 256. 
 
 Emeer-eves, evenings preceding the 
 ember-days, days of fasting at four 
 seasons of the year ; Prol. I. 6._ 
 
 Entertain, entertainment; I. i. 119. 
 
 Entrance (trisyllabic) ; II. iii. 64. 
 
 Erst, erewhile, formerly ; I. i. 40. 
 
 Escapen, escape ; Prol. II. 36. 
 
 Exposition, expounding, interpreta- 
 tion ; I. i. 113. 
 
 Extremity, the extremity of suffering ; 
 
 V. i. 140. 
 Eyne, eyes; Prol. III. 5. 
 
 Fact, deed, (?) crime ; (Qq., Ff. 3, 4, 
 "face" ; Mason conj. "feat")', IV. 
 iii. 12. 
 
 Fault, misfortune ; IV. ii. 79. 
 
 ; iv. i. 25 ; 
 
 Favour, face, appearance 
 
 V. iii. 13. 
 Fere, companion, spouse 
 ttp 
 
 (Qq. 
 
 Peer*"; Ff. 3, 4, ^ Peer")', Prol. 
 
 Fits, befits ; I. i. 157. 
 Flap- jacks, pancakes ; II. i. 87. 
 Flaw, stormy wind ; III. i. 39. 
 For, fit for ; I. i. 7. _ 
 
 , for fear of; I. i. 40. 
 
 , in place of, instead of; III. I. 
 
 62. 
 , because ; III. iii 13 ; V. L 158 ; 
 
 V. iii. 48. 
 Forbear, bear with ; II. iv. 46. 
 'Fore, before ; (Qq., Ff. 3, 4, "from ") ; 
 
 Prol. III. 6. 
 For that, because ; II. i. 81. 
 Frame, go, resort ; Prol. I. 32. 
 
 , shape, mould ; II. v. 81. 
 
 Furtherance, help ; II. i. 160. 
 
 Gat, begat ; II. ii. 6. 
 
 'Gins, begins ; III. ii. 95. 
 
 Give him glad, make him glad ; Prol. 
 
 II. 38. 
 Give's, give us ; II. iv. 32. 
 Glad, gladden ; I. iv. 28. 
 Gloze, make empty words, use deceit ; 
 
 I. i. iro. 
 Gone through, bid high ; IV. ii. 
 
 47- 
 Graff, graft ; V. i. 6b. 
 Greets, gratifies ; IV. iii. 38. 
 Griefs, grievances; II. iv. 23. 
 Grieve, grieve us ; II. iv. 19. 
 Gripe at, grasp at, catch at ; !. I. 
 
 49. 
 
 is8
 
 Prince of Tyre 
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Haling, dragging; (Malone, "with 
 
 hauling of the") ; IV. i. 55. 
 Happily, haply, perhaps ; I. iv. 9a. 
 Hatched, closed with a half door ; 
 
 IV. ii. 37. 
 
 Having, possession ; II. i. 145. 
 
 Heap, mass, body; (Jackson conj. 
 "head"; Collier (ed. 2), "head"; 
 Bailey conj. "shape"); I. i. 33. 
 
 Hie thee, hasten ; III. i. 69. 
 
 Hies, hastens ; Prol. V. 20. 
 
 Hight, is called ; Prol. IV. 18. 
 
 Holy- ales, rural festivals on saints' 
 days ; (?) church-ales, or wakes ; 
 (Steevens' emendation ; Qq. and Ff. , 
 " holy-dayes"); Prol. I. 6. 
 
 Honour, honourable office ; II. ii. 14. 
 
 Husbandry, economy of time ; (?) at- 
 tention to business ; I II. Li. 20. 
 
 In, even in ; I. iv. 102. 
 
 Inflict, afflict ; V.. i. 61. 
 
 In hac spe vivo, in this hope I live ; 
 
 II. ii. 44- 
 Inkle, a kind of tape ; here probably 
 
 some kind of embroidery silk ; Prol. 
 
 V. 8. 
 
 Intend, bend, direct ; I. ii. 116. 
 Intents, intentions ; V. i. 259. 
 I-wis, truly, certainly ; Prol. II. a. 
 
 Jetted, stalked, strutted ; I. iv. 26. 
 Joy, rejoice ; II. i. 165. 
 Just, joust, tilt; II. i. 116. 
 
 Killen, kill ; Prol. II. 20. 
 
 Late, lately ; IV. iv. 15. 
 
 Level, aim; II. iii. 114. 
 
 Level at, aim at ; I. i. 165. 
 
 Lien, lain; III. ii. 85. 
 
 Light, alighted, fallen ; IV. ii. 77. 
 
 Like, equal, the same ; I. i. 108 ; IV 
 
 v. 1. 
 Like, just as ; II. iv. 36. 
 Like, likely; III. i. 17; IV. i. 80. 
 
 Longs, belongs to ; (Singer, " longs" \ 
 Qq., " long's" ; Ff. 3, 4, " longs"); 
 Prol. II. 40. 
 
 Looks, faces, countenances; (alluding 
 to the heads of suitors which were 
 set up at the gate to terrify others 
 who might come) ; Prol. I. 4°- 
 
 Lop, cut off; I. ii. 90. 
 
 Loud music, .made by clashing of 
 armour ; II. iii. 97. 
 
 Lown, base fellow ; IV. vi. 19. 
 
 Lux tua vita, mihi, thy light is life 
 to me ; II. ii. 21. 
 
 Malkin, slattern ; (Q. 3, " Mowkin " ; 
 the rest, " Mawkin ; the old pro- 
 nunciation") ; IV. iii. 34. 
 
 Manage, training ; usually used of a 
 horse ; IV. vi. 69. 
 
 Mask'd, concealing as with a mask 
 its cruel nature ; (Dyceconj. "vast"; 
 S. Walker conj. "moist" ; Kinnear 
 conj. "mighty"; Elze conj. "calm- 
 est "); III. iii. 36. 
 
 Me pomp* provexit apex, "the 
 desire of renown drew me to this 
 enterprise" (Wilkins* Novel); II. ii. 
 30. 
 
 Mis-dread, fear of evil ; I. ii. ia. 
 
 Moons, months ; Prol. III. 31. 
 
 Mortal, fatal ; III. ii. no. 
 
 Mortally, in the manner of mortals ; 
 V. i. 105. 
 
 Motion, a working pulse ; (Pericles' 
 exclamation after he has felt Marina's 
 pulse); Steevens, "no motionV' i.e. 
 ''Are you not a puppet?" V. i. 156. 
 
 Must, must come to ; (Wray conj. 
 " must be"); I. i. 44- 
 
 Ne, nor; Prol. II. 36. 
 
 Needle (pronounced neeld) ; Prol. IV 
 
 2 3- 
 Neglection, neglect; III. 111. 20. 
 Nicely, scrupulously ; IV. i. 6. 
 Nill, will not ; Prok III. 55. 
 
 119
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Pericles, 
 
 Not, not only ; III. ii. 46 
 Nouslb, nurse ; I. iv. 42. 
 
 Of, (?) on (Ff., " on") ; Prol. V. aa. 
 Old, of old, long ago ; Rrol. I. i. 
 On, of; II. i. 7 ; II. i. 36 ; III. iii. 20. 
 Open, disclose, reveal ; I. iL 87 ; IV. 
 
 iii. 23. 
 Opinion, public opinion ; II. ii. 56. 
 Oppress, suppress; Prol. III. 29. 
 Orbs, spheres ; I. ii. 122. 
 Ostent, ostentation, display; (Qq., 
 
 Ff. 3, 4, "stint"); I. iL 25. 
 Owe, own; V. L 118. 
 
 Parted, departed from ; V. iii. 38. 
 Partakes, communicates ; I. i. 152. 
 Passion, grief; IV. iv. 24. 
 Perch, measure, mile (according to 
 some = "resting-place"); ProL III. 
 
 Perishbn, perish ; Prol. II. 35. 
 Piece, masterpiece ; IV. vi. 118. 
 Pilch, = leathern coat (used as a proper 
 name); II. i. 12. 
 
 PlU POR DULZURA QUE POR FUERZA, 
 
 more by gentleness than by force ; 
 
 (the Italian " piu" is used instead of 
 
 the Spanish "mas") ; II. ii. 27. 
 Plain, make plain ; Prol. III. 14. 
 Porpus, porpoise ; (Qq., Ff. 3, 4, "For- 
 
 J>as" ; II. i. 26. 
 Portly, imposing ; I. iv. 61. 
 Pregnant, prompt, ready ; Prol. IV. 
 
 44- 
 Present, "his p.", that which he 
 
 presents ; II. ii. 42. 
 , instant, immediate ; Prol. IV. 38 ; 
 
 V. I 193. 
 Presently, immediately ; III. i. 82. 
 Prest, prompt, ready ; Prol. IV. 45. 
 Principals, corner-posts ; III. ii. 16. 
 Proportion, portion, fortune ; IV. ii. 
 
 29. 
 Prorogue, draw out, linger out ; V. L 
 
 26. 
 
 Pukchase, gain, profit ; (Steevens 
 conj., adopted by Malone, "pur- 
 pose"); ProL I. 9. 
 
 Quaintly, skilfully; Prol. III. 13. 
 Quick, invigorating ; IV. i. 28. 
 Quirks, caprices ; IV. vL 8. 
 Quit, requite; III. L 35. 
 Quod me alit, me bxtinguit, that 
 
 which gives me life, gives me death J 
 
 II. ii. 33. 
 
 Rapture, violent effort ; (Qq., Ff. 3, 
 
 4, "rupture"); II. i. 161. 
 Records, sings; Prol. IV. 27. 
 Reft, bereft ; II. iii. 84. 
 Repeated, mentioned, told ; I. L 96. 
 Resist me, are distasteful to me; II. 
 
 iii. 29. 
 Resolve, solve ; I. L 71. 
 
 , satisfy : II. v. 68. 
 
 , tell, inform ; V. i. 1; V. iii. 61. 
 
 Resolved, satisfied, convinced ; II. 
 
 iv. 31. 
 Return them, announce to them ; II. 
 
 iL 4. 
 
 'Say'd, assayed, those who hava 
 
 assayed ; I. L 59, 60. 
 Semblance, (trisyllabic) ; I. iv. 71. 
 Shall's, shall we ; IV. v. 7. 
 Shine, brightness ; I. ii. 124. 
 Shipman, seaman ; I. iii. 24. 
 Shores, sewers; IV. vi. 1S6. 
 Sic spectanda fides, thus faith is ta 
 
 be tested ; II. ii. 38. 
 Sleided, raw, untwisted ; (Qq., F. 3, 
 
 "sUded" ; F. 4, "sledded"); Prol 
 
 IV. 21. 
 Smooth, flatter ; I. ii. 78. 
 So, well and good ; IV. ii. 48. 
 Sometime, once ; II. i. 143. 
 Sometimes, formerly, sometime; I. L 
 
 34- 
 Somewhat, something ; II. i. r28. 
 Speeding, succeeding ; II. iii. 116.
 
 Prince of Tyre 
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Speken, speak; Prol. II. 12. 
 
 Standing-bowl, a bowl resting on a 
 
 foot ; II. iii. 65. 
 Stay, await ; II. ii. 3. 
 Stead, aid, help; Prol. III. 21 ; Prol. 
 
 IV. 41. 
 Still, continually, always ; Prol. I. 
 
 36. 
 Straight, immediately; III. i. 54. 
 Strain, race ; IV. iii. 24. 
 Suddenly, quickly; III. i. 70. 
 , at once, immediately ; IV. i. 
 
 96. 
 
 Take, betake; III. iv. 10. 
 Tellus, the earth ; IV. i. 14. 
 That, if; Prol. I. 13. 
 
 , so that ; Prol. V. 7. 
 
 Thetis, the sea goddess : IV. iv. 39. 
 Thorough, through ; IV. iii. 35. 
 Thoughten, thinking ; IV. vi. 115. 
 Throng'd up, pressed, numbed ; II. 
 
 i. 77. 
 Throng'd, pressed, crushed ; L. L 
 
 101. 
 Thwarting, crossing ; IV. iv. 10. 
 Tire, furniture, bed-furniture,(?)=com- 
 
 fortably and richly furnished bed ; 
 
 III. ii. 22. 
 
 To, compared to ; II. iii. 36. 
 To-bless, bless ; {to, used intensively) ; 
 
 IV. vi. 23. 
 
 Tourney, hold a tournament ; II. L 
 
 116. 
 Triumph, tournament ; II. ii. 1. 
 
 Unscissar'd, uncut, untouched by the 
 
 scissors ; III. iii. 20. 
 Unto, according to, in comparison to ; 
 
 II. L 163. 
 
 Vail, Iowct ; II. Hi. 4a. 
 
 , do homage ; Prol. IV. 39. 
 
 Vails, perquisites received by servants; 
 
 II. i. 157. 
 Vegetivbs, vegetables, plants; III. 
 
 ii. 36. 
 Viol, vial, phial ; (Qq. 4, 5, 6, Ff. 3, 4, 
 
 "viall")\ III. ii. 90. 
 Visor, mask ; IV. iv. 44. 
 
 Wages, equals, weighs ; IV. ii. 34. 
 
 Wanion ; " with a w." = " with a curse 
 on you," " with a vengeance " ; (prob- 
 ably ultimately derived from the 
 phrase " i n the waniand" i.e. "in 
 the waning moon," i.e. at an un- 
 lucky time, hence = with ill-luck ; 
 
 II. i. 17. 
 
 Weed, garment, robe ; IV. i. 14. 
 Well-a-day, grief, woe ; IV. iv. 49. 
 Well-a-near, alas ! well-a-day ; Prol. 
 
 III. 51. 
 
 Well said, well done ; III. ii. 87. 
 Where, whereas ; I. i. 127 ; II. iii. 43. 
 Whereas, where ; I. iv. 70. 
 Whipstock, the handle of a whip ; II. 
 
 ii. 51- 
 Who, he who ; I. i. 94. 
 Wight, man ; Prol. I. 39. 
 Wit, know ; IV. iv. 31. 
 With, by ; I. i. 4 ; II. i. 68, 69. 
 Word, motto ; II. ii. 21. 
 Would; " I w.", I wish ; III. i. 42. 
 Writ, holy writ, gospel ; (Qq. 2, 3, 
 
 "■write , Steevens conj. "wit' ; 
 
 Nicholson conj. " Writ"); Prol. II. 
 
 Younger, past, ago ; I. iv. 39. 
 Y-slaked, sunk to repose ; Prol. III. 1
 
 Notes. 
 
 I. I. 24. 'boundless'; Rowe's emendation of Qq., Ff. 3, 4, 
 
 ' bondlesse'. 
 
 I. i. 29. • death-like dragons here affright'* ; Daniel conj. 'death, like 
 dragons, here affrights''; S.Walker conj. ' affront' ; Hudson conj. 
 
 1 affronts '. 
 
 I. i. 55-57. The arrangement of the text, confused in Qq. and 
 Ff., was first made by Malone. 
 
 I. i. 59. 60. ' Of all 'say' d yet ' ; Mason conj. ' In all, save that ' ; 
 Mitford conj. ' false ! and yet'. 
 
 I. i. 113. ' cancel of'; Malone's emendation; Ff. 3, 4, ' cancel 
 off ; Qq. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, ' counsell of ; Q. 5, • counsel of\ 
 
 I. i. 128. '■untimely'; Wilkins, in the Novel, writes * uncomely,' 
 which may, perhaps, give the correct reading of the line. 
 
 I. i. 135. ' blush' i.e. ( -who blush ' ; the omission of the pronoun, 
 personal or relative, is characteristic of the non-Shakespearian 
 portions of the play. 
 
 I. ii. 1. 'change of thoughts,' i.e. perturbation of thought; 
 Steevens conj. 'charge of thoughts ?' ; Mason conj. 'change of 
 thoughts f ' ; Singer (ed. 2), ' charge our thoughts f ' ; Staunton conj. 
 ' change our thoughts f ' ; Bailey conj. ' child of thought ' ; Daniel conj. 
 1 east of thought '. 
 
 I. ii. 3. 'Be my so used a guest as' ; Dyce's emendation; Q. I, 
 ' By me so vsde a guest, as ' ; Malone ( 1780J, ' By me's so us'd a guest t 
 as ' ; Jackson conj. ' Be by me so us'd a guest f* '«, 
 
 IM
 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre 5* Notes. 
 
 I. ii. 8. « arm ' ; so F. 4 ; Dyce reads 'aim '. 
 
 I. ii. 30. ' Who am ' ; Farmer conj.; Qq. , Ff. 3, 4, • Who once ' ; 
 Malone (1780), ' Who owe ' ; ( 1 790 ), ' Who wants \ 
 
 I. ii. 41. 'blast* ; Mason conj.; Qq., Ff. 3, 4, ' spark ' ; Malorx 
 (1790), ' breath ' ; Steevens conj. ' wind'. 
 
 I. ii. 55. 'plants' ; so Q. 1; Malone's emendation of Qq. 
 and Ff., 'planets'. 
 
 I. ii. 86. ' doubt it? 1 Steevens conj.; Qq. 1, 2, 3, ' doo't' ; Qq. 
 4, 5, 6, and Ff., 'thinke\ 
 
 I. ii. 93. • spares' ; so Q. i ; Qq. 2-6, and Ff. 3, 4, 'feares' and 
 'fears '. 
 
 I. ii. 95. • reprovest' ; Malone, ' reprov'st' ; Qq. I, 2, 3, ' rv- 
 prou'dst' ; Qq. 4, 5, 6, ' reproved, t ' ; Ff. 3, 4, ' reprovecPst '. 
 
 I. iii. 4-7. C^. " I will therefore commend the poet Philipides, 
 who, being demanded by King Lisimachus what favour he might 
 do unto him, for that he loved him, made him answer to the 
 king, that your Majesty would never impart unto me any oi 
 your secrets." — Barnabie Riche's Soldier's Wish to Briton's Welfare. 
 
 I. iii. 27-28. ' but since he's gone, the ting's seas must please' ; Mason 
 conj. 'But since he is gone, the king, seas must please' ; Percy conj. 
 ; But since he 3 s gone, the king it sure must please ' ; Collier (ed. 2), ' But 
 since he is gone the king's ease must please ' ; Perring conj . ' But since he's 
 gone, the king this news must please ' ; Dyce conj. ' But since he's gone the 
 king's ears it must please '. 
 
 I. iv. 8. 'mischief's eyes*; Steevens, * mistful eyes ' ; Anon. conj. 
 (1814), ' mischief size ' ; Singer (ed. 2), ' mistie eyes' ; S. Walker 
 conj. ' misery's eyes ' ; Kinnear conj. ' weakness' eyes ' ; Mr T. Tyler's 
 suggestion, ' not seen -with mischief's eyes,' i.e. 'not seen with the 
 eyes of despair,' seems to be the most ingenious correction of the 
 line, if any change is necessary. 
 
 W3
 
 Notes. « Pericles, 
 
 I. Iv. 15-14. ' Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep Our tints ' \ 
 Hudson reads ' Our tongues do sound our sorrows and deep ivoes ' .• 
 
 ; ' sorrows do ' ; Cartwright conj. ' sobbings do ' ; Bailey conj. 
 
 'bosoms too ' ; Anon. conj. ' sorrowing bosoms do ' . 
 
 I. iv. 15. 'tongues'; Qq. i, 2, 3, ' toungx ' ; Steevens conj. 
 ' lungs '. 
 
 I. iT. 39. 'yet two summers younger ' ; Mason conj. ; Q. 1, ' yet too 
 sauers younger* ; Ff. 3, A, '^ rf to savers younger '. 
 
 I. iv. 69. ' of unhappy me'] Malone (1780), ' of unhappy men* ; 
 Steevens conj. l of unhappy we ' • Jackson conj. ' unhappy me '. 
 
 I. iv. 74. 'Aim's' i.e. 'him who is'; Malone's reading ; Q 1, 
 •himnes'; Qq. 2, 3, F. 3, ' hymnes ' ; Qq. 4, 5, 'hymmes '; Q. 6, 
 ; hywmes ' ; F. 4, ' A^wn/ ' ; Steevens conj. ' him who is \ 
 
 Prol. II. 19. '/or though 1 ; Steevens, 'forth'; Singer (ed. 2), 
 ; /or thy'; Nicholson conj. 'for -though' ; Kinnear conj. 'for 
 through '. 
 
 Prol. II. 22. ' Sends word' ; Steevens conj. ; Qq. 1-5 read ' Sau'd 
 one ' ; Q. 6, Ff. 3, 4, « Sav'd one '. 
 
 II. i. 52. 'finny'; Steevens conj. (from Wilkins' novel); Qq., 
 
 Ff - 3> 4, */«w»y '• 
 
 II. i. 58. 'search'; Steevens conj. 'scratch it'; Singer (ed. 2), 
 ' cratch' t' ; Staunton. ' scratch ' ; Anon. conj. 'steal it'; Hudson, 
 - steal' t\ 
 
 II. i. 60. ' May see the sea hath cast upon your coast ' ; so Qq. ; 
 Ff. 3, 4, ' V may see the sea hath cast me upon your coast ' ; Malone 
 ( 1780), ' You may see the sea hath cast me on your coast ' ; Steeven3, 
 adopted by Malone (1790), ' Nay, see, the sea hath cast upon your 
 coast — '. 
 
 II. ii. 14. 'entertain'; Steevens conj. 'explain'; Anon. conj. 
 ' entreat ' ; Anon. conj. ' emblazon ' ; Schmidt conj, ' mterpra ', 
 1*4
 
 Prince of Tyre 3* Notes. 
 
 II. ili. 19. ' Marshal' ; Malone's emendation; Qq., F. 3, 
 ' Martiall'; F. 4, ' Martial ". 
 
 II. iii. 29. ' r«/jf ' ; Collier conj. • distaste '. 
 
 ; ' he not ' ; so Qq. 2-6, Ff. 3, 4 ; Malone ' she not ' ; Malone, 
 
 conj. ' he noiv' ; Steevens conj. 'At «>/'; Mason conj. • she but' ; 
 Dyce conj. *^<? ^«rf '. 
 
 II. iii. 50. 'stored'; Steevens conj. ; Qq. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 'stur'd' ; 
 Ff. 3, 4, 'stirr'd' ; Mason conj. 'stovi'd'. 
 
 II. iii. 63. ' /fc'V/V ar<r •wonder 'd at'; Daniel, ' still ne'er -wondered at' ; 
 Anon. conj. 'kill'd are scorned at' ; Kinnear <//'«/* ar* wonder' d 
 at'. 
 
 II. iv. 41. ' jFot honour's cause' ; Dyce's reading; Qq., Ff. 3, 4, 
 ' Try honours cause ' ; Steevens conj. ' Try honour's course ' ; Jackson 
 conj. * Cry, honour's cause t' ; Anon. conj. * By honour's cause', 
 
 Prol. III. 35. 'Y-ravished' ; Steevens conj.; Q. I, « Irastyshed' ; 
 Q. 1, ' /r««y /&?</' ; the rest, • 7r»/»y shed'. 
 
 III. i. 7-8. ' Thou stormest venomously; Wilt'; Dyce's reading ; 
 Qq., Ff. 3, 4, ' then storme venomously, Wilt ' ; Malone, ' Thou storm, 
 venomously, Wilt ' ; Steevens, • Thou, storm, thou / venomously Wilt ' ; 
 Collier, ' Thou storm, venomously Wilt '. 
 
 III. i. 14. 'travails'; F. 3, 'travels'; Dyce, 'travail'. 
 
 III. i. 26. • Use honour -with you ' ; Steevens reads ' Vie honour -with 
 yourselves ' ; Mason conj. • Vie honour with you '. 
 
 III. i. 63. 'aye-remaining lamps' ; Malone's conj.; Qq. I, 2, 3, 
 • ayre remayning lamfes ' ; Qq. 4» 5> ^> ' a y re remaining lampes ' ; F. 3, 
 1 ayre remaining lamps ' ; F. 4, ' air remaining lamps ' ; Jackson conj. 
 area-mantsing ', &c. 
 
 III. ii. 17. • all-to topple'; Singer (ed. *), « al-to topple'; Qq., 
 Ff . 3, 4, ' all to topple ' ; Dyce, ' all to-topple \ 
 
 III. ii. 22. ' Rich tire ' ; Steevens conj. ' Such towers ■ ; Qq. 1, 2, 3, 
 a*s
 
 Notes. eg Pericles, 
 
 1 Rich tire'; the rest, * Rich attire * ; Jackson conj. ' Rich Tyre'; 
 Collier (ed. 2), « Rich 'tire '. 
 
 III. ii. 41. 'treasure'; Steevens' emendation for 'pleasures ' and 
 'pleasure ' of Qq., Ff. 3, 4. 
 
 III. ii. 42. Steevens explained the words as an allusion to an old 
 print exhibiting Death in the act of plundering a miser of his 
 bags, and the Fool standing behind, and grinning at the process. 
 
 III. ii. 48. ' time shall never. . . . ' ; so. Qq. 1, 2, 3; Qq. 4, 5,6, 
 Ff. 3, 4, 'neuer shall decay'; Malone, 'time shall never — '; Dyce, 
 time shall never raze ' ; Staunton, ' time shall ne'er decay ' ; Anon, 
 conj. ' time shall never end'. 
 
 III. iii. 7. ' •wanderingly ' ; Qq., Ff. 3, 4, ' voondringly ' ; Schmidt 
 conj. ' ivoundingly ', 
 
 III. iii. 29. • Unscitsar'd shall this hair'; Steerens' emendation; 
 Qq. 1-4, ' vnsisterd , . . heyre' ; Q. 5, ' unsisterd shall his heyres ' ; 
 Q. 6, ' unsisterd . . . heire ' ; Ff. 3, 4, ' unsister'd . . . heir '. 
 
 III. iii. 30. 'show ill' Qq. and Ff. read ' show -will'; the 
 correction was made independently by Malone and Dyce ; this 
 and the previous emendations are confirmed by the corresponding 
 passage in the Novel. 
 
 Prol. IV. 17. ( marriage rite'; Collier's reading; Percy conj. 
 1 marriage rites ' ; Qq., Ff. 3, 4, 'marriage sight'; Steevens conj., 
 adopted by Malone, • marriage Jight ' ; Steevens conj. ' marriage 
 night '. 
 
 Prol. IV. 26. ' night-bird' ; Malone's emendation of Qq., Ff. 
 3,4, 'night bed'. 
 
 IV. i. 5. 'inflaming love f thy bosom' ; Knight's emendation of 
 Q. 1, ' in flaming, thy loue bosome,' life. 
 
 IV. i. 11. 'only mistress' death'; Malone (1790), ' old mistress'' 
 death ' ; Percy conj. ' old nurse's death ' ; &c, &c. 
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 Prince of Tyre s#» Notes. 
 
 IV. i. 64. 'stem to stern'; Malone's emendation; Qq., 'stern* 
 
 to sterne ' ; Ff. 3, 4, ■ stern to stern '. 
 
 IV. i. 97. ■ the great pirate Valdes ' ; " perhaps there is here a 
 scornful allusion to Don Pedro de Valdes, a Spanish admiral 
 taken by Drake in 1588 " (Malone). 
 
 IV. iii. 17. 'pious'; Mason conj., and Wilkins' novel, 
 adopted by Collier; Qq. 1, », 3, 'impious'; the rest omit the 
 word. 
 
 IV. iii. 47-48. ' dost, -with thine angePsface, Seize ' ; Malone conj. 
 ' dost wear thine angel 's face y Seize'; Steevens, ' doth ivear an angel's 
 face, Seize'; Hudson (1881), ' doth use an angel's fate, Then 
 leize '. 
 
 IV. iii. 48. 'talons'; Rowe's emendation of Qq., Ff. 3, 4, 
 1 talents '. 
 
 IV. iv. 13-16 The arrangement of the lines is according to 
 Hudson's edition (1881). 
 
 IV. iv. 18. ' his pilot thought ' ; Steevens conj. ' his pilot -wrought' ; 
 Mason conj. 'this pilot -thought ' ; Qq. 1, 2, 3, 'this Pilot 
 thought ' ; the rest, ' this Pilate thought \ 
 
 IV. iv. 48. 'scene must play'; Malone's emendation (1790); 
 Qq., Ff. 3, 4 read ' Steare must play'; Steevens conj., adopted 
 by Malone (1780), 'tears must play'; Malone conj. 'stage must 
 f>lay ' ; Steevens, ' scenes display '. 
 
 V. i. 47. 'deafen'd' ; Malone's emendation; Q. x, 'defend' ; the 
 rest, ' defended'. 
 
 V. i. 7*. 'prosperous and artificial feat' ; ue. 'gracefully and skil- 
 fully performed' ; Mason conj. 'prosperous artifice and fate'; 
 Steevens, ' prosperous-artificial feat' : 
 
 ; 'feat; Percy conj., adopted by Steevens, Qq., F£ 3, 4, 
 
 'fate', 
 
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 Notes. «ss Pericles, Prince of Tyre 
 
 V. i. 209-210. The passage is so corrupt that the Cambridge 
 editors found themselves obliged to leave it as it stands in the 
 Quartos and Folios. 
 
 V i. 235. 'nips'; Collier conj. 'raps'. 
 
 V. i. 247. ' lift* j Charlemont conj., adopted by Malone; Qq,, 
 Ff. 3, 4> «/*,'. 
 
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