Pericles, Prince of Tyre

by

William Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a story about a young prince named Pericles who embarks on a journey of love, loss, and redemption. Pericles is the prince of Tyre, a city in ancient Greece, and he sets out on a journey to win the hand of a princess named Thaisa. Along the way, Pericles encounters many challenges and obstacles that test his courage and determination.

During his journey, Pericles faces a series of trials and tribulations that threaten to derail his quest for love and happiness. He is shipwrecked, separated from his beloved Thaisa, and forced to wander the seas alone. He eventually comes to the city of Pentapolis, where he participates in a tournament and wins the heart of the beautiful Princess Thaisa.

However, their happiness is short-lived, as Thaisa dies giving birth to their daughter, Marina. Pericles is devastated by her death and entrusts Marina to the care of a trusted friend before setting out on another journey. On this journey, he encounters pirates who kidnap Marina and sell her into slavery.

Marina eventually finds her way to a brothel, where she uses her wit and intelligence to win the hearts of her clients and gain their respect. Meanwhile, Pericles continues his search for his daughter and eventually reunites with her in a miraculous turn of events. The play ends with Pericles being reunited with his daughter and finding happiness once again.

Act I

Act 1 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre follows the story of Pericles, a prince who is traveling to the city of Antioch to solve a riddle in order to win the hand of the King's daughter. However, the riddle is revealed to be a dark secret, and Pericles flees for his life.

He then sets sail to the city of Tarsus, where he is welcomed by the governor, Cleon, and his wife, Dionyza, who offer him food and shelter. While there, Pericles learns that the city is suffering from a severe famine, and he decides to travel to the nearby island of Pentapolis to participate in a tournament. The winner will be awarded the hand of the Princess Thaisa in marriage.

Pericles wins the tournament and marries Thaisa, but on their journey back to Tyre, Thaisa appears to die during childbirth. Pericles, heartbroken and in despair, orders that her body be cast overboard. The play ends with Thaisa's body washing up on the shore of Ephesus, where she is revived by a group of fishermen.

PROLOGUE

Enter GOWER

Before the palace of Antioch

GOWER
To sing a song that old was sung,
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From ashes ancient Gower is come;
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Assuming man's infirmities,
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To glad your ear, and please your eyes.
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It hath been sung at festivals,
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On ember-eves and holy-ales;
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And lords and ladies in their lives
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Have read it for restoratives:
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The purchase is to make men glorious;
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Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.
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If you, born in these latter times,
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When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes.
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And that to hear an old man sing
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May to your wishes pleasure bring
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I life would wish, and that I might
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Waste it for you, like taper-light.
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This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great
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Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat:
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The fairest in all Syria,
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I tell you what mine authors say:
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This king unto him took a fere,
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Who died and left a female heir,
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So buxom, blithe, and full of face,
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As heaven had lent her all his grace;
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With whom the father liking took,
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And her to incest did provoke:
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Bad child; worse father! to entice his own
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To evil should be done by none:
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But custom what they did begin
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Was with long use account no sin.
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The beauty of this sinful dame
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Made many princes thither frame,
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To seek her as a bed-fellow,
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In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:
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Which to prevent he made a law,
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To keep her still, and men in awe,
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That whoso ask'd her for his wife,
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His riddle told not, lost his life:
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So for her many a wight did die,
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As yon grim looks do testify.
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What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye
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I give, my cause who best can justify.
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Exit

SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace.

Scene 1 of Act 1 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre begins with King Antiochus telling his daughter that she should marry him instead of any other man. The daughter is horrified and reveals that she knows a terrible secret about her father. She then tells the secret in a riddle, and says that any man who can solve it will win her hand in marriage. Many suitors have tried, but none have succeeded.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, arrives in Antioch and learns about the riddle. He decides to try and solve it, despite the danger it poses. He is successful and learns the terrible truth about King Antiochus. Pericles is horrified and immediately leaves the city, fearing for his life.

As he travels, he encounters a storm and is shipwrecked. He washes up on the shore of Pentapolis, where he meets Thaisa, the daughter of the king. They fall in love and decide to marry. However, before the wedding can take place, Pericles is forced to leave on a mission for the king.

While he is away, Thaisa gives birth to a daughter and appears to die in childbirth. Her body is placed in a coffin and set adrift at sea. Pericles returns and learns of his wife's apparent death. He is grief-stricken and decides to return to Tyre with his daughter.

Meanwhile, Thaisa's coffin washes up on the shore of Ephesus, where she is revived by a doctor. She becomes a priestess of the goddess Diana and lives in seclusion for many years.

Scene 1 of Act 1 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre sets the stage for the rest of the play, introducing many of the major characters and establishing the themes of love, loss, and redemption that will be explored throughout the story.

Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers

ANTIOCHUS
Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received
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The danger of the task you undertake.
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PERICLES
I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul
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Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,
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Think death no hazard in this enterprise.
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ANTIOCHUS
Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,
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For the embracements even of Jove himself;
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At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd,
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Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,
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The senate-house of planets all did sit,
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To knit in her their best perfections.
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Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS

PERICLES
See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring,
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Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
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Of every virtue gives renown to men!
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Her face the book of praises, where is read
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Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence
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Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath
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Could never be her mild companion.
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You gods that made me man, and sway in love,
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That have inflamed desire in my breast
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To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,
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Or die in the adventure, be my helps,
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As I am son and servant to your will,
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To compass such a boundless happiness!
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ANTIOCHUS
Prince Pericles,--
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PERICLES
That would be son to great Antiochus.
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ANTIOCHUS
Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,
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With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd;
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For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:
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Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view
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Her countless glory, which desert must gain;
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And which, without desert, because thine eye
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Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die.
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Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,
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Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,
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Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,
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That without covering, save yon field of stars,
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Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars;
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And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist
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For going on death's net, whom none resist.
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PERICLES
Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught
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My frail mortality to know itself,
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And by those fearful objects to prepare
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This body, like to them, to what I must;
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For death remember'd should be like a mirror,
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Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.
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I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do
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Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,
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Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did;
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So I bequeath a happy peace to you
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And all good men, as every prince should do;
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My riches to the earth from whence they came;
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But my unspotted fire of love to you.
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Thus ready for the way of life or death,
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I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.
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ANTIOCHUS
Scorning advice, read the conclusion then:
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Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,
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As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed.
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Daughter
Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!
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Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness!
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PERICLES
Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,
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Nor ask advice of any other thought
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But faithfulness and courage.
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I am no viper, yet I feed
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On mother's flesh which did me breed.
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I sought a husband, in which labour
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I found that kindness in a father:
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He's father, son, and husband mild;
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I mother, wife, and yet his child.
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How they may be, and yet in two,
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As you will live, resolve it you.
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Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers
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That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts,
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Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,
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If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?
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Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,
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Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:
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But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt
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For he's no man on whom perfections wait
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That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.
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You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings;
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Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music,
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Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken:
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But being play'd upon before your time,
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Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.
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Good sooth, I care not for you.
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ANTIOCHUS
Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life.
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For that's an article within our law,
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As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired:
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Either expound now, or receive your sentence.
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PERICLES
Great king,
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Few love to hear the sins they love to act;
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'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
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He's more secure to keep it shut than shown:
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For vice repeated is like the wandering wind.
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Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself;
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And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
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The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear:
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To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts
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Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd
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By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't.
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Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's
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their will;
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And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?
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It is enough you know; and it is fit,
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What being more known grows worse, to smother it.
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All love the womb that their first being bred,
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Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.
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ANTIOCHUS
(Aside) Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found
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the meaning:
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But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre,
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Though by the tenor of our strict edict,
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Your exposition misinterpreting,
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We might proceed to cancel of your days;
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Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
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As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:
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Forty days longer we do respite you;
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If by which time our secret be undone,
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This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:
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And until then your entertain shall be
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As doth befit our honour and your worth.
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Exeunt all but PERICLES

PERICLES
How courtesy would seem to cover sin,
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When what is done is like an hypocrite,
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The which is good in nothing but in sight!
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If it be true that I interpret false,
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Then were it certain you were not so bad
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As with foul incest to abuse your soul;
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Where now you're both a father and a son,
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By your untimely claspings with your child,
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Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father;
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And she an eater of her mother's flesh,
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By the defiling of her parent's bed;
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And both like serpents are, who though they feed
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On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.
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Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men
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Blush not in actions blacker than the night,
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Will shun no course to keep them from the light.
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One sin, I know, another doth provoke;
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Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke:
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Poison and treason are the hands of sin,
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Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:
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Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear,
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By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.
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Exit

Re-enter ANTIOCHUS

ANTIOCHUS
He hath found the meaning, for which we mean
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To have his head.
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He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,
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Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
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In such a loathed manner;
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And therefore instantly this prince must die:
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For by his fall my honour must keep high.
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Who attends us there?
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Enter THALIARD

THALIARD
Doth your highness call?
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ANTIOCHUS
Thaliard,
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You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes
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Her private actions to your secrecy;
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And for your faithfulness we will advance you.
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Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold;
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We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:
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It fits thee not to ask the reason why,
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Because we bid it. Say, is it done?
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THALIARD
My lord,
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'Tis done.
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ANTIOCHUS
Enough.
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Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.
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Messenger
My lord, prince Pericles is fled.
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Exit

ANTIOCHUS
As thou
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Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot
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From a well-experienced archer hits the mark
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His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return
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Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.'
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THALIARD
My lord,
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If I can get him within my pistol's length,
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I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness.
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ANTIOCHUS
Thaliard, adieu!
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Till Pericles be dead,
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My heart can lend no succor to my head.
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Exit

SCENE II. Tyre. A room in the palace.

In Scene 2 of Act 1, a council is being held in the city of Antioch where the King is present along with his daughter. The King is speaking with a suitor who is interested in marrying his daughter. However, the King has devised a sinister plan where he has created a riddle that must be solved in order to win his daughter's hand in marriage. The riddle is a secret that only he knows and it involves a dark secret that the suitor must uncover. If the suitor fails to solve the riddle, he will be put to death.

The suitor is hesitant, but the King's daughter pleads with him to take the challenge. She is desperate to be free from her father's control and sees this as a way out. The suitor agrees and is given a day to solve the riddle.

As soon as the suitor leaves, the King reveals the dark secret to his daughter. He has committed incest with her and their child is the product of their relationship. The King warns his daughter not to reveal this secret as it would mean the end of their lives. The daughter is horrified and begs for forgiveness.

Meanwhile, Pericles, the Prince of Tyre arrives in Antioch and is welcomed by the King. However, he becomes suspicious when he overhears the King talking about his daughter's secret. Pericles decides to investigate the matter further and discovers the truth about the incestuous relationship between the King and his daughter. He decides to leave Antioch and flee to another city, fearing for his life.

Enter PERICLES

PERICLES
(To Lords without) Let none disturb us.--Why should
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this change of thoughts,
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The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,
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Be my so used a guest as not an hour,
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In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night,
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The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?
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Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,
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And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,
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Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here:
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Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,
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Nor yet the other's distance comfort me.
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Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,
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That have their first conception by mis-dread,
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Have after-nourishment and life by care;
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And what was first but fear what might be done,
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Grows elder now and cares it be not done.
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And so with me: the great Antiochus,
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'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,
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Since he's so great can make his will his act,
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Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence;
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Nor boots it me to say I honour him.
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If he suspect I may dishonour him:
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And what may make him blush in being known,
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He'll stop the course by which it might be known;
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With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,
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And with the ostent of war will look so huge,
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Amazement shall drive courage from the state;
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Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist,
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And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence:
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Which care of them, not pity of myself,
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Who am no more but as the tops of trees,
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Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,
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Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,
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And punish that before that he would punish.
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Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords

First Lord
Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!
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Second Lord
And keep your mind, till you return to us,
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Peaceful and comfortable!
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HELICANUS
Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.
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They do abuse the king that flatter him:
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For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
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The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark,
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To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;
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Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,
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Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.
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When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace,
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He flatters you, makes war upon your life.
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Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please;
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I cannot be much lower than my knees.
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PERICLES
All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook
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What shipping and what lading's in our haven,
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And then return to us.
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Helicanus, thou
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Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?
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HELICANUS
An angry brow, dread lord.
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PERICLES
If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,
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How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?
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HELICANUS
How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
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They have their nourishment?
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PERICLES
Thou know'st I have power
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To take thy life from thee.
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HELICANUS
(Kneeling)
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I have ground the axe myself;
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Do you but strike the blow.
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PERICLES
Rise, prithee, rise.
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Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
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I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
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That kings should let their ears hear their
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faults hid!
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Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,
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Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,
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What wouldst thou have me do?
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HELICANUS
To bear with patience
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Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself.
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PERICLES
Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,
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That minister'st a potion unto me
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That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.
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Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,
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Where as thou know'st, against the face of death,
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I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty.
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From whence an issue I might propagate,
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Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.
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Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder;
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The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest:
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Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father
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Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou
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know'st this,
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'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled,
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Under the covering of a careful night,
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Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here,
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Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.
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I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears
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Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:
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And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,
Link: 1.2.94
That I should open to the listening air
Link: 1.2.95
How many worthy princes' bloods were shed,
Link: 1.2.96
To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
Link: 1.2.97
To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms,
Link: 1.2.98
And make pretence of wrong that I have done him:
Link: 1.2.99
When all, for mine, if I may call offence,
Link: 1.2.100
Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence:
Link: 1.2.101
Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
Link: 1.2.102
Who now reprovest me for it,--
Link: 1.2.103

HELICANUS
Alas, sir!
Link: 1.2.104

PERICLES
Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,
Link: 1.2.105
Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts
Link: 1.2.106
How I might stop this tempest ere it came;
Link: 1.2.107
And finding little comfort to relieve them,
Link: 1.2.108
I thought it princely charity to grieve them.
Link: 1.2.109

HELICANUS
Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak.
Link: 1.2.110
Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,
Link: 1.2.111
And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,
Link: 1.2.112
Who either by public war or private treason
Link: 1.2.113
Will take away your life.
Link: 1.2.114
Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,
Link: 1.2.115
Till that his rage and anger be forgot,
Link: 1.2.116
Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.
Link: 1.2.117
Your rule direct to any; if to me.
Link: 1.2.118
Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be.
Link: 1.2.119

PERICLES
I do not doubt thy faith;
Link: 1.2.120
But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?
Link: 1.2.121

HELICANUS
We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,
Link: 1.2.122
From whence we had our being and our birth.
Link: 1.2.123

PERICLES
Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus
Link: 1.2.124
Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;
Link: 1.2.125
And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.
Link: 1.2.126
The care I had and have of subjects' good
Link: 1.2.127
On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it.
Link: 1.2.128
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:
Link: 1.2.129
Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:
Link: 1.2.130
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,
Link: 1.2.131
That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,
Link: 1.2.132
Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince.
Link: 1.2.133

Exeunt

SCENE III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the palace.

In Scene 3 of Act 1, a young prince named Pericles is seeking advice from a wise man named Helicanus. Pericles has recently become the Prince of Tyre after the death of his father, and he is unsure of the responsibilities that come with his new title.

Helicanus advises Pericles to be just and fair in his rule, to listen to the needs of his people, and to be careful in choosing his advisors. He also warns Pericles about the dangers of flattery and the importance of staying true to his own beliefs.

Pericles takes Helicanus' advice to heart and vows to rule with wisdom and integrity. However, his newfound power attracts the attention of a jealous and vengeful ruler named Antiochus, who sends an assassin to kill Pericles.

The scene ends with Pericles narrowly escaping the assassin's attack and fleeing from Tyre in order to protect himself. He sets sail on a perilous journey that will take him on a series of adventures and trials before he can eventually return home and claim his rightful place as ruler of Tyre.

Enter THALIARD

THALIARD
So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I
Link: 1.3.1
kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to
Link: 1.3.2
be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive
Link: 1.3.3
he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,
Link: 1.3.4
being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired
Link: 1.3.5
he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he
Link: 1.3.6
had some reason for't; for if a king bid a man be a
Link: 1.3.7
villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to
Link: 1.3.8
be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre.
Link: 1.3.9

Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre

HELICANUS
You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,
Link: 1.3.10
Further to question me of your king's departure:
Link: 1.3.11
His seal'd commission, left in trust with me,
Link: 1.3.12
Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel.
Link: 1.3.13

THALIARD
(Aside) How! the king gone!
Link: 1.3.14

HELICANUS
If further yet you will be satisfied,
Link: 1.3.15
Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,
Link: 1.3.16
He would depart, I'll give some light unto you.
Link: 1.3.17
Being at Antioch--
Link: 1.3.18

THALIARD
(Aside) What from Antioch?
Link: 1.3.19

HELICANUS
Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not--
Link: 1.3.20
Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so:
Link: 1.3.21
And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,
Link: 1.3.22
To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself;
Link: 1.3.23
So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,
Link: 1.3.24
With whom each minute threatens life or death.
Link: 1.3.25

THALIARD
(Aside) Well, I perceive
Link: 1.3.26
I shall not be hang'd now, although I would;
Link: 1.3.27
But since he's gone, the king's seas must please:
Link: 1.3.28
He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea.
Link: 1.3.29
I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!
Link: 1.3.30

HELICANUS
Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.
Link: 1.3.31

THALIARD
From him I come
Link: 1.3.32
With message unto princely Pericles;
Link: 1.3.33
But since my landing I have understood
Link: 1.3.34
Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,
Link: 1.3.35
My message must return from whence it came.
Link: 1.3.36

HELICANUS
We have no reason to desire it,
Link: 1.3.37
Commended to our master, not to us:
Link: 1.3.38
Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
Link: 1.3.39
As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.
Link: 1.3.40

Exeunt

SCENE IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house.

In Scene 4 of Act 1, a messenger arrives at the court of King Antiochus and delivers a disturbing message. The messenger informs the king that Prince Pericles of Tyre has discovered a terrible secret about him and his daughter. The secret is so scandalous that the messenger cannot bring himself to say it out loud. The king becomes angry and demands that the messenger reveal the secret. The messenger finally relents and tells the king that his daughter is in an incestuous relationship with him. The king is horrified and orders the messenger to be killed. However, the messenger manages to escape and flees the city.

The king is deeply troubled by this revelation and decides to take drastic action to protect his secret. He decides to send an assassin after Pericles to kill him before he can reveal the truth to anyone else. Meanwhile, Pericles is unaware of the danger he is in and is traveling to another kingdom to find a bride. The scene ends with the king's decision to kill Pericles and the messenger's escape from the city.

Enter CLEON, the governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA, and others

CLEON
My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,
Link: 1.4.1
And by relating tales of others' griefs,
Link: 1.4.2
See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?
Link: 1.4.3

DIONYZA
That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;
Link: 1.4.4
For who digs hills because they do aspire
Link: 1.4.5
Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.
Link: 1.4.6
O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;
Link: 1.4.7
Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,
Link: 1.4.8
But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.
Link: 1.4.9

CLEON
O Dionyza,
Link: 1.4.10
Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,
Link: 1.4.11
Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?
Link: 1.4.12
Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep
Link: 1.4.13
Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep,
Link: 1.4.14
Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder;
Link: 1.4.15
That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,
Link: 1.4.16
They may awake their helps to comfort them.
Link: 1.4.17
I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,
Link: 1.4.18
And wanting breath to speak help me with tears.
Link: 1.4.19

DIONYZA
I'll do my best, sir.
Link: 1.4.20

CLEON
This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government,
Link: 1.4.21
A city on whom plenty held full hand,
Link: 1.4.22
For riches strew'd herself even in the streets;
Link: 1.4.23
Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds,
Link: 1.4.24
And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at;
Link: 1.4.25
Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,
Link: 1.4.26
Like one another's glass to trim them by:
Link: 1.4.27
Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,
Link: 1.4.28
And not so much to feed on as delight;
Link: 1.4.29
All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
Link: 1.4.30
The name of help grew odious to repeat.
Link: 1.4.31

DIONYZA
O, 'tis too true.
Link: 1.4.32

CLEON
But see what heaven can do! By this our change,
Link: 1.4.33
These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,
Link: 1.4.34
Were all too little to content and please,
Link: 1.4.35
Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
Link: 1.4.36
As houses are defiled for want of use,
Link: 1.4.37
They are now starved for want of exercise:
Link: 1.4.38
Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,
Link: 1.4.39
Must have inventions to delight the taste,
Link: 1.4.40
Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it:
Link: 1.4.41
Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,
Link: 1.4.42
Thought nought too curious, are ready now
Link: 1.4.43
To eat those little darlings whom they loved.
Link: 1.4.44
So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife
Link: 1.4.45
Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:
Link: 1.4.46
Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;
Link: 1.4.47
Here many sink, yet those which see them fall
Link: 1.4.48
Have scarce strength left to give them burial.
Link: 1.4.49
Is not this true?
Link: 1.4.50

DIONYZA
Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.
Link: 1.4.51

CLEON
O, let those cities that of plenty's cup
Link: 1.4.52
And her prosperities so largely taste,
Link: 1.4.53
With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!
Link: 1.4.54
The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.
Link: 1.4.55

Enter a Lord

Lord
Where's the lord governor?
Link: 1.4.56

CLEON
Here.
Link: 1.4.57
Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,
Link: 1.4.58
For comfort is too far for us to expect.
Link: 1.4.59

Lord
We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,
Link: 1.4.60
A portly sail of ships make hitherward.
Link: 1.4.61

CLEON
I thought as much.
Link: 1.4.62
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
Link: 1.4.63
That may succeed as his inheritor;
Link: 1.4.64
And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,
Link: 1.4.65
Taking advantage of our misery,
Link: 1.4.66
Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,
Link: 1.4.67
To beat us down, the which are down already;
Link: 1.4.68
And make a conquest of unhappy me,
Link: 1.4.69
Whereas no glory's got to overcome.
Link: 1.4.70

Lord
That's the least fear; for, by the semblance
Link: 1.4.71
Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace,
Link: 1.4.72
And come to us as favourers, not as foes.
Link: 1.4.73

CLEON
Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:
Link: 1.4.74
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
Link: 1.4.75
But bring they what they will and what they can,
Link: 1.4.76
What need we fear?
Link: 1.4.77
The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there.
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Go tell their general we attend him here,
Link: 1.4.79
To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,
Link: 1.4.80
And what he craves.
Link: 1.4.81

Lord
I go, my lord.
Link: 1.4.82

Exit

CLEON
Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;
Link: 1.4.83
If wars, we are unable to resist.
Link: 1.4.84

Enter PERICLES with Attendants

PERICLES
Lord governor, for so we hear you are,
Link: 1.4.85
Let not our ships and number of our men
Link: 1.4.86
Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.
Link: 1.4.87
We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,
Link: 1.4.88
And seen the desolation of your streets:
Link: 1.4.89
Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,
Link: 1.4.90
But to relieve them of their heavy load;
Link: 1.4.91
And these our ships, you happily may think
Link: 1.4.92
Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within
Link: 1.4.93
With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,
Link: 1.4.94
Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,
Link: 1.4.95
And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.
Link: 1.4.96

All
The gods of Greece protect you!
Link: 1.4.97
And we'll pray for you.
Link: 1.4.98

PERICLES
Arise, I pray you, rise:
Link: 1.4.99
We do not look for reverence, but to love,
Link: 1.4.100
And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.
Link: 1.4.101

CLEON
The which when any shall not gratify,
Link: 1.4.102
Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,
Link: 1.4.103
Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,
Link: 1.4.104
The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!
Link: 1.4.105
Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,--
Link: 1.4.106
Your grace is welcome to our town and us.
Link: 1.4.107

PERICLES
Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile,
Link: 1.4.108
Until our stars that frown lend us a smile.
Link: 1.4.109

Exeunt

Act II

Act 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre continues the story of Pericles, a prince who is on a journey to find a wife. He arrives in the city of Tarsus where he is welcomed by the governor, Cleon, and his wife, Dionyza. Pericles is told of a famine that has been plaguing the city and he offers to help by bringing food from his ship. He also learns of a princess named Thaisa who is the daughter of the king of Pentapolis and decides to travel there in hopes of marrying her.

Meanwhile, in Pentapolis, a tournament is being held to determine who will marry Princess Thaisa. The winner of the tournament is a knight named Simonides who is impressed with Pericles when he arrives. Pericles wins the favor of Simonides and Thaisa and they agree to marry. However, before the wedding can take place, Pericles receives news that his father has died and he must return home to Tyre.

Pericles sets sail for Tyre with Thaisa, but during the journey, a storm hits and Thaisa appears to die in childbirth. Pericles, grief-stricken, orders that Thaisa's body be put in a chest and thrown overboard. The chest washes up on the shores of Ephesus where it is discovered by a doctor who revives Thaisa. She decides to become a priestess and live in the temple of Diana.

Meanwhile, Pericles arrives in Tyre where he learns that his trusted advisor, Helicanus, has taken over as regent. Pericles decides to leave Tyre and sets sail again. He ends up in Mytilene where he meets a young woman named Marina who is being sold into prostitution. Pericles saves her and decides to take her with him on his journey.

Act 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre sets the stage for the rest of the play as Pericles continues on his journey to find love and happiness. The themes of love, loss, and redemption are explored throughout the play as Pericles faces numerous challenges and obstacles on his journey.

PROLOGUE

Enter GOWER

GOWER
Here have you seen a mighty king
Link: 2.pro.1
His child, I wis, to incest bring;
Link: 2.pro.2
A better prince and benign lord,
Link: 2.pro.3
That will prove awful both in deed and word.
Link: 2.pro.4
Be quiet then as men should be,
Link: 2.pro.5
Till he hath pass'd necessity.
Link: 2.pro.6
I'll show you those in troubles reign,
Link: 2.pro.7
Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
Link: 2.pro.8
The good in conversation,
Link: 2.pro.9
To whom I give my benison,
Link: 2.pro.10
Is still at Tarsus, where each man
Link: 2.pro.11
Thinks all is writ he speken can;
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And, to remember what he does,
Link: 2.pro.13
Build his statue to make him glorious:
Link: 2.pro.14
But tidings to the contrary
Link: 2.pro.15
Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?
Link: 2.pro.16
Good Helicane, that stay'd at home,
Link: 2.pro.17
Not to eat honey like a drone
Link: 2.pro.18
From others' labours; for though he strive
Link: 2.pro.19
To killen bad, keep good alive;
Link: 2.pro.20
And to fulfil his prince' desire,
Link: 2.pro.21
Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:
Link: 2.pro.22
How Thaliard came full bent with sin
Link: 2.pro.23
And had intent to murder him;
Link: 2.pro.24
And that in Tarsus was not best
Link: 2.pro.25
Longer for him to make his rest.
Link: 2.pro.26
He, doing so, put forth to seas,
Link: 2.pro.27
Where when men been, there's seldom ease;
Link: 2.pro.28
For now the wind begins to blow;
Link: 2.pro.29
Thunder above and deeps below
Link: 2.pro.30
Make such unquiet, that the ship
Link: 2.pro.31
Should house him safe is wreck'd and split;
Link: 2.pro.32
And he, good prince, having all lost,
Link: 2.pro.33
By waves from coast to coast is tost:
Link: 2.pro.34
All perishen of man, of pelf,
Link: 2.pro.35
Ne aught escapen but himself;
Link: 2.pro.36
Till fortune, tired with doing bad,
Link: 2.pro.37
Threw him ashore, to give him glad:
Link: 2.pro.38
And here he comes. What shall be next,
Link: 2.pro.39
Pardon old Gower,--this longs the text.
Link: 2.pro.40

Exit

SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side.

In Scene 1 of Act 2, the protagonist Pericles visits Antiochus' daughter in her chamber as part of the riddle contest he must solve to win her hand in marriage. The princess attempts to seduce Pericles, but he resists her advances. She then reveals the answer to the riddle, which is that she and her father have committed incest.

Pericles is horrified by this revelation and flees Antioch as quickly as possible. He is pursued by assassins sent by Antiochus, but manages to escape and sets sail for Tarsus. Along the way, a storm strikes and Pericles is washed ashore in Pentapolis.

There he meets the king's daughter, Thaisa, and they fall in love. Pericles is invited to compete in a tournament for her hand in marriage. He wins the tournament and marries Thaisa, but their happiness is short-lived as Thaisa dies during childbirth. Her body is cast into the sea, but miraculously washes ashore in Ephesus, where she is revived by a doctor.

Pericles, unaware of his wife's survival, grieves for her and entrusts their newborn daughter, Marina, to the care of Cleon and Dionyza, the rulers of Tarsus.

Overall, Scene 1 of Act 2 sets the stage for Pericles' journey and introduces several key characters and plot points that will be developed throughout the play.

Enter PERICLES, wet

PERICLES
Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Link: 2.1.1
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man
Link: 2.1.2
Is but a substance that must yield to you;
Link: 2.1.3
And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:
Link: 2.1.4
Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,
Link: 2.1.5
Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath
Link: 2.1.6
Nothing to think on but ensuing death:
Link: 2.1.7
Let it suffice the greatness of your powers
Link: 2.1.8
To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;
Link: 2.1.9
And having thrown him from your watery grave,
Link: 2.1.10
Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave.
Link: 2.1.11

Enter three FISHERMEN

First Fisherman
What, ho, Pilch!
Link: 2.1.12

Second Fisherman
Ha, come and bring away the nets!
Link: 2.1.13

First Fisherman
What, Patch-breech, I say!
Link: 2.1.14

Third Fisherman
What say you, master?
Link: 2.1.15

First Fisherman
Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll
Link: 2.1.16
fetch thee with a wanion.
Link: 2.1.17

Third Fisherman
Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that
Link: 2.1.18
were cast away before us even now.
Link: 2.1.19

First Fisherman
Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what
Link: 2.1.20
pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,
Link: 2.1.21
well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.
Link: 2.1.22

Third Fisherman
Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the
Link: 2.1.23
porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say
Link: 2.1.24
they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,
Link: 2.1.25
they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I
Link: 2.1.26
marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
Link: 2.1.27

First Fisherman
Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the
Link: 2.1.28
little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
Link: 2.1.29
nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and
Link: 2.1.30
tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
Link: 2.1.31
last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
Link: 2.1.32
have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping
Link: 2.1.33
till they've swallowed the whole parish, church,
Link: 2.1.34
steeple, bells, and all.
Link: 2.1.35

PERICLES
(Aside) A pretty moral.
Link: 2.1.36

Third Fisherman
But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have
Link: 2.1.37
been that day in the belfry.
Link: 2.1.38

Second Fisherman
Why, man?
Link: 2.1.39

Third Fisherman
Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I
Link: 2.1.40
had been in his belly, I would have kept such a
Link: 2.1.41
jangling of the bells, that he should never have
Link: 2.1.42
left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and
Link: 2.1.43
parish up again. But if the good King Simonides
Link: 2.1.44
were of my mind,--
Link: 2.1.45

PERICLES
(Aside) Simonides!
Link: 2.1.46

Third Fisherman
We would purge the land of these drones, that rob
Link: 2.1.47
the bee of her honey.
Link: 2.1.48

PERICLES
(Aside) How from the finny subject of the sea
Link: 2.1.49
These fishers tell the infirmities of men;
Link: 2.1.50
And from their watery empire recollect
Link: 2.1.51
All that may men approve or men detect!
Link: 2.1.52
Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.
Link: 2.1.53

Second Fisherman
Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day
Link: 2.1.54
fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody
Link: 2.1.55
look after it.
Link: 2.1.56

PERICLES
May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.
Link: 2.1.57

Second Fisherman
What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our
Link: 2.1.58
way!
Link: 2.1.59

PERICLES
A man whom both the waters and the wind,
Link: 2.1.60
In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball
Link: 2.1.61
For them to play upon, entreats you pity him:
Link: 2.1.62
He asks of you, that never used to beg.
Link: 2.1.63

First Fisherman
No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our
Link: 2.1.64
country Greece gets more with begging than we can do
Link: 2.1.65
with working.
Link: 2.1.66

Second Fisherman
Canst thou catch any fishes, then?
Link: 2.1.67

PERICLES
I never practised it.
Link: 2.1.68

Second Fisherman
Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing
Link: 2.1.69
to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't.
Link: 2.1.70

PERICLES
What I have been I have forgot to know;
Link: 2.1.71
But what I am, want teaches me to think on:
Link: 2.1.72
A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill,
Link: 2.1.73
And have no more of life than may suffice
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To give my tongue that heat to ask your help;
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Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
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For that I am a man, pray see me buried.
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First Fisherman
Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here;
Link: 2.1.78
come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a
Link: 2.1.79
handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and
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we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for
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fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks,
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and thou shalt be welcome.
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PERICLES
I thank you, sir.
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Second Fisherman
Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg.
Link: 2.1.85

PERICLES
I did but crave.
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Second Fisherman
But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I
Link: 2.1.87
shall 'scape whipping.
Link: 2.1.88

PERICLES
Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?
Link: 2.1.89

Second Fisherman
O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your
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beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office
Link: 2.1.91
than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the
Link: 2.1.92
net.
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Exit with Third Fisherman

PERICLES
(Aside) How well this honest mirth becomes their labour!
Link: 2.1.94

First Fisherman
Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?
Link: 2.1.95

PERICLES
Not well.
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First Fisherman
Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and
Link: 2.1.97
our king the good Simonides.
Link: 2.1.98

PERICLES
The good King Simonides, do you call him.
Link: 2.1.99

First Fisherman
Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his
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peaceable reign and good government.
Link: 2.1.101

PERICLES
He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects
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the name of good by his government. How far is his
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court distant from this shore?
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First Fisherman
Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell
Link: 2.1.105
you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her
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birth-day; and there are princes and knights come
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from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love.
Link: 2.1.108

PERICLES
Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish
Link: 2.1.109
to make one there.
Link: 2.1.110

First Fisherman
O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man
Link: 2.1.111
cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul.
Link: 2.1.112

Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net

Second Fisherman
Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net,
Link: 2.1.113
like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly
Link: 2.1.114
come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and
Link: 2.1.115
'tis turned to a rusty armour.
Link: 2.1.116

PERICLES
An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it.
Link: 2.1.117
Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,
Link: 2.1.118
Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself;
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And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,
Link: 2.1.120
Which my dead father did bequeath to me.
Link: 2.1.121
With this strict charge, even as he left his life,
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'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield
Link: 2.1.123
Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;--
Link: 2.1.124
'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity--
Link: 2.1.125
The which the gods protect thee from!--may
Link: 2.1.126
defend thee.'
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It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it;
Link: 2.1.128
Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,
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Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again:
Link: 2.1.130
I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill,
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Since I have here my father's gift in's will.
Link: 2.1.132

First Fisherman
What mean you, sir?
Link: 2.1.133

PERICLES
To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,
Link: 2.1.134
For it was sometime target to a king;
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I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,
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And for his sake I wish the having of it;
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And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court,
Link: 2.1.138
Where with it I may appear a gentleman;
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And if that ever my low fortune's better,
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I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor.
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First Fisherman
Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?
Link: 2.1.142

PERICLES
I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms.
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First Fisherman
Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't!
Link: 2.1.144

Second Fisherman
Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up
Link: 2.1.145
this garment through the rough seams of the waters:
Link: 2.1.146
there are certain condolements, certain vails. I
Link: 2.1.147
hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from
Link: 2.1.148
whence you had it.
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PERICLES
Believe 't, I will.
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By your furtherance I am clothed in steel;
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And, spite of all the rapture of the sea,
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This jewel holds his building on my arm:
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Unto thy value I will mount myself
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Upon a courser, whose delightful steps
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Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
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Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided
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Of a pair of bases.
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Second Fisherman
We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to
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make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself.
Link: 2.1.160

PERICLES
Then honour be but a goal to my will,
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This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill.
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Exeunt

SCENE II. The same. A public way or platform leading to the lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the reception of King, Princess, Lords, c.

Scene 2 of Act 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre features the character of Pericles, who seeks refuge in a temple after a storm at sea. He is greeted by three priests who offer him sanctuary and inquire about his identity. Pericles tells them that he is a prince of Tyre who has been forced to flee his city due to political turmoil.

The priests are sympathetic to Pericles' plight and offer him comfort and assistance. They also inform him about a tournament that is taking place in the nearby city of Pentapolis, where the winner will be granted the hand of the king's daughter in marriage. Pericles decides to participate in the tournament, hoping to win the princess's hand and establish a new life for himself.

The scene is significant because it sets the stage for the rest of the play, which follows Pericles' journey as he faces various challenges and obstacles in his quest for love and redemption. It also highlights the theme of hospitality and the importance of kindness and compassion in times of need.

Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants

SIMONIDES
Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?
Link: 2.2.1

First Lord
They are, my liege;
Link: 2.2.2
And stay your coming to present themselves.
Link: 2.2.3

SIMONIDES
Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,
Link: 2.2.4
In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
Link: 2.2.5
Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat
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For men to see, and seeing wonder at.
Link: 2.2.7

Exit a Lord

THAISA
It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express
Link: 2.2.8
My commendations great, whose merit's less.
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SIMONIDES
It's fit it should be so; for princes are
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A model which heaven makes like to itself:
Link: 2.2.11
As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
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So princes their renowns if not respected.
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'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain
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The labour of each knight in his device.
Link: 2.2.15

THAISA
Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform.
Link: 2.2.16

Enter a Knight; he passes over, and his Squire presents his shield to the Princess

SIMONIDES
Who is the first that doth prefer himself?
Link: 2.2.17

THAISA
A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;
Link: 2.2.18
And the device he bears upon his shield
Link: 2.2.19
Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun
Link: 2.2.20
The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.'
Link: 2.2.21

SIMONIDES
He loves you well that holds his life of you.
Link: 2.2.22
Who is the second that presents himself?
Link: 2.2.23

THAISA
A prince of Macedon, my royal father;
Link: 2.2.24
And the device he bears upon his shield
Link: 2.2.25
Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady;
Link: 2.2.26
The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.'
Link: 2.2.27

The Third Knight passes over

SIMONIDES
And what's the third?
Link: 2.2.28

THAISA
The third of Antioch;
Link: 2.2.29
And his device, a wreath of chivalry;
Link: 2.2.30
The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'
Link: 2.2.31

The Fourth Knight passes over

SIMONIDES
What is the fourth?
Link: 2.2.32

THAISA
A burning torch that's turned upside down;
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The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.'
Link: 2.2.34

SIMONIDES
Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,
Link: 2.2.35
Which can as well inflame as it can kill.
Link: 2.2.36

The Fifth Knight passes over

THAISA
The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,
Link: 2.2.37
Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried;
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The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'
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The Sixth Knight, PERICLES, passes over

SIMONIDES
And what's
Link: 2.2.40
The sixth and last, the which the knight himself
Link: 2.2.41
With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?
Link: 2.2.42

THAISA
He seems to be a stranger; but his present is
Link: 2.2.43
A wither'd branch, that's only green at top;
Link: 2.2.44
The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.'
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SIMONIDES
A pretty moral;
Link: 2.2.46
From the dejected state wherein he is,
Link: 2.2.47
He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.
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First Lord
He had need mean better than his outward show
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Can any way speak in his just commend;
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For by his rusty outside he appears
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To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.
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Second Lord
He well may be a stranger, for he comes
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To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished.
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Third Lord
And on set purpose let his armour rust
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Until this day, to scour it in the dust.
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SIMONIDES
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
Link: 2.2.57
The outward habit by the inward man.
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But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw
Link: 2.2.59
Into the gallery.
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Exeunt

Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!'

SCENE III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared.

Scene 3 of Act 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre takes place in a palace in Tarsus. Pericles, the prince of Tyre, arrives in Tarsus after being shipwrecked and losing his men. He is greeted by Cleon, the governor of Tarsus, and his wife Dionyza. Cleon offers Pericles his condolences for his loss and invites him to stay in Tarsus and rest.

Pericles accepts Cleon's offer and expresses his gratitude. He tells Cleon and Dionyza about his journey and how he lost his men in the storm. Dionyza is moved by Pericles' story and offers to help him in any way she can. She also tells Pericles that she has a daughter who is sick and asks him if he knows of any cure for her illness.

Pericles sympathizes with Dionyza and offers to help her daughter. He tells her that he knows of a physician who is skilled in healing and offers to bring him to Tarsus. Dionyza is grateful for Pericles' kindness and thanks him.

Cleon then tells Pericles about the famine in Tarsus and how the people are suffering. He asks Pericles if he has any food or supplies that he can spare. Pericles tells Cleon that he does not have much but offers to share what he has with the people of Tarsus.

Cleon and Dionyza are impressed by Pericles' generosity and offer to help him in any way they can. They also invite him to a feast that they are hosting in his honor. Pericles accepts the invitation and thanks Cleon and Dionyza for their hospitality.

The scene ends with Cleon and Dionyza expressing their admiration for Pericles and his noble character.

Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and Knights, from tilting

SIMONIDES
Knights,
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To say you're welcome were superfluous.
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To place upon the volume of your deeds,
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As in a title-page, your worth in arms,
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Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,
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Since every worth in show commends itself.
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:
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You are princes and my guests.
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THAISA
But you, my knight and guest;
Link: 2.3.9
To whom this wreath of victory I give,
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And crown you king of this day's happiness.
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PERICLES
'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
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SIMONIDES
Call it by what you will, the day is yours;
Link: 2.3.13
And here, I hope, is none that envies it.
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In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,
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To make some good, but others to exceed;
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And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o'
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the feast,--
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For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place:
Link: 2.3.19
Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace.
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KNIGHTS
We are honour'd much by good Simonides.
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SIMONIDES
Your presence glads our days: honour we love;
Link: 2.3.22
For who hates honour hates the gods above.
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Marshal
Sir, yonder is your place.
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PERICLES
Some other is more fit.
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First Knight
Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen
Link: 2.3.26
That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
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Envy the great nor do the low despise.
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PERICLES
You are right courteous knights.
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SIMONIDES
Sit, sir, sit.
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PERICLES
By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,
Link: 2.3.31
These cates resist me, she but thought upon.
Link: 2.3.32

THAISA
By Juno, that is queen of marriage,
Link: 2.3.33
All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury.
Link: 2.3.34
Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman.
Link: 2.3.35

SIMONIDES
He's but a country gentleman;
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Has done no more than other knights have done;
Link: 2.3.37
Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass.
Link: 2.3.38

THAISA
To me he seems like diamond to glass.
Link: 2.3.39

PERICLES
Yon king's to me like to my father's picture,
Link: 2.3.40
Which tells me in that glory once he was;
Link: 2.3.41
Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,
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And he the sun, for them to reverence;
Link: 2.3.43
None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,
Link: 2.3.44
Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:
Link: 2.3.45
Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night,
Link: 2.3.46
The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:
Link: 2.3.47
Whereby I see that Time's the king of men,
Link: 2.3.48
He's both their parent, and he is their grave,
Link: 2.3.49
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.
Link: 2.3.50

SIMONIDES
What, are you merry, knights?
Link: 2.3.51

Knights
Who can be other in this royal presence?
Link: 2.3.52

SIMONIDES
Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,--
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As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,--
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We drink this health to you.
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KNIGHTS
We thank your grace.
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SIMONIDES
Yet pause awhile:
Link: 2.3.57
Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,
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As if the entertainment in our court
Link: 2.3.59
Had not a show might countervail his worth.
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Note it not you, Thaisa?
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THAISA
What is it
Link: 2.3.62
To me, my father?
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SIMONIDES
O, attend, my daughter:
Link: 2.3.64
Princes in this should live like gods above,
Link: 2.3.65
Who freely give to every one that comes
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To honour them:
Link: 2.3.67
And princes not doing so are like to gnats,
Link: 2.3.68
Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at.
Link: 2.3.69
Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,
Link: 2.3.70
Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him.
Link: 2.3.71

THAISA
Alas, my father, it befits not me
Link: 2.3.72
Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:
Link: 2.3.73
He may my proffer take for an offence,
Link: 2.3.74
Since men take women's gifts for impudence.
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SIMONIDES
How!
Link: 2.3.76
Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else.
Link: 2.3.77

THAISA
(Aside) Now, by the gods, he could not please me better.
Link: 2.3.78

SIMONIDES
And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,
Link: 2.3.79
Of whence he is, his name and parentage.
Link: 2.3.80

THAISA
The king my father, sir, has drunk to you.
Link: 2.3.81

PERICLES
I thank him.
Link: 2.3.82

THAISA
Wishing it so much blood unto your life.
Link: 2.3.83

PERICLES
I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely.
Link: 2.3.84

THAISA
And further he desires to know of you,
Link: 2.3.85
Of whence you are, your name and parentage.
Link: 2.3.86

PERICLES
A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles;
Link: 2.3.87
My education been in arts and arms;
Link: 2.3.88
Who, looking for adventures in the world,
Link: 2.3.89
Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,
Link: 2.3.90
And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.
Link: 2.3.91

THAISA
He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles,
Link: 2.3.92
A gentleman of Tyre,
Link: 2.3.93
Who only by misfortune of the seas
Link: 2.3.94
Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.
Link: 2.3.95

SIMONIDES
Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,
Link: 2.3.96
And will awake him from his melancholy.
Link: 2.3.97
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
Link: 2.3.98
And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
Link: 2.3.99
Even in your armours, as you are address'd,
Link: 2.3.100
Will very well become a soldier's dance.
Link: 2.3.101
I will not have excuse, with saying this
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Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads,
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Since they love men in arms as well as beds.
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So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd.
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Come, sir;
Link: 2.3.106
Here is a lady that wants breathing too:
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And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Link: 2.3.108
Are excellent in making ladies trip;
Link: 2.3.109
And that their measures are as excellent.
Link: 2.3.110

PERICLES
In those that practise them they are, my lord.
Link: 2.3.111

SIMONIDES
O, that's as much as you would be denied
Link: 2.3.112
Of your fair courtesy.
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Unclasp, unclasp:
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Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well.
Link: 2.3.115
But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct
Link: 2.3.116
These knights unto their several lodgings!
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Yours, sir,
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We have given order to be next our own.
Link: 2.3.119

PERICLES
I am at your grace's pleasure.
Link: 2.3.120

SIMONIDES
Princes, it is too late to talk of love;
Link: 2.3.121
And that's the mark I know you level at:
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Therefore each one betake him to his rest;
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To-morrow all for speeding do their best.
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Exeunt

SCENE IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor's house.

Scene 4 of Act 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre begins with Pericles arriving in Tarsus, a city suffering from famine. He meets with the governor, Cleon, and his wife, Dionyza, who offer him assistance and invite him to a feast. During the feast, a messenger arrives with news that their daughter, Marina, has died. The couple grieves, but Pericles suspects foul play and demands to see the body.

When he does, he discovers that Marina is not actually dead, but has been stolen away by pirates and sold into prostitution. He vows to find her and sets off on a journey to do so. Meanwhile, Marina is taken to a brothel in Mytilene, where she refuses to engage in any sexual activity and instead spends her time reading and singing. The owner of the brothel, Lysimachus, takes pity on her and decides to help her escape.

Pericles eventually arrives in Mytilene and, with the help of Lysimachus, is reunited with Marina. The two return to Tarsus, where Pericles confronts Cleon and Dionyza about their role in Marina's kidnapping. The couple confesses to their wrongdoing and Pericles forgives them. The play ends with Pericles and Marina returning to Tyre, where they are greeted by Pericles' estranged wife, Thaisa, who was believed to have died at sea.

Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES

HELICANUS
No, Escanes, know this of me,
Link: 2.4.1
Antiochus from incest lived not free:
Link: 2.4.2
For which, the most high gods not minding longer
Link: 2.4.3
To withhold the vengeance that they had in store,
Link: 2.4.4
Due to this heinous capital offence,
Link: 2.4.5
Even in the height and pride of all his glory,
Link: 2.4.6
When he was seated in a chariot
Link: 2.4.7
Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,
Link: 2.4.8
A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up
Link: 2.4.9
Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk,
Link: 2.4.10
That all those eyes adored them ere their fall
Link: 2.4.11
Scorn now their hand should give them burial.
Link: 2.4.12

ESCANES
'Twas very strange.
Link: 2.4.13

HELICANUS
And yet but justice; for though
Link: 2.4.14
This king were great, his greatness was no guard
Link: 2.4.15
To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward.
Link: 2.4.16

ESCANES
'Tis very true.
Link: 2.4.17

Enter two or three Lords

First Lord
See, not a man in private conference
Link: 2.4.18
Or council has respect with him but he.
Link: 2.4.19

Second Lord
It shall no longer grieve without reproof.
Link: 2.4.20

Third Lord
And cursed be he that will not second it.
Link: 2.4.21

First Lord
Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word.
Link: 2.4.22

HELICANUS
With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords.
Link: 2.4.23

First Lord
Know that our griefs are risen to the top,
Link: 2.4.24
And now at length they overflow their banks.
Link: 2.4.25

HELICANUS
Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince you love.
Link: 2.4.26

First Lord
Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane;
Link: 2.4.27
But if the prince do live, let us salute him,
Link: 2.4.28
Or know what ground's made happy by his breath.
Link: 2.4.29
If in the world he live, we'll seek him out;
Link: 2.4.30
If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there;
Link: 2.4.31
And be resolved he lives to govern us,
Link: 2.4.32
Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral,
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And leave us to our free election.
Link: 2.4.34

Second Lord
Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure:
Link: 2.4.35
And knowing this kingdom is without a head,--
Link: 2.4.36
Like goodly buildings left without a roof
Link: 2.4.37
Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self,
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That best know how to rule and how to reign,
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We thus submit unto,--our sovereign.
Link: 2.4.40

All
Live, noble Helicane!
Link: 2.4.41

HELICANUS
For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages:
Link: 2.4.42
If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear.
Link: 2.4.43
Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,
Link: 2.4.44
Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease.
Link: 2.4.45
A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to
Link: 2.4.46
Forbear the absence of your king:
Link: 2.4.47
If in which time expired, he not return,
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I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.
Link: 2.4.49
But if I cannot win you to this love,
Link: 2.4.50
Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,
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And in your search spend your adventurous worth;
Link: 2.4.52
Whom if you find, and win unto return,
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You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.
Link: 2.4.54

First Lord
To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield;
Link: 2.4.55
And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,
Link: 2.4.56
We with our travels will endeavour us.
Link: 2.4.57

HELICANUS
Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:
Link: 2.4.58
When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.
Link: 2.4.59

Exeunt

SCENE V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace.

Scene 5 of Act 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre is set in a temple where Pericles has taken refuge. He is praying for guidance and comfort as he has lost his wife and daughter. Suddenly, a group of fishermen enters the temple and one of them recognizes Pericles as the man who saved his life during a storm.

The fishermen tell Pericles that they have found something in their nets that they believe belongs to him. They present him with a casket and Pericles opens it to find a letter and a suit of armor. The letter reveals that the suit of armor belonged to the father of his wife and that she died in childbirth. The letter also reveals that their daughter, Marina, is still alive and has been raised by a noblewoman.

Pericles is overjoyed at this news and he decides to set sail to find his daughter. However, he is warned by the fishermen of the dangers that he will face on his journey. They recommend that he travel in disguise to avoid being recognized by his enemies. Pericles agrees and he sets off on his journey with a renewed sense of hope and purpose.

Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door: the Knights meet him

First Knight
Good morrow to the good Simonides.
Link: 2.5.1

SIMONIDES
Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,
Link: 2.5.2
That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake
Link: 2.5.3
A married life.
Link: 2.5.4
Her reason to herself is only known,
Link: 2.5.5
Which yet from her by no means can I get.
Link: 2.5.6

Second Knight
May we not get access to her, my lord?
Link: 2.5.7

SIMONIDES
'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied
Link: 2.5.8
Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible.
Link: 2.5.9
One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery;
Link: 2.5.10
This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd
Link: 2.5.11
And on her virgin honour will not break it.
Link: 2.5.12

Third Knight
Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves.
Link: 2.5.13

Exeunt Knights

SIMONIDES
So,
Link: 2.5.14
They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter:
Link: 2.5.15
She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,
Link: 2.5.16
Or never more to view nor day nor light.
Link: 2.5.17
'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;
Link: 2.5.18
I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,
Link: 2.5.19
Not minding whether I dislike or no!
Link: 2.5.20
Well, I do commend her choice;
Link: 2.5.21
And will no longer have it be delay'd.
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Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.
Link: 2.5.23

Enter PERICLES

PERICLES
All fortune to the good Simonides!
Link: 2.5.24

SIMONIDES
To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you
Link: 2.5.25
For your sweet music this last night: I do
Link: 2.5.26
Protest my ears were never better fed
Link: 2.5.27
With such delightful pleasing harmony.
Link: 2.5.28

PERICLES
It is your grace's pleasure to commend;
Link: 2.5.29
Not my desert.
Link: 2.5.30

SIMONIDES
Sir, you are music's master.
Link: 2.5.31

PERICLES
The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.
Link: 2.5.32

SIMONIDES
Let me ask you one thing:
Link: 2.5.33
What do you think of my daughter, sir?
Link: 2.5.34

PERICLES
A most virtuous princess.
Link: 2.5.35

SIMONIDES
And she is fair too, is she not?
Link: 2.5.36

PERICLES
As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.
Link: 2.5.37

SIMONIDES
Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;
Link: 2.5.38
Ay, so well, that you must be her master,
Link: 2.5.39
And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.
Link: 2.5.40

PERICLES
I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.
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SIMONIDES
She thinks not so; peruse this writing else.
Link: 2.5.42

PERICLES
(Aside) What's here?
Link: 2.5.43
A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!
Link: 2.5.44
'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life.
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O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,
Link: 2.5.46
A stranger and distressed gentleman,
Link: 2.5.47
That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,
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But bent all offices to honour her.
Link: 2.5.49

SIMONIDES
Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art
Link: 2.5.50
A villain.
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PERICLES
By the gods, I have not:
Link: 2.5.52
Never did thought of mine levy offence;
Link: 2.5.53
Nor never did my actions yet commence
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A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.
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SIMONIDES
Traitor, thou liest.
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PERICLES
Traitor!
Link: 2.5.57

SIMONIDES
Ay, traitor.
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PERICLES
Even in his throat--unless it be the king--
Link: 2.5.59
That calls me traitor, I return the lie.
Link: 2.5.60

SIMONIDES
(Aside) Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.
Link: 2.5.61

PERICLES
My actions are as noble as my thoughts,
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That never relish'd of a base descent.
Link: 2.5.63
I came unto your court for honour's cause,
Link: 2.5.64
And not to be a rebel to her state;
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And he that otherwise accounts of me,
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This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.
Link: 2.5.67

SIMONIDES
No?
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Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.
Link: 2.5.69

Enter THAISA

PERICLES
Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,
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Resolve your angry father, if my tongue
Link: 2.5.71
Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe
Link: 2.5.72
To any syllable that made love to you.
Link: 2.5.73

THAISA
Why, sir, say if you had,
Link: 2.5.74
Who takes offence at that would make me glad?
Link: 2.5.75

SIMONIDES
Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?
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I am glad on't with all my heart.--
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I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection.
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Will you, not having my consent,
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Bestow your love and your affections
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Upon a stranger?
Link: 2.5.81
who, for aught I know,
Link: 2.5.82
May be, nor can I think the contrary,
Link: 2.5.83
As great in blood as I myself.--
Link: 2.5.84
Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame
Link: 2.5.85
Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,
Link: 2.5.86
Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--
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Man and wife:
Link: 2.5.88
Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:
Link: 2.5.89
And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;
Link: 2.5.90
And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--
Link: 2.5.91
What, are you both pleased?
Link: 2.5.92

THAISA
Yes, if you love me, sir.
Link: 2.5.93

PERICLES
Even as my life, or blood that fosters it.
Link: 2.5.94

SIMONIDES
What, are you both agreed?
Link: 2.5.95

BOTH
Yes, if it please your majesty.
Link: 2.5.96

SIMONIDES
It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;
Link: 2.5.97
And then with what haste you can get you to bed.
Link: 2.5.98

Exeunt

Act III

Act 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a dramatic and intense section of the play that sees the titular character facing a number of challenges and obstacles. At the beginning of the act, Pericles is forced to flee from Antiochus, the ruler of Antioch, after discovering a terrible secret about him. Pericles then finds himself in a storm at sea and is shipwrecked on the shores of Pentapolis.

Once in Pentapolis, Pericles is challenged to win the hand of Thaisa, the daughter of King Simonides, in a tournament of knights. Despite being an outsider, Pericles proves himself to be a skilled and competent fighter, and he ultimately wins the tournament and the hand of Thaisa.

However, Pericles' happiness is short-lived, as he soon learns that his father has died and he must return to Tyre to take his rightful place as ruler. Along the way, Pericles and Thaisa are once again caught in a storm at sea, and Thaisa dies in childbirth. Pericles, grief-stricken, buries Thaisa at sea and leaves his newborn daughter, Marina, in the care of strangers.

Overall, Act 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a powerful and emotionally charged section of the play that sees the protagonist facing a series of challenges and tragedies. Despite these setbacks, however, Pericles remains determined to fulfill his obligations and overcome the obstacles in his path, demonstrating his strength of character and resilience in the face of adversity.

PROLOGUE

Enter GOWER

GOWER
Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout;
Link: 3.pro.1
No din but snores the house about,
Link: 3.pro.2
Made louder by the o'er-fed breast
Link: 3.pro.3
Of this most pompous marriage-feast.
Link: 3.pro.4
The cat, with eyne of burning coal,
Link: 3.pro.5
Now crouches fore the mouse's hole;
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And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,
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E'er the blither for their drouth.
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Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.
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Where, by the loss of maidenhead,
Link: 3.pro.10
A babe is moulded. Be attent,
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And time that is so briefly spent
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With your fine fancies quaintly eche:
Link: 3.pro.13
What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech.
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By many a dern and painful perch
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Of Pericles the careful search,
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By the four opposing coigns
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Which the world together joins,
Link: 3.pro.18
Is made with all due diligence
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That horse and sail and high expense
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Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,
Link: 3.pro.21
Fame answering the most strange inquire,
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To the court of King Simonides
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Are letters brought, the tenor these:
Link: 3.pro.24
Antiochus and his daughter dead;
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The men of Tyrus on the head
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Of Helicanus would set on
Link: 3.pro.27
The crown of Tyre, but he will none:
Link: 3.pro.28
The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress;
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Says to 'em, if King Pericles
Link: 3.pro.30
Come not home in twice six moons,
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He, obedient to their dooms,
Link: 3.pro.32
Will take the crown. The sum of this,
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Brought hither to Pentapolis,
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Y-ravished the regions round,
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And every one with claps can sound,
Link: 3.pro.36
'Our heir-apparent is a king!
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Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'
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Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:
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His queen with child makes her desire--
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Which who shall cross?--along to go:
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Omit we all their dole and woe:
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Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,
Link: 3.pro.43
And so to sea. Their vessel shakes
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On Neptune's billow; half the flood
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Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood
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Varies again; the grisly north
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Disgorges such a tempest forth,
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That, as a duck for life that dives,
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So up and down the poor ship drives:
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The lady shrieks, and well-a-near
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Does fall in travail with her fear:
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And what ensues in this fell storm
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Shall for itself itself perform.
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I nill relate, action may
Link: 3.pro.55
Conveniently the rest convey;
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Which might not what by me is told.
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In your imagination hold
Link: 3.pro.58
This stage the ship, upon whose deck
Link: 3.pro.59
The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.
Link: 3.pro.60

Exit

SCENE I

In Scene 1 of Act 3, Pericles, the prince of Tyre, is in Antioch where he discovers a terrible secret about the king. He finds out that the king is in an incestuous relationship with his daughter and that he has killed anyone who has tried to reveal the truth. Pericles is horrified and decides to flee Antioch immediately to save his own life.

As Pericles is leaving, he encounters the king's daughter who is also horrified by her father's actions. She tells Pericles that she too is in danger and begs him to take her with him. Pericles agrees and they flee together.

However, their escape is not easy. The king sends his men after them and they are chased across the sea. Eventually, they are shipwrecked and separated. Pericles is washed ashore in Pentapolis where he is welcomed by the king and his daughter Thaisa.

Pericles falls in love with Thaisa and they marry. However, their happiness is short-lived as Thaisa dies giving birth to their daughter Marina. Pericles is devastated and decides to leave Marina with the king and queen of Tarsus while he goes on a journey to mourn his wife's death.

Scene 1 of Act 3 sets the stage for the rest of the play as Pericles' journey becomes more perilous and he encounters many challenges and difficulties. The themes of family, love, and betrayal are explored as Pericles tries to navigate his way through a world that is full of danger and deception.

Enter PERICLES, on shipboard

PERICLES
Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,
Link: 3.1.1
Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast
Link: 3.1.2
Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,
Link: 3.1.3
Having call'd them from the deep! O, still
Link: 3.1.4
Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench
Link: 3.1.5
Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,
Link: 3.1.6
How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;
Link: 3.1.7
Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle
Link: 3.1.8
Is as a whisper in the ears of death,
Link: 3.1.9
Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O
Link: 3.1.10
Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle
Link: 3.1.11
To those that cry by night, convey thy deity
Link: 3.1.12
Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs
Link: 3.1.13
Of my queen's travails!
Link: 3.1.14
Now, Lychorida!
Link: 3.1.15

LYCHORIDA
Here is a thing too young for such a place,
Link: 3.1.16
Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I
Link: 3.1.17
Am like to do: take in your arms this piece
Link: 3.1.18
Of your dead queen.
Link: 3.1.19

PERICLES
How, how, Lychorida!
Link: 3.1.20

LYCHORIDA
Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.
Link: 3.1.21
Here's all that is left living of your queen,
Link: 3.1.22
A little daughter: for the sake of it,
Link: 3.1.23
Be manly, and take comfort.
Link: 3.1.24

PERICLES
O you gods!
Link: 3.1.25
Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
Link: 3.1.26
And snatch them straight away? We here below
Link: 3.1.27
Recall not what we give, and therein may
Link: 3.1.28
Use honour with you.
Link: 3.1.29

LYCHORIDA
Patience, good sir,
Link: 3.1.30
Even for this charge.
Link: 3.1.31

PERICLES
Now, mild may be thy life!
Link: 3.1.32
For a more blustrous birth had never babe:
Link: 3.1.33
Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for
Link: 3.1.34
Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world
Link: 3.1.35
That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!
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Thou hast as chiding a nativity
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As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,
Link: 3.1.38
To herald thee from the womb: even at the first
Link: 3.1.39
Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,
Link: 3.1.40
With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods
Link: 3.1.41
Throw their best eyes upon't!
Link: 3.1.42

Enter two Sailors

First Sailor
What courage, sir? God save you!
Link: 3.1.43

PERICLES
Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;
Link: 3.1.44
It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love
Link: 3.1.45
Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,
Link: 3.1.46
I would it would be quiet.
Link: 3.1.47

First Sailor
Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?
Link: 3.1.48
Blow, and split thyself.
Link: 3.1.49

Second Sailor
But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss
Link: 3.1.50
the moon, I care not.
Link: 3.1.51

First Sailor
Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,
Link: 3.1.52
the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be
Link: 3.1.53
cleared of the dead.
Link: 3.1.54

PERICLES
That's your superstition.
Link: 3.1.55

First Sailor
Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still
Link: 3.1.56
observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore
Link: 3.1.57
briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight.
Link: 3.1.58

PERICLES
As you think meet. Most wretched queen!
Link: 3.1.59

LYCHORIDA
Here she lies, sir.
Link: 3.1.60

PERICLES
A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;
Link: 3.1.61
No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements
Link: 3.1.62
Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time
Link: 3.1.63
To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight
Link: 3.1.64
Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze;
Link: 3.1.65
Where, for a monument upon thy bones,
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And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale
Link: 3.1.67
And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,
Link: 3.1.68
Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,
Link: 3.1.69
Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,
Link: 3.1.70
My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander
Link: 3.1.71
Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe
Link: 3.1.72
Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say
Link: 3.1.73
A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.
Link: 3.1.74

Exit LYCHORIDA

Second Sailor
Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked
Link: 3.1.75
and bitumed ready.
Link: 3.1.76

PERICLES
I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?
Link: 3.1.77

Second Sailor
We are near Tarsus.
Link: 3.1.78

PERICLES
Thither, gentle mariner.
Link: 3.1.79
Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?
Link: 3.1.80

Second Sailor
By break of day, if the wind cease.
Link: 3.1.81

PERICLES
O, make for Tarsus!
Link: 3.1.82
There will I visit Cleon, for the babe
Link: 3.1.83
Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it
Link: 3.1.84
At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:
Link: 3.1.85
I'll bring the body presently.
Link: 3.1.86

Exeunt

SCENE II. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.

Scene 2 of Act 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre begins with Pericles arriving in Pentapolis, where he is greeted by Helicanus and two gentlemen. Pericles reveals that he has come to compete in the tournament for the hand of Thaisa, the daughter of King Simonides. The gentlemen are skeptical of Pericles' chances, as he is a stranger to Pentapolis and has never competed in a tournament before.

Pericles is undeterred and asks Helicanus to help him prepare for the tournament. Helicanus agrees and gives Pericles some advice on how to win the favor of the people of Pentapolis. Pericles is grateful for Helicanus' help and promises to reward him if he wins the tournament and marries Thaisa.

The scene then shifts to the palace of King Simonides, where Thaisa and her handmaidens are preparing for the tournament. Thaisa is nervous about the outcome, as she is not sure if any of the suitors will be worthy of her hand in marriage. Her handmaidens try to reassure her and tell her that she will know the right man when she sees him.

The tournament begins and Pericles proves to be a skilled and brave competitor. He defeats all of his opponents and is declared the winner of the tournament. King Simonides is impressed by Pericles' skill and bravery and offers him the hand of Thaisa in marriage. Pericles accepts and the two are married in a grand ceremony.

The scene ends with Pericles and Thaisa expressing their love for each other and looking forward to a happy life together.

Enter CERIMON, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwrecked

CERIMON
Philemon, ho!
Link: 3.2.1

Enter PHILEMON

PHILEMON
Doth my lord call?
Link: 3.2.2

CERIMON
Get fire and meat for these poor men:
Link: 3.2.3
'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.
Link: 3.2.4

Servant
I have been in many; but such a night as this,
Link: 3.2.5
Till now, I ne'er endured.
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CERIMON
Your master will be dead ere you return;
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There's nothing can be minister'd to nature
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That can recover him.
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Give this to the 'pothecary,
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And tell me how it works.
Link: 3.2.11

Exeunt all but CERIMON

Enter two Gentlemen

First Gentleman
Good morrow.
Link: 3.2.12

Second Gentleman
Good morrow to your lordship.
Link: 3.2.13

CERIMON
Gentlemen,
Link: 3.2.14
Why do you stir so early?
Link: 3.2.15

First Gentleman
Sir,
Link: 3.2.16
Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,
Link: 3.2.17
Shook as the earth did quake;
Link: 3.2.18
The very principals did seem to rend,
Link: 3.2.19
And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear
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Made me to quit the house.
Link: 3.2.21

Second Gentleman
That is the cause we trouble you so early;
Link: 3.2.22
'Tis not our husbandry.
Link: 3.2.23

CERIMON
O, you say well.
Link: 3.2.24

First Gentleman
But I much marvel that your lordship, having
Link: 3.2.25
Rich tire about you, should at these early hours
Link: 3.2.26
Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
Link: 3.2.27
'Tis most strange,
Link: 3.2.28
Nature should be so conversant with pain,
Link: 3.2.29
Being thereto not compell'd.
Link: 3.2.30

CERIMON
I hold it ever,
Link: 3.2.31
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
Link: 3.2.32
Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs
Link: 3.2.33
May the two latter darken and expend;
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But immortality attends the former.
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Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever
Link: 3.2.36
Have studied physic, through which secret art,
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By turning o'er authorities, I have,
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Together with my practise, made familiar
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To me and to my aid the blest infusions
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That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;
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And I can speak of the disturbances
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That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me
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A more content in course of true delight
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Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,
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Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,
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To please the fool and death.
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Second Gentleman
Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth
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Your charity, and hundreds call themselves
Link: 3.2.49
Your creatures, who by you have been restored:
Link: 3.2.50
And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even
Link: 3.2.51
Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon
Link: 3.2.52
Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay.
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Enter two or three Servants with a chest

First Servant
So; lift there.
Link: 3.2.54

CERIMON
What is that?
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First Servant
Sir, even now
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Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:
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'Tis of some wreck.
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CERIMON
Set 't down, let's look upon't.
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Second Gentleman
'Tis like a coffin, sir.
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CERIMON
Whate'er it be,
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'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:
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If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,
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'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.
Link: 3.2.64

Second Gentleman
'Tis so, my lord.
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CERIMON
How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!
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Did the sea cast it up?
Link: 3.2.67

First Servant
I never saw so huge a billow, sir,
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As toss'd it upon shore.
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CERIMON
Wrench it open;
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Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.
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Second Gentleman
A delicate odour.
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CERIMON
As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it.
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O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse!
Link: 3.2.74

First Gentleman
Most strange!
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CERIMON
Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured
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With full bags of spices! A passport too!
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Apollo, perfect me in the characters!
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'Here I give to understand,
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If e'er this coffin drive a-land,
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I, King Pericles, have lost
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This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
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Who finds her, give her burying;
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She was the daughter of a king:
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Besides this treasure for a fee,
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The gods requite his charity!'
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If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
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That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight.
Link: 3.2.88

Second Gentleman
Most likely, sir.
Link: 3.2.89

CERIMON
Nay, certainly to-night;
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For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough
Link: 3.2.91
That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within:
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Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.
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Death may usurp on nature many hours,
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And yet the fire of life kindle again
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The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian
Link: 3.2.96
That had nine hours lien dead,
Link: 3.2.97
Who was by good appliance recovered.
Link: 3.2.98
Well said, well said; the fire and cloths.
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The rough and woeful music that we have,
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Cause it to sound, beseech you.
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The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block!
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The music there!--I pray you, give her air.
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Gentlemen.
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This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth
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Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced
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Above five hours: see how she gins to blow
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Into life's flower again!
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First Gentleman
The heavens,
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Through you, increase our wonder and set up
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Your fame forever.
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CERIMON
She is alive; behold,
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Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels
Link: 3.2.113
Which Pericles hath lost,
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Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;
Link: 3.2.115
The diamonds of a most praised water
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Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live,
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And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,
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Rare as you seem to be.
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She moves

THAISA
O dear Diana,
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Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?
Link: 3.2.121

Second Gentleman
Is not this strange?
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First Gentleman
Most rare.
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CERIMON
Hush, my gentle neighbours!
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Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her.
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Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to,
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For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;
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And AEsculapius guide us!
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Exeunt, carrying her away

SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.

Scene 3 of Act 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a dramatic moment in the play where the protagonist, Pericles, is reunited with his daughter, Marina, after they were separated for many years.

Pericles had believed that Marina was dead, but he discovers that she is alive and living in a brothel in Mytilene. He is shocked and horrified to see his daughter in such a place, but Marina reassures him that she has maintained her virtue and has not become a prostitute.

Pericles is overjoyed to be reunited with his daughter and vows to take her away from the brothel and back to Tyre. However, their reunion is short-lived as the brothel owner, Boult, intervenes and tries to prevent Marina from leaving. Pericles is outraged by Boult's behavior and threatens to kill him if he does not release Marina.

Marina then reveals that she has a plan to escape from the brothel, and with the help of a friend, she and Pericles are able to make their escape. The scene ends with Pericles and Marina fleeing the brothel and heading towards Tyre.

Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with MARINA in her arms

PERICLES
Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone;
Link: 3.3.1
My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands
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In a litigious peace. You, and your lady,
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Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods
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Make up the rest upon you!
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CLEON
Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,
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Yet glance full wanderingly on us.
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DIONYZA
O your sweet queen!
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That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,
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To have bless'd mine eyes with her!
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PERICLES
We cannot but obey
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The powers above us. Could I rage and roar
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As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end
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Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom,
Link: 3.3.14
For she was born at sea, I have named so, here
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I charge your charity withal, leaving her
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The infant of your care; beseeching you
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To give her princely training, that she may be
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Manner'd as she is born.
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CLEON
Fear not, my lord, but think
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Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,
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For which the people's prayers still fall upon you,
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Must in your child be thought on. If neglection
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Should therein make me vile, the common body,
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By you relieved, would force me to my duty:
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But if to that my nature need a spur,
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The gods revenge it upon me and mine,
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To the end of generation!
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PERICLES
I believe you;
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Your honour and your goodness teach me to't,
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Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,
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By bright Diana, whom we honour, all
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Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain,
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Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave.
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Good madam, make me blessed in your care
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In bringing up my child.
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DIONYZA
I have one myself,
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Who shall not be more dear to my respect
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Than yours, my lord.
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PERICLES
Madam, my thanks and prayers.
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CLEON
We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore,
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Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and
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The gentlest winds of heaven.
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PERICLES
I will embrace
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Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,
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Lychorida, no tears:
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Look to your little mistress, on whose grace
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You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.
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Exeunt

SCENE IV. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.

Scene 4 of Act 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre revolves around the reunion of Pericles and his daughter, Marina. Pericles had left Marina with Cleon and Dionyza, two trusted friends, while he went off on his travels. However, when Pericles returns to see his daughter, he finds that she has been raised in a less than ideal environment.

Marina is now a young woman, known for her beauty and virtue. However, Cleon and Dionyza have become jealous of her popularity and have decided to kill her. In a stroke of luck, Marina is saved by pirates who take her away to another land.

Pericles, unaware of what has happened, arrives at Tarsus where he is greeted by Cleon and Dionyza. They tell him that Marina has died, and Pericles is devastated. However, as luck would have it, Marina is still alive and has been taken in by a kind and wealthy family. The family has given her a new name, and she is now known as the goddess Diana.

Pericles, not knowing any of this, visits the temple of Diana where he comes face to face with his daughter. Marina recognizes her father, but he does not recognize her. Marina tells her story to Pericles, and he is overjoyed to learn that his daughter is still alive. The two embrace, and Pericles is grateful to have found his daughter again.

Overall, Scene 4 of Act 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a touching and emotional reunion between a father and daughter. It highlights the themes of family, loyalty, and the power of love to overcome adversity.

Enter CERIMON and THAISA

CERIMON
Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,
Link: 3.4.1
Lay with you in your coffer: which are now
Link: 3.4.2
At your command. Know you the character?
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THAISA
It is my lord's.
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That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,
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Even on my eaning time; but whether there
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Deliver'd, by the holy gods,
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I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,
Link: 3.4.8
My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,
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A vestal livery will I take me to,
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And never more have joy.
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CERIMON
Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,
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Diana's temple is not distant far,
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Where you may abide till your date expire.
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Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine
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Shall there attend you.
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THAISA
My recompense is thanks, that's all;
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Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.
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Exeunt

Act IV

Act 4 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre sees the title character, Pericles, reunited with his daughter Marina after years of separation. Marina has been living with a group of women who have taught her to be virtuous and skilled in various arts. However, their reunion is short-lived as Pericles receives a message informing him that Antiochus, the man who had previously tried to kill him, has died. Pericles is relieved, but his happiness is short-lived as he learns that his own kingdom is in turmoil.

Pericles makes his way back to Tyre and discovers that his trusted advisor, Helicanus, has been ruling in his absence. Helicanus explains that there has been a rebellion led by Thaliard, who was sent by Antiochus to kill Pericles. The rebellion has been put down, but there are still remnants of Antiochus' followers causing trouble. Pericles decides to go to war against these followers in order to regain control of his kingdom.

Meanwhile, Marina is kidnapped by pirates and sold into prostitution. She manages to maintain her virtue and refuses to engage in any sexual activity. A gentleman who sees her beauty and purity purchases her and takes her to Mytilene. There, Marina becomes famous for her beauty and her ability to heal people with her words. She eventually meets Pericles again and they are reunited.

The act ends with Pericles learning that his wife, Thaisa, whom he had believed to be dead, is actually alive and living in a temple. He decides to go and find her, setting the stage for the final act of the play.

PROLOGUE

Enter GOWER

GOWER
Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,
Link: 4.pro.1
Welcomed and settled to his own desire.
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His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,
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Unto Diana there a votaress.
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Now to Marina bend your mind,
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Whom our fast-growing scene must find
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At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd
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In music, letters; who hath gain'd
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Of education all the grace,
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Which makes her both the heart and place
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Of general wonder. But, alack,
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That monster envy, oft the wrack
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Of earned praise, Marina's life
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Seeks to take off by treason's knife.
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And in this kind hath our Cleon
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One daughter, and a wench full grown,
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Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid
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Hight Philoten: and it is said
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For certain in our story, she
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Would ever with Marina be:
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Be't when she weaved the sleided silk
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With fingers long, small, white as milk;
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Or when she would with sharp needle wound
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The cambric, which she made more sound
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By hurting it; or when to the lute
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She sung, and made the night-bird mute,
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That still records with moan; or when
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She would with rich and constant pen
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Vail to her mistress Dian; still
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This Philoten contends in skill
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With absolute Marina: so
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With the dove of Paphos might the crow
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Vie feathers white. Marina gets
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All praises, which are paid as debts,
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And not as given. This so darks
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In Philoten all graceful marks,
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That Cleon's wife, with envy rare,
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A present murderer does prepare
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For good Marina, that her daughter
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Might stand peerless by this slaughter.
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The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,
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Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:
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And cursed Dionyza hath
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The pregnant instrument of wrath
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Prest for this blow. The unborn event
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I do commend to your content:
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Only I carry winged time
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Post on the lame feet of my rhyme;
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Which never could I so convey,
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Unless your thoughts went on my way.
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Dionyza does appear,
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With Leonine, a murderer.
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Exit

SCENE I. Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore.

In Scene 1 of Act 4 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the protagonist, Pericles, arrives in a new city and seeks refuge at a temple. He is grief-stricken and emotionally drained after losing his wife and daughter, and he prays to the goddess Diana for guidance and solace. The high priestess of the temple approaches him and inquires about his troubles. Pericles confesses his sorrow and expresses his desire to stay at the temple for a while.

The high priestess sympathizes with Pericles and offers him the comfort and protection of the temple. She assures him that no harm will come to him under the temple's roof and that he can rest easy. Pericles is grateful for her kindness and thanks her.

However, the tranquility is short-lived as Pericles is soon confronted by the knights of the city's governor, who demand that he leave the temple and surrender to them. Pericles is confused and alarmed by their aggression and refuses to comply with their demands. The high priestess intervenes and rebukes the knights for disrupting the sanctity of the temple. She reminds them that the temple is a sacred place of worship and refuge, and that they have no right to violate its sanctity.

The knights are taken aback by the high priestess's rebuke and apologize for their behavior. They explain that they were acting on the governor's orders, who suspects that Pericles is a threat to his rule. The high priestess is skeptical of their claims and demands that they leave the temple at once. She assures Pericles that he can stay as long as he needs to and that he will be safe under her protection.

Pericles is relieved and grateful for the high priestess's intervention. He thanks her and expresses his admiration for her courage and wisdom. The high priestess blesses Pericles and advises him to have faith in the goddess's plan for his life. Pericles takes her words to heart and resolves to trust in Diana's guidance as he continues his journey.

Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE

DIONYZA
Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't:
Link: 4.1.1
'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.
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Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,
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To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,
Link: 4.1.4
Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom,
Link: 4.1.5
Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which
Link: 4.1.6
Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be
Link: 4.1.7
A soldier to thy purpose.
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LEONINE
I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature.
Link: 4.1.9

DIONYZA
The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here
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she comes weeping for her only mistress' death.
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Thou art resolved?
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LEONINE
I am resolved.
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Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers

MARINA
No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,
Link: 4.1.14
To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,
Link: 4.1.15
The purple violets, and marigolds,
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Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,
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While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid,
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Born in a tempest, when my mother died,
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This world to me is like a lasting storm,
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Whirring me from my friends.
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DIONYZA
How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?
Link: 4.1.22
How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not
Link: 4.1.23
Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have
Link: 4.1.24
A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed
Link: 4.1.25
With this unprofitable woe!
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Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it.
Link: 4.1.27
Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,
Link: 4.1.28
And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come,
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Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.
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MARINA
No, I pray you;
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I'll not bereave you of your servant.
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DIONYZA
Come, come;
Link: 4.1.33
I love the king your father, and yourself,
Link: 4.1.34
With more than foreign heart. We every day
Link: 4.1.35
Expect him here: when he shall come and find
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Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,
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He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;
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Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
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No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
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Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve
Link: 4.1.41
That excellent complexion, which did steal
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The eyes of young and old. Care not for me
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I can go home alone.
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MARINA
Well, I will go;
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But yet I have no desire to it.
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DIONYZA
Come, come, I know 'tis good for you.
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Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:
Link: 4.1.48
Remember what I have said.
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LEONINE
I warrant you, madam.
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DIONYZA
I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:
Link: 4.1.51
Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:
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What! I must have a care of you.
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MARINA
My thanks, sweet madam.
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Is this wind westerly that blows?
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LEONINE
South-west.
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MARINA
When I was born, the wind was north.
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LEONINE
Was't so?
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MARINA
My father, as nurse said, did never fear,
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But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling
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His kingly hands, haling ropes;
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And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea
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That almost burst the deck.
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LEONINE
When was this?
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MARINA
When I was born:
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Never was waves nor wind more violent;
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And from the ladder-tackle washes off
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A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?'
Link: 4.1.68
And with a dropping industry they skip
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From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and
Link: 4.1.70
The master calls, and trebles their confusion.
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LEONINE
Come, say your prayers.
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MARINA
What mean you?
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LEONINE
If you require a little space for prayer,
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I grant it: pray; but be not tedious,
Link: 4.1.75
For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
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To do my work with haste.
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MARINA
Why will you kill me?
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LEONINE
To satisfy my lady.
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MARINA
Why would she have me kill'd?
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Now, as I can remember, by my troth,
Link: 4.1.81
I never did her hurt in all my life:
Link: 4.1.82
I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn
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To any living creature: believe me, la,
Link: 4.1.84
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
Link: 4.1.85
I trod upon a worm against my will,
Link: 4.1.86
But I wept for it. How have I offended,
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Wherein my death might yield her any profit,
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Or my life imply her any danger?
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LEONINE
My commission
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Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.
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MARINA
You will not do't for all the world, I hope.
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You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow
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You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,
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When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:
Link: 4.1.95
Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now:
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Your lady seeks my life; come you between,
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And save poor me, the weaker.
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LEONINE
I am sworn,
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And will dispatch.
Link: 4.1.100

He seizes her

Enter Pirates

First Pirate
Hold, villain!
Link: 4.1.101

LEONINE runs away

Second Pirate
A prize! a prize!
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Third Pirate
Half-part, mates, half-part.
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Come, let's have her aboard suddenly.
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Exeunt Pirates with MARINA

Re-enter LEONINE

LEONINE
These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;
Link: 4.1.105
And they have seized Marina. Let her go:
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There's no hope she will return. I'll swear
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she's dead,
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And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further:
Link: 4.1.109
Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,
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Not carry her aboard. If she remain,
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Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain.
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Exit

SCENE II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel.

Scene 2 of Act 4 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre opens with a conversation between Marina, the daughter of Pericles, and the governor of Mytilene. The governor has been impressed by Marina's beauty and has offered to make her his wife. Marina, however, rejects his advances and insists that she will remain chaste.

The governor is angered by Marina's rejection and decides to sell her to a brothel. Marina is horrified by this turn of events and begs the governor to reconsider. She pleads with him to spare her life and offers to do any menial tasks he desires in exchange for her freedom.

The governor is unmoved by Marina's pleas and orders her to be taken away. But just as she is being led away, a group of pirates arrive and attack the city. Marina is able to escape in the chaos and is eventually rescued by a group of fishermen.

The fishermen take Marina to a nearby temple where she is able to find refuge. There, she meets a priestess who recognizes her as the daughter of Pericles. The priestess is amazed by Marina's beauty and goodness and decides to take her under her wing.

Meanwhile, Pericles himself has landed on the shores of Mytilene in search of his daughter. He is devastated to learn that she has been sold into prostitution. But with the help of the priestess and the fishermen, Pericles is eventually reunited with his daughter, and they are able to escape Mytilene together.

Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT

Pandar
Boult!
Link: 4.2.1

BOULT
Sir?
Link: 4.2.2

Pandar
Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of
Link: 4.2.3
gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being
Link: 4.2.4
too wenchless.
Link: 4.2.5

Bawd
We were never so much out of creatures. We have but
Link: 4.2.6
poor three, and they can do no more than they can
Link: 4.2.7
do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten.
Link: 4.2.8

Pandar
Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for
Link: 4.2.9
them. If there be not a conscience to be used in
Link: 4.2.10
every trade, we shall never prosper.
Link: 4.2.11

Bawd
Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor
Link: 4.2.12
bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven--
Link: 4.2.13

BOULT
Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But
Link: 4.2.14
shall I search the market?
Link: 4.2.15

Bawd
What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind
Link: 4.2.16
will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.
Link: 4.2.17

Pandar
Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o'
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conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that
Link: 4.2.19
lay with the little baggage.
Link: 4.2.20

BOULT
Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat
Link: 4.2.21
for worms. But I'll go search the market.
Link: 4.2.22

Exit

Pandar
Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a
Link: 4.2.23
proportion to live quietly, and so give over.
Link: 4.2.24

Bawd
Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get
Link: 4.2.25
when we are old?
Link: 4.2.26

Pandar
O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor
Link: 4.2.27
the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore,
Link: 4.2.28
if in our youths we could pick up some pretty
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estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.
Link: 4.2.30
Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods
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will be strong with us for giving over.
Link: 4.2.32

Bawd
Come, other sorts offend as well as we.
Link: 4.2.33

Pandar
As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse.
Link: 4.2.34
Neither is our profession any trade; it's no
Link: 4.2.35
calling. But here comes Boult.
Link: 4.2.36

Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA

BOULT
(To MARINA) Come your ways. My masters, you say
Link: 4.2.37
she's a virgin?
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First Pirate
O, sir, we doubt it not.
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BOULT
Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see:
Link: 4.2.40
if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest.
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Bawd
Boult, has she any qualities?
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BOULT
She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent
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good clothes: there's no further necessity of
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qualities can make her be refused.
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Bawd
What's her price, Boult?
Link: 4.2.46

BOULT
I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.
Link: 4.2.47

Pandar
Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your
Link: 4.2.48
money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her
Link: 4.2.49
what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her
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entertainment.
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Exeunt Pandar and Pirates

Bawd
Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her
Link: 4.2.52
hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her
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virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall
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have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap
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thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done
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as I command you.
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BOULT
Performance shall follow.
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Exit

MARINA
Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!
Link: 4.2.59
He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,
Link: 4.2.60
Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me
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For to seek my mother!
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Bawd
Why lament you, pretty one?
Link: 4.2.63

MARINA
That I am pretty.
Link: 4.2.64

Bawd
Come, the gods have done their part in you.
Link: 4.2.65

MARINA
I accuse them not.
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Bawd
You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.
Link: 4.2.67

MARINA
The more my fault
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To scape his hands where I was like to die.
Link: 4.2.69

Bawd
Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.
Link: 4.2.70

MARINA
No.
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Bawd
Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all
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fashions: you shall fare well; you shall have the
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difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?
Link: 4.2.74

MARINA
Are you a woman?
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Bawd
What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?
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MARINA
An honest woman, or not a woman.
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Bawd
Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have
Link: 4.2.78
something to do with you. Come, you're a young
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foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have
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you.
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MARINA
The gods defend me!
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Bawd
If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men
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must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir
Link: 4.2.84
you up. Boult's returned.
Link: 4.2.85
Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?
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BOULT
I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs;
Link: 4.2.87
I have drawn her picture with my voice.
Link: 4.2.88

Bawd
And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the
Link: 4.2.89
inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?
Link: 4.2.90

BOULT
'Faith, they listened to me as they would have
Link: 4.2.91
hearkened to their father's testament. There was a
Link: 4.2.92
Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to
Link: 4.2.93
her very description.
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Bawd
We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on.
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BOULT
To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the
Link: 4.2.96
French knight that cowers i' the hams?
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Bawd
Who, Monsieur Veroles?
Link: 4.2.98

BOULT
Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the
Link: 4.2.99
proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore
Link: 4.2.100
he would see her to-morrow.
Link: 4.2.101

Bawd
Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease
Link: 4.2.102
hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will
Link: 4.2.103
come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the
Link: 4.2.104
sun.
Link: 4.2.105

BOULT
Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we
Link: 4.2.106
should lodge them with this sign.
Link: 4.2.107

Bawd
(To MARINA) Pray you, come hither awhile. You
Link: 4.2.108
have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must
Link: 4.2.109
seem to do that fearfully which you commit
Link: 4.2.110
willingly, despise profit where you have most gain.
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To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your
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lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good
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opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.
Link: 4.2.114

MARINA
I understand you not.
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BOULT
O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these
Link: 4.2.116
blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise.
Link: 4.2.117

Bawd
Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your
Link: 4.2.118
bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go
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with warrant.
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BOULT
'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if
Link: 4.2.121
I have bargained for the joint,--
Link: 4.2.122

Bawd
Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.
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BOULT
I may so.
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Bawd
Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the
Link: 4.2.125
manner of your garments well.
Link: 4.2.126

BOULT
Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.
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Bawd
Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a
Link: 4.2.128
sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom.
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When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good
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turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou
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hast the harvest out of thine own report.
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BOULT
I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake
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the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up
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the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night.
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Bawd
Come your ways; follow me.
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MARINA
If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
Link: 4.2.137
Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.
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Diana, aid my purpose!
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Bawd
What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?
Link: 4.2.140

Exeunt

SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.

Act 4, Scene 3 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre begins with Pericles, the titular character, arriving at the temple of Diana where he plans to leave his daughter, Marina, in the care of the priestesses. Pericles is still grieving the loss of his wife and believes that Marina's presence is a constant reminder of her death. He believes that by leaving her with the priestesses, she will be safe and he will be able to continue his journey without the burden of his daughter.

As Pericles is about to leave, Marina arrives and they have an emotional reunion. Pericles tries to explain his decision to leave her at the temple, but Marina pleads with him to take her with him. Marina is aware of her father's grief and tries to comfort him, telling him that she will be happy wherever he is. Pericles is moved by Marina's words and decides to take her with him on his journey.

The scene ends with Pericles and Marina leaving the temple together, but not before the priestesses and the goddess Diana bless them and wish them well on their journey. The scene serves as a turning point in the play, as Pericles begins to heal from his grief and Marina becomes a central figure in the story.

Enter CLEON and DIONYZA

DIONYZA
Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
Link: 4.3.1

CLEON
O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter
Link: 4.3.2
The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon!
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DIONYZA
I think
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You'll turn a child again.
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CLEON
Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,
Link: 4.3.6
I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady,
Link: 4.3.7
Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess
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To equal any single crown o' the earth
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I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!
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Whom thou hast poison'd too:
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If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness
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Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say
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When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
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DIONYZA
That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,
Link: 4.3.15
To foster it, nor ever to preserve.
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She died at night; I'll say so. Who can cross it?
Link: 4.3.17
Unless you play the pious innocent,
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And for an honest attribute cry out
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'She died by foul play.'
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CLEON
O, go to. Well, well,
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Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods
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Do like this worst.
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DIONYZA
Be one of those that think
Link: 4.3.24
The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,
Link: 4.3.25
And open this to Pericles. I do shame
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To think of what a noble strain you are,
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And of how coward a spirit.
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CLEON
To such proceeding
Link: 4.3.29
Who ever but his approbation added,
Link: 4.3.30
Though not his prime consent, he did not flow
Link: 4.3.31
From honourable sources.
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DIONYZA
Be it so, then:
Link: 4.3.33
Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,
Link: 4.3.34
Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.
Link: 4.3.35
She did disdain my child, and stood between
Link: 4.3.36
Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,
Link: 4.3.37
But cast their gazes on Marina's face;
Link: 4.3.38
Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
Link: 4.3.39
Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through;
Link: 4.3.40
And though you call my course unnatural,
Link: 4.3.41
You not your child well loving, yet I find
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It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
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Perform'd to your sole daughter.
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CLEON
Heavens forgive it!
Link: 4.3.45

DIONYZA
And as for Pericles,
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What should he say? We wept after her hearse,
Link: 4.3.47
And yet we mourn: her monument
Link: 4.3.48
Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs
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In glittering golden characters express
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A general praise to her, and care in us
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At whose expense 'tis done.
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CLEON
Thou art like the harpy,
Link: 4.3.53
Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face,
Link: 4.3.54
Seize with thine eagle's talons.
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DIONYZA
You are like one that superstitiously
Link: 4.3.56
Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:
Link: 4.3.57
But yet I know you'll do as I advise.
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Exeunt

SCENE IV

Scene 4 of Act 4 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre begins with Marina, who has been sold into prostitution, being taken by Lysimachus, the governor of Mytilene, to his house. Lysimachus is struck by Marina's beauty and is surprised by her calm and virtuous demeanor, which is unlike that of the other women in the brothel.

Marina, however, is not interested in becoming a prostitute and tells Lysimachus that she would rather die than be defiled. Lysimachus is moved by her words and decides to help her. He gives her money and urges her to flee the city and start a new life.

Marina is grateful for Lysimachus' kindness and prays for his happiness. She then leaves the brothel, determined to make a new life for herself and to find her father, Prince Pericles.

The scene highlights Marina's strength of character and her refusal to be defined by her circumstances. It also shows the power of kindness and compassion, as Lysimachus' actions have a profound impact on Marina's life and future.

Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus

GOWER
Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short;
Link: 4.4.1
Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't;
Link: 4.4.2
Making, to take your imagination,
Link: 4.4.3
From bourn to bourn, region to region.
Link: 4.4.4
By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime
Link: 4.4.5
To use one language in each several clime
Link: 4.4.6
Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you
Link: 4.4.7
To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you,
Link: 4.4.8
The stages of our story. Pericles
Link: 4.4.9
Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,
Link: 4.4.10
Attended on by many a lord and knight.
Link: 4.4.11
To see his daughter, all his life's delight.
Link: 4.4.12
Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late
Link: 4.4.13
Advanced in time to great and high estate,
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Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind,
Link: 4.4.15
Old Helicanus goes along behind.
Link: 4.4.16
Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
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This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought;
Link: 4.4.18
So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,--
Link: 4.4.19
To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.
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Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;
Link: 4.4.21
Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.
Link: 4.4.22
See how belief may suffer by foul show!
Link: 4.4.23
This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe;
Link: 4.4.24
And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,
Link: 4.4.25
With sighs shot through, and biggest tears
Link: 4.4.26
o'ershower'd,
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Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears
Link: 4.4.28
Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:
Link: 4.4.29
He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears
Link: 4.4.30
A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,
Link: 4.4.31
And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit.
Link: 4.4.32
The epitaph is for Marina writ
Link: 4.4.33
By wicked Dionyza.
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'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here,
Link: 4.4.35
Who wither'd in her spring of year.
Link: 4.4.36
She was of Tyrus the king's daughter,
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On whom foul death hath made this slaughter;
Link: 4.4.38
Marina was she call'd; and at her birth,
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Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:
Link: 4.4.40
Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,
Link: 4.4.41
Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:
Link: 4.4.42
Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,
Link: 4.4.43
Make raging battery upon shores of flint.'
Link: 4.4.44
No visor does become black villany
Link: 4.4.45
So well as soft and tender flattery.
Link: 4.4.46
Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead,
Link: 4.4.47
And bear his courses to be ordered
Link: 4.4.48
By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play
Link: 4.4.49
His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day
Link: 4.4.50
In her unholy service. Patience, then,
Link: 4.4.51
And think you now are all in Mytilene.
Link: 4.4.52

Exit

SCENE V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel.

In Scene 5 of Act 4, we see the character of Marina being sold into prostitution by pirates. She is taken to a brothel and put on display for potential customers. However, Marina refuses to succumb to this fate and uses her wit and intelligence to convince her first customer, Lysimachus, to take pity on her and not engage in any sexual activity. She tells him her life story and how she was raised to be virtuous and educated, but was robbed of her rightful place as a princess. Moved by her words, Lysimachus agrees to help her escape her situation and provides her with money and a letter of recommendation. Marina uses this opportunity to leave the brothel and start a new life.

Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen

First Gentleman
Did you ever hear the like?
Link: 4.5.1

Second Gentleman
No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she
Link: 4.5.2
being once gone.
Link: 4.5.3

First Gentleman
But to have divinity preached there! did you ever
Link: 4.5.4
dream of such a thing?
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Second Gentleman
No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses:
Link: 4.5.6
shall's go hear the vestals sing?
Link: 4.5.7

First Gentleman
I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I
Link: 4.5.8
am out of the road of rutting for ever.
Link: 4.5.9

Exeunt

SCENE VI. The same. A room in the brothel.

Scene 6 of Act 4 involves the reunion of Pericles with his daughter Marina. Pericles, who has been separated from Marina for a long time, finally finds her in a brothel after being directed there by the goddess Diana.

Pericles is overjoyed to see his daughter and tells her how much he has missed her. Marina, who has been raised by the brothel owner, is surprised and happy to see her father as well. Pericles then tells Marina about the death of her mother, which Marina takes very hard.

Pericles then reveals that he is the Prince of Tyre, and Marina is his heir. He also tells her that he plans to return to Tyre with her. Marina is thrilled to hear this news and agrees to leave with her father.

The scene ends with Pericles and Marina leaving the brothel and setting off on their journey back to Tyre. The reunion between father and daughter is a happy moment in the play, and it marks a turning point in Pericles' life, as he is finally able to reunite with his family and reclaim his rightful place as ruler of Tyre.

Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT

Pandar
Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she
Link: 4.6.1
had ne'er come here.
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Bawd
Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god
Link: 4.6.3
Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must
Link: 4.6.4
either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she
Link: 4.6.5
should do for clients her fitment, and do me the
Link: 4.6.6
kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,
Link: 4.6.7
her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her
Link: 4.6.8
knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil,
Link: 4.6.9
if he should cheapen a kiss of her.
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BOULT
'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us
Link: 4.6.11
of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.
Link: 4.6.12

Pandar
Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!
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Bawd
'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the
Link: 4.6.14
way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.
Link: 4.6.15

BOULT
We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish
Link: 4.6.16
baggage would but give way to customers.
Link: 4.6.17

Enter LYSIMACHUS

LYSIMACHUS
How now! How a dozen of virginities?
Link: 4.6.18

Bawd
Now, the gods to-bless your honour!
Link: 4.6.19

BOULT
I am glad to see your honour in good health.
Link: 4.6.20

LYSIMACHUS
You may so; 'tis the better for you that your
Link: 4.6.21
resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!
Link: 4.6.22
wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal
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withal, and defy the surgeon?
Link: 4.6.24

Bawd
We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never
Link: 4.6.25
came her like in Mytilene.
Link: 4.6.26

LYSIMACHUS
If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.
Link: 4.6.27

Bawd
Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.
Link: 4.6.28

LYSIMACHUS
Well, call forth, call forth.
Link: 4.6.29

BOULT
For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall
Link: 4.6.30
see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--
Link: 4.6.31

LYSIMACHUS
What, prithee?
Link: 4.6.32

BOULT
O, sir, I can be modest.
Link: 4.6.33

LYSIMACHUS
That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it
Link: 4.6.34
gives a good report to a number to be chaste.
Link: 4.6.35

Exit BOULT

Bawd
Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never
Link: 4.6.36
plucked yet, I can assure you.
Link: 4.6.37
Is she not a fair creature?
Link: 4.6.38

LYSIMACHUS
'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea.
Link: 4.6.39
Well, there's for you: leave us.
Link: 4.6.40

Bawd
I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and
Link: 4.6.41
I'll have done presently.
Link: 4.6.42

LYSIMACHUS
I beseech you, do.
Link: 4.6.43

Bawd
(To MARINA) First, I would have you note, this is
Link: 4.6.44
an honourable man.
Link: 4.6.45

MARINA
I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.
Link: 4.6.46

Bawd
Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man
Link: 4.6.47
whom I am bound to.
Link: 4.6.48

MARINA
If he govern the country, you are bound to him
Link: 4.6.49
indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not.
Link: 4.6.50

Bawd
Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will
Link: 4.6.51
you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold.
Link: 4.6.52

MARINA
What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive.
Link: 4.6.53

LYSIMACHUS
Ha' you done?
Link: 4.6.54

Bawd
My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some
Link: 4.6.55
pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will
Link: 4.6.56
leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways.
Link: 4.6.57

Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and BOULT

LYSIMACHUS
Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?
Link: 4.6.58

MARINA
What trade, sir?
Link: 4.6.59

LYSIMACHUS
Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend.
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MARINA
I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it.
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LYSIMACHUS
How long have you been of this profession?
Link: 4.6.62

MARINA
E'er since I can remember.
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LYSIMACHUS
Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at
Link: 4.6.64
five or at seven?
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MARINA
Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.
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LYSIMACHUS
Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a
Link: 4.6.67
creature of sale.
Link: 4.6.68

MARINA
Do you know this house to be a place of such resort,
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and will come into 't? I hear say you are of
Link: 4.6.70
honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.
Link: 4.6.71

LYSIMACHUS
Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?
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MARINA
Who is my principal?
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LYSIMACHUS
Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots
Link: 4.6.74
of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something
Link: 4.6.75
of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious
Link: 4.6.76
wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my
Link: 4.6.77
authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly
Link: 4.6.78
upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place:
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come, come.
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MARINA
If you were born to honour, show it now;
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If put upon you, make the judgment good
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That thought you worthy of it.
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LYSIMACHUS
How's this? how's this? Some more; be sage.
Link: 4.6.84

MARINA
For me,
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That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
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Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,
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Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,
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O, that the gods
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Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
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Though they did change me to the meanest bird
Link: 4.6.91
That flies i' the purer air!
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LYSIMACHUS
I did not think
Link: 4.6.93
Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst.
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Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,
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Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee:
Link: 4.6.96
Persever in that clear way thou goest,
Link: 4.6.97
And the gods strengthen thee!
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MARINA
The good gods preserve you!
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LYSIMACHUS
For me, be you thoughten
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That I came with no ill intent; for to me
Link: 4.6.101
The very doors and windows savour vilely.
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Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and
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I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.
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Hold, here's more gold for thee.
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A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
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That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost
Link: 4.6.107
Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.
Link: 4.6.108

Re-enter BOULT

BOULT
I beseech your honour, one piece for me.
Link: 4.6.109

LYSIMACHUS
Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!
Link: 4.6.110
Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,
Link: 4.6.111
Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!
Link: 4.6.112

Exit

BOULT
How's this? We must take another course with you.
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If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a
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breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope,
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shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like
Link: 4.6.116
a spaniel. Come your ways.
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MARINA
Whither would you have me?
Link: 4.6.118

BOULT
I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common
Link: 4.6.119
hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll
Link: 4.6.120
have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.
Link: 4.6.121

Re-enter Bawd

Bawd
How now! what's the matter?
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BOULT
Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy
Link: 4.6.123
words to the Lord Lysimachus.
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Bawd
O abominable!
Link: 4.6.125

BOULT
She makes our profession as it were to stink afore
Link: 4.6.126
the face of the gods.
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Bawd
Marry, hang her up for ever!
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BOULT
The nobleman would have dealt with her like a
Link: 4.6.129
nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a
Link: 4.6.130
snowball; saying his prayers too.
Link: 4.6.131

Bawd
Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure:
Link: 4.6.132
crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable.
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BOULT
An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she
Link: 4.6.134
is, she shall be ploughed.
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MARINA
Hark, hark, you gods!
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Bawd
She conjures: away with her! Would she had never
Link: 4.6.137
come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born
Link: 4.6.138
to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind?
Link: 4.6.139
Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!
Link: 4.6.140

Exit

BOULT
Come, mistress; come your ways with me.
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MARINA
Whither wilt thou have me?
Link: 4.6.142

BOULT
To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.
Link: 4.6.143

MARINA
Prithee, tell me one thing first.
Link: 4.6.144

BOULT
Come now, your one thing.
Link: 4.6.145

MARINA
What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?
Link: 4.6.146

BOULT
Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.
Link: 4.6.147

MARINA
Neither of these are so bad as thou art,
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Since they do better thee in their command.
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Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend
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Of hell would not in reputation change:
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Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every
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Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib;
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To the choleric fisting of every rogue
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Thy ear is liable; thy food is such
Link: 4.6.155
As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.
Link: 4.6.156

BOULT
What would you have me do? go to the wars, would
Link: 4.6.157
you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss
Link: 4.6.158
of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to
Link: 4.6.159
buy him a wooden one?
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MARINA
Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty
Link: 4.6.161
Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth;
Link: 4.6.162
Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
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Any of these ways are yet better than this;
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For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
Link: 4.6.165
Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods
Link: 4.6.166
Would safely deliver me from this place!
Link: 4.6.167
Here, here's gold for thee.
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If that thy master would gain by thee,
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Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
Link: 4.6.170
With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast:
Link: 4.6.171
And I will undertake all these to teach.
Link: 4.6.172
I doubt not but this populous city will
Link: 4.6.173
Yield many scholars.
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BOULT
But can you teach all this you speak of?
Link: 4.6.175

MARINA
Prove that I cannot, take me home again,
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And prostitute me to the basest groom
Link: 4.6.177
That doth frequent your house.
Link: 4.6.178

BOULT
Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can
Link: 4.6.179
place thee, I will.
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MARINA
But amongst honest women.
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BOULT
'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.
Link: 4.6.182
But since my master and mistress have bought you,
Link: 4.6.183
there's no going but by their consent: therefore I
Link: 4.6.184
will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I
Link: 4.6.185
doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough.
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Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways.
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Exeunt

Act V

Act 5 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a dramatic conclusion to the story of Pericles, a prince who has faced numerous challenges and hardships throughout his journey. In this act, Pericles reunites with his long-lost daughter Marina, who he had believed to be dead.

Pericles finds Marina in the city of Mytilene, where she has been living as a respected and virtuous woman. However, their reunion is cut short by the news of the death of Thaisa, Pericles' wife and Marina's mother. Pericles is devastated by this news and decides to return to Tyre.

On the way back to Tyre, Pericles is caught in a storm and is shipwrecked on the shores of Pentapolis. He is welcomed by the king of Pentapolis, who is impressed by Pericles' bravery and skill in a jousting competition. The king offers Pericles his daughter's hand in marriage, and Pericles accepts.

Pericles and his new wife, Thaisa, set sail for Tyre, but Thaisa dies in childbirth. In his grief, Pericles orders that her body be thrown overboard. However, unbeknownst to him, Thaisa is not dead but has been rescued by a group of fishermen.

Years later, Pericles returns to Mytilene and is reunited with Marina. He learns of her virtuous life and the good deeds she has done for the people of Mytilene. Pericles is overjoyed to see his daughter again and is grateful for the blessings that life has bestowed upon him.

PROLOGUE

Enter GOWER

GOWER
Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances
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Into an honest house, our story says.
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She sings like one immortal, and she dances
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As goddess-like to her admired lays;
Link: 5.pro.4
Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes
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Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
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That even her art sisters the natural roses;
Link: 5.pro.7
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:
Link: 5.pro.8
That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
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Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain
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She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place;
Link: 5.pro.11
And to her father turn our thoughts again,
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Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;
Link: 5.pro.13
Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived
Link: 5.pro.14
Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast
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Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
Link: 5.pro.16
God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence
Link: 5.pro.17
Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
Link: 5.pro.18
His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense;
Link: 5.pro.19
And to him in his barge with fervor hies.
Link: 5.pro.20
In your supposing once more put your sight
Link: 5.pro.21
Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark:
Link: 5.pro.22
Where what is done in action, more, if might,
Link: 5.pro.23
Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark.
Link: 5.pro.24

Exit

SCENE I. On board PERICLES' ship, off Mytilene. A close pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel.

Scene 1 of Act 5 opens with Pericles, the Prince of Tyre, arriving at the court of King Simonides in Pentapolis. Pericles has come to take part in a tournament organized by King Simonides, which is being held to celebrate his daughter's birthday.

Pericles is introduced to Thaisa, Simonides' daughter, and the two are immediately attracted to each other. However, Thaisa is not interested in the tournament or the suitors who have come to win her hand in marriage. She is more interested in Pericles and the stories he has to tell.

As the tournament begins, Pericles proves to be a skilled fighter and wins every match. However, he is not interested in the prize of marrying Thaisa, as he is still mourning the loss of his wife and daughter.

Despite Pericles' reluctance, Thaisa convinces him to marry her and they are wed in a grand ceremony. However, their happiness is short-lived as a storm arises on their voyage back to Tyre. Thaisa gives birth to a daughter during the storm but dies soon after.

Pericles, grief-stricken, orders his daughter to be thrown overboard, believing her to be cursed. However, the baby is rescued by pirates and eventually makes her way to Ephesus, where she is raised by a kind family.

Scene 1 of Act 5 sets the stage for the tragic events that will unfold in the rest of the play, as Pericles struggles to come to terms with his loss and searches for his daughter.

Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS

Tyrian Sailor
(To the Sailor of Mytilene) Where is lord Helicanus?
Link: 5.1.1
he can resolve you.
Link: 5.1.2
O, here he is.
Link: 5.1.3
Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,
Link: 5.1.4
And in it is Lysimachus the governor,
Link: 5.1.5
Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?
Link: 5.1.6

HELICANUS
That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.
Link: 5.1.7

Tyrian Sailor
Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.
Link: 5.1.8

Enter two or three Gentlemen

First Gentleman
Doth your lordship call?
Link: 5.1.9

HELICANUS
Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard;
Link: 5.1.10
I pray ye, greet them fairly.
Link: 5.1.11

The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go on board the barge

Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with the Gentlemen and the two Sailors

Tyrian Sailor
Sir,
Link: 5.1.12
This is the man that can, in aught you would,
Link: 5.1.13
Resolve you.
Link: 5.1.14

LYSIMACHUS
Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!
Link: 5.1.15

HELICANUS
And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,
Link: 5.1.16
And die as I would do.
Link: 5.1.17

LYSIMACHUS
You wish me well.
Link: 5.1.18
Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,
Link: 5.1.19
Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,
Link: 5.1.20
I made to it, to know of whence you are.
Link: 5.1.21

HELICANUS
First, what is your place?
Link: 5.1.22

LYSIMACHUS
I am the governor of this place you lie before.
Link: 5.1.23

HELICANUS
Sir,
Link: 5.1.24
Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;
Link: 5.1.25
A man who for this three months hath not spoken
Link: 5.1.26
To any one, nor taken sustenance
Link: 5.1.27
But to prorogue his grief.
Link: 5.1.28

LYSIMACHUS
Upon what ground is his distemperature?
Link: 5.1.29

HELICANUS
'Twould be too tedious to repeat;
Link: 5.1.30
But the main grief springs from the loss
Link: 5.1.31
Of a beloved daughter and a wife.
Link: 5.1.32

LYSIMACHUS
May we not see him?
Link: 5.1.33

HELICANUS
You may;
Link: 5.1.34
But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any.
Link: 5.1.35

LYSIMACHUS
Yet let me obtain my wish.
Link: 5.1.36

HELICANUS
Behold him.
Link: 5.1.37
This was a goodly person,
Link: 5.1.38
Till the disaster that, one mortal night,
Link: 5.1.39
Drove him to this.
Link: 5.1.40

LYSIMACHUS
Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!
Link: 5.1.41
Hail, royal sir!
Link: 5.1.42

HELICANUS
It is in vain; he will not speak to you.
Link: 5.1.43

First Lord
Sir,
Link: 5.1.44
We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,
Link: 5.1.45
Would win some words of him.
Link: 5.1.46

LYSIMACHUS
'Tis well bethought.
Link: 5.1.47
She questionless with her sweet harmony
Link: 5.1.48
And other chosen attractions, would allure,
Link: 5.1.49
And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,
Link: 5.1.50
Which now are midway stopp'd:
Link: 5.1.51
She is all happy as the fairest of all,
Link: 5.1.52
And, with her fellow maids is now upon
Link: 5.1.53
The leafy shelter that abuts against
Link: 5.1.54
The island's side.
Link: 5.1.55

Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS

HELICANUS
Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit
Link: 5.1.56
That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness
Link: 5.1.57
We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you
Link: 5.1.58
That for our gold we may provision have,
Link: 5.1.59
Wherein we are not destitute for want,
Link: 5.1.60
But weary for the staleness.
Link: 5.1.61

LYSIMACHUS
O, sir, a courtesy
Link: 5.1.62
Which if we should deny, the most just gods
Link: 5.1.63
For every graff would send a caterpillar,
Link: 5.1.64
And so afflict our province. Yet once more
Link: 5.1.65
Let me entreat to know at large the cause
Link: 5.1.66
Of your king's sorrow.
Link: 5.1.67

HELICANUS
Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:
Link: 5.1.68
But, see, I am prevented.
Link: 5.1.69

Re-enter, from the barge, Lord, with MARINA, and a young Lady

LYSIMACHUS
O, here is
Link: 5.1.70
The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!
Link: 5.1.71
Is't not a goodly presence?
Link: 5.1.72

HELICANUS
She's a gallant lady.
Link: 5.1.73

LYSIMACHUS
She's such a one, that, were I well assured
Link: 5.1.74
Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,
Link: 5.1.75
I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.
Link: 5.1.76
Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty
Link: 5.1.77
Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:
Link: 5.1.78
If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
Link: 5.1.79
Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,
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Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay
Link: 5.1.81
As thy desires can wish.
Link: 5.1.82

MARINA
Sir, I will use
Link: 5.1.83
My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided
Link: 5.1.84
That none but I and my companion maid
Link: 5.1.85
Be suffer'd to come near him.
Link: 5.1.86

LYSIMACHUS
Come, let us leave her;
Link: 5.1.87
And the gods make her prosperous!
Link: 5.1.88

MARINA sings

LYSIMACHUS
Mark'd he your music?
Link: 5.1.89

MARINA
No, nor look'd on us.
Link: 5.1.90

LYSIMACHUS
See, she will speak to him.
Link: 5.1.91

MARINA
Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.
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PERICLES
Hum, ha!
Link: 5.1.93

MARINA
I am a maid,
Link: 5.1.94
My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,
Link: 5.1.95
But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,
Link: 5.1.96
My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief
Link: 5.1.97
Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd.
Link: 5.1.98
Though wayward fortune did malign my state,
Link: 5.1.99
My derivation was from ancestors
Link: 5.1.100
Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:
Link: 5.1.101
But time hath rooted out my parentage,
Link: 5.1.102
And to the world and awkward casualties
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Bound me in servitude.
Link: 5.1.104
I will desist;
Link: 5.1.105
But there is something glows upon my cheek,
Link: 5.1.106
And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.'
Link: 5.1.107

PERICLES
My fortunes--parentage--good parentage--
Link: 5.1.108
To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you?
Link: 5.1.109

MARINA
I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,
Link: 5.1.110
You would not do me violence.
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PERICLES
I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.
Link: 5.1.112
You are like something that--What country-woman?
Link: 5.1.113
Here of these shores?
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MARINA
No, nor of any shores:
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Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
Link: 5.1.116
No other than I appear.
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PERICLES
I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.
Link: 5.1.118
My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one
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My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows;
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Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;
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As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like
Link: 5.1.122
And cased as richly; in pace another Juno;
Link: 5.1.123
Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,
Link: 5.1.124
The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?
Link: 5.1.125

MARINA
Where I am but a stranger: from the deck
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You may discern the place.
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PERICLES
Where were you bred?
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And how achieved you these endowments, which
Link: 5.1.129
You make more rich to owe?
Link: 5.1.130

MARINA
If I should tell my history, it would seem
Link: 5.1.131
Like lies disdain'd in the reporting.
Link: 5.1.132

PERICLES
Prithee, speak:
Link: 5.1.133
Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st
Link: 5.1.134
Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace
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For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will
Link: 5.1.136
believe thee,
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And make my senses credit thy relation
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To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st
Link: 5.1.139
Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?
Link: 5.1.140
Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back--
Link: 5.1.141
Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest
Link: 5.1.142
From good descending?
Link: 5.1.143

MARINA
So indeed I did.
Link: 5.1.144

PERICLES
Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st
Link: 5.1.145
Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury,
Link: 5.1.146
And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,
Link: 5.1.147
If both were open'd.
Link: 5.1.148

MARINA
Some such thing
Link: 5.1.149
I said, and said no more but what my thoughts
Link: 5.1.150
Did warrant me was likely.
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PERICLES
Tell thy story;
Link: 5.1.152
If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part
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Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
Link: 5.1.154
Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look
Link: 5.1.155
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Link: 5.1.156
Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?
Link: 5.1.157
How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
Link: 5.1.158
Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me.
Link: 5.1.159

MARINA
My name is Marina.
Link: 5.1.160

PERICLES
O, I am mock'd,
Link: 5.1.161
And thou by some incensed god sent hither
Link: 5.1.162
To make the world to laugh at me.
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MARINA
Patience, good sir,
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Or here I'll cease.
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PERICLES
Nay, I'll be patient.
Link: 5.1.166
Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me,
Link: 5.1.167
To call thyself Marina.
Link: 5.1.168

MARINA
The name
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Was given me by one that had some power,
Link: 5.1.170
My father, and a king.
Link: 5.1.171

PERICLES
How! a king's daughter?
Link: 5.1.172
And call'd Marina?
Link: 5.1.173

MARINA
You said you would believe me;
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But, not to be a troubler of your peace,
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I will end here.
Link: 5.1.176

PERICLES
But are you flesh and blood?
Link: 5.1.177
Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?
Link: 5.1.178
Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born?
Link: 5.1.179
And wherefore call'd Marina?
Link: 5.1.180

MARINA
Call'd Marina
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For I was born at sea.
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PERICLES
At sea! what mother?
Link: 5.1.183

MARINA
My mother was the daughter of a king;
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Who died the minute I was born,
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As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft
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Deliver'd weeping.
Link: 5.1.187

PERICLES
O, stop there a little!
Link: 5.1.188
This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Link: 5.1.189
Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:
Link: 5.1.190
My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred?
Link: 5.1.191
I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,
Link: 5.1.192
And never interrupt you.
Link: 5.1.193

MARINA
You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er.
Link: 5.1.194

PERICLES
I will believe you by the syllable
Link: 5.1.195
Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:
Link: 5.1.196
How came you in these parts? where were you bred?
Link: 5.1.197

MARINA
The king my father did in Tarsus leave me;
Link: 5.1.198
Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
Link: 5.1.199
Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd
Link: 5.1.200
A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,
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A crew of pirates came and rescued me;
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Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,
Link: 5.1.203
Whither will you have me? Why do you weep?
Link: 5.1.204
It may be,
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You think me an impostor: no, good faith;
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I am the daughter to King Pericles,
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If good King Pericles be.
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PERICLES
Ho, Helicanus!
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HELICANUS
Calls my lord?
Link: 5.1.210

PERICLES
Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,
Link: 5.1.211
Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,
Link: 5.1.212
What this maid is, or what is like to be,
Link: 5.1.213
That thus hath made me weep?
Link: 5.1.214

HELICANUS
I know not; but
Link: 5.1.215
Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene
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Speaks nobly of her.
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LYSIMACHUS
She would never tell
Link: 5.1.218
Her parentage; being demanded that,
Link: 5.1.219
She would sit still and weep.
Link: 5.1.220

PERICLES
O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir;
Link: 5.1.221
Give me a gash, put me to present pain;
Link: 5.1.222
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
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O'erbear the shores of my mortality,
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And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,
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Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget;
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Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,
Link: 5.1.227
And found at sea again! O Helicanus,
Link: 5.1.228
Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud
Link: 5.1.229
As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.
Link: 5.1.230
What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,
Link: 5.1.231
For truth can never be confirm'd enough,
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Though doubts did ever sleep.
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MARINA
First, sir, I pray,
Link: 5.1.234
What is your title?
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PERICLES
I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now
Link: 5.1.236
My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said
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Thou hast been godlike perfect,
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The heir of kingdoms and another like
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To Pericles thy father.
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MARINA
Is it no more to be your daughter than
Link: 5.1.241
To say my mother's name was Thaisa?
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Thaisa was my mother, who did end
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The minute I began.
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PERICLES
Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.
Link: 5.1.245
Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;
Link: 5.1.246
She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
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By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
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When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
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She is thy very princess. Who is this?
Link: 5.1.250

HELICANUS
Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,
Link: 5.1.251
Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
Link: 5.1.252
Did come to see you.
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PERICLES
I embrace you.
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Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding.
Link: 5.1.255
O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?
Link: 5.1.256
Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
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O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
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How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?
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HELICANUS
My lord, I hear none.
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PERICLES
None!
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The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.
Link: 5.1.262

LYSIMACHUS
It is not good to cross him; give him way.
Link: 5.1.263

PERICLES
Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?
Link: 5.1.264

LYSIMACHUS
My lord, I hear.
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Music

PERICLES
Most heavenly music!
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It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber
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Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest.
Link: 5.1.268

Sleeps

LYSIMACHUS
A pillow for his head:
Link: 5.1.269
So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,
Link: 5.1.270
If this but answer to my just belief,
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I'll well remember you.
Link: 5.1.272

Exeunt all but PERICLES

DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision

DIANA
My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,
Link: 5.1.273
And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
Link: 5.1.274
There, when my maiden priests are met together,
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Before the people all,
Link: 5.1.276
Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:
Link: 5.1.277
To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call
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And give them repetition to the life.
Link: 5.1.279
Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe;
Link: 5.1.280
Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!
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Awake, and tell thy dream.
Link: 5.1.282

Disappears

PERICLES
Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
Link: 5.1.283
I will obey thee. Helicanus!
Link: 5.1.284

Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA

HELICANUS
Sir?
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PERICLES
My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike
Link: 5.1.286
The inhospitable Cleon; but I am
Link: 5.1.287
For other service first: toward Ephesus
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Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why.
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Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
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And give you gold for such provision
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As our intents will need?
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LYSIMACHUS
Sir,
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With all my heart; and, when you come ashore,
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I have another suit.
Link: 5.1.295

PERICLES
You shall prevail,
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Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems
Link: 5.1.297
You have been noble towards her.
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LYSIMACHUS
Sir, lend me your arm.
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PERICLES
Come, my Marina.
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Exeunt

SCENE II

In Scene 2 of Act 5, the protagonist Pericles arrives in Mytilene and is greeted by Lysimachus, the governor of the city. Pericles is disguised as a poor man and asks Lysimachus for assistance in finding work. Lysimachus is impressed with Pericles' honesty and offers him a job as a fisherman.

As Pericles begins to work, he overhears Lysimachus and some other men discussing a young woman named Marina, who is the daughter of Pericles. They are planning to take her to a brothel and sell her into prostitution. Pericles is horrified and decides to intervene.

Pericles disguises himself as a knight and goes to the brothel, where he meets Marina. He reveals his true identity to her and they are joyfully reunited. Pericles then exposes the men's plan to Lysimachus, who is appalled and punishes the men for their actions.

Pericles and Marina then set sail for Tyre, where they are greeted by Pericles' old friend Helicanus. Pericles tells Helicanus about his adventures and the three of them sail off into the sunset, happy and reunited.

Enter GOWER, before the temple of DIANA at Ephesus

GOWER
Now our sands are almost run;
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More a little, and then dumb.
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This, my last boon, give me,
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For such kindness must relieve me,
Link: 5.2.4
That you aptly will suppose
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What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
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What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
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The regent made in Mytilene
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To greet the king. So he thrived,
Link: 5.2.9
That he is promised to be wived
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To fair Marina; but in no wise
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Till he had done his sacrifice,
Link: 5.2.12
As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
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The interim, pray you, all confound.
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In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,
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And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
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At Ephesus, the temple see,
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Our king and all his company.
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That he can hither come so soon,
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Is by your fancy's thankful doom.
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Exit

SCENE III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus; THAISA standing near the altar, as high priestess; a number of Virgins on each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending.

Scene 3 of Act 5 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre follows the reunion of Pericles with his long lost daughter, Marina. Pericles, who had believed Marina to be dead, is overjoyed to discover that she is alive and well. This scene takes place in a temple in Ephesus where Pericles is seeking refuge from his enemies.

As the scene opens, Marina is singing a song to the goddess Diana. Pericles, who is disguised as a pilgrim, is moved by her beautiful voice and enters the temple. Marina, who does not recognize her father, offers to sing for him. Pericles is so moved by her song that he reveals his identity to her.

Marina is overjoyed to see her father and they embrace. Pericles tells Marina of his many trials and tribulations, including the loss of his wife and the belief that Marina had died. Marina, in turn, tells her father of her own struggles, including being abducted and sold into prostitution.

Pericles is filled with gratitude for the goddess Diana, who he believes has brought him and his daughter back together. He decides to make an offering to the goddess and asks Marina to accompany him to the altar. There, he offers thanks for his reunion with Marina and prays for her continued safety and happiness.

The scene ends with Pericles and Marina leaving the temple together, both grateful for their reunion and looking forward to their future together.

Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady

PERICLES
Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
Link: 5.3.1
I here confess myself the king of Tyre;
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Who, frighted from my country, did wed
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At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.
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At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
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A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess,
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Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus
Link: 5.3.7
Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years
Link: 5.3.8
He sought to murder: but her better stars
Link: 5.3.9
Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore
Link: 5.3.10
Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Link: 5.3.11
Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Link: 5.3.12
Made known herself my daughter.
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THAISA
Voice and favour!
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You are, you are--O royal Pericles!
Link: 5.3.15

Faints

PERICLES
What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!
Link: 5.3.16

CERIMON
Noble sir,
Link: 5.3.17
If you have told Diana's altar true,
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This is your wife.
Link: 5.3.19

PERICLES
Reverend appearer, no;
Link: 5.3.20
I threw her overboard with these very arms.
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CERIMON
Upon this coast, I warrant you.
Link: 5.3.22

PERICLES
'Tis most certain.
Link: 5.3.23

CERIMON
Look to the lady; O, she's but o'erjoy'd.
Link: 5.3.24
Early in blustering morn this lady was
Link: 5.3.25
Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,
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Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and placed her
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Here in Diana's temple.
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PERICLES
May we see them?
Link: 5.3.29

CERIMON
Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
Link: 5.3.30
Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered.
Link: 5.3.31

THAISA
O, let me look!
Link: 5.3.32
If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Link: 5.3.33
Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
Link: 5.3.34
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Link: 5.3.35
Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
Link: 5.3.36
Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,
Link: 5.3.37
A birth, and death?
Link: 5.3.38

PERICLES
The voice of dead Thaisa!
Link: 5.3.39

THAISA
That Thaisa am I, supposed dead
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And drown'd.
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PERICLES
Immortal Dian!
Link: 5.3.42

THAISA
Now I know you better.
Link: 5.3.43
When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
Link: 5.3.44
The king my father gave you such a ring.
Link: 5.3.45

Shows a ring

PERICLES
This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness
Link: 5.3.46
Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,
Link: 5.3.47
That on the touching of her lips I may
Link: 5.3.48
Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried
Link: 5.3.49
A second time within these arms.
Link: 5.3.50

MARINA
My heart
Link: 5.3.51
Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.
Link: 5.3.52

Kneels to THAISA

PERICLES
Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;
Link: 5.3.53
Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina
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For she was yielded there.
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THAISA
Blest, and mine own!
Link: 5.3.56

HELICANUS
Hail, madam, and my queen!
Link: 5.3.57

THAISA
I know you not.
Link: 5.3.58

PERICLES
You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,
Link: 5.3.59
I left behind an ancient substitute:
Link: 5.3.60
Can you remember what I call'd the man?
Link: 5.3.61
I have named him oft.
Link: 5.3.62

THAISA
'Twas Helicanus then.
Link: 5.3.63

PERICLES
Still confirmation:
Link: 5.3.64
Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.
Link: 5.3.65
Now do I long to hear how you were found;
Link: 5.3.66
How possibly preserved; and who to thank,
Link: 5.3.67
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.
Link: 5.3.68

THAISA
Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,
Link: 5.3.69
Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can
Link: 5.3.70
From first to last resolve you.
Link: 5.3.71

PERICLES
Reverend sir,
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The gods can have no mortal officer
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More like a god than you. Will you deliver
Link: 5.3.74
How this dead queen re-lives?
Link: 5.3.75

CERIMON
I will, my lord.
Link: 5.3.76
Beseech you, first go with me to my house,
Link: 5.3.77
Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
Link: 5.3.78
How she came placed here in the temple;
Link: 5.3.79
No needful thing omitted.
Link: 5.3.80

PERICLES
Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I
Link: 5.3.81
Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,
Link: 5.3.82
This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,
Link: 5.3.83
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,
Link: 5.3.84
This ornament
Link: 5.3.85
Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;
Link: 5.3.86
And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,
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To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.
Link: 5.3.88

THAISA
Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
Link: 5.3.89
My father's dead.
Link: 5.3.90

PERICLES
Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
Link: 5.3.91
We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
Link: 5.3.92
Will in that kingdom spend our following days:
Link: 5.3.93
Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Link: 5.3.94
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
Link: 5.3.95
To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way.
Link: 5.3.96

Exeunt

Enter GOWER

GOWER
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
Link: 5.3.97
Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
Link: 5.3.98
In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,
Link: 5.3.99
Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,
Link: 5.3.100
Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,
Link: 5.3.101
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last:
Link: 5.3.102
In Helicanus may you well descry
Link: 5.3.103
A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
Link: 5.3.104
In reverend Cerimon there well appears
Link: 5.3.105
The worth that learned charity aye wears:
Link: 5.3.106
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Link: 5.3.107
Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name
Link: 5.3.108
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
Link: 5.3.109
That him and his they in his palace burn;
Link: 5.3.110
The gods for murder seemed so content
Link: 5.3.111
To punish them; although not done, but meant.
Link: 5.3.112
So, on your patience evermore attending,
Link: 5.3.113
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.
Link: 5.3.114

Exit