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 And call'd Marina ? " 
 
 Pericles Act V Scene i
 
 Copyright, 1901 
 
 By 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY SOCIETY
 
 PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE. 
 
 Preface. 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
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 The Early Editions. Pericles, Prinee of Tyre, was first 
 published, in quarto, in 1609, with the following title- 
 page :— 
 
 " The lateJ And much admired Play, | Called | Peri- 
 icles, Prince | of Tyre. | With the true Relation of 
 the whole Historic, \ aduentures, and fortunes of the 
 said Prince : | As also, | The no lesse strange, and worthy 
 accidents, | in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter \ 
 MARIANA. I As it hath been diners and sundry times 
 acted by | his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on | the 
 Banckside. | By William Shakespeare. | Imprinted at 
 London for Henry Gosson, and are j 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 plav; 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; The History of Thomas, Lord Croni- 
 zvell; Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cohhani; The Puritan 
 Widow; A Yorkshi-e Tragedy; The Tragedy of Lo- 
 crine. 
 
 * This Quarto and 'he Second have been reproduced in fac- 
 simile in Dr. Furnivall'i Quarto-Series. 
 
 I
 
 Preface PERICLES. 
 
 The Authenticity of the Play. In dealing with the au- 
 thorship of Pericles two facts must be borne in mind : — 
 (i.) the verdict of the Editors of the First FoHo in reject- 
 ing it from their volume: (ii.) the early allusions and 
 early traditions which associate the play with Shake- 
 speare's name; thus, in 1646, S. Shepherd wrote: — 
 
 " ivitli Sophocles we may 
 Compare great Shakespeare: Aristophanes 
 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 1652 he quoted this 
 
 censure : — 
 * 
 
 " Shakespeare, the Plebeian driller, was 
 
 Foundered in's Pericles-, and must not pass." 
 
 " Pericles " indeed seems to have become almost prover- 
 bial for a bad play successful in hitting the tastes of the 
 masses. 
 
 " And if it prove so happy as to please, 
 We 'II say 'tis fortunate like Pericles " ; 
 
 • 
 so wrote Robert Tailor, in the Prologue to " The Hog 
 
 hath lost his Pearl.'' 
 
 Ben Jonson in his Ode " Come Jeaue 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 " New Inn " 
 
 " throw a stain 
 Through all the unlikely plot, and do displease 
 As deep as Pericles.''
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Preface 
 
 It must be observed that there is no reference in these lat- 
 ter quotations to Shakespeare's alleged authorship. Sub- 
 sequently, Dryden accepted the play, while Pope rejected 
 it, and the early editors down to the time of JNIalone fol- 
 lowed his example ; since the time of Steevens it has 
 been included in the Canon, its doubtful character, how- 
 ever, being generally recognised* " I must acquit," wrote 
 Steevens in opposition to IMalone's views, " even the ir- 
 regular 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 embroidery 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 offen- 
 sive and loathsome scenes of " the mouldy tale." Shake- 
 speare'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 prec- 
 ious metal from the alloy, and the result is a charming 
 Shakespearian Romance'^' — " a kind of prologue " to the 
 glorious group of " Romances " belonging to the close of 
 his literary career (z'ide Prefaces to Cymbeline, Tempest, 
 IV inter's Talc). 
 
 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 pamphlet entitled Pimlyco published 
 in 1609, the publication in 1608 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 con- 
 
 * Published by the Nciv Shakespeare Society, 1874.
 
 Preface PERICLES, 
 
 firmed 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 : — 
 
 "Shakespeare's own Muse 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 differ- 
 entiate no less than three styles in the play of Pericles. 
 Shakespeare'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 au- 
 thor 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 
 ' poor infant of his brain,' and his claim is justifiable {vide 
 Delius, Preface to Pericles, and especially Mr. Fleay's 
 valuable essay on " Pericles,'' read before the Neiv Shake- 
 speare Society, 1874). 
 
 The third author may have been W. Rowley, who was 
 joined with Wilkins and John Day in writing " The Trav- 
 els of the three English Brothers," etc. ; this point is, how- 
 ever, a matter of conjecture, and the evidence is not alto- 
 gether convincing. 
 
 Sources of the Plot. The direct sources of Pericles 
 were Laurence Twine's Patterne of Pcrinefiil Adventures, 
 published in 1576, and Gower's collection of metrical tales 
 called " Confessio 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 prob- 
 ably reprinted an earlier i6th century version, derived 
 from a French source. The story was among the most 
 widespread stories of the Middle Ages ; its original was
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE . Preface 
 
 probablyin Greek; the earliest allusion to the Latin ver- 
 sion belongs to the middle of the 8th century. A West- 
 Saxon translation was made in the nth century {cp. 
 Ward's Catalogue of Romances i)i the British Museum; 
 P. Z. Round's Preface to Quarto Facsimile; Dunlop's 
 History of Fiction; Prof. A. H. Smyth's Shakespeare's 
 Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre, etc.). 
 
 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 
 Chorus. Day 4, Act II. Sc. i. Day 5, Act II. Sc. ii., iii., 
 iv. Day 6, Act II. Sc. v. Interval, ^rd Chorus. Day 
 7, Act III. Sc. i. Day 8, Act III. Sc. ii. Interval. Day 
 9, Act III. Sc. iii., iv. Interval, 14 years, 4th Chorus. 
 Day 10, Act IV. Sc. i. Interval. Day 11, Act IV. Sc. ii., 
 iii. Interval, 5^/1 Chorus (Act IV. Sc. iv.). Day 12, 
 Act IV. Sc. v., vi. Interval, 6th Chorus. Day 13, Act 
 V. Sc. i. Interval, yth Chorus (Act V. Sc. ii.). Day 14, 
 Act V. Sc. m.Acp. Daniel's ''Time-Analysis of Shake- 
 speare's Plays ''\.
 
 PERICLES, 
 
 Critical Comments. 
 I. 
 
 Argument. 
 
 I. Antiochus, King of Antioch, in order to keep his 
 daughter unmarried, for a shameful purpose, subjects to 
 the penalty of death all her suitors who do not succeed in 
 solving a certain riddle. After many have perished in the 
 endeavour to win the beautiful but wicked princess, Peri- 
 cles, Prince of Tyre, expounds the riddle, which carries 
 with it the story of Antiochus's sin. To prevent the di- 
 vulging of the secret, the monarch seeks to have Pericles 
 put to death. The latter flees to his own kingdom, and 
 being unable to make head against Antiochus's wrath, 
 soon continues his flight into other lands. He touches at 
 Tarsus, where his provisioned ships bring relief to that 
 famine-stricken city. 
 
 II. Pericles is afterwards driven by a storm on the 
 shore of Pentapolis, and suffers a shipwreck, which he 
 alone survives. Hearing that Simonides, the king of the 
 country, is giving a tournament in honour of his daugh- 
 ter Thaisa, he goes to the court, engages in the exercises 
 and creates so favourable an impression that though he 
 is poor and unknown, the princess chooses him for her 
 husband, and the king ratifies the nuptials. 
 
 III. Several months later, word reaches Pericles that 
 his ancient enemy Antiochus is dead ; also that his pres- 
 ence is needed to maintain his crown at Tyre. He reveals 
 his identity to his wife and royal father-in-law, and em- 
 barks with Thaisa for his own countrv. A storm arises.
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 and in the height of its fury Thaisa is delivered of a 
 daughter, who is named Marina because she was born 
 at sea. The mother swoons and is supposed to be dead. 
 The sailors insist that she be speedily cast into the sea in 
 accordance with their superstition that this alone would 
 allay the tempest. She is therefore placed in a box by 
 her grief-stricken husband and consigned to the deep. 
 The box is cast ashore at Ephesus, where those who open 
 it find the lady still alive. Upon recovering strength she 
 becomes a priestess of Diana. Meanwhile Pericles en- 
 trusts the infant Marina to Cleon, the governor of Tarsus 
 and his wife, to be reared by them, and then the Prince 
 proceeds on his way to Tyre. 
 
 IV. For fourteen years Marina lives with her guard- 
 ians at Tarsus, developing into a maiden whose beauty 
 and accomplishments overshadow those of their own 
 daughter. Cleon's jealous wife endeavours to have 
 Marina murdered, but she is seized by pirates and con- 
 veyed to Mytilene. Here f.he falls into evil hands, but 
 succeeds in preserving her innocence. In the meantime 
 Pericles visits Tarsus and is given to understand that his 
 daughter is dead. 
 
 V. Overcome with sorrow at the loss of both wife and 
 daughter, Pericles sets sail again for Tyre, but is driven 
 before the winds to Mytilene, where Lysimachus. the gov- 
 ernor, pays him a visit on shipboard, but finds him unre- 
 sponsive and listless. To cheer him, the governor sends 
 for Marina, who had become noted for singing and dan- 
 cing. She is recognized bv her delighted father ; and the 
 cup of his happiness is filled to the brim when, shortly 
 afterwards, while on a pilgrimage to Diana's shrine at 
 Ephesus, he is reunited to his long-lost wife Thaisa. He 
 gives his daughter's hand to Lysimachus ; while the false 
 Cleon and his wife perish at the hands of incensed citizens 
 of Tarsus. 
 
 McSpadden : Shakespearian Synopses,
 
 Comments PERICLES. 
 
 II. 
 Marina. 
 
 Marina, in Shakespeare's hands, is a ^s^lorified being:, 
 who is scarcely grown up before her charm and rare 
 qualities rouse envy and hatred. We first see her strew- 
 ing flowers on a grave, and immediately after this we 
 listen to her attempt to disarm the man who has under- 
 taken to murder her. She proves herself as innocent as 
 the Queen Dagmar of the ancient ballad. She " never 
 spake bad word nor did ill turn to any living creature.'' 
 She never killed a mouse or hurt a fly ; once she trod upon 
 a worm against her will and wept for it. No human crea- 
 ture could be cast in gentler mould, and truth and nobility 
 unite with this mildness to shed, as it were, a halo round 
 her. 
 
 When, after rebuffing and rejecting her, Pericles has 
 gradually softened towards Marina, he asks her where 
 she was born and who provided the rich raiment she is 
 wearing. She replies that if she were to tell the story 
 of her life none would believe her, and she prefers to 
 remain silent. Pericles urges her : — 
 
 " Prithee, speak : 
 Falseness cannot come from thee ; for thou look'st 
 Modest as Justice, and thoii seem'st a palace 
 For the crowned Truth to dwell in ; I will believe thee. 
 
 Tell thy story ; 
 If thine considered prove the thousandth part 
 Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I 
 Have suffered like a girl : yet thou dost look 
 Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiHng 
 Extremity out of act." 
 
 All this rich imagery brings Marina before us with the 
 nobility of character which is so fitly expressed in her 
 outward seeming. It is Pericles himself who feels like a 
 buried prince, and it is he who has need of her patient 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 sympathy, that the violence of his grief may be softened 
 by her smile. It is all very dramatically effective. The 
 old Greek tragedies frequently relied on these scenes of 
 recovery and recognition, and they never failed to pro- 
 duce their effect. The dialogue here is softly subdued, it 
 is no painting in strong burning colours that we are 
 shown, but a delicately blended pastel. In order to gain 
 an insight into Shakespeare's humour at the time As You 
 Like It and Twelfth Night were written, the reader was 
 asked to think of a day on which he felt especially well 
 and strong and sensible that all his bodily organs were 
 in a healthy condition — one of those days in which there is 
 a festive feeling in the sunshine, a gentle caress in the air. 
 
 To enter into his mood in a similar manner now you 
 would need to recall some day of convalescence, when 
 health is just returning after a long and severe illness. 
 You are still so weak that you shrink from any exertion, 
 and, though no longer ill, you are as yet far from being 
 well ; your walk is unsteady, and the grasp of your hand 
 is weak. But the senses are keener than usual, and in lit- 
 tle much is seen ; one gleam of sunshine in the room has 
 more power to cheer and enliven than a whole landscape 
 bathed in sunshine at another time. The twitter of a bird 
 in the garden, just a few chirps, has more meaning than 
 a whole chorus of nightingales by moonlight at other mo- 
 ments. A single pink in a glass gives as much pleasure as 
 a whole conservatory of exotic plants. You are grateful 
 for a trifle, touched by friendliness, and easily moved tc 
 admiration. He who has but just returned to life has an 
 appreciative spirit. 
 
 As Shakespeare, with the greater susceptibility of 
 genius, was more keenly alive to the joyousness of youth, 
 so more intensely than others he felt the quiet, half-sad 
 pleasures of convalescence. 
 
 Wishing to accentuate the sublime innocence of Ma- 
 rina's nature, he submits it to the grimmest test, and gives 
 it the blackest foil one could well imagine. The gently 
 nurtured girl is sold by pirates to a brothel, and the de- 
 
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 Comments PERICLES, 
 
 lineation of the inmates of the house, and Marina's bear- 
 ing towards them and their customers, occupies the 
 greater part of the fourth act. 
 
 As we have already said, we can see no reason wdiy 
 Fleay should reject these scenes as non-Shakespearian. 
 When this critic (whose reputation has suffered by his ar- 
 bitrariness and inconsistency) does not venture to ascribe 
 them to Wilkins, and yet will not admit them to be Shake- 
 speare's, he is in reality pandering to the narrow-minded- 
 ness of the clergyman, who insists that any art which is to 
 be recognised shall only be allowed to overstep the bounds 
 of propriety in a humorously jocose manner. These 
 scenes, so bluntly true to nature in the vile picture they set 
 before us, are limned in just that Caravaggio colouring 
 which distinguished Shakespeare's work during the period 
 which is now about to close. Marina's utterances, the 
 best he has put into her mouth, are animated by a sublim- 
 ity which recalls Jesus' answers to his persecutors. 
 Finally, the whole personnel is exactly that of Measure 
 for Measure, w^hose genuineness no one has ever disputed. 
 There is also an occasional resemblance of situation. Isa- 
 bella, in her robes of spotless purity, offers precisely the 
 same contrast to the world of pimps and panders who riot 
 through the play that Marina does here to the woman of 
 the brothel and her servants. 
 
 Brandes : William Shakespeare. 
 
 III. 
 
 Pericles. 
 
 Not alone our desires, but somewhat also of our experi- 
 ence, is gratified when justice that is poetic, but not there- 
 fore utterly unreal, is fulfilled in the fate of Pericles. His 
 original difficulties spring from his suit to the daughter of 
 Antiochus, a suit unblessed by any better passion than de- 
 ceptive beauty stimulates, and the politic desire to furnish 
 his realm with an heir. His error, for by the standard
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 of Shakespeare's moral feeling so it must stand, is recog- 
 nized soon, but not so as to evade all its consequences; 
 hence his exile and wanderings and vicissitudes ; prudence 
 and noble sensibility, and patience when fortune admits 
 no better, help and preserve him, and weariness and mel- 
 ancholy are roused at last to renewed enjoyment of affec- 
 tion and prosperity. 
 
 Lloyd: Critical Essays on the Plays of Shakespeare. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Shakespeare's Share in this Drama. 
 
 With all the extraordinary power of single scenes, the 
 "Marina" has not, as it stands, any more than the Pericles 
 story as a whole, the dramatic substance, the backbone, 
 of Shakespeare's most '' romantic " plots. It is like The 
 Winter's Tale divested of the tragedy of Hermione. The 
 most critical moment of Marina's career, that in which she 
 turns the governor of Mytilene from his evil purpose, can 
 hardly have appealed to Shakespeare, with its Spenserian 
 breadth and simplicity, as proper for the central situation 
 of a drama. And the earlier crisis, in which Dionyza plots 
 her death, is treated with a marked subordination of dra- 
 matic to epic effect. We are hardly made aware of 
 Dionyza's jealousy, when we find her putting the last 
 touches to the murderer's instructions : — 
 
 Thy oath remember ; thou hast sworn to do 't : 
 
 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known (IV. i. i, 2). 
 
 And the raptures of the final reunion are made poign- 
 ant by no mingling of remorse. Blameless sufferers em- 
 brace, but no Leontes, no Alonso, no lachimo, Posthumus, 
 or Cymbeline looks on. The real criminals are in the con- 
 clusion simply ignored. Neither the vengeance which 
 Pericles proposed to inflict, nor the " nobler virtue " of 
 pardon which his later counterparts bestow, gives dra- 
 matic significance to their fate ; but they fall by a popular 
 
 II
 
 Comments PERICLES. 
 
 uprising, and this last act of their story is huddled away 
 in an Epilogue. The so-called " Marina " is an assem- 
 blage of striking parallels to the Romances, but is not, 
 as a whole, a parallel. 
 
 And a great part even of the " Marina " itself is only 
 intermittently of clear Shakespearean quality. It would 
 be rash to say that the Mytilene-scenes in the fourth Act 
 are too repulsive for him to have written ; certainly the 
 loathsome figures of Boult and his crew are drawn with a 
 drastic vigour of which there is hardly a trace in the first 
 two acts. But powerful realism of this kind was within 
 the compass of many a Jacobean dramatist, when he could 
 draw direct from the low life of daily experience. It is 
 where his common experience fails him, that the common 
 dramatist betrays himself. Certainly such phenomena as 
 the conversion of Lysimachus and Boult must have been 
 as startling in London as in Ephesus ; and it is at this 
 point that the writer of the Mytilene-scenes discloses his 
 psychological ineptitude. We may perhaps recognize 
 Shakespeare in Marina's virginal protest, but its instan- 
 taneous effect upon hardened men must be attributed to a 
 hand less subtle or more perfunctory than his. Similarly, 
 the majority of the '' choruses " in Acts IV. and V., while 
 differing in measure and in style from those of I. and II., 
 show only here and there a Shakespearean touch. The 
 Gower of I. and II. speaks in rude octosyllabic verse like 
 his own, sprinkled with antique forms. In IV. and V. he 
 archaises no more and cultivates the five-foot measure, the 
 ornate phrase, and the interwoven rhymes of the Eliza- 
 bethan sonneteer. And the opening " chorus " of Act 
 v., otherwise clumsy enough, contains, in its description 
 of Marina's dainty feminine craft, a little vignette full of 
 Shakespearean flavour. 
 
 Herford : The Eversley Shakespeare. 
 
 What was more natural than that young Shakspeare, 
 in his first dramatic attempts, should have followed the 
 method of the best models of his day, and worked in their
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 style? In the present case, it was obviously R. Greene's 
 style that he imitated. Like all the plays of this writer, 
 Pericles also is not so much a drama as a dramatised nar- 
 rative ; in language, composition, and characterisation, it 
 is thoroughly epic in colouring, and therefore, generally 
 speaking, it is clogged with the same faults as are met with 
 in Greene. And yet Shakspeare surpasses, and doubtless 
 even in his original form, surpassed, his model in many 
 respects. The characters, although wanting in roundness, 
 and more sketches than fully-coloured figures, are never- 
 theless more powerfully delineated and reveal more of 
 their inner life than those of Greene's best pieces. The 
 composition, also, although externally thoroughly epic, is 
 nevertheless internally held together by the thread of one 
 thought. All the principal parts of the play reflect, either 
 directly or indirectly (by contrast), the same view of life 
 as spent in the search after, and in the acquisition, the lo^s 
 and the recovery of its highest gift — pure, genuine love. 
 The fault of the play is that it is more epic than dramatic, 
 for which reason the action, in place of being condensed, 
 hangs loosely together and is flat and diffuse. Even the 
 language and versification, in so far as their original col- 
 ouring can be conjectured, show, I think, some resem- 
 blance to R. Greene's style, except that naturally, in this 
 respect also, Greene was probably as much surpassed in 
 his own style by the superior poetical genius of Shak- 
 speare, as Marlowe was surpassed by Titus Adronicns, 
 which was composed after his fashion. But, in my opin- 
 ion, it is more especially the comic parts (for instance, the 
 scenes among the fishermen, and between Boult and his 
 mistress, etc.) that show such great resemblance to pas- 
 sages in The Comedy of Errors, the Two Gentlemen of 
 Verona, Henry VI. (Jack Cade, etc.), and Romeo and 
 Juliet (the disputes of the servants), that not only do they 
 quite eclipse all the comic parts in Greene's dramas, but 
 must necessarily have been written by Shakspeare, and 
 moreover by Shakspeare as a yotmg, not as an older man. 
 Ulrici : Shakspearc's Dramatic Art. 
 
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 Comments PERICLES. 
 
 The drama as a whole is singularly undramatic. It en- 
 tirely lacks unity of action, and the prominent figures of 
 the opening scenes quickly drop out of the play. A main 
 part of the story is briefly told in rhymed verse by the 
 presenter, Gower, or is set forth in dumb show. But 
 Shakspere's part is one and indivisible. It opens on ship- 
 board with a tempest, and in Shakspere's later play of 
 storm and wreck he has not attempted to rival the earlier 
 treatment of the subject. " No poetry of shipwreck and 
 the sea," a living poet writes, '' has ever equalled the great 
 scene of Pericles ; no such note of music was ever struck 
 out of the clash and contention of tempestuous elements." 
 Milton, when writing Lyeidas the elegy upon his drowned 
 friend, remembered this scene, and one line in particular : 
 *' And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse." To 
 this rage of storm succeeds the hush of Cerimon's studi- 
 ous chamber, in which the wife of Pericles, tossed ashore 
 by the waves, wakens wonderingly from her trance to the 
 sound of melancholy music. Cerimon, who is master of 
 the secrets of nature, who is liberal in his *' learned char- 
 ity," who held it ever 
 
 " Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
 Than nobleness and riches," 
 
 is like a first study for Prospero. In the fourth act, Ma- 
 rina, so named from her birth at sea, has grown to the age 
 of fourteen years, and is, as it were, a sister of Miranda 
 and Perdita (note in each case the significant name). 
 She, like Perdita, is a child lost by her parents, and, like 
 Perdita, we see her flower-like with her flowers — only 
 these flowers of Marina are not for a merrymaking, but 
 a grave. The melancholy of Pericles is a clear-obscure of 
 sadness, not a gloom of cloudy remorse like that of Leon- 
 tes. His meeting with his lost ]\Iarina is like an anticipa- 
 tion of the scene in which Cymbeline recovers his sons 
 and daughter. 
 
 DowDEN ; Shakspere Primer. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 The play consists of verse scenes, prose scenes, and the 
 Gower chorus. Considering- at present only the first of 
 these three parts, we shall find so marked a difference be- 
 tween the first two, and last three, acts, as to render it as- 
 tonishing that they could ever have been supposed to be 
 the work of one author. 
 
 COMPARATIVE TABLE. 
 
 Acts I., 11. Acts III., IV., V. 
 
 Total No. of lines 835 827 
 
 No. of rhyme lines 195 14 
 
 No. of double endings 72 106 
 
 No. of Alexandrines 5 13 
 
 No. of short lines 71 98 
 
 No. of rhymes not dialogue 8 16 
 
 The differences in the other items are striking-, and of 
 themselves conclusive ; but the difference of the numbers 
 of rhymes, the proportion being 14 in the one part to i 
 in the other, is such as the most careless critic ought to 
 have long since noticed. With regard to this main ques- 
 tion, then, there can be no doubt : the three last acts alone 
 can be Shakespeare's; the other part is by. some one of a 
 very different school. But we have minor questions of 
 some interest to settle. The first of these is. Who wrote 
 the scenes in the brothel, x\ct IV. Sc. ii. v. vi. ? I say de- 
 cidedly, not Shakespeare ; for these reasons : These 
 scenes are totally unlike Shakespeare's in feeling on such 
 matters. He would not have indulged in the morbid 
 anatomy of such loathsome characters ; he would have 
 covered the ulcerous sores with a film of humour, if it 
 were a necessary part of his moral surgery to treat them 
 at all ; and, above all, he would not have married Marina 
 to a man whose acquaintance she had first made in a public 
 brothel, to wdiich his motives of resort were not recom- 
 mendatory, however involuntary her sojourn there may 
 have been. A still stronger argument is the omission of 
 any allusion in the after-scenes to these three. In one 
 place, indeed, there seems to be a contradiction of them. 
 
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 Comments PERICLES, 
 
 The after-account of Marina, which is amply sufficient 
 without the prose scenes for dramatic purposes, is given 
 thus : — 
 
 " We haue a maid in Metiline . . . 
 She -ccitli Jicr fcllozu viaidcs [is] now upon 
 The Icaiiie sheker that abutts against 
 The Islands side." — Act V. Sc. i. 
 
 I cannot reconcile this with — 
 
 " Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sowe, and dance. 
 And [I] will undertake all these to teach." — Act IV. Sc. vi. 
 
 nor with — 
 
 " Pupils lacks she none of nobler race, 
 Who pour their bounty on her : and her gain 
 She gives tlie cursed Bazud.'' — Act. V., Goiver. 
 
 But if these scenes are not Shakespeare's (and repeated 
 examination only strengthens my conviction that they are 
 not), the clumsy Gower chorus is not his either. And 
 this brings us to tlie only hypothesis that explains all the 
 difficulties of this play. The usual hypothesis has been 
 that Shakespeare finished a play begun by some one else : 
 that is, that he deliberately chose a story of incest, wdiich, 
 having no tragic horror in it, would have been rejected by 
 Ford or Massinger, and grafted on to this a filthy story, 
 which, being void of humour, would even have been re- 
 jected by Fletcher. This arises from the fallacy which I 
 noted in a previous paper, caused by the inveterate habit of 
 beginning criticism from the first pages of a book, instead 
 of from the easiest and most central standpoint. The 
 theory which I propose as certain is this : Shakespeare 
 wrote the story of iNIarina, in the last three acts, minus 
 the prose scenes and the Gower. This gives a perfect 
 artistic and organic whole, and, in my opinion, ought to 
 be printed as such in every edition of Shakespeare : the 
 whole play, as it stands, might be printed in collections for 
 the curious, and there only. But this story was not 
 
 i6
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 enough for filling the necessary five acts from which 
 Shakespeare never deviated ; he therefore left it un- 
 finished, and used the arrangement of much of the latter 
 part in the end of Winters Tale, which should be carefully 
 compared w^ith this play. The unfinished play was put 
 into the hands of another of the " poets " attached to the 
 same theatre, and the greater part of the present play was 
 the result ; this poet having used the whole story as given 
 by Gower and elsewhere. 
 
 Fleay : Shakespeare Manual. 
 
 V. 
 
 Construction. 
 
 The play is awkwardly and unskilfully constructed, be- 
 ing on the plan of the old legendary drama, when it was 
 thought sufficient to put some popular narrative into ac- 
 tion, with little attempt at a condensed and sustained con- 
 tinuous interest in the plot or its personages. It rambles 
 along through the period of two generations, without any 
 attempt at the artist-like management of a similar dura- 
 tion in The Winter's Tale, by breaking up the story into 
 parts, and making the one a natural sequel to the other, 
 so as to keep up a uniform continuity of interest through- 
 out both. The story itself is extravagant, and its denoue- 
 ment is caused by the aid of the heathen mythology, which 
 every mind trained under modern associations and habits 
 of thought feels as repugnant to dramatic truth, and at 
 once refuses to lend to it that transient conventional belief 
 so necessary to any degree of illusion or interest, and so 
 readily given to shadowy superstitions of other kinds, as 
 ghosts, witches, and fairies, more akin to our general opin- 
 ions, or more familiar to our childhood. A still greater 
 defect than this is one rare indeed in anything from Shake- 
 speare's mind — the vagueness and meagreness of the char- 
 acters, undistinguished by any of that portrait-like indi- 
 viduality which gives life and reality to the humblest per- 
 
 17
 
 Comments PERICLES. 
 
 sonages of his scene. Thence, in spite of the excellence of 
 particular parts, there results a general feebleness of 
 effect in the whole. The versification is, in geVieral, sin- 
 gularly halting and uncouth, and the style is sometimes 
 creeping and sometimes extravagant. 
 
 Yet, on the other hand, it contains much to please, to 
 surprise, to affect, and to delight. The introduction of 
 old Gower, linking together the broken action by his an- 
 tiquated legendary narrative, is original and pleasing. 
 Verplanck : The Illustrated Shakespeare. 
 
 A play which has such various and frequently shifting 
 scenes as Pericles must always be read to a certain degree 
 of disadvantage beyond the fortune of others of less diver- 
 sified stage accident. These changes furnish a source of 
 fatigue and refreshment to the spectator, which an experi- 
 enced dramatist knows how to manage and control, and 
 makes the most of by corrections which are lost or go 
 counter in the closet. Even a reader who is also a play- 
 goer finds much difficulty in saving these effects, and they 
 slip from others entirely. Taking, however, as well as 
 one may, the point of view of the parterre, I confess I find 
 much to admire in the skill with which the play of Pericles 
 is constructed and put together. Whether we take the 
 outline of the story in the form of argument, or read it in 
 the verses that furnished it to the play-writer, we may be 
 honestly struck with the ingenuity that could group, divide 
 and connect it for dramatic purposes, with the requisite 
 clearness and facility that are successfully attained. The 
 story rambles dispersedly in various countries and by sea 
 and land, and the incidents are of every degree of impor- 
 tance and insignificance ; but the stages of the story as 
 enacted are cleverly made to correspond with the relief of 
 the divisions of the acts. Old Gower interposes in each 
 case, like the guard and sign and bound of the compart- 
 ment, and his narrative both bridges intervals and renders 
 them defined, while the dumb show that he interprets is 
 an intermediate term of the narrated and the enacted. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Comments 
 
 All throng-h the piece we encounter from time 
 to time reminiscences of other Shakespearian works — 
 reminiscences, or it may be anticipations, but I think most 
 frequently the former. 
 
 Lloyd: Critical Essays on the Plays of Shakespeare. 
 
 The drama before us contains no discrimination of man- 
 ners (except in the comic dialogues), very few traces of 
 original thought, and is evidently destitute of that intelli- 
 gence and useful knowledge that pervade even the mean- 
 est of Shakespeare's undisputed performances. To speak 
 more plainly, it is neither enriched by the gems that 
 sparkle through the rubbish of Love's Labour 's Lost, nor 
 the good sense which so often fertilizes the barren fable of 
 the Tzvo Gentlemen of Verona. . . . That the plays 
 of Shakespeare have their inequalities likewise, is suffi- 
 ciently understood ; but they are still the inequalities of 
 Shakespeare. He may occasionally be absurd, but is sel- 
 dom foolish ; he may be censured, but can rarely be de- 
 spised. 
 
 I do not recollect a single plot of Shakespeare's forma- 
 tion (or even adoption from preceding plays or novels) in 
 which the majority of the characters are not so well con- 
 nected, and so necessary in respect of each other, that they 
 proceed in combination to the end of the story ; unless 
 the story (as in the cases of Antigonus and IMercutio) re- 
 quires the interposition of death. In Pericles this con- 
 tinuity is wanting, and even with the aid of Gower the 
 scenes are rather loosely tacked together than closely in- 
 terwoven. Steevens. 
 
 Respecting the dramatic merits of Pericles there is not 
 much to be said. It is emphatically, not to say exclusively, 
 a play of incidents, with but little of clear and pointed 
 characterization. It has indeed a goodly number of su- 
 perb strains of poetry ; but these for the most part are 
 introduced in such a way as to render it evident that the 
 germs of them were not in the original conception of the 
 
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 Comments . 
 
 characters : they strike us rather as choice pearls held to- 
 gether mechanically by a string-, than as the organic 
 adornings of nature, growing forth from an innate virtue, 
 and so cohering in a common centre or principle of life. 
 Hudson : The Works of Shakespeare. 
 
 However wild and extravagant the fable of Pericles may 
 appear, if we consider its numerous choruses, its pagean- 
 try, and dumb shows, its continual succession of incidents, 
 and the great length of time which they occupy, yet is it. 
 we may venture to assert, the most spirited and pleasing 
 specimen of the nature and fabric of our earliest romantic 
 drama which we possess, and the more valuable, as it is 
 the only one with which Shakspeare has favoured us. 
 
 Drake: Shakspeare and his Times. 
 
 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 heav'n'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. 
 20
 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
 
 DRAMATIS PERSONAE. 
 
 Antiochus, king of Antioch. 
 Pericles, prince of Tyre. 
 Helicanus, ] 
 
 xLSCANES, ) 
 
 SiMONiDES, king of Pentapolis. 
 Cleon, governor of Tarsus. 
 Lysimachus, governor of Mytilene. 
 Cerimon, a lord of Ephesus. 
 Thaliard. a lord of Antioch. 
 Philemon, servant to Cerimon. 
 Leonine, servant to Dionyza. 
 Marshal. 
 A Pandar. 
 BouLT, his servant. 
 
 The Daughter of Antiochus. 
 Dionyza, wife to Cleon. 
 Thaisa, daughter to Sinionidcs. 
 Marina, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. 
 Lychorida, nurse to Marina. 
 A Bawd. 
 
 Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, 
 and Messengers. 
 
 Diana. 
 
 Gower, as CJiorus. 
 
 Scene: Dispersedly in various countries.
 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 
 
 ACT FIRST. 
 
 Enter Gozver. 
 
 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. lo 
 
 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, 
 
 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, 
 
 23
 
 Act I. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 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. 
 
 As yon grim looks do testify. 40 
 
 What now ensues, to the judgement of your eye 
 
 I give, my cause who best can justify. [Exit. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Antioch. A room in the palace. 
 Enter Antiochus, Prince Pericles and folloiccrs. 
 
 Ant. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received 
 The danger of the task yoii 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 ; 
 
 24
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. i. 
 
 At whose conception, till Lucina reign 'd, 
 Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence. 
 The senate-house of planets all did sit, lo 
 
 To knit in her their best perfections. 
 
 Music. Enter Antiochus Daughter. 
 
 Per. See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, 
 Graces lier subjects, and her thoughts the king 
 Of every virtue gives renown to men ! 
 Her face the book of praises, where is read 
 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, 
 Draw^n by report, adventurous by desire, 
 Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale. 
 That without covering, save yon field of stars, 
 
 25
 
 Act I. Sc. i. PERICLES. 
 
 Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars ; 
 
 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 '11 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. 
 
 Daiigh. 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, 
 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: 
 26
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. i. 
 
 He 's father, son, and husband mild; 
 I mother, wife, and yet his child. 
 How they may be, and yet in two, 7^ 
 
 As you will live, resolve it you.' 
 [Aside] 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 revoH; 
 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, 
 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 
 27
 
 Act I. Sc. i. PERICLES. 
 
 To stop the air would hurt them. The bhnd mole 
 
 casts lOO 
 
 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. 
 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. 120 
 
 [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,
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. i. 
 
 Which pleasure fits a husband, not a father; 
 
 And she an eater of her mother's flesh, 130 
 
 By the defiUng of her parent's bed; 
 
 And both hke 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. 
 
 Rc-cntcr Antiochus. 
 Ant. He hath found the meaning, for the which we mean 
 To have his head. 
 
 He must not live 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? ^50 
 
 Ant. Thaliard, 
 
 You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes 
 Her private actions to your secrecy: 
 And for your faithfulness we will advance you. 
 Thaliard, behold, here 's poison, and here 's gold: 
 29
 
 Act I. Sc. ii. PERICLES, 
 
 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. i6o 
 
 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. 169 
 
 Ant. Thahard, adieu! [Exit Thai] Till Pericles be dead, 
 My heart can lend no succour to my head. [Exit. 
 
 Scene IL 
 
 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? 
 
 30
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. ii. 
 
 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. lo 
 
 Then it is thus: the passions of the mind, 
 That have their first conception by mis-dread, 
 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 Hclicaniis, tvith other Lords. 
 
 First Lord- Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast! 
 
 31
 
 Act I. Sc. ii. PERICLES. 
 
 Sec. Lord. And keep your mind, till you return to us, 
 Peaceful and comfortable! 
 
 Hcl. 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 ; 
 Do you but strike the blow. 
 
 Per. Rise, prithee, rise : sit down : thou art no flatterer : 
 I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid 61 
 
 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, 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. ii. 
 
 What wouldst thou have me do ? 
 
 Hcl. 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, yo 
 
 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, 1 hither fled, 80 
 
 Under the covering of a careful night, 
 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, 
 
 3Z
 
 Act I. Sc. n. PERICLES, 
 
 Who now reprovest me for It, — 
 
 Hcl 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. loo 
 
 Hel. Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak, 
 Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear. 
 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 '11 be. i lo 
 
 Per. I do not doubt thy faith ; 
 
 But should he wrong my liberties in my absence? 
 
 Hcl. 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 '11 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's strength can bear it. 
 I '11 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 show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. iii. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 Tyre. An antc-chauihcr 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 
 1)ound by the indenture of his oath to be one. 
 Hush! here come the lords of Tyre. lo 
 
 Enter Helicanus and Escanes, zi'ith other Lords. 
 
 Hcl You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, 
 Further to question me of your king's departure : 
 His seal'd commission left in trust with me 
 Doth speak sufiBciently he 's gone to travel. 
 
 Thai. [Aside'\ 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 — 
 
 Thai. [Aside] W^hat from Antioch? 
 
 Hcl. Royal Antiochus — on what cause I know not — 20 
 Took some dipleasure 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; 
 
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 Act I. Sc. iv. PERICLES. 
 
 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 's 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! 
 
 Hcl. Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome. 30 
 
 Thai. From him I come 
 
 With message unto princely Pericles ; 
 But since my landing T have understood 
 Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels, 
 My message must return from whence it came. 
 
 Hcl. 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 
 
 YE X cunt. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house. 
 
 Enter Clcon the Governor of Tarsus, with Diony:;a 
 and others. 
 
 etc. My Dionyza, shall we rest us here, 
 And by relating tales of others' griefs, 
 See if 'twill teach us to forget our own? 
 
 Die. 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. 
 O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are; 
 Here they 're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes, 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. iv. 
 
 But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise. 
 
 Clc. O Dionyza, lo 
 
 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. 
 I '11 then discourse our woes, felt several years, 
 And wanting breath to speak help me with tears. 
 
 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 w^hat 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 arc now starved for want of exercise ; 
 
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 Act I. Sc. iv. PERICLES, 
 
 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 
 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. 
 
 Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power, 
 
 To beat us down, the which are down already, 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act I. Sc. iv. 
 
 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 displayed, 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 half way 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 streets: 
 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. 
 
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 Act II. PERICLES, 
 
 Per. Arise, I pray you, rise: 
 
 We do not look for reverence, but for love 
 And harbourage for ourself, our ships and men. loo 
 
 Clc. 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'll accept; feast here awhile, 
 Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. {Exeunt. 
 
 ACT SECOND. 
 
 Enter Gower. 
 
 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, lO 
 
 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? 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act II. 
 
 Dumb Show. 
 
 Enter, at one door, Pericles, talking zvith Clean; all the 
 train zvith thcin. Enter, at another door, a Gentle- 
 man, zvith a letter to Pericles; Pericles shows the 
 letter to Clean; gives the Messenger a rezvard, and 
 knights him. Exit Pericles at one door, and Clean 
 at another. 
 
 Good Helicane, that stay'd at home, 
 
 Not to eat honey Hke a drone 
 
 From others' labours ; for though he strive 
 
 To killen bad, keep good ahve; 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 : 
 
 And here he comes. What shall be next. 
 
 Pardon old Gower, — this longs the text. {Exit. 40 
 
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 Act II. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side. 
 
 Enter Pericles, zvet. 
 
 Per. Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! 
 Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man 
 Is 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, lo 
 Here to have death in peace is all he '11 crave. 
 
 Enter three Fishermen. 
 
 First Fish. \\'hat, ho. Pilch ! 
 
 Sec. Fish. Ha, come and bring away the nets ! 
 
 First Fish. What, Patchbreech, I say! 
 
 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. 
 First Fish. Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to 2C 
 
 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 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act II. Sc. i. 
 
 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 last 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. 
 
 Third Fish. But, master, if I had been the sexton, I 40 
 would have been that day in the belfry. 
 
 Sec. Fish. Wliy, man? 
 
 Third Fish. 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 Simon ides were of my mind, — 
 
 Per. [Aside] Simonides ! 
 
 Third Fish. We would purge the land of these drones, 50 
 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 th^ sea hath cast upon your coast. 60 
 
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 Act II. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 Sec. 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 vast tennis-court, have made the bah 
 For them to play upon, entreats you pity liim ; 
 He asks of you, that never used to beg. 
 
 First FisJi. No, friend, cannot you beg? Here 's them 
 in our country of Greece gets more with begging 
 than we can do with working. 
 
 Sec. FisJi. 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 sufiice 
 To give my tongue that heat to ask your help ; 
 W^hich if you shall refuse, when I am dead, 80 
 
 For that I am a man, pray see me buried. 
 
 First Fish. Diequoth-a? Xow 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. 
 
 Sec. Fish. Hark you, my friend ; you said you could 
 
 not beg. 9^ 
 
 Per. I did but crave. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act II. Sc. i. 
 
 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 zcifh Third Fisher mar. 
 
 Per. {Aside^ How well this honest mirth becomes their 
 labour ! 
 
 First Fish. Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are? loo 
 
 Per. Not well. 
 
 First Fish. Why, I'll tell you : this is called Pentapolis, 
 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. 
 How far is his court distant from this shore? 
 
 First Fish. Marry, sir, half a day's journey; and no 
 I '11 tell you, he hath a fair daughter, and to- 
 morrow is her birthday ; and there are princes 
 and knights come from all parts of the world to 
 just and tourney for her love. 
 
 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 
 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 120 
 
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 Act II. Sc. i. PERICLES. 
 
 the net, like a poor man's right in the law ; 'twill 
 hardly come out. Ha ! bots on 't, '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, 
 With this strict charge, even as he left his life, 
 
 * Keep it, my Pericles ; it hath been a shield 130 
 'Twixt me and death ' : — and pointed to this brace — 
 
 * For that it saved me, keep it ; in like necessity — 
 The which the gods protect thee from ! — may defend 
 
 thee.' 
 It kept wli^re I kept, I so dearly loved it : 
 Till the rough seas, that spare not any man. 
 Took it in rage, though calm'd have 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. 
 
 First Fish. What mean you, sir ! 
 
 Per. To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth, 140 
 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 1 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 ? 
 
 Per. I '11 show the virtue I have borne in arms. 
 
 First Fish. AMiy, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee 150 
 good on 't ! 
 
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 PRINCE or TYRE Act II. Sc. ii. 
 
 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 condole- 
 ments, certain vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, 
 you '11 remember from whence you had them. 
 
 Per. Believe 't, I Vv'ill. 
 
 By your furtherance I am clothed in steel ; 
 
 And spite of all the rapture of the sea 
 
 This jewel holds his building on my arm : i6o 
 
 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. FisJi. We '11 sure provide : thou shalt have my 
 best gown to make thee a pair ; and I '11 bring 
 thee to the court myself. 
 
 Per. Then honour be but a goal to my will, 169 
 
 This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill. [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 The same. A public zvay or platform leading to the lists. 
 A pavilion by the side of it for the reception of the 
 King, Princess, Lords, etc. 
 
 Enter Simonides, Thaisa, Lords, and Attendants. 
 
 Sim. Are the knights ready to begin the triumph ? 
 
 First Lord. They are, my liege. 
 
 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 
 
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 Act II. Sc. ii. PERICLES. 
 
 For men to see and seeing wonder at. [Exit a Lord. 
 
 Thai. It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express 
 ]\Iy commendations great, whose merit 's less. 
 
 Sim. It 's fit it should be so ; for princes are lo 
 
 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 passes 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 mihi.' 
 Sim. He loves you well that holds his life of you, 
 
 [The Seeond Knight passes. 
 
 Who is the second that presents himself ? 
 Thai. A prince of Macedon, my royal father ; 
 
 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 pompse provexit apex.' 30 
 
 [The Fourth Knight passes. 
 Sim. What is the fourth?
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act II. Sc. ii. 
 
 Thai. A burning torch that 's turned upside down ; 
 
 The word, ' Quod me aht, 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 tluis, ' 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.' 
 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. Fie well may be a stranger, for he comes 
 
 To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished. 
 Thiird Lord. And on set purpose let his armour rust 
 
 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 zcithin, and all cry ' The mean knight! ' 
 
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 Act II.Sc. iii. PERICLES, 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared. 
 Enter Simonides, TJiaisa, Lords, Knights, and Attendants. 
 
 Sim. Knights, 
 
 To say you 're welcome were superfluous. 
 To place upon the volume of your deeds, 
 As in a title-page, your 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, lo 
 
 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. 
 
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 Per. You are right courteous knights. 
 
 Sim. Sit. sir, sit. 
 
 [Aside\ By Jove, I 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 stafif 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 that 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? 
 
 Knights. Who can be other in this royal presence? 
 
 Sim. Here, wnth a cup that 's stored unto the brim, — 50 
 As you do love, 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 
 
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 Act II. Sc. iii PERICLES. 
 
 Had not a show might countervail his worth. 
 Note it not you, Thaisa? 
 
 Thai. A\^hat 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 kill'd are wonder'd at. 
 
 Therefore to make his entrance more sweet, 
 
 Here, say we drink this standing-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 ! 70 
 
 Do as I bid you, or you '11 move me else. 
 
 Thai. [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. 
 
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 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. 
 
 Si]]i. 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. 
 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 perform'd. 
 Come, sir, 100 
 
 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, 
 We have given order to be next our own. 11 1 
 
 Per. I am at your grace's pleasure. 
 
 Sim. Princes, it is too late to talk of love, 
 
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 Act II. Sc. iv. PERICLES. 
 
 And that 's the mark I know you level at : 
 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 house. 
 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, lo 
 
 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 
 To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward. 
 
 Esca. Tis very true. 
 
 Enter tivo or three Lords. 
 
 First Lord. See, not a man in private conference 
 
 Or council has respect with him but he. 
 Sec. Lord. It shall no longer grieve without reproof. 
 Third Lord. And cursed be he that will not second it. 20 
 First Lord. Follow me then. Lord Helicane, a word. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act II. Sc. iv. 
 
 Hcl. 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 Helicarre ; 
 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 's cause to mourn his funeral, 
 And leave us to our free election. 
 
 Sec. Lord, Whose death 's indeed the strongest in our 
 censure : 
 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 sovereign. 
 
 All. Live, noble Helicane ! 40 
 
 Hcl. For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages : 
 If that you love 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 ; 
 
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 Act II. Sc. V. PERICLES. 
 
 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. 
 Scene V. 
 
 Pentapolis. A room in the palace. 
 
 Enter Simonides, 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, 
 W^hich 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 ; 
 This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd, 1 1 
 
 And on her virgin honour will not break it. 
 
 Third Knight. Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. 
 
 [Exennt 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. 
 'Tis well, mistress ; your choice agrees with mine ; 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act II. Sc. v. 
 
 I like that well : nay, how absolute she 's in 't, 
 
 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 she will be your scholar : therefore look to it. 
 
 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, 
 
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 Act II. Sc. V. PERICLES, 
 
 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. 
 Sim. Traitor, thou liest. 
 Per. Traitor ! 
 
 Sim. Ay, traitor. 
 
 Per. 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, 
 
 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 TJiaisa. 
 
 Per. Then, as you are as virtuous 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. 70 
 
 Thai. Why, sir, say if you had, 
 
 Who takes offence at that would make me glad ? 
 
 Sim. Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory? 
 [Aside] 1 am glad on 't with all my heart. — 
 I '11 tame you ; I '11 bring you in subjection. 
 
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 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 '11 make you — 
 
 Man and w^ife : 
 
 Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal 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 Gozver, 
 
 Gozv. 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, wnth eyne of burning coal, 
 Now couches 'fore the mouse's hole ; 
 And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, 
 
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 Act III. PERICLES, 
 
 E'er the blither for their drouth. 
 
 Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, 
 
 Where, by the loss of maidenhead, lo 
 
 A babe is moulded. Be attent, 
 
 And time that is so briefly spent 
 
 With your fine fancies quaintly eche : 
 
 What 's dumb in show I '11 plain with speech. 
 
 Dumb Show. 
 
 Enter Pericles and Simonides at one door, zvith Attend- 
 ants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and gives 
 Pericles a letter: Pericles shozvs it Simonides; the 
 Lords kneel to the former. Then enter Thaisa zvitJi 
 child, with Lychorida, a nurse: the King shows her 
 the letter; she rejoices: she and Pericles take leazr 
 of her father, and depart with Lychorida and thci ■ 
 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, 
 
 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 
 
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 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 
 
 Wliich 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 
 
 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 wdiat by me is told. 
 
 In your imagination hold 
 
 This stage the ship, upon whose deck 
 
 The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak. [Exit. 60 
 
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 Act III. Sc. i. PERICLES. 
 
 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, Lychorida, 
 How does my queen ? Thou stormest venomously ; 
 Wilt thou spit all thyself ? The seaman's whistle 
 Is as a whisper in the ears of death, 
 Unheard. Lychorida! — Lucina, O lo 
 
 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, tvith 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, . 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act III. Sc. i. 
 
 And snatch them straight away? We here below 
 Recall not what we give, and therein may 
 Use honour with you. 
 
 Lye. l^atience, good sir, 
 
 Even for this charge. 
 
 Per. Now, mild may be thy life ! 
 
 For a more blustrous birth had never babe : 
 Quiet and gentle thy conditions ! for 
 Thou art the ruddiest 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 tzi'o 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 w^ould be quiet. 
 First Sail. Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, 
 
 wilt thou? Blow, and split thyself. 
 See. 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. 
 7Vr. That 's your superstition. 50 
 
 First Sail. Pardon us, sir ; with us at sea It hath been 
 
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 Act III. Sc. i. PERICLES. 
 
 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 coffin'd, in the ooze ; 
 Where, for a monument upon thy bones, 
 And aye-remaining lamps, the belching whale 
 And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, 
 Lying 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 Lyehorida. 
 
 Sec. Sail. Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, 
 caulked and bitumed ready. 
 
 Per. I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this ? 
 
 Sec. Sail. We are near Tarsus. 
 
 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. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act III. Sc. ii. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Ephesus. A room in Cerimon's house. 
 
 Enter Cerimon, a Servant, and some Persons zvho 
 have been shipwrecked, 
 
 Cer. Philemon, ho! 
 
 Enter Philemon. 
 
 Phil. Doth my lord call? 
 
 Ccr. 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 ; 
 
 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 tzvo Gentlemen, 
 
 First Gent. Good morrow. lo 
 
 Sec. Gent. Good morrow to your lordship. 
 
 Cer. Gentlemen, 
 
 Why do you stir so early? 
 First 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. 
 
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 Act III. Sc. ii. PERICLES, 
 
 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, 
 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 
 
 Alaking 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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 Enter tzco or three Servants zvith a chest. 
 
 First Serz\ 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, 
 
 'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us. 
 Sec. Gent. 'Tis so, 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 mv nostril. So, up with it. 
 
 O you most potent gods ! what 's here ? a corse ! 
 First Gent. ]\lost strange ! 
 Cer. Shrouded in cloth of state ; balmed and entreasured 
 
 With full bags of spices ! A passport too ! 
 y Apollo, 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. 
 
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 Act III. Sc. ii. PERICLES. 
 
 Who finds her, give her burying ; 
 
 She was the daughter of a king : 
 
 Besides this treasure for a fee, 
 
 The gods requite his charity ! * 
 If thou Hvest, Pericles, thou hast a heart 
 That even cracks for woe ! This chanced to-night. 
 Sec. Gent. Most hkely, 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. 
 
 Re-enter a Servant, ivith 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. 91 
 
 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. 
 
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 Cer. She is alive ; behold, 
 
 Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels 
 Which Pericles hath lost, begin to part loo 
 
 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? 
 
 Sec. Gent. Is not this strange ? 
 
 First Gent. IMost 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 ; i lo 
 
 And v^sculapius guide us ! 
 
 [Exeujit, carrying her azvay. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 Tarsus. A room in the Governor s honse. 
 
 Enter Pericles, Cleon, Diony::ra, 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. 
 
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 Act III. Sc. iii. PERICLES, 
 
 Dion. O your sweet queen ! 
 
 That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her 
 
 hither, 
 To have bless'd mine eyes with her ! 
 
 Per. We cannot but obey 
 
 The powers above us. Could I rage and roar lo 
 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, v.'ould 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 
 
 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 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act III. Sc. iv. 
 
 Than yours, my lord. 
 Per, IMadam, 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 
 
 Tlic 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 Ceri Aon's house. 
 
 Enter Cerimon and Thaisa. 
 
 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. 
 
 Even on my eaning time ; but whether there 
 
 Delivered, by the holy gods, 
 
 I cannot rightly say. But smce 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, 
 Dipna's temple is net distant far. 
 Where you may abide till your date expire. 
 Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine 
 Shall there attend you. 
 
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 Act IV. PERICLES. 
 
 Thai. My recompense is thanks, that *s all ; 
 
 Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
 ACT FOURTH. 
 
 Enter Gozvcr. 
 
 Gozv. 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 gam'd 
 
 Of education all the grace, 
 
 W^hich makes her both the heart and place lo 
 
 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 jMarina be : 20 
 
 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 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. 
 
 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 
 
 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. 
 
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 Act IV. Sc. i. PERICLES. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 Tarsus. An open place near the sca-shore. 
 Enter Dionyza zi'itJi 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. lo 
 Here she comes weeping for her only mistress' 
 death. Thou art resolved? 
 
 Leon. I am resolved. 
 
 , Enter Marina, i<itli a basket of flowers. 
 
 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! 
 
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 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 '11 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, 
 
 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. We]l, I will go : 
 
 But yet I have no desire to it. 
 
 Dio}i. 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. 
 Is this wind westerly that blows ? 
 
 Leon. South-west. 
 
 Mar. When I was born, the wind was north. 
 
 75
 
 Act IV. Sc. 1. PERICLES. 
 
 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 ; 
 
 And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea 
 
 That almost burst the deck. 
 Leon. When was this ? 
 Mar. When I was born : 
 
 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. 
 Alar. 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 w^ork 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, 
 
 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 ? 
 
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 PRINCE OF- TYRE Act IV. Sc. i. 
 
 Leon, My commission 
 
 Is not to reason of the deed, but do 't. 
 
 Mar. You will not do '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 aivay. 
 
 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 : 
 There 's no hope she will return. I '11 swear she 's 
 
 dead. 
 And thrown into the sea. But I '11 see further : 100 
 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. 
 
 V
 
 Act IV. Sc. ii. PERICLES, 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Mytilenc. 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. 
 Bazvd. We were never so much out of creatures. 
 
 We have but poor three, and they can do no 
 
 more than they can do ; and they with continual 
 
 action are even as good as rotten. 
 Pand. Therefore let 's have fresh ones, whate'er we lo 
 
 pay for them. If there be not a conscience to be 
 
 used in every trade, we shall never prosper. 
 Bazvd. Thou sayest true : 'tis not our bringing up of 
 
 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 
 
 pitifully sodden. 20 
 
 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 I '11 go search the 
 
 market. [Exit. 
 
 Pand. Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty 
 
 a proportion to live quietly, and so give over. 
 
 78
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. ii. 
 
 Bawd. Why to give over, I pray you ? is it a shame 
 
 to get when we are old ? 30 
 
 Fand. O, our credit comes not in Hke 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. 
 
 Bazvd. Come, other sorts ofifend as well as we. 
 
 Pand. As well as we ! ay, and better too ; we offend 
 
 worse. Neither is our profession any trade ; it 's 40 
 no calling. But her comes Boult. 
 
 Re-enter Boult, z^'ifJi 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. 
 
 Bazvd. Boult, has she any qualities ? 
 
 Boult. She has a good face, speaks well, and has 
 
 excellent good clothes : there 's no farther 50 
 necessity of qualities can make her be refused. 
 
 Bazvd. 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. 
 
 [Exeunt Pandar and Pirates. 
 
 7Q
 
 Act IV. Sc. ii. PERICLES. 
 
 Bawd. Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour 
 of her hair, complexion, height, her age, with 
 warrant of her virginity ; and cry ' He that will 60 
 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 
 For to seek my mother ! 
 
 Bazvd. Why lament you, pretty one ? 
 
 Mar. That I am pretty. 70 
 
 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. 
 
 Bawd. Ay, and you shall live in pleasure. 
 
 Mar. No. 
 
 Bawd. Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen 
 
 of all fashions : you shall fare well : you shall 80 
 have the difference of all complexions. What ! 
 do you stop your ears? 
 
 Mar. Are you a woman? 
 
 Bazvd. What would you have me be, an I be not a 
 woman ? 
 
 Mar. An honest woman, or not a w^oman. 
 
 Bawd. Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think T shall 
 have something to do with you. Come, you 're 
 
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 PRINCE or TYRE Act IV, Sc. ii. 
 
 a young foolish sapling, and must be bowed as 
 
 I would have you. qq 
 
 Mar. The gods defend me ! 
 
 Bawd. If it please the gods to defend yoii by men, 
 then men must comfort you, men must feed you, 
 men must stir you up. Boult's returned. 
 
 Re-enter Boitlt. 
 
 Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market? 
 Boult. I have cried her almost to the number of her 
 
 hairs ; I have drawn her picture with my voice. 
 Bazvd. And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find 
 
 the inclination of the people, especially of the 
 
 younger sort? lOO 
 
 Boiilf. Faith, they listened to me as they would have 
 
 hearkened to their father's testament. There 
 
 was a Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went 
 
 to bed to her very description. 
 Bazud. We shall have him here to-morrow with his 
 
 best rufif on. 
 Botilt. To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you 
 
 know the French knight that cowers i' the hams ? 
 Bazvd. Who, Monsieur Veroles ? 
 Boult. Ay, he: he ofifered to cut a caper at the pro- no 
 
 clamation ; but he made a groan at it, and swore 
 
 he would see her to-morrow. 
 Bazvd. \\'ell, well ; as for him, he brought his disease 
 
 hither: here he does but repair it. I know he 
 
 will come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns 
 
 in the sun. 
 Boult. Well, if w^e had of every nation a traveller, we 
 
 should lodge them with this sign. 
 8^
 
 Act IV. Sc. ii. PERICLES, 
 
 Bawd. Pray you, come hither awhile. You have 
 
 fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you I20 
 must seem to do that fearfully which you con- 
 mit willingly, despise profit where you have 
 most gain. To weep that you live as yc do 
 makes pity in your lovers : seldom but that pity 
 begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a 
 mere profit. 
 
 Mar. I understand you not. 
 
 Boiilt. O, take her home, mistress, take her home: 
 these blushes of hers must be quenched with 
 some present practice. 130 
 
 Bazud. Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must ; for 
 your bride goes to that with shame which is her 
 way to go with warrant. 
 
 Bonlt. Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mis- 
 tress, if I have bargained for the joint, — 
 
 Bazvd. Thou mayst cut a morsel ofif the spit. 
 
 Bonlt. I may so. 
 
 Bawd. Who should deny it? Come, young one, I 
 like the manner of your garments well. 
 
 Bordt. Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet. 140 
 
 Bazvd. Boult, spend thou that in the town : report 
 what a sojourner we have ; you '11 lose nothing 
 by custom. When nature framed this piece, 
 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-inciined. I '11 bring 
 home some to-night. 150 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. iii. 
 
 Bazi'd. Come your ways ; follow me. 
 
 Mar. If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, 
 
 Untied I still my virgin knot will keep. 
 
 Diana, aid my purpose ! 
 Bawd. What have we to do with Diana ? Pray you, 
 
 will you go with us ? [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 Tarsus. A rooui in the Governors house. 
 Enter Clean and Dion yea. 
 
 Dion. Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone? 
 
 Cle. O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter 
 The sun and moon ne'er looked upon ! 
 
 Dion. I think 
 
 You '11 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 
 I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine! 
 Whom thou hast poison'd too : lo 
 
 If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness 
 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, 
 
 S3
 
 Act IV. Sc. iii. PERICLES, 
 
 Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods 20 
 Do like this worst. 
 
 Dion. Be one of those that think 
 
 The pretty 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. 
 
 Clc, 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 
 
 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. 
 
 Clc. 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. 
 
 Clc, Thou art like the harpy, . 
 
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 PRINCE^OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. iv. 
 
 Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face, 
 Seize with thine eagle's talons. 
 
 Dioji. You are like one that siiperstitiously 
 
 Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies : 50 
 But yet I know you '11 do as I advise. [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Enter Gower, before the monument of Marina at Tarsus. 
 
 Gozv. 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 
 Like motes and shadows see them move awhile ; 
 Your ears unto your eyes I '11 reconcile. 
 
 85
 
 Act IV. Sc. iv. PERICLES. 
 
 Dumb Show. 
 
 Enter Pericles at one door, with all his train; Cleon and 
 Dionyza at the other. Cleon shozvs Pericles the tomb; 
 whereat Pericles snakes lamentation, puts on sack- 
 cloth, and in a mighty passion departs. Then exeunt 
 Cleon, Dionyza, 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'er- 
 
 shower'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. 
 
 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 '11 never stint, 
 
 Make raging battery upon shores of flint.' 
 
 No visor does become black villany 
 So well as soft and tender flattery. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. v.=vi. 
 
 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, tzvo Gentlemen. 
 
 First Gent. Did you ever hear the like ? 
 
 See. Gent. No, nor never shall do in such a place as 
 this, she being once gone. 
 
 First Gent. But to have divinity preached there ! did 
 you ever dream of such a thing? 
 
 See. 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 virtuous ; 
 
 but I am out of the road of rutting for ever. 10 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
 Scene VL 
 
 The same. A room in the brothel. 
 Enter Pandar, Bazvd, and Boiilt. 
 
 Pand. Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her 
 
 she had ne'er come here. 
 Bazvd. 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 
 
 87
 
 Act IV. Sc. vi. PERICLES, 
 
 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. 10 
 
 Boult. Faith, I must ravish her, or she '11 disfurnish 
 us of all our cavaliers and make all our swearers 
 priests. 
 
 Pand, Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me ! 
 
 Bawd. Faith, there 's no way to be rid on 't but by 
 the way to the pox. Here comes the Lord 
 Lysimachus disguised. 
 
 Bonlt. We should have both lord and lown, if the 
 peevish baggage would but give way to cus- 
 tomers. 20 
 
 Enter Lysimachus. 
 
 Lys. How now! How a dozen of virginities? 
 Bawd. Now, the gods to-bless your honour ! 
 Boidt. 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 suro-eon ? 
 Bawd. We have here one, sir, if she would — but 
 
 there never came her like in ]\Iytilene. 
 L\s. If she 'Id do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst 30 
 
 say. 
 Bazi'd. Your honour knows what 'tis to say well 
 
 enough. 
 Lys. Well, call forth, call forth. 
 Bonlt. For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you 
 
 shall see a rose ; and she were a rose indeed, 
 
 if she had but —
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. vi. 
 
 Lys. What, prithee? 
 
 Boitlt. O, sir, I can be modest. 40 
 
 Lys. That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less 
 than it gives a good report to a number to be 
 chaste. [Exit Boiilt. 
 
 Bazcd. Here comes that which grows to the stalk; 
 never plucked yet, I can assure you. 
 
 Re-enter Boult zcith Marina. 
 
 Is she not a fair creature? 
 Lys. Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at 
 
 sea. \\'ell, there 's for you : leave us. 
 BaiccL I beseech your honour, give me leave : a word, 
 
 and I '11 have done presently. 
 Lys. I beseech you, do. 50 
 
 Bazvd. [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. 
 Bazcd. Next, he 's the governor of this country, and 
 
 a man whom I am bound to. 
 Mar. If he govern the country, you are bound to 
 
 him indeed ; but how honourable he is in that, 
 
 I know not. 
 Bazcd. Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, 60 
 
 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,
 
 Act IV. Sc. vi. PERICLES, 
 
 we will leave his honour and her together. Go 
 thy ways. [Esciiut Bazi'd, Pandar, and Botilt. 
 
 Lys. Now, pretty one, how long have you been at 70 
 this trade? 
 
 Mar. \Miat trade, sir? 
 
 Lys. Why, I cannot name 't 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 game- 
 ster at five or at seven ? 
 
 Mar. Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. 80 
 
 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? 
 
 Mar. Who is my principal? 
 
 Lys. Why, your herb-woman ; she that sets seeds 90 
 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 
 That thought you worthy of it. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. vi. 
 
 Lys. How 's this? how 's this? Some more; be sage. lOO 
 
 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 
 
 Would set me free from this unhallow'd place. 
 Though they did change me to the meanest bird 
 That flies i' the purer air ! 
 
 Lys. I did not think 
 
 Thou couldst have spoke so well ; ne'er dream'd thou 
 
 couldst. 
 Had I brought hither a corrupted mind, no 
 
 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. 
 
 Rc-cntcr Boiilt. 
 
 Boult. I beseech your honour, one piece for me. 
 Lys. Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper ! 
 
 Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it, 
 
 91
 
 Act IV. Sc. VI. PERICLES. 
 
 Would sink, and overwhelm you. Away ! [Exit. 
 
 Boiilt. How 's this ? ^\'e must take another course 
 with you. If your peevish chastity, which is not 
 worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under 130 
 the cope, shall undo a whole household, let me 
 be gelded like a spaniel. Come your ways. 
 
 Mar. Whither w^ould you have me ? 
 
 Boult. I must have your maidenhead taken of¥, 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 Baivd. 
 
 Bazvd. How now ! what 's the matter ? 
 
 Boult. Worse and worse, mistress ; she has here 
 
 spoken holy words to the Lord Lysimachus. 140 
 
 Bawd. O abominable ! 
 Boult. She makes our profession as it were to stink 
 
 afore the face of the gods. 
 Baii'd. Marry, hang her up for ever ! 
 Boult. The nobleman would have dealt with her Hke 
 
 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 pleasure : 
 
 crack the glass of her virginity, and make the 
 
 rest malleable. 150 
 
 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 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act IV. Sc. v 
 
 the way of women-kind? ^larry, come up, my 
 dish of chastity with rosemary and bays ! [E.vit. 
 
 Boult. Come, mistress; come your ways with me. 
 
 Mar. Whither wilt thou have me? i6o 
 
 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. 
 
 Mar. Neither of these are so bad as thou art. 
 Since they do better thee in their command. 
 Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend 
 Of hell would not in reputation change : 170 
 
 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 wars, 
 would you ? where a man may serve seven 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 180 
 
 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 
 Would safely deliver me from this place ! 
 Here, here 's gold for thee. 
 If that thy master would gain by me, 
 
 93 *
 
 Act V. PERICLES, 
 
 Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance. 
 With other virtues, which I '11 keep from boast ; 190 
 And I Vv'ill undertake all these to teach. 
 I doubt not but this populous city will 
 Yield many scholars. 
 
 Boidt. But can you teach all this you speak of? 
 
 Mar. Prove that I cannot, take me home again, 
 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. 200 
 
 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 
 find them tractable enough. Come, I '11 do for 
 thee what I can ; come your ways. [Exeunt. 
 
 ACT FIFTH. 
 
 Enter Gozver. 
 
 Cow. 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 ; 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. i. 
 
 Ker inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry : 
 
 That pupils lacks she none of noble race, 
 
 Who pour their bounty on her, and her gain lo 
 
 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 
 
 In your supposing once more put your sight 
 
 Of heavy Pericles ; think this his bark : 
 
 Where w^hat 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, zvith a curtain before it; Pericles zvithin it, 
 reclined on a conch. A barge lying beside the Tyr- 
 ian 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. 
 
 95
 
 Act V. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 Tyr. SaH. Ho, gentlemen ! my lord calls. 
 
 Enter tzvo or three Gentlemen. 
 
 First Gent. Doth your lordship call? 
 
 HeL Gentlemen, there is some of worth would come 
 
 aboard ; I pray, greet him fairly. lo 
 
 [The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, 
 
 and go on hoard the barge. 
 
 Enter from thence, Lysimachus, and Lords; with the 
 Gentlemen and the tzvo 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? 
 LIcl. 'Twould be too tedious to repeat : 
 
 But the main grief springs from the loss 
 
 Of a beloved daughter and a wife. 30 
 
 96
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. i. 
 
 Lys. May we not see him? 
 Hel. You may; 
 
 But bootless is your sight ; he will not speak 
 
 To any. 
 Lys. Yet let me obtain my wish. 
 
 Hel. Behold him. [Periclcsdiscoz'cred] 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 Alytilene, 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 
 
 The leafy shelter that abuts against 
 
 The island's side. [Whispers a Lord, zvho goes off 
 
 in the barge ofLysimachus. 
 Hel. Sure, all 's effectless ; yet nothing we '11 omit 
 
 That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness 
 
 We have 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 
 
 97
 
 Act V. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 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, zvith Marina, and 
 
 a young Lady. 
 
 • 
 
 Lys. O, here is 
 
 The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one ! — 
 Is 't not a goodly presence? 
 
 HcL She 's a gallant lady. 
 
 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 consists in bounty 70 
 
 Expect even here, where is a kins^ly 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. idark'd he your music? 
 
 Mar. No, nor look'd on us. 81 
 
 Lys. See, she will speak to him. 
 
 98
 
 PRINCE or TYRE Act V. Sc. i. 
 
 Mar. Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear. 
 
 Fcr. 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. 
 
 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. [Aside} I will desist; 
 
 But there is something glows upon my cheek. 
 
 And whispers in mine ear ' Go not till he speak.' 
 
 Per. My fortune — 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. loi 
 
 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 ; 
 
 99
 
 Act V. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them 
 
 hungry, 
 The more she gives them speech. Where do >'ou hve ? 
 
 Alar. 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 : 1 20 
 
 Falseness cannot come from thee ; for thou look'st 
 Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st 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 thv friends? 
 Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back — 
 Which was when I perceived thee — that thou camest 
 From good descending? 
 
 Alar. So indeed I did. 
 
 Per. Report thy parentage, I think thou said'st 130 
 
 Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury. 
 And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine 
 If both were open'd. 
 
 Alar. 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 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. i. 
 
 Like Patience gazing on kings' graves and smiling 
 
 Extremity out of act. What were thy friends ? 140 
 
 How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind 
 virgin ? 
 
 Recount, I do beseech thee : come, sit by me, 
 Mar. My name is INIarina. 
 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 '11 be patient. 
 
 Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me, 
 
 To call thyself Marina. 
 Mar. The name 
 
 W^as given me by one that had some power, 150 
 
 My father, and a king. 
 Per. How ! a king's daughter ? 
 
 And call'd 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. Call'd Alarina 
 
 For I was bom 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 
 
 lOI
 
 Act V. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 Deliver'd weeping. 
 
 Per. O, stop there a little ! 
 
 [Aside] 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. 
 
 Per. I will believe you by the syllable 
 
 Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave : 170 
 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 Alytilene 
 Speaks nobly of her. 
 
 Lys. She never would tell 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. i. 
 
 Her parentage ; being demanded that, 190 
 
 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 en 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 vras Thaisa ? 
 Thaisa was my mother, who did end 
 The minute I began. 
 
 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 have 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, 
 
 103
 
 Act V. Sc. i. PERICLES, 
 
 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. 
 
 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 ? 
 Hcl. 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 ynto listening, and thick slumber 
 
 Hangs upon mine eyes : let me rest. [Sleeps. 
 
 Lys. A pillow for his head : 
 
 So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends. 
 
 If this but answer to my just belief, 
 
 1 '11 well remember you. 240 
 
 [EA'euut all but Perieles. 
 
 Diana appears to Pericles in a z'ision. 
 
 Dia. My temple stands in Ephesus : hie thee thither. 
 And do upon mine altar sacrifice. 
 There, ^¥hen 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. 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. ii. 
 
 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, Lysimachns, 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 '11 tell thee why. 
 
 [To Lysijuachus] 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. [Exeiuit. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 Enter Gozver before the temple of Diana at Ephesus. 
 
 Gozc. Now our sands are almost run ; 
 ]\Iore a little, and then dumb. 
 This, my last boon, give me, 
 For such kindness must relieve me, 
 That you aptly will suppose 
 What pageantry, what feats, what shows, 
 
 105
 
 Act V. Sc. iii. PERICLES, 
 
 What minstrelsy and pretty din, 
 
 The regent made in Mytilene, 
 
 To greet the king. So he thrived, 
 
 That he is promised to be wived lo 
 
 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 arc fill'd, 
 
 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. 20 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 The temple of Diana at Ephesus; Thaisa standing near 
 the altar, as high priestess; a number of Virgins on 
 each side; Ccrinion and other Inhabitants of Ephe- 
 sus attending. 
 
 Enter Pericles, zvith 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. 
 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 Alytilene ; 'gainst whose shore 10 
 
 106
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. iii. 
 
 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 ! — [Fai7tts. 
 
 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 jevv^els ; recover'd her, and placed her 
 
 Here in Diana's temple. 
 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. 
 
 107
 
 ActV.Sc. Hi. ^ * PERICLES, 
 
 Per. Immortal Dian ! 
 
 Thai, Now I know you better. 
 
 When we with tears parted Pentapolis, 
 
 The king my father gave you such a ring. 39 
 
 [Shows a ring. 
 Per. This, this : no more, you gods ! your present kindness 
 
 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. 
 Mar. My heart 
 
 Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. 
 
 [Kneels to Thaisa. 
 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: 51 
 
 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 
 
 108
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Act V. Sc. iii. 
 
 From first to last resolve you. 
 
 Per. Reverend sir, 
 
 The gods can have no mortal officer 
 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 shovvn 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 ofifer 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's 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 : sir, lead 's the way. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
 Enter Gozver. 
 
 Gow. In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard 
 Of monstrous lust the due and just reward: 
 In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen, 
 109
 
 Act V. Sc. iii. PERICLES, 
 
 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, lOO 
 
 New joy wait on you ! Here our play has ending. 
 
 [Exit 
 
 no
 
 PRINICE OF TYRE 
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Absolute, faultless, perfect; 
 
 Prol. IV. 31. 
 Account, accounted (Quartos. 
 
 ''accounted," "accounted" ; 
 
 Folios 3, 4, "counted"); 
 
 Prol. L 30. 
 Address'd, prepared; II. iii. 94. 
 Afore me, on my word, by my 
 
 soul ; a slight oath ; II. i. 84. 
 Amazement, confusion, bewil- 
 derment ; 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.," rep- 
 utation for honesty; IV. iii. 
 
 18. 
 Avaunt, out of my sight; IV. 
 
 vi. 125. 
 Awful, full of awe ; reverent ; 
 
 Prol. II. 4. 
 Awkward, adverse (Quarto i, 
 
 " augward") ; V. i. 94. 
 
 Bases, embroidered skirts 
 hung down from the middle 
 to about the knees or lower, 
 
 worn b y 
 knights on 
 h o r s eback ; 
 II i. 167. 
 (The a n - 
 nexed cut 
 is from the 
 Description 
 of the Tour- 
 nament held 
 at Stuttgart 
 in 1609.) 
 Beacon; I. iv. 
 87. The sub- 
 joined cut 
 represents a 
 beacon pre- 
 served on the tower of Had- 
 ley Church, Barnet.
 
 Glossary 
 
 PERICLES, 
 
 Beholding, beholden; II. v. 
 
 25- 
 Belching, vomiting; III. i. 
 
 Blown, swollen ; V. i. 256. 
 
 Blurted at, held in contempt; 
 IV. iii. 34- 
 
 Bolins, bowlines ; III. i. 43. 
 
 Bonum quo antiquius, eo meli- 
 us; i.e. a good thing for be- 
 ing old, the older the better ; 
 Prol. I. 10. 
 
 Bootless, without gain, profit- 
 less ;V.i. 33- 
 
 Boots, avails, helps ; I. ii. 20. 
 
 Bots on 't, an execration ; II. 
 i. 122. 
 
 Brace, armour worn on the 
 arm; II. i. 131. 
 
 Braid, reproach, upbraid (Ma- 
 lone, '"braid") ; I. i. 93- 
 
 Breathing, exercise; II. iii. 
 
 lOI. 
 
 Buxom, lively, fresh ; Prol. I. 
 23- 
 
 Ca?z = gan (an old auxiliary 
 form) =did; Prol. III. 36. 
 
 Gates, 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 
 (Quarto i, " Checkins " ; 
 Quartos 2, 3. " Chickins" : 
 Quartos 4, 5, 6, Folio 3 
 " C h ick e e n s" ; Folio 4 
 "Chickens") ; IV. ii. 28 (Q 
 illustration.) 
 
 From a Venetian specimen of 
 Shakespeare's era. 
 
 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 (Quartos, Fo- 
 lios 3, 4, " Crignes") ; Prol. 
 III. 17. 
 
 Commend, commendation; II. 
 ii. 49. 
 
 Companion; "her mild c," 
 " the companion of her mild- 
 ness " (Daniel conj. "her 
 zvild c." ; "in her mild com- 
 pany ") ; 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. i. 154. 
 
 Confound, waste, consume; V. 
 ii. 14. 
 
 Consist, insist ; I. iv. 83. 
 
 Conversation, conduct ; Prol. 
 II. 9. 
 
 Convince, overcome, defeat ; I. 
 ii. 123.
 
 PRINCE or TYRE 
 
 Glossary 
 
 Copp'd, round-topped ; I. i. lOO. 
 Countervail, balance, equal ; II. 
 
 iii. 56. 
 Cotmtless, infinite; I. i. 31. 
 Cunning, knowledge, skill ; III. 
 
 ii. 27. 
 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. 
 Diana's temple; III. iv. 13. 
 
 (This famous building is well 
 
 represented in the large brass 
 
 medallion of Antoninus Pius, 
 
 here facsimiled.) 
 
 Distaiu, stain (Steevens conj.; 
 
 Quartos and Folios 3, 4. 
 
 " disdaine") ; IV. iii. 31. 
 Distemperature, disorder; V. i. 
 
 27. 
 
 Dole, sorrow; Prol. III. 42. 
 Dooms, judgment; Prol. III. 
 
 Z2. 
 Doubt, suspect ; I. ii. 86. 
 Doubting, fearing; I. iii. 22. 
 Dropping, dripping wet; IV. i. 
 
 63. 
 Dumbs, makes dumb; Prol. 
 
 V. 5. 
 
 Bailing time, time of delivery; 
 III. iv. 6. 
 
 Earnest, money given before- 
 hand; IV. i. 49. 
 
 EcJie, eke out (Quartos, Folio 
 3, "each") ; Prol. III. 13. 
 
 Eftsoons, soon, by and by ; V. 
 i. 256. 
 
 Ember-eves, evenings preced- 
 ing the ember-days, days of 
 fasting at four seasons of the 
 year ; Prol. I. 6. 
 
 Entertain, entertainment ; I. 
 119. 
 
 Entrance (trisyllabic) ; II. i 
 64. 
 
 Erst, erewhile, formerly ; I. 
 49. 
 
 Escapen, escape ; Prol. II. 36. 
 
 Exposition, expounding, inter- 
 pretation; I. i. 112. 
 
 Extremity, the extremity of 
 suffering ; V. i. 140. 
 
 Eync, eyes; Prol. III. 5. 
 
 Fact, deed, (?) crime (Quar- 
 tos, Folios 3, 4, " face " ; Ma- 
 son conj. "feat"); IV. iii, 
 12. 
 
 Fault, misfortune ; IV. ii, 75. 
 
 Favour, face, appearance; IV. 
 i, 25; V. iii. 13. 
 
 113
 
 Glossary 
 
 PERICLES. 
 
 Fere, companion, spouse 
 (Quartos. " Peere"; Folios 3, 
 4, " Peer") ; Prol. I. 21. 
 
 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 ; II. iii. 13 ; V. i. 
 
 158; V. iii. 48. 
 
 Forbear, bear with ; II. iv. 46. 
 
 'Fore, before (Quartos, Folios 
 3, 4, "from") ; Prol. III. 6. 
 
 For that, because; II. i. 81. 
 
 Frame, go, resort ; Prol. I. :i2. 
 
 , shape, mould ; II. v. 81. 
 
 Furtherance, help; II. i. 158. 
 
 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. no. 
 Gone through, bid high ; IV. ii. 
 
 47. 
 Graif, graft ; V. i. 60. 
 Greets, gratifies ; IV. iii. 38. 
 Griefs, grievances ; II. iv. 23. 
 Grieve, grieve us; II. iv. 19. 
 Gripe at, grasp at, catch at ; I. i. 
 
 49- 
 
 Haling, dragging (Ma lone, 
 "with hauling of the") ; IV. 
 
 i. 55. 
 Happily, haply, perhaps; I. iv. 
 92. 
 
 Hatched, closed with a half 
 door; IV. ii. 35. 
 
 Having, possession ; II. i. 143. 
 
 Heap, mass, body (Jackson 
 conj. "head"; Collier [ed. 
 2], "Jicad"; Bailey conj. 
 " shape ") ; 1. 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' emenda- 
 tion ; Quartos and Folios. 
 " holy-daycs") ; Prol. I. 6. 
 (The annexed cut is a unique 
 representation of one of these 
 ancient popular festivals.) 
 
 From a XlVth century sculpture over 
 the porch of Chalk Church, near 
 Gravesend. 
 
 Honour, honourable office; II. 
 
 ii. 14. 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE 
 
 Husbandry, economy of time; 
 (?) attention to business; 
 III. ii. 20. 
 
 In, even in ; I. iv. 102. 
 
 Iniiict, afflict; V. i. 61. 
 
 In hac spe vivo, in this hope I 
 live; II. ii. 44. (This device 
 is supposed by Douce to be 
 altered from the one here 
 copied from Paradin.) 
 
 Inkle, a kind of tape ; here 
 probably some kind of em- 
 broidery silk; Prol. V. 8. 
 
 Intend, bend, direct; I. ii. 116. 
 
 Intends, intentions; V. i. 259. 
 
 I-zi'is, truly, certainly ; Prol. 
 II. 2. 
 
 Jetted, stalked, strutted; I. iv. 
 26. 
 
 Glossary 
 
 Joy, rejoice; II. i. 163. 
 Just, joust, tilt; II. i. 113. 
 
 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. y^- 
 
 Like, equal, the same; I. i. 108: 
 IV. V. I. 
 
 , just as; II. iv. ^6. 
 
 , likely; III. i. 17; IV. i. 80. 
 
 Longs, belongs to (Singer, 
 "longs"; Quartos, "long's"; 
 Folios 3, 4, "long's") ; Prol. 
 II. 40. 
 
 Looks, faces, countenances (al- 
 luding to the heads of suit- 
 ors which were set up at the 
 gate to terrify others who 
 might come) ; Prol. I. 40. 
 
 Lop, cut off; I. ii. 90. 
 
 Loud music, made by clashir.g 
 of armour ; II. iii. 97. 
 
 Lown, base fellow ; IV. vi. 19. 
 
 Lux tiia vita milii, thy light is 
 life to me ; II. ii. 21. 
 
 Mai kin, slattern (Quarto 3, 
 " Mowkin " ; the rest, " Maw- 
 kin"; the old pronuncia- 
 tion) ; IV. iii. 34. 
 
 Manage, training; usually used 
 of a horse ; IV. vi. 69. 
 
 Mask'd, concealing as with a 
 mask its cruel nature (Dyce 
 conj. "vast"; S. Walker 
 conj. " moist" ; Kinnear conj. 
 " mighty " ; Elze conj. " calm- 
 est") ; III. iii. ^6, 
 
 115 
 
 f'-
 
 Glossary 
 
 PERICLES. 
 
 Me pompco provexit apex, " the 
 desire of renown drew me 
 to this enterprise " (Wilkins' 
 Novel) ; II. ii. 30. (Q. il- 
 lustration.) 
 
 From " The Heroicall Devises of 
 M. Claudius Paradin," 1591. 
 
 Mis-dread, fear of evil; I. ii. 12. 
 
 Moons, months; Prol. III. 31. 
 
 Mortal, fatal; III. ii. no. 
 
 Mortally, in the manner of 
 mortals; V. i. 105. 
 
 Motion, a working pulse (Peri- 
 cles' exclamation after he has 
 felt Marina's pulse) ; Stee- 
 vens, "no motion?" i.e. " Are 
 vou not a puppet?" V. i. 
 156. 
 
 Must, must come to (Wray 
 conj. "must he") ; I. i. 44. 
 
 Ne, nor; Prol. II. 36. 
 
 Needle (pronounced neeld) ; 
 
 Prol. IV. 23. 
 Neglection, neglect; III. iii. 20. 
 
 Nicely scrupulously ; IV. i. 6. 
 Nill, will not ; Prol. III. 55- 
 Not, not only; III. ii. 46. 
 Nousle, nurse ; I. iv. 42. 
 
 Of, (?) on (Folios, "on"); 
 
 Prol. V. 22. 
 Old, of old, long ago ; Prol. I. i. 
 On, of; II. i. 7; H. i- 36; HI. 
 
 iii. 20. 
 Open, disclose, reveal ; I. ii. 87 ; 
 
 IV. iii. 23. 
 Opinion, public opinion ; II. ii. 
 
 56. 
 Oppress, suppress; Prol. III. 29. 
 Orbs, spheres; I. ii. 122. 
 Ostent, ostentation, display 
 
 (Quartos, Folios 3, 4, 
 
 "stint"); I. ii. 25. 
 Owe, own; V. i. 118. 
 
 Parted, departed from ; V. iii. 
 
 Partakes, communicates ; I. i. 
 152. 
 
 Passion, grief; IV. iv. 24. 
 
 Perch, measure, mile (accord- 
 ing to some = " r e s t i n g- 
 place ") ; Prol. III. 15. 
 
 Perishen, perish ; Prol. II. 2>S- 
 
 Piece, masterpiece; IV. vi. 118. 
 
 FiVc/j = leathern coat (used as 
 a proper name) ; II. i. 12. 
 
 Piu por diihura que por fuersa, 
 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 (Quartos. Fo- 
 lios 3, 4, " Porpas") ; II. i. 
 26. 
 
 16
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE 
 
 Glossary 
 
 Portly, imposing; I. iv. 6i. 
 Pregnant, prompt, ready; Prol. 
 IV, 44. 
 
 From Daniel's Tj-anslatioji of Paulns 
 Jovhis, 1585, 
 
 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. 28. 
 
 Prorogue, draw out, linger out ; 
 
 V. i. 26. 
 
 Purchase, gain, profit (Stee- 
 vens conj.. adopted by Ma- 
 lone, "purpose") ; Prol. I. 9. 
 
 Quaintly. skWinWy; Prol. III. 13. 
 Quick, invigorating; IV. i. 28. 
 
 Quirks, caprices ; IV. vi. 8. 
 
 Quit, requite; III. i. 35. 
 
 Quod me alit, me. cxtinguit, that 
 which gives me life, gives me 
 death; II. ii. 3Z- (Q- illus- 
 tration.) 
 
 Rapture, violent effort (Quar- 
 tos, Folios 3, 4, ''rupture") ; 
 II. i. 159- 
 
 Records, sings ; Prol. IV. 27. 
 
 Reft, bereft ; II. iii. 84. 
 
 Repeated, mentioned, told; I. i. 
 96. 
 
 Resist me, are distasteful to 
 me ; II. iii. 29. 
 
 Resolve, solve ; I. i. 71. 
 
 , satisfy ; II. v. 68. 
 
 , tell inform ; V. i. i ; V. iii. 
 
 61. 
 
 Resolved, satisfied, convinced; 
 II. iv. 31. 
 
 Return the m, announce to 
 them ; II. ii. 4. 
 
 Ruff; IV. ii. in. (Q. illus- 
 tration.) 
 
 From a Spanish portrait of the 
 date 1503. 
 
 117
 
 Glossary 
 
 PERICLES. 
 
 'Say'd assayed, those who have 
 
 assayed ; I. i. 59, 60. 
 Semblance (trisyllabic) ; I. iv. 
 
 Shall's, shall we ; IV. v. 7. 
 Shine, brightness ; I. ii. 124, 
 Shipman, seaman; I. iii. 24. 
 Shores, sewers ; IV. vi. 180. 
 Sic spectanda fides, thus faith 
 
 is to be tested; II. ii. 38. 
 
 (Cp. illustration.) 
 
 From " The Heroicall Devises of M. 
 Claudius Paradin . . . ," 1591. 
 
 Sleidcd, raw, untwisted (Quar- 
 tos, Folio 3, " sleded " ; Folio 
 4, ''sledded") ; Prol. IV. 21. 
 
 Smooih, flatter; I. ii. 78. 
 
 So, well and good ; IV. ii. 46. 
 
 Someiime, once; II. i. 141. 
 
 Sometimes, formerly, some- 
 time ; I. i. 34. 
 
 Somezvhat, something; II. i. 
 126. 
 
 Speeding, succeeding ; II. iii. 
 116. 
 
 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. 
 
 1.36. 
 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 11 p, pressed, numbed; 
 II. i. 77^ 
 
 Throng' d, pressed, crushed; I. 
 i. loi. 
 
 Thzvarting, crossing ; IV. iv. 10. 
 
 Tire, furniture, bed-furniture 
 ( ?) = comfortably and rich- 
 ly furnished bed; III. ii. 22. 
 
 To, compared to; II. iii. 36. 
 
 To-bless, bless (to, used inten- 
 sively) ; I\'. vi. 23. 
 
 Tourney, hold a tournament ; 
 II. i. 114. 
 
 Triumph, tournament; II. ii. i. 
 
 Unscissar'd, uncut, untouched 
 by the scissors ; III. iii. 29. 
 
 Unto, according to, in compari- 
 son to; II. i. 161. 
 
 118
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE 
 
 Glossary 
 
 Vail, lower ; II. iii. 42, 
 
 , do homage; Prol. IV. 29. 
 
 Vaics, perquisites received by- 
 servants; II. i. 155. 
 
 Vegetives, vegetables, plants ; 
 III. ii. 36. 
 
 Viol, vial, phial (Quartos 4, 5, 
 6; Folios 3, 4, "viall") ; III. 
 ii. 90. 
 
 Visor, mask; IV. iv. 44. 
 
 Wages, equals, weighs ; IV. ii. 
 32. 
 
 IVanion; " with a w." = " with 
 a curse on you," " with a 
 vengeance" (probably ulti- 
 mately derived from the 
 phrase " in the zuaniand," i.e. 
 " in the waning moon," i.e. at 
 an unlucky time, hence =: 
 with ill-luck) ; II. i. 17. 
 
 Weed, garment, robe ; IV. i. 14. 
 
 Well-a-day, grief, woe ; IV. iv. 
 49. 
 
 Well-a-neav, alas! well-a-day; 
 
 Prolixin. 51- 
 Well, said, well done; III. ii. 
 
 87. 
 
 Where, whereas; I. 1. 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, hy; I. i. 4 : H. i. 68, 69. 
 
 Word, motto; II. ii. 21. 
 
 Would; " I w.," I wish ; III. i. 
 42. 
 
 Writ, holy writ, gospel (Quar- 
 tos 2, 3, " write " ; Steevens 
 conj. "wit"; Nicholson conj. 
 "Writ") ; Prol. II. 12. 
 
 Younger, past, ago ; I. iv. 39. 
 Y -slaked, sunk to repose ; Prol. 
 III. I. 
 
 119
 
 PERICLES. 
 
 Critical Notes. 
 
 BY ISRAEL GOLLANCZ. 
 
 I. i. 24. ' boundless ' ; Rowe's emendation of Quartos, Folios 3, 
 4, ' bond I esse/ 
 
 I. i. 29. 'death-like dragons here aif right'; Daniel conj. 'death, 
 like dragons, here affrights'; S. Walker conj. 'affront'; Hudson 
 conj. 'affronts.' 
 
 I- i- 55-57- The arrangement of the text, confused in Quartos 
 and Folios, was first made by Malone. 
 
 I. i. 59,60. 'Of all 'say'd yet'; Mason conj. 'In all, save that'; 
 Mitford conj. ' O false! and yet.' 
 
 I. i. 113. 'cancel of; Malone's emendation; Folios 3, 4. ' cancel 
 off ' ; Quartos i, 2, 3, 4, 6, ' coiinsell of ' ; Quarto 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. ' ivho blush'; the omission of the pronoun, 
 personal or relative, is characteristic of the non-Shakespearian 
 portions of the play. 
 
 I. ii. I. 'change of thoughts' i.e. perturbation of thought; Stee- 
 vens conj. 'charge of thoughts f ' ; 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. 'cast of thought.' 
 
 I. ii. 3. ' Be my so used a guest as ' ; Dyce's emendation ; Quarto 
 I, 'By me so vsde a guest, as'; Malone (1780), 'By me's so us'd 
 a guest, as ' ; Jackson conj. ' Be by me so us'd a guest? '. 
 
 I. ii. 8. ' arm ' ; so Folio 4 ; Dyce reads ' aim.' 
 
 I. ii. 30. ' Who am'; Farmer conj.; Quartos. Folios 3. 4. ' Who 
 once'; Malone (1780), 'Who owe'; (1790), 'Who wants.' 
 
 I. ii. 41. 'blast'; Mason conj. Quartos, Folios 3, 4, 'spark'; 
 Malone (1790). ' breatJi' ; Steevens conj. 'wind.' 
 
 I. ii. 55. 'plants'; so Quarto i; Malone's emendation of Quar- 
 tos and Folios, 'planets.' 
 
 I. ii. 85. 'doubt it': Steevens conj.; Quartos i. 2. 3, 'doo't'; 
 Quartos 4, 5, 6, and Folios, ' thinke.' 
 
 no
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE Notes 
 
 I. ii. 93. ' spares ' ; so Quarto i ; Quartos 2-6, and Folios 3, 4. 
 ' feares ' and ' fears.' 
 
 I. ii. 95. ' reprovest' ', Malone, 'reprov'st; Quartos i, 2, 3. 
 ' reprou'dst' ; Quartos 4, 5, 6, ' reprovedst' ; Folios 3, 4. 
 ' reproved' St.' 
 
 I. iii. 4-7. Cp. " 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 of your 
 secrets." — Barnabie Riche's Soldier's Wish to Britain's Welfare. 
 
 I. iii. 27-28. ' but since he 's gone, the king's seas must please ' ; 
 Mason conj. 'But since he is gone, the king, seas must please'; 
 Percy conj. 'But since he'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 cor- 
 rection of the line, if any change is necessary. 
 
 I. iv. 13-14. ' Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep Our 
 woes'; Hudson reads, 'Our tongues do sound our sorrows and 
 deep woes.' 
 
 ; 'sorrows do'; Cartwright conj. 'sobbings do'; Bailey 
 
 conj. 'bosoms too'; Anon. conj. 'sorrowing bosoms do.' 
 
 I. iv. 15. 'tongues' ; Quartos i, 2, 3, 'toungs'; Steevens conj. 
 
 * lungs.' 
 
 I. iv. 39. 'yet two summers younger'; Mason conj.; Quarto i, 
 
 * yet two sauers younger'; Folios 3, 4, 'yet to savers younger.' 
 
 I. iv. 69. ' of unhappy me ' ; Malone (1780), ' of unhappy men ' ; 
 Steevens conj. 'of unhappy we'; Jackson conj. 'O unhappy 
 me.' 
 
 I. iv. 74. ' him's' i.e. 'him who is'; Malone's reading; Quarto 
 T, 'himnes'; Quartos 2, 3, Folio 3, 'hymnes'; Quartos 4, 5. 
 ' hymmes ' ; Quarto 6, ' hywmes ' ; Folio 4, ' hymns ' ; Steevens 
 conj. 'him zvho is.' 
 
 Prol. II. 19. 'for though'; Steevens, 'forth'; Singer (ed. 2), 
 'for thy'; Nicholson conj. ' for-though' ; Kinnear conj. 'for 
 through.' 
 
 121
 
 Notes PERICLES, 
 
 Prol. II. 22. 'Sends word'; Stcevens conj.: Quartos 1-5 read 
 ' Sau'd one'', Quarto 6, Folios 3, 4, ' Sav'd one.' 
 
 II. i. 52. ' iinny'; Steevens conj. (from Wilkins' novel) ; Quar- 
 tos, Folios 3, 4, ' fenny.' 
 
 11. i, 58. 'search'; .Steevens conj. 'scratch it'; Singer (ed. 2), 
 ' scratch't' ; Staunton, 'scratch'; Anon. conj. 'steal it'; Hudson, 
 ' steal' t: 
 
 II. i. 60. 'May see the sea hath cast upon your coast' ; so Quar- 
 tos; Folios 3, 4, ' Y' may see the sea hath cast me upon your 
 coast'; Malone (1780), 'You may see the sea hath cast me on 
 your coast'; Steevens, 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. 'interpret.' 
 
 II. iii. 19. 'Marshal' ; Malone's emendation; Quartos, Folio 3, 
 ' MartiaW; Folio 4, 'Martial' 
 
 II. iii. 29. 'resist' ; Collier conj. 'distaste.' 
 
 ; 'he not'; so Quartos 2-6, Folios 3, 4; Malone, 'she not,'; 
 
 Malone conj. 'he now'; Steevens conj. 'be not'; Mason conj. 
 'she but'; Dyce conj. 'he but.' 
 
 II. iii. 50. 'stored'; Steevens conj.; Quartos i, 2, 3, 4, 6, 
 ' stur'd'; Folios 3, 4, ' stirr'd'; Mason conj. ' stow'd.' 
 
 II. iii. 63. ' kill'd are zvonder'd at'; Daniel, 'still ne'er won- 
 dered at' ; Anon. conj. 'kill'd are scorned at' ; Kinnear, ' little are 
 wonder' d at.' 
 
 II. iv. 41. 'For honour's cause'; Dyce's reading; Quartos, Fo- 
 lios 3, 4, 'Try honours cause'; Steevens conj. 'Try honour's 
 course'; Jackson conj. 'Cry, honour's cause!'; Anon. conj. 'By 
 Iwnour's cause.' 
 
 Prol. III. 35. ' Y -ravished ' ; Steevens conj.; Quarto i, ' Irany- 
 shed ' ; Quarto 2, ' Irany shed ' ; the rest, ' Irony shed.' 
 
 III. i. 7-8. ' Thou stormest venomously ; Wilt' ; Dyce's reading; 
 Quartos, Folios 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' ; Folio 3, 'travels'; Dyce, 'travail.' 
 
 III. i. 26. ' Use honour zvith you' ; Steevens reads, ' Vie honour 
 
 with yourselves'; Mason conj. 'Vie honour with you.' 
 
 III. i. 63. 'aye-remaining lamps' ; Malone's conj.; Quartos i, 2, 
 
 3. ' ayre remayning lampes'; Quartos 4, 5, 6, ' ayre remaining 
 
 lampes ' ; Folio 3, ' ayre remaining lamps ' ; Folio 4, ' air remaining 
 
 lamps'; Jackson conj. ' area-manesing,' etc. 
 
 ;?3
 
 PRINCE OF TYRE 
 
 Notes 
 
 ill. ii. 17. '' all'to topple'; Singer (ed. 2), ' al-to topple'; Quar- 
 tos, Folios 3, 4. ' all to topple ' ; 
 Dyce, ' all to-topplc! 
 
 III. ii. 22. 'Rich tire'; Stee- 
 vens conj. 'Such towers'; Quar- 
 tos I, 2, 3, 'Rich tire'; the rest, 
 ' Rich attire ' ; Jackson conj. 
 'Rich Tyre'; Collier (ed. 2), 
 'Rich 'tire' 
 
 III. ii. 41. ' treasure ' ; S t e e- 
 vens' emendation for 'pleasures' 
 and 'pleasure' of Quartos, Fo- 
 lios 3, 4. 
 
 III. ii. 42. ' to please the fool 
 and death.' Cp. the accompany- 
 ing initial from Stowe's Survey 
 of London (1618.) Steevens ex- 
 plained the words as an allusion 
 to an old print exhibiting Death in the act of plundering a miser 
 of his bags, and the Fool standingbehind, and grinning at the process. 
 
 III. ii. 48. 'time shall never . . . ' so Quartos i, 2. 3; 
 Quartos 4, 5, 6, Folios 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. ' zvanderingly' ; Quartos, Folios 3. 4, ' wondringly' ; 
 Schmidt conj. ' ivoundingly.' 
 
 III. iii. 29. ' Unscissar'd shall this hair'; Steevens' emendation; 
 Quartos 1-4, ' vnsisterd . . . heyre'; Quarto 5, ' unsisterd 
 shall his heyres ' ; Quarto 6, 'unsisterd . . . heire'; Folios 3, 
 4, 'unsisterd . . . heir.' 
 
 III. iii. 30. ' shozv ill'; Quartos and Folios 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. 
 'marriage rites'; Quartos. Folios 3, 4, 'marriage sight'; Stee- 
 vens conj., adopted by Malone, 'marriage tight'; Steevens conj. 
 ' marriage night.' 
 
 Prol. IV. 26. 'night-bird'; Malone's emendation of Quartos, 
 Folios 3, 4, 'night bed.' 
 
 IV. i. 5. ' inilaming love i' thy bosom'; Knight's emendation o£ 
 Quarto i, 'in flaming, thy loue bosomc' etc. 
 
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 Notes PERICLES. 
 
 IV. i. II. 'only mistress' death'; Malone (1790), 'old mistress' 
 death ' ; Percy conj. ' old nurse's death,' etc., etc. 
 
 IV. i. 64. ' stem to stern ' ; Malone's emendation ; Quartos, 
 ' Sterne to stcrne ' ; Folios 3, 4, ' stern to stern.' 
 
 IV. i. 97. ' the great pirate V aides ' ; " 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; Quartos i, 2, 3, 'impious' ; the rest omit the word. 
 
 IV. iii. 47-48. 'dost, with thine angel's face, Seize'', Malone 
 conj. 'dost wear thine angel's face; Sei:;e'; Steevens, 'doth wear 
 an angel's face. Seize'; Hudson (1881), 'doth use an angel's face, 
 Then seize.' 
 
 IV. iii. 48. 'talons'; Rowe's emendation of Quartos, Folios 3, 
 4, ' 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' ; Quartos i, 2, 3, ' this 
 Pilot thought' ; the rest, ' this Pilate thought.' 
 
 IV. iv. 48. 'scene must play'; Malone's emendation (1790); 
 Quartos, Folios 3, 4 read ' Steare must play'; Steevens conj., 
 adopted by Malone (1780), ' tears must play ' ; Malone conj. ' stage 
 must play ' ; Steevens, ' scenes display.' 
 
 V. i. 47. ' deafen'd' ; Malone's emendation; Quarto i, 'defend'; 
 the rest^ ' defended.' 
 
 V. i. 72. 'prosperous and artificial feat'; i.e. 'gracefully and 
 skilfully performed' ; Mason conj. 'prosperous artifice and fate'; 
 Steevens, ' prosperous-artificial feat.' 
 
 ; 'feat'; Percy conj., adopted by Steevens; Quartos, Folios 
 
 3, 4, 'fate.' 
 
 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. 'life'; Charlemont conj., adopted by Malone; Quar- 
 tos, Folios 3, 4, ' like.' 
 
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 Explanatory Notes. 
 
 The Explanatory Notes in this edition have been specially selected and 
 adapted, with emendations after the latest and best authorities, from the 
 most eminent Shakespearian scholars and commentators, including Johnson, 
 Malone, Steevens, Singer, Dyce, Hudson, White, Furness, Dowden, and 
 others. This method, here introduced for the first time, provides the best 
 annotation of Shakespeare ever embraced in a single edition. 
 
 ACT FIRST. 
 
 " Gower," says Lloyd, " was a contemporary of Chancer, and 
 in one respect at least fully worthy to be so. His strong point is 
 his versification ; in the composition we are concerned with at 
 least, we find none of Chaucer's sympathy with external nature, 
 none of his sense of the humorous, and little of his diversified 
 natural passion ; the proper poetic vein of Gower, it must be said, 
 is dry, and in default of this it is not much to say for his reputa- 
 tion as a poet, that he could adhere to and pursue a story with 
 more conscientiousness than Chaucer in his idle moments com- 
 pelled himself to ; and he has the merit, not slight in itself, though 
 one capable of large enhancement by addition of gifts that Gower 
 had not. of a correct ear and happy power in guiding with tight- 
 ened rein the paces that may be even stately, but that may so 
 easily degenerate into the shambling of the rhymed verse of eight 
 syllables. Hence came the inspiration of the spirited numbers in 
 which the lines run that are assigned to Gower as chorus, and 
 this circumstance alone gives importance to Pericles in the his- 
 tory of E'lglish literature, for it is impossible to read them with- 
 out perceiving that from this intermediate basin Milton drew the 
 sweet waters of Gower's early English rhythm, as those of 
 Chaucer from Midsummer-Night's Dream; that hence it was he 
 caught some of those tones that complete the perfection of what 
 I must call unaffectedly his most perfect poems — poems that are 
 as entirely satisfactory as the art of Shakespeare and the Greeks, 
 however subordinate in scope, the Allegro and Penseroso." 
 
 40. Referring to the heads of the unsuccessful suitors set up 
 over the palace gate, which is supposed to be in the sight of the 
 audience. So in Gower's poem : — 
 
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 Notes PERICLES. 
 
 " And in this wise his lawe taxeth, 
 That what man that his daughter axeth, 
 But if he couthe his question 
 Assoile upon suggestion 
 Of certein thinges that befelle, 
 The which he wold unto him telle ^ 
 He shuld in certein lese his hede. 
 And thus there were many dede 
 Her hedes stonding on the gate 
 Till ate laste, long and late, 
 For lack of answere in this wise, 
 The remenaunt, that weren wise, 
 Escheweden to make assaie." 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 I. It does not appear that the father of Pericles is living. By 
 prince, therefore, throughout this play, we are to understand 
 prince regnant. In the Gesta RoinanoriDn Apollonius is king of 
 Tyre; in Twine's translation he is repeatedly called prince of 
 Tyriis, as he is in Gower. 
 
 8,9. The words whose and Jier refer to the daughter of Anti- 
 ochus. Lucina was the goddess who presided over childbirth; 
 therefore till Lucina reign'd means till the time of birth. 
 
 g-ii. Nature tJiis dozvry gave . . . perfections: — The dowry 
 given was, that the senate-house of planets should sit, etc. Com- 
 pare Milton, Paradise Lost, viii. 511 : — 
 
 " All heaven, 
 And happy constellations, on that hour 
 Shed their selectest influence." 
 
 13, 14. Graces her subjects, etc. : — " The Graces are* her sub- 
 jects, and her thoughts the sovereign of every virtue that gives 
 renown to men." 
 
 18. By her mild companion is meant "the companion of her 
 mildness." Hudson (Harvard ed.), adopting the conjecture of 
 Daniel, reads " in her mild company." 
 
 27. Hesperidcs is here put for the garden in which the golden 
 apples were kept. So also in Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii. 340: 
 " Climbing trees in the Hesperides." 
 
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 43,44. to prepare, etc.: — That is, "to prepare this body for that 
 state to which I must come." 
 
 62,63. Nor ask advice, etc.: — So in Sidney's Arcadia: "Asking 
 advice of no other thought but faithfiilnesse and courage, he. 
 presently lighted from his own horse." 
 
 72. Sharp physic is the last: — That is, the intimation in the 
 last line of the riddle, that his life depends on resolving it. 
 
 79, 80. He is no perfect or honest man, that, knowing, etc. 
 
 S7. touch not : — This is a stroke of nature. The incestuous 
 king cannot bear to see a rival touch the hand of the woman he 
 loves. 
 
 96-100. For vice repeated . . . hurt them: — "The man who 
 knows the ill practices of princes is unwise if he reveals what he 
 knows; for the publisher of vicious actions resembles the wind, 
 which, while it passes along, blows dust into men's eyes. When 
 the blast is over, the eyes that have been affected by the dust, 
 though sore, see clear enough to stop for the future the air that 
 would annoy them." 
 
 loi. Copp'd hills are hills rising in a conical form, something 
 of the shape of a sugar-loaf. Thus in Horman's Vulgaria, 1519: 
 " Sometime men wear copped caps like a sugar loaf." So Baret : 
 "To make copped, or sharpe at top; cacumino." 
 
 102. poor worm : — The mole is so called in the way of com- 
 miseration. In The Tempest, III. i. 31, Prospero, speaking to 
 Miranda, says, " Poor worm, thou art infected ! " The mole re- 
 mains secure till it has thrown up those hillocks which betray 
 his course to the mole-catcher. 
 
 134-136. for wisdom sees, etc. : — The expression here is ellipti- 
 cal : " For wisdom sees that those men zvho do not blush to com- 
 mit actions blacker than the night will not shun any course to 
 keep them from being known." 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 I. change of thoughts: — Mason interprets this as meaning 
 " that change in the disposition of his mind — that unusual pro- 
 pensity to melancholy and cares, which he afterwards describes, 
 and which made his body pine and his soul to languish." Ma- 
 lone's reading, charge, has been followed by Dyce, Knight, and 
 Hudson (Harvard ed.), the last-named remarking that the word 
 is here used for burden or weight. 
 
 127
 
 Notes PERICLES, 
 
 44. Signior Sooth : — A near kinsman of this gentleman is men- 
 tioned in The Winter's Tale, I. ii. 196: "Sir Smile, his neigh- 
 bour." 
 
 62. let their ears hear their faults hid: — Suffer their ears to 
 hear their failings palliated. 
 
 74. arms to princes, etc. : — Such as bring additional strength to 
 princes and joy to their subjects. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 25. life or death : — Rolfe thinks the writer meant " that life or 
 death was the question each minute." Hudson (Harvard ed.). 
 following Daniel's conjecture, reads "life with death." 
 
 36. desire it : — Malone would have added " told." Walker con- 
 jectured "inquire it"; and Hudson (Harvard ed.) reads "in- 
 quire of it." 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 Delius having asserted that in this Scene Cleon, In a senseless 
 manner, tells his wife of things which she knows as well as he 
 does himself, Ulrici remarks that " Cleon does not ' tell ' her of 
 the famine ; he and Dionyza are merely talking about their sad 
 position, about the terribly rapid change between overflowing 
 abundance and abject poverty, and are grieving over the misery 
 which has suddenly come upon them." 
 
 42. nousle : — This old word for nurse was much used by old 
 writers. So Spenser, Faerie Queene, I. vi. 23 : — 
 
 " Whom, till to ryper years he gan aspyre. 
 He nousled up in life and maners wilde." 
 
 93,94. Are like, etc.: — That is, are like the Trojan horse, which 
 was stuffed with bloody veins, i.e. living men. Some editions 
 change zvas stuff' d into ivar-stuff'd, and veins into views. 
 
 ACT SECOND. 
 
 9-T2. The good, etc.: — That is, the good prince (on whom I 
 bestow my blessing) is still at Tarsus, where every man pays as 
 much respect to all he can speak, as if it were holy writ. 
 
 13, 14. And, to remember, etc. : — This circumstance is found 
 in the Confessio Amantis: — 
 
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 " That thei for ever in remembrance 
 Made a figure in resemblance 
 Of hyjii, and in comonne place 
 Thei set it upp ; so that his face 
 Miht every maner man byholde : 
 It was of latonn over gylte." 
 
 40. "Pardon old Gower from telling what ensues: it belongs 
 to the text, not to his part as chorus." 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 25-27. sazv the porptis, etc.: — Sailors have long held the notion 
 that the playing of porpoises round a ship is a certain prognostic 
 of a violent gale of wind. 
 
 35 et seq. Brandes observes that " the scene between the three 
 fishermen, with which the second Act opens, owns some turns 
 which speak of Shakespeare, especially where a fisherman says 
 that the avaricious rich are the whales ' o' the land, who never 
 leave gaping till they 've swallowed the whole parish, church, 
 steeple, bells, and all,' and another replies, ' But, master, if I had 
 been the s( x'on, I would have been that day in the belfry.' " 
 
 64,65. In that vast tennis-court, etc.: — So in Sidney's Arcadia: 
 " In such a shadow mankind lives, that neither they know how to 
 foresee, nor what to feare, and are, like tcnis bals, tossed by the 
 racket of the higher powers." 
 
 117. 118. O, sir, things, etc.: — "Things must be as they are ap- 
 pointed to be ; and what a man is not sure to compass, he has yet 
 a just right to attempt." The rest of the passage seems meaning- 
 less, and is probably mutilated. 
 
 122. bots on't: — This comic execration was formerly used in- 
 stead of one less decent. Bots is a disease in horses. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 4. Return them : — That is, return them word that we are ready. 
 
 56, 57. scan the outzvard habit, etc. : — Scan the inward man by 
 the outward habit. Such inversions are not uncommon in old 
 writers. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 29. These cates resist me : — " These delicacies go against my 
 stomach,"
 
 Notes PERICLES, 
 
 63. are zvonder'd at : — When kings, like insects, lie dead before 
 us, our admiration is excited by contemplating how in both in- 
 stances the powers of creating bustle were superior to those 
 which either object should seem to have promised. 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 7. When he was seated in a chariot : — " A grossly corrupted 
 passage," says White, " though intelligible." 
 
 34. the strongest in our censure : — That is, according to Stee- 
 vens, " the most probable in our opinion." 
 
 Scene V. 
 
 2 et seq. " The expedient here devised by Simonides for hav- 
 ing the suitors ' well despatch'd ' is indeed," says Clarke, " not 
 very consonant with the dignity of truth ; but it is quite character- 
 istic of the waggish tendency to stratagem shown by the royal old 
 gentleman, in proceeding to * dissemble ' his satisfaction at his 
 daughter's choice, and to play off a pretended anger at the lovers' 
 mutual affection, that he may keep them in a flutter of suspense 
 until he choose to join their hands and bid them wed at once as 
 the penalty of their transgression, in daring to fall in love with- 
 out his leave. Steevens solemnly demurs to this conduct of 
 Simonides ; yet, though it may not be * ingenuous,' it is perfectly 
 in character — diplomatically as well as dramatically." 
 
 93. From this line Steevens omits and. At this place he has 
 the following observations : " I cannot dismiss the foregoing 
 Scene till I have expressed the most supreme contempt of it. 
 Such another gross, nonsensical dialogue would be sought for in 
 vain, among the earliest and rudest efforts of the British theatre. 
 It is impossible not to wish that the knights had horsewhipped 
 Simonides, and that Pericles had kicked him off the stage." 
 
 ACT THIRD. 
 
 In the stage direction for the Dumb Show the lords kneel to 
 Pericles, because they are now, for the first time, informed by this 
 letter, that he is King of Tyre. By the death of Antiochus and 
 his daughter, Pericles has also succeeded to the throne of 
 
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 Antioch. in consequence of having rightly interpreted the riddle 
 proposed to him. 
 
 59, 60. It is clear from these lines that when the play was origi- 
 nally performed no attempt was made to exhibit either a sea or 
 a ship. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 " The diction throughout the present scene," in Clarke's opin- 
 ion, " is veritably Shakespearian. It has that majesty of unre- 
 strained force which distinguishes his finest descriptive passages, 
 and that dignity of expression, combined with the most simple 
 and natural pathos, which characterizes his passages of deepest 
 passion. After the comparative stiffness traceable in the phrase- 
 ology of the previous scenes, and after the cramped ' and an- 
 tiquated chant-speeches of Gower, this opening of the third Act 
 always comes upon us with the effect of a grand strain of music 
 — the music of the great master himself — with its rightly touched 
 discords and its nobly exalted soul-sufficing harmonies." And 
 Hudson (Harvard ed.) exclaims: "After the dull and dreary 
 scenes that precede, how refreshing it is at last to strike upon 
 a vein of genuine Shakespeare ! " 
 
 I. this great vast: — It should be remembered that Pericles is 
 supposed to speak from the deck. Lychorida, on whom he calls, 
 is supposed to be in the cabin beneath. 
 
 30 et sea. A part of this most Shakespearian passage is found 
 in Wilkins's novel. The words in italics will show that one of 
 the Poet's most characteristic expressions has been lost out of 
 the text: "Poor inch of nature! quoth he, thou art as rudely 
 welcome to the world, as ever princess' babe was ; and hast as 
 chiding a nativity, as fire, air, earth, and water can afford thee." 
 
 35. Thy loss, etc. : — That is, " thou hast already lost more, by 
 .the death of thy mother, than thy safe arrival at the port of life 
 can requite, with all to boot that we can give thee." Portage is 
 here used for conveyance into life. 
 
 75,76. Thither, gentle mariner, etc.: — Change thy course, which 
 is now for Tyre, and go to Tarsus. 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 9. Give this to the 'pothecary, etc. : — The recipe cannot be for 
 the servant's master. It must be either for the servant himself, 
 or for the poor men who here leave the stage. 
 
 131
 
 Notes PERICLES, 
 
 67. Apollo, perfect me, etc. : — He asks that Apollo may make 
 him able to read it. 
 
 105. What world is this: — This is from the Confessio Aman- 
 tis :— 
 
 " And first hir eyen up she caste, 
 And when she more of strength caught, 
 Her armes both forth she straughte; 
 Held up hir honde and piteouslie 
 She spake, and said, Where am I ? 
 Where is my lorde ? Ah ! What worlde is this ? " 
 
 ACT FOURTH. 
 Scene I. 
 
 I ct seq. It has been remarked how this wicked foster-mother, 
 hating Marina, corresponds to the wicked stepmother in Cymbc- 
 line, who hates Imogen. 
 
 4-6. Let not conscience . . . too nicely: — This passage, says 
 White, is hopelessly corrupted. 
 
 ; 17. Shall, as a carpet, hang, etc. : — That is, as drapery. Tablc- 
 'covers, and articles of like kind and use, were called carpets. 
 Floors were covered with rushes. 
 
 1 52 et seq. When I was born, the luind was north, etc.: — 
 ■" Most notable," observes Brandes, " is the preliminary sketch of 
 the tempest which ushers in the play. Over and above the re- 
 semblance between the storm-scenes [in Pericles and The Tem- 
 pest] we have Marina's description of the hurricane during which 
 she was born (IV. i.), and Ariel's description of the shipwreck 
 (Tempest, I. ii.)." 
 
 Scene II. 
 
 16. Ay, to eleven, etc. : — Brought them up to eleven years of 
 age, and then brought them down again ; that is, ruined them. 
 
 35. keep our door hatched: — This, says Hudson (Harvard ed.), 
 " means shut up shop, or give over our trade." 
 
 114-116. he will come in our shadow, etc.: — The allusion is to 
 the French coin ecus de soleil, crOzvns of the sun. The meaning 
 of the passage is merely this, that the French knight will seek 
 the shade of their house to scatter his money there, 
 
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 147,148. thunder . . . eels: — Thunder was supposed to have 
 the effect of rousing eels from the mud, and so rendering them 
 more easy to take in stormy weather. Marston alludes to this in 
 his Satires : — 
 
 " They are nought but eeles, that never will appeare 
 Till that tempestuous winds, or thunder, teare 
 Their slimy beds." 
 
 153- virgin knot: — The words virgin knot allude to the zone or 
 girdle worn by maidens in classical ages, and which was untied by 
 the husband at the wedding. The language here so charmingly 
 used by Marina has its parallel in that employed by Prospero, 
 referring to Miranda, in The Tempest (IV. i.) ; and these are the 
 only two instances in which the allusion occurs in Shakespeare. 
 
 Scene III. 
 
 II. // thou hadst drunk to him, etc. : — That is, if you had tasted 
 the cup first and been poisoned in pledging him. There is an im- 
 plied allusion to the office of taster at royal tables in old times. 
 
 49, 50. " You are so affectedly humane, that you would appeal 
 to Heaven against the cruelty of winter in killing the flies." 
 
 Scene IV. 
 
 18. think his pilot thought : — Clarke and White read, after the 
 early copies, this instead of his. Clarke explains the passage 
 thus : " Let your imagination conceive this thought that I suggest 
 to you ; and which, like a pilot, shall conduct and accompany 
 Pericles on his sea-voyage." Its meaning as here given, con- 
 cisely stated by Malone, is this : " Suppose that your imagination 
 is his pilot." 
 
 20. Who has left Tarsus before her father begins his search 
 for her. 
 
 31. wit : — Thus in Gower : — 
 
 " In which the lorde hath to him writte, 
 That he would understande and zvitte." 
 
 39. The author, as Mason explains, " ascribed the swelling of 
 the sea to the pride which Thetis felt at the birth of Marina in 
 
 133
 
 Notes PERICLES, 
 
 her element ; and supposes that the earth, being afraid to be 
 overflowed, bestowed this birth-child of Thetis on the heavens ; 
 and that Thetis, in revenge, makes raging battery against the 
 shores." 
 
 Scene V. 
 
 Brandes, differing from many leading commenators as to the 
 authorship of these parts of the play, remarks that this and the 
 ensuing brothel scenes " do not give an intellectual equivalent for 
 all that has been dared in order to produce them, but they bear 
 witness to the desire Shakespeare felt of painting youthful 
 womanly purity shining whitely in a very snake-pit of vice, and 
 the spirit in which it is accomplished is that of both Shakespeare 
 and the Renaissance." 
 
 Scene VI. 
 
 21. This is Justice Shallow's mode of asking the price of a dif- 
 ferent kind of commodity : " Hozv a score of ewes now ? " 
 
 53. / desire, etc. : — Brandes says : " The calm dignity of Ma- 
 rina's innocence has none of that taint of the confessional which 
 was plainly obnoxious to Shakespeare, and which neither the 
 mediaeval plays before him. nor Corneille and Calderon after, 
 could escape. Corneille's Theodora is a saint by profession and 
 a martyr from choice. She gives herself up to her enemies at the 
 end of the play, because she has been assured by supernatural 
 revelation that she will not again be imprisoned in the house from 
 which she has just escaped. Shakespeare's Marina, the tenderly 
 and carefully outlined sketch of the type which is presently 
 wholly to possess his imagination, is purely human in her innate 
 nobility of nature." 
 
 97-99. // yoii were horn, etc.: — The novel of Wilkins gives the 
 following as Marina's speech on this occasion ; and it is in such a 
 strain that we cannot but regret not to see more of it in the play : 
 " If, as you say, my lord, you are the governor, let not your au- 
 thority, which should teach you to rule others, be the means to 
 make you misgovern yourself. If the eminence of your place 
 came unto you by descent and the royalty of your blood, let not 
 your life prove your birth bastard : if it were thrown upon you bv 
 opinion, make good that opinion which was the cause to make 
 you great. What reason is there in your justice, who hath power 
 over all, to undo any? If you take from me mine honour, you 
 
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 PRINCE OF TYRE Notes 
 
 are like him that makes a gap into forbidden ground, after whom 
 many enter, and you are guilty of all their evils. My life is yet 
 unspotted, my chastity unstain'd in thought : then, if your vio- 
 lence deface this building, the workmanship of Heaven, made 
 up for good, and not to be the exercise of sin's intemperance, 
 you do kill your own honour, abuse your own justice, and im- 
 poverish me." 
 
 100. Lysimachus must be supposed to say this sneeringly : 
 " Proceed with your fine moral discourse." 
 
 149, 150. Steevens thinks that there may be some allusion here 
 to a fact recorded by Dion Cassius, and by Pliny. A skilful 
 workman, who had discovered the art of making glass malleable, 
 carried a specimen of it to Tiberius, who asked him if he alone 
 was in possession of the secret. He replied in the affirmative ; 
 on which the tyrant ordered his head to be struck off immedi- 
 ately, lest his invention should have proved injurious to the 
 workers in gold, silver, and other metals. The same story, how- 
 ever, is told in the Gesta Romanorum. 
 
 158. rosemary and bays: — Anciently many dishes were served 
 up with this garniture during the season of Christmas. The 
 Bawd means to call her a piece of ostentatious virtue. 
 
 184,185. a baboon, etc.: — That is, a baboon would think his 
 name dishonoured by such a profession. 
 
 ACT FIFTH. 
 
 23,24. Where what is done, etc.: — Where all that may be dis- 
 played in action shall be exhibited; and more should be shown, if 
 our stage would permit. 
 
 Scene I. 
 
 80. Marina's song is thus given in the novel : — 
 
 " Amongst the harlots foule I walke ; 
 Yet harlot none am I ; 
 
 The Rose amongst the Thornes doth grow, 
 Arid is not hurt thereby. 
 The Thiefe that stole me sure I thinke, 
 Is slaine before this time. 
 A bawde me bought, yet am I not 
 
 135
 
 Notes PERICLES, 
 
 Defilde by fleshly crime : 
 
 Nothing were pleasanter to me, 
 
 Then parents mine to know. 
 
 I am the issue of a King, 
 
 My blood from Kings dooth flow : 
 
 In time the heauens may mend my state. 
 
 And send a better day. 
 
 For sorrow addes unto our griefes, 
 
 But helps not any way: 
 
 Shew gladness in your countenance, 
 
 Cast up your cheerefull eies, 
 
 That God remaines that once of nought 
 
 Created Earth and Skies." 
 
 100, loi. This refers, apparently, to something not found in any 
 printed copy of the play, perhaps to something lost from it. And 
 afterwards, Pericles says to Marina, " Didst thou not say, when 
 I did push thee back . . . thou camest from good descend- 
 ing? " Probably a good deal of the play as written never got into 
 print : the broken and disordered state of the text shows that 
 such is the case. In the Confessio Amantis, and in the Painful 
 Adventures, the discovery of Marina is not made till Pericles has 
 broken forth into violence against her person. Thus, in the 
 former : — 
 
 " Bot as a madde man, atte laste 
 His hed wepyng awey he cast, 
 And half in wrath he bade here go : 
 Bot yit she wolde nouht do so ; 
 And in the derke forth she goth 
 Til she hym towchith, and he wroth. 
 And after hire with his honde 
 He smote : and thus whan she hym fonde 
 Diseasyd, courtesly she seide, 
 Avoy, my lorde, I am a mayde ; 
 And if ye wiste what I am. 
 And owte of what lynage I cam, 
 Ye wolde not be so salvage." 
 
 117,118. these endowments, etc.: — The meaning is, these en- 
 dowments, however valuable in themselves, are heightened by 
 being in your possession : they acquire additional grace from their 
 owner. 
 
 136
 
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 Scene III. 
 
 " At a somewhat earlier period," observes Brandes, " such a 
 subject would have assumed, in England, the form of a Morality, 
 an allegorical religious play, in which the steadfastness of the 
 virtuous woman would have triumphed over Vice. At a some- 
 what later period, in France, it would have been a Christian 
 drama, in which heathen wickedness and incredulity were put to 
 confusion by the youthful believer. Shakespeare carries it back 
 to the days of Diana ; his virtue and vice are alike heathen, own- 
 ing no connection with church or creed." 
 
 7. silver livery : — That is, her white robes of innocence, as 
 being yet under the protection of the goddess of chastity. 
 
 79. make a star of him : — This notion is borrowed from the 
 ancients, who believed that they conferred divine honours and 
 immortality on men by placing them " among the stars." 
 
 137
 
 PERICLES. 
 
 Questions on Pericles. 
 
 1. What was the contemporary judgement of this play? 
 
 2. Regarding the validity of its authorship, what was the 
 opinion of the editors of the first Folio? 
 
 3. What portions, according to the weight of critical opinion, 
 are ascribed to Shakespeare? Who were, conjecturally, his as- 
 sociates:^ 
 
 4. To what play of Shakespeare's does it bear some structural 
 resemblances? 
 
 ACT FIRST. 
 
 5. Who was the historical Gower, and why was he selected to 
 bear the part of the chorus in this play? 
 
 6. What part of the plot is revealed by the prologue? How 
 does the action knit itself with the prologue? 
 
 7. How does Pericles speak after the first view of Antiochus's 
 daughter? Is there here contained the crux of the drama en- 
 tailing- the expiatory part which follows ; if so, give it a brief 
 statement. 
 
 8. What is the reflection of Pericles after solving the riddle? 
 
 9. How does Pericles characterize the acts of kings who are 
 impelled by their vices? 
 
 10. What respite is allowed Pericles? What figure shows the 
 relationship of murder and lust? 
 
 11. How does Antiochus try to destroy Pericles? 
 
 12. In the opening speech of Sc. ii. does Pericles show only 
 apprehension of Antiochus's spite? 
 
 13. In the relationship that exists between Pericles and Heli- 
 canus how is shown the converse of the relations already ex- 
 hibited between Antiochus and his subjects? 
 
 14. What course does Pericles take to escape Antiochus? 
 
 15. What does Thaliard say (Sc. iii.) of kings' secrets? What 
 bearing on the plot has this Scene? 
 
 16. Who are introduced in Sc. iv. ? What purpose is there in 
 the detailed description of affairs in Tarsus? 
 
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 ACT SECOND. 
 
 17. What parts of the story aij^ supplied by Gower and the 
 Dumb Show? Comment on the dramatic anomaly of this device. 
 
 18. Analyze the invocation of Pericles at the opening of Sc. i. 
 and show wherein it is un-Shakespearian. 
 
 19. How does the conversation of the fishermen form a hu- 
 morous counterpart to the theme of the plot? Wliat insight 
 into social custom in Elizabethan England does this Scene supply? 
 
 20. How is Pericles supplied with suitable apparel to appear 
 before the court of Simonides? 
 
 21. How is the procession of knights arranged to form an 
 effect of climax? How do the bystanders comment on the Sixth 
 Knight ? 
 
 22. What kinds of triumph does Pericles achieve in Sc. iii.? 
 What is his reflection upon the scene before him? Does he in 
 this reveal something of the process of expiation that the play 
 is designed to show? 
 
 23. What is reported in Sc. iv. of Antiochus and his daughter? 
 What is the state of affairs at Tyre during the absence of Per- 
 icles? What does this Scene show of his popularity? 
 
 24. By what device are the knights dismissed (Sc. v.) from the 
 palace of Simonides in Pentapolis? 
 
 25. Did Shakespeare ever manage a wooing so bunglingly as 
 that depicted in Sc. v., even considering the necessary compres- 
 sion of the episode to fit into the larger scheme of the drama? 
 Is Simonides a real character? 
 
 ACT THIRD. 
 
 26. Indicate the design in employing an archaic form of cer- 
 tain words in the speech of Gower. 
 
 27. Compare the invocation of Pericles in Sc. i. v.'ith that at the 
 opening of Act. I. Sc. i. 
 
 28. What superstition of the sailors provides for one of the 
 principal episodes of the plot? Mention other plays in which 
 Shakespeare has thus brought together the unrelated human ele- 
 ments of the plot. 
 
 29. Compare this storm-scene with that presented in Tlie 
 Tempest. Was this a " study " for the latter? 
 
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 30. How does Pericles moralize these supreme disasters? Is 
 the art in which this is done good or bad? 
 
 31. What personal facts concerning Cerimon are given in 
 Sc. ii.? 
 
 ■^2.. Compare the treatment of the awakening of Thaisa with 
 the same episode in other literatures, notably the Brunhilda of 
 Wagner. 
 
 ZZ- What philosophy does Pericles display (Sc. iii.) in the face 
 of destiny? On what obligation does he rely in leaving Marina 
 with Cleon? 
 
 34. What is the purpose of Sc. iv. ? 
 
 ACT FOURTH. 
 
 35. How long a time elapses between the third and fourth 
 Acts? What does Gower reveal as the basis for the subsequent 
 action of the drama? 
 
 36. To what does Dionyza commit Leonine in Sc. i. ? 
 
 ^^y. How is Marina first introduced to speak for herself? What 
 is her dominant note? In what does she suggest, and in what 
 does she differ from, Perdita? 
 
 38. How does Dionyza lure Marina? Comment on the dra- 
 matic effectiveness of the rest of the Scene. Recall, if you can, 
 how frequently Shakespeare has used the dramatic device of 
 interposition at the crisis of an action. 
 
 39. Does Shakespeare ever deal in the peculiar kind of realism 
 presented by the brothel-scenes of this Act? 
 
 40. Would his taste have been repelled by the materials of the 
 scenes or by the way in which they are presented? With what 
 redeeming quality would he doubtless have invested them had 
 he chosen to work with the materials? 
 
 41. Compare Dionyza with Lady Macbeth and with the Queen 
 in CymbeVme. What points of likeness and unlikeness are there 
 in these three pictures of feminine depravity? Select such notes 
 in this character as seem reminiscent of the earlier and prophetic 
 of the later character. 
 
 42. Why has Shakespeare left this character incomplete? Do 
 you recall any similar case in his dramas? 
 
 43. What is there defective in the psychology of Lysimachus 
 and of Boult? 
 
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 ACT FIFTH. 
 
 44. How is Marina's life spent after she escapes from the 
 brothel? 
 
 45. In what condition of despair is Pericles presented in the 
 fifth Act? 
 
 46. Of what does Lysimachus want assurance before offering 
 his hand to Marina? 
 
 47. Compare the scene of recognition between Pericles and 
 Marina with similar scenes, such, for example, as that in Cymbc- 
 linc, and comment on the following qualities : reality ; pathos ; 
 dramatic effectiveness. 
 
 48. Explain the music that Pericles hears in advance of the 
 actual music produced according to the stage direction. What 
 is its symbolic significance? 
 
 49. What direction does Pericles get from Diana? 
 
 50. Compare the recognitions in Sc. iii. with similar scenes in 
 The Winter's Tale. Which is the more subtly conceived? 
 
 51. Fleay objects to the attribution to Shakespeare of that 
 part of the play which deals with the nuptials of Marina on the 
 ground that " he would not have married Marina to a man whose 
 acquaintance she had first made in a public brothel, to which 
 his motives of resort were not recommendatory, however invol- 
 untary her sojourn there may have been." Is it logical to argue 
 this way, considering the moral anomalies of Much Ado About 
 Nothing and of Measure for Pleasure? 
 
 52. The Gower speech with which the play ends accounts for 
 the closing days in the life of Cleon and Dionyza. Does this 
 sufficiently negative the assertion of incompleteness made in ques- 
 tion 42? 
 
 53. Give an account of the metrical peculiarities in this play; 
 of the rhymed lines ; of the double endings ; of the Alexandrines 
 and the short lines. 
 
 54. Resembling The Winter's Tale in some structural points, 
 what by comparison does Pericles lack in skilful coordination 
 of parts? 
 
 55. By what means is the denouement effected? 
 
 56. What do you take to be the underlying philosophy of this 
 play? 
 
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