Array ( [TITLE] => Pericles, Prince of Tyre [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => ANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch. [1] => PERICLES, prince of Tyre. [2] => SIMONIDES, king of Pentapolis. [3] => CLEON, governor of Tarsus. [4] => LYSIMACHUS, governor of Mytilene. [5] => CERIMON, a lord of Ephesus. [6] => THALIARD, a lord of Antioch. [7] => PHILEMON, servant to Cerimon. [8] => LEONINE, servant to Dionyza. [9] => Marshal. [10] => A Pandar. [11] => BOULT, his servant. [12] => The Daughter of Antiochus. [13] => DIONYZA, wife to Cleon. [14] => THAISA, daughter to Simonides. [15] => MARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. [16] => LYCHORIDA, nurse to Marina. [17] => A Bawd. [18] => Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers. [19] => DIANA [20] => GOWER, as Chorus. ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => HELICANUS [1] => ESCANES ) [GRPDESCR] => two lords of Tyre. ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Dispersedly in various countries. [PLAYSUBT] => PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [PROLOGUE] => Array ( [TITLE] => [Prologue] [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER [1] => Before the palace of Antioch [2] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => [GOWER] [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To sing a song that old was sung, [1] => From ashes ancient Gower is come; [2] => Assuming man's infirmities, [3] => To glad your ear, and please your eyes. [4] => It hath been sung at festivals, [5] => On ember-eves and holy-ales; [6] => And lords and ladies in their lives [7] => Have read it for restoratives: [8] => The purchase is to make men glorious; [9] => Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius. [10] => If you, born in these latter times, [11] => When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes. [12] => And that to hear an old man sing [13] => May to your wishes pleasure bring [14] => I life would wish, and that I might [15] => Waste it for you, like taper-light. [16] => This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great [17] => Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat: [18] => The fairest in all Syria, [19] => I tell you what mine authors say: [20] => This king unto him took a fere, [21] => Who died and left a female heir, [22] => So buxom, blithe, and full of face, [23] => As heaven had lent her all his grace; [24] => With whom the father liking took, [25] => And her to incest did provoke: [26] => Bad child; worse father! to entice his own [27] => To evil should be done by none: [28] => But custom what they did begin [29] => Was with long use account no sin. [30] => The beauty of this sinful dame [31] => Made many princes thither frame, [32] => To seek her as a bed-fellow, [33] => In marriage-pleasures play-fellow: [34] => Which to prevent he made a law, [35] => To keep her still, and men in awe, [36] => That whoso ask'd her for his wife, [37] => His riddle told not, lost his life: [38] => So for her many a wight did die, [39] => As yon grim looks do testify. [40] => What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye [41] => I give, my cause who best can justify. ) ) ) [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers [1] => Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS [2] => Exeunt all but PERICLES [3] => Exit [4] => Re-enter ANTIOCHUS [5] => Enter THALIARD [6] => Exit [7] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received [1] => The danger of the task you undertake. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul [1] => Embolden'd with the glory of her praise, [2] => Think death no hazard in this enterprise. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride, [1] => For the embracements even of Jove himself; [2] => At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd, [3] => Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence, [4] => The senate-house of planets all did sit, [5] => To knit in her their best perfections. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, [1] => Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king [2] => Of every virtue gives renown to men! [3] => Her face the book of praises, where is read [4] => Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence [5] => Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath [6] => Could never be her mild companion. [7] => You gods that made me man, and sway in love, [8] => That have inflamed desire in my breast [9] => To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree, [10] => Or die in the adventure, be my helps, [11] => As I am son and servant to your will, [12] => To compass such a boundless happiness! ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Prince Pericles,-- ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => That would be son to great Antiochus. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, [1] => With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd; [2] => For death-like dragons here affright thee hard: [3] => Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view [4] => Her countless glory, which desert must gain; [5] => And which, without desert, because thine eye [6] => Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die. [7] => Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself, [8] => Drawn by report, adventurous by desire, [9] => Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale, [10] => That without covering, save yon field of stars, [11] => Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars; [12] => And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist [13] => For going on death's net, whom none resist. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught [1] => My frail mortality to know itself, [2] => And by those fearful objects to prepare [3] => This body, like to them, to what I must; [4] => For death remember'd should be like a mirror, [5] => Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error. [6] => I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do [7] => Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe, [8] => Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did; [9] => So I bequeath a happy peace to you [10] => And all good men, as every prince should do; [11] => My riches to the earth from whence they came; [12] => But my unspotted fire of love to you. [13] => Thus ready for the way of life or death, [14] => I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus. ) [STAGEDIR] => To the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Scorning advice, read the conclusion then: [1] => Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed, [2] => As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Daughter [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous! [1] => Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness! ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Like a bold champion, I assume the lists, [1] => Nor ask advice of any other thought [2] => But faithfulness and courage. [3] => I am no viper, yet I feed [4] => On mother's flesh which did me breed. [5] => I sought a husband, in which labour [6] => I found that kindness in a father: [7] => He's father, son, and husband mild; [8] => I mother, wife, and yet his child. [9] => How they may be, and yet in two, [10] => As you will live, resolve it you. [11] => Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers [12] => That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts, [13] => Why cloud they not their sights perpetually, [14] => If this be true, which makes me pale to read it? [15] => Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still, [16] => Were not this glorious casket stored with ill: [17] => But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt [18] => For he's no man on whom perfections wait [19] => That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate. [20] => You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings; [21] => Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music, [22] => Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken: [23] => But being play'd upon before your time, [24] => Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime. [25] => Good sooth, I care not for you. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => He reads the riddle [1] => Takes hold of the hand of the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life. [1] => For that's an article within our law, [2] => As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired: [3] => Either expound now, or receive your sentence. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Great king, [1] => Few love to hear the sins they love to act; [2] => 'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it. [3] => Who has a book of all that monarchs do, [4] => He's more secure to keep it shut than shown: [5] => For vice repeated is like the wandering wind. [6] => Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself; [7] => And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, [8] => The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear: [9] => To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts [10] => Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd [11] => By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't. [12] => Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's [13] => their will; [14] => And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill? [15] => It is enough you know; and it is fit, [16] => What being more known grows worse, to smother it. [17] => All love the womb that their first being bred, [18] => Then give my tongue like leave to love my head. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => the meaning: [2] => But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre, [3] => Though by the tenor of our strict edict, [4] => Your exposition misinterpreting, [5] => We might proceed to cancel of your days; [6] => Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree [7] => As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise: [8] => Forty days longer we do respite you; [9] => If by which time our secret be undone, [10] => This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son: [11] => And until then your entertain shall be [12] => As doth befit our honour and your worth. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How courtesy would seem to cover sin, [1] => When what is done is like an hypocrite, [2] => The which is good in nothing but in sight! [3] => If it be true that I interpret false, [4] => Then were it certain you were not so bad [5] => As with foul incest to abuse your soul; [6] => Where now you're both a father and a son, [7] => By your untimely claspings with your child, [8] => Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father; [9] => And she an eater of her mother's flesh, [10] => By the defiling of her parent's bed; [11] => And both like serpents are, who though they feed [12] => On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed. [13] => Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men [14] => Blush not in actions blacker than the night, [15] => Will shun no course to keep them from the light. [16] => One sin, I know, another doth provoke; [17] => Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke: [18] => Poison and treason are the hands of sin, [19] => Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame: [20] => Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear, [21] => By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath found the meaning, for which we mean [1] => To have his head. [2] => He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy, [3] => Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin [4] => In such a loathed manner; [5] => And therefore instantly this prince must die: [6] => For by his fall my honour must keep high. [7] => Who attends us there? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Doth your highness call? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thaliard, [1] => You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes [2] => Her private actions to your secrecy; [3] => And for your faithfulness we will advance you. [4] => Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold; [5] => We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him: [6] => It fits thee not to ask the reason why, [7] => Because we bid it. Say, is it done? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, [1] => 'Tis done. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Enough. [1] => Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Messenger ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => My lord, prince Pericles is fled. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As thou [1] => Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot [2] => From a well-experienced archer hits the mark [3] => His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return [4] => Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.' ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, [1] => If I can get him within my pistol's length, [2] => I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTIOCHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thaliard, adieu! [1] => Till Pericles be dead, [2] => My heart can lend no succor to my head. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit THALIARD ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Tyre. A room in the palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PERICLES [1] => Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To Lords without ) [1] => this change of thoughts, [2] => The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy, [3] => Be my so used a guest as not an hour, [4] => In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night, [5] => The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet? [6] => Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them, [7] => And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch, [8] => Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here: [9] => Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits, [10] => Nor yet the other's distance comfort me. [11] => Then it is thus: the passions of the mind, [12] => That have their first conception by mis-dread, [13] => Have after-nourishment and life by care; [14] => And what was first but fear what might be done, [15] => Grows elder now and cares it be not done. [16] => And so with me: the great Antiochus, [17] => 'Gainst whom I am too little to contend, [18] => Since he's so great can make his will his act, [19] => Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence; [20] => Nor boots it me to say I honour him. [21] => If he suspect I may dishonour him: [22] => And what may make him blush in being known, [23] => He'll stop the course by which it might be known; [24] => With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land, [25] => And with the ostent of war will look so huge, [26] => Amazement shall drive courage from the state; [27] => Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist, [28] => And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence: [29] => Which care of them, not pity of myself, [30] => Who am no more but as the tops of trees, [31] => Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them, [32] => Makes both my body pine and soul to languish, [33] => And punish that before that he would punish. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast! ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And keep your mind, till you return to us, [1] => Peaceful and comfortable! ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace, peace, and give experience tongue. [1] => They do abuse the king that flatter him: [2] => For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; [3] => The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark, [4] => To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; [5] => Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, [6] => Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. [7] => When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace, [8] => He flatters you, makes war upon your life. [9] => Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please; [10] => I cannot be much lower than my knees. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook [1] => What shipping and what lading's in our haven, [2] => And then return to us. [3] => Helicanus, thou [4] => Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt Lords ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => An angry brow, dread lord. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If there be such a dart in princes' frowns, [1] => How durst thy tongue move anger to our face? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence [1] => They have their nourishment? ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou know'st I have power [1] => To take thy life from thee. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Kneeling ) [1] => I have ground the axe myself; [2] => Do you but strike the blow. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Rise, prithee, rise. [1] => Sit down: thou art no flatterer: [2] => I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid [3] => That kings should let their ears hear their [4] => faults hid! [5] => Fit counsellor and servant for a prince, [6] => Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant, [7] => What wouldst thou have me do? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To bear with patience [1] => Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus, [1] => That minister'st a potion unto me [2] => That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself. [3] => Attend me, then: I went to Antioch, [4] => Where as thou know'st, against the face of death, [5] => I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty. [6] => From whence an issue I might propagate, [7] => Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects. [8] => Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder; [9] => The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest: [10] => Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father [11] => Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou [12] => know'st this, [13] => 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. [14] => Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled, [15] => Under the covering of a careful night, [16] => Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here, [17] => Bethought me what was past, what might succeed. [18] => I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears [19] => Decrease not, but grow faster than the years: [20] => And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth, [21] => That I should open to the listening air [22] => How many worthy princes' bloods were shed, [23] => To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope, [24] => To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms, [25] => And make pretence of wrong that I have done him: [26] => When all, for mine, if I may call offence, [27] => Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence: [28] => Which love to all, of which thyself art one, [29] => Who now reprovest me for it,-- ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Alas, sir! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks, [1] => Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts [2] => How I might stop this tempest ere it came; [3] => And finding little comfort to relieve them, [4] => I thought it princely charity to grieve them. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak. [1] => Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear, [2] => And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant, [3] => Who either by public war or private treason [4] => Will take away your life. [5] => Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while, [6] => Till that his rage and anger be forgot, [7] => Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life. [8] => Your rule direct to any; if to me. [9] => Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do not doubt thy faith; [1] => But should he wrong my liberties in my absence? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth, [1] => From whence we had our being and our birth. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus [1] => Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee; [2] => And by whose letters I'll dispose myself. [3] => The care I had and have of subjects' good [4] => On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it. [5] => I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath: [6] => Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both: [7] => But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe, [8] => That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince, [9] => Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Tyre. An ante-chamber in the palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter THALIARD [1] => Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I [1] => kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to [2] => be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive [3] => he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that, [4] => being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired [5] => he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he [6] => had some reason for't; for if a king bid a man be a [7] => villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to [8] => be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, [1] => Further to question me of your king's departure: [2] => His seal'd commission, left in trust with me, [3] => Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If further yet you will be satisfied, [1] => Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves, [2] => He would depart, I'll give some light unto you. [3] => Being at Antioch-- ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not-- [1] => Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so: [2] => And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd, [3] => To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself; [4] => So puts himself unto the shipman's toil, [5] => With whom each minute threatens life or death. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => I shall not be hang'd now, although I would; [2] => But since he's gone, the king's seas must please: [3] => He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea. [4] => I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THALIARD [LINE] => Array ( [0] => From him I come [1] => With message unto princely Pericles; [2] => But since my landing I have understood [3] => Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels, [4] => My message must return from whence it came. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have no reason to desire it, [1] => Commended to our master, not to us: [2] => Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire, [3] => As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEON, the governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA, and others [1] => Enter a Lord [2] => Exit [3] => Enter PERICLES with Attendants [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My Dionyza, shall we rest us here, [1] => And by relating tales of others' griefs, [2] => See if 'twill teach us to forget our own? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; [1] => For who digs hills because they do aspire [2] => Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. [3] => O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are; [4] => Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes, [5] => But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Dionyza, [1] => Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it, [2] => Or can conceal his hunger till he famish? [3] => Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep [4] => Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep, [5] => Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder; [6] => That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want, [7] => They may awake their helps to comfort them. [8] => I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years, [9] => And wanting breath to speak help me with tears. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => I'll do my best, sir. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government, [1] => A city on whom plenty held full hand, [2] => For riches strew'd herself even in the streets; [3] => Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds, [4] => And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at; [5] => Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd, [6] => Like one another's glass to trim them by: [7] => Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight, [8] => And not so much to feed on as delight; [9] => All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great, [10] => The name of help grew odious to repeat. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => O, 'tis too true. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But see what heaven can do! By this our change, [1] => These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air, [2] => Were all too little to content and please, [3] => Although they gave their creatures in abundance, [4] => As houses are defiled for want of use, [5] => They are now starved for want of exercise: [6] => Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, [7] => Must have inventions to delight the taste, [8] => Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it: [9] => Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes, [10] => Thought nought too curious, are ready now [11] => To eat those little darlings whom they loved. [12] => So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife [13] => Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life: [14] => Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping; [15] => Here many sink, yet those which see them fall [16] => Have scarce strength left to give them burial. [17] => Is not this true? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, let those cities that of plenty's cup [1] => And her prosperities so largely taste, [2] => With their superfluous riots, hear these tears! [3] => The misery of Tarsus may be theirs. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Where's the lord governor? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here. [1] => Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste, [2] => For comfort is too far for us to expect. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore, [1] => A portly sail of ships make hitherward. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thought as much. [1] => One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, [2] => That may succeed as his inheritor; [3] => And so in ours: some neighbouring nation, [4] => Taking advantage of our misery, [5] => Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power, [6] => To beat us down, the which are down already; [7] => And make a conquest of unhappy me, [8] => Whereas no glory's got to overcome. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's the least fear; for, by the semblance [1] => Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace, [2] => And come to us as favourers, not as foes. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat: [1] => Who makes the fairest show means most deceit. [2] => But bring they what they will and what they can, [3] => What need we fear? [4] => The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there. [5] => Go tell their general we attend him here, [6] => To know for what he comes, and whence he comes, [7] => And what he craves. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => I go, my lord. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist; [1] => If wars, we are unable to resist. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lord governor, for so we hear you are, [1] => Let not our ships and number of our men [2] => Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes. [3] => We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre, [4] => And seen the desolation of your streets: [5] => Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears, [6] => But to relieve them of their heavy load; [7] => And these our ships, you happily may think [8] => Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within [9] => With bloody veins, expecting overthrow, [10] => Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, [11] => And give them life whom hunger starved half dead. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The gods of Greece protect you! [1] => And we'll pray for you. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Arise, I pray you, rise: [1] => We do not look for reverence, but to love, [2] => And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The which when any shall not gratify, [1] => Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought, [2] => Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves, [3] => The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils! [4] => Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,-- [5] => Your grace is welcome to our town and us. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile, [1] => Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. ) ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [PROLOGUE] => Array ( [TITLE] => [Prologue] [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here have you seen a mighty king [1] => His child, I wis, to incest bring; [2] => A better prince and benign lord, [3] => That will prove awful both in deed and word. [4] => Be quiet then as men should be, [5] => Till he hath pass'd necessity. [6] => I'll show you those in troubles reign, [7] => Losing a mite, a mountain gain. [8] => The good in conversation, [9] => To whom I give my benison, [10] => Is still at Tarsus, where each man [11] => Thinks all is writ he speken can; [12] => And, to remember what he does, [13] => Build his statue to make him glorious: [14] => But tidings to the contrary [15] => Are brought your eyes; what need speak I? [16] => Good Helicane, that stay'd at home, [17] => Not to eat honey like a drone [18] => From others' labours; for though he strive [19] => To killen bad, keep good alive; [20] => And to fulfil his prince' desire, [21] => Sends word of all that haps in Tyre: [22] => How Thaliard came full bent with sin [23] => And had intent to murder him; [24] => And that in Tarsus was not best [25] => Longer for him to make his rest. [26] => He, doing so, put forth to seas, [27] => Where when men been, there's seldom ease; [28] => For now the wind begins to blow; [29] => Thunder above and deeps below [30] => Make such unquiet, that the ship [31] => Should house him safe is wreck'd and split; [32] => And he, good prince, having all lost, [33] => By waves from coast to coast is tost: [34] => All perishen of man, of pelf, [35] => Ne aught escapen but himself; [36] => Till fortune, tired with doing bad, [37] => Threw him ashore, to give him glad: [38] => And here he comes. What shall be next, [39] => Pardon old Gower,--this longs the text. ) [SUBHEAD] => DUMB SHOW. [STAGEDIR] => Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON; all the train with them. Enter at another door a Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES; PERICLES shows the letter to CLEON; gives the Messenger a reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one door, and CLEON at another ) ) [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PERICLES, wet [1] => Enter three FISHERMEN [2] => Exit with Third Fisherman [3] => Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! [1] => Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man [2] => Is but a substance that must yield to you; [3] => And I, as fits my nature, do obey you: [4] => Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks, [5] => Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath [6] => Nothing to think on but ensuing death: [7] => Let it suffice the greatness of your powers [8] => To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes; [9] => And having thrown him from your watery grave, [10] => Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => What, ho, Pilch! ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Ha, come and bring away the nets! ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => What, Patch-breech, I say! ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Fisherman [LINE] => What say you, master? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll [1] => fetch thee with a wanion. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that [1] => were cast away before us even now. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what [1] => pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when, [2] => well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the [1] => porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say [2] => they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them, [3] => they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I [4] => marvel how the fishes live in the sea. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the [1] => little ones: I can compare our rich misers to [2] => nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and [3] => tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at [4] => last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales [5] => have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping [6] => till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, [7] => steeple, bells, and all. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have [1] => been that day in the belfry. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Why, man? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I [1] => had been in his belly, I would have kept such a [2] => jangling of the bells, that he should never have [3] => left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and [4] => parish up again. But if the good King Simonides [5] => were of my mind,-- ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We would purge the land of these drones, that rob [1] => the bee of her honey. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => These fishers tell the infirmities of men; [2] => And from their watery empire recollect [3] => All that may men approve or men detect! [4] => Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day [1] => fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody [2] => look after it. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => May see the sea hath cast upon your coast. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our [1] => way! ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A man whom both the waters and the wind, [1] => In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball [2] => For them to play upon, entreats you pity him: [3] => He asks of you, that never used to beg. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our [1] => country Greece gets more with begging than we can do [2] => with working. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Canst thou catch any fishes, then? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I never practised it. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing [1] => to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What I have been I have forgot to know; [1] => But what I am, want teaches me to think on: [2] => A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill, [3] => And have no more of life than may suffice [4] => To give my tongue that heat to ask your help; [5] => Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead, [6] => For that I am a man, pray see me buried. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here; [1] => come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a [2] => handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and [3] => we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for [4] => fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks, [5] => and thou shalt be welcome. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I thank you, sir. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I did but crave. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I [1] => shall 'scape whipping. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Why, are all your beggars whipped, then? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your [1] => beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office [2] => than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the [3] => net. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Not well. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and [1] => our king the good Simonides. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => The good King Simonides, do you call him. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his [1] => peaceable reign and good government. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects [1] => the name of good by his government. How far is his [2] => court distant from this shore? ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell [1] => you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her [2] => birth-day; and there are princes and knights come [3] => from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish [1] => to make one there. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man [1] => cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, [1] => like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly [2] => come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and [3] => 'tis turned to a rusty armour. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it. [1] => Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses, [2] => Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself; [3] => And though it was mine own, part of my heritage, [4] => Which my dead father did bequeath to me. [5] => With this strict charge, even as he left his life, [6] => 'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield [7] => Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;-- [8] => 'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity-- [9] => The which the gods protect thee from!--may [10] => defend thee.' [11] => It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it; [12] => Till the rough seas, that spare not any man, [13] => Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again: [14] => I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill, [15] => Since I have here my father's gift in's will. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => What mean you, sir? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth, [1] => For it was sometime target to a king; [2] => I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly, [3] => And for his sake I wish the having of it; [4] => And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court, [5] => Where with it I may appear a gentleman; [6] => And if that ever my low fortune's better, [7] => I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady? ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Fisherman [LINE] => Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't! ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up [1] => this garment through the rough seams of the waters: [2] => there are certain condolements, certain vails. I [3] => hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from [4] => whence you had it. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Believe 't, I will. [1] => By your furtherance I am clothed in steel; [2] => And, spite of all the rapture of the sea, [3] => This jewel holds his building on my arm: [4] => Unto thy value I will mount myself [5] => Upon a courser, whose delightful steps [6] => Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread. [7] => Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided [8] => Of a pair of bases. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Fisherman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to [1] => make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then honour be but a goal to my will, [1] => This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => 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. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants [1] => Exit a Lord [2] => Enter a Knight; he passes over, and his Squire presents his shield to the Princess [3] => The Third Knight passes over [4] => The Fourth Knight passes over [5] => The Fifth Knight passes over [6] => The Sixth Knight, PERICLES, passes over [7] => Exit Act [8] => Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!' ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Are the knights ready to begin the triumph? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They are, my liege; [1] => And stay your coming to present themselves. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Return them, we are ready; and our daughter, [1] => In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, [2] => Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat [3] => For men to see, and seeing wonder at. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express [1] => My commendations great, whose merit's less. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It's fit it should be so; for princes are [1] => A model which heaven makes like to itself: [2] => As jewels lose their glory if neglected, [3] => So princes their renowns if not respected. [4] => 'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain [5] => The labour of each knight in his device. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Who is the first that doth prefer himself? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A knight of Sparta, my renowned father; [1] => And the device he bears upon his shield [2] => Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun [3] => The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.' ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He loves you well that holds his life of you. [1] => Who is the second that presents himself? ) [STAGEDIR] => The Second Knight passes over ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A prince of Macedon, my royal father; [1] => And the device he bears upon his shield [2] => Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady; [3] => The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.' ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => And what's the third? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The third of Antioch; [1] => And his device, a wreath of chivalry; [2] => The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.' ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => What is the fourth? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A burning torch that's turned upside down; [1] => The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.' ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which shows that beauty hath his power and will, [1] => Which can as well inflame as it can kill. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The fifth, an hand environed with clouds, [1] => Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried; [2] => The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.' ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And what's [1] => The sixth and last, the which the knight himself [2] => With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He seems to be a stranger; but his present is [1] => A wither'd branch, that's only green at top; [2] => The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.' ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A pretty moral; [1] => From the dejected state wherein he is, [2] => He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He had need mean better than his outward show [1] => Can any way speak in his just commend; [2] => For by his rusty outside he appears [3] => To have practised more the whipstock than the lance. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He well may be a stranger, for he comes [1] => To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And on set purpose let his armour rust [1] => Until this day, to scour it in the dust. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan [1] => The outward habit by the inward man. [2] => But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw [3] => Into the gallery. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and Knights, from tilting [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Knights, [1] => To say you're welcome were superfluous. [2] => To place upon the volume of your deeds, [3] => As in a title-page, your worth in arms, [4] => Were more than you expect, or more than's fit, [5] => Since every worth in show commends itself. [6] => Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast: [7] => You are princes and my guests. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But you, my knight and guest; [1] => To whom this wreath of victory I give, [2] => And crown you king of this day's happiness. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Call it by what you will, the day is yours; [1] => And here, I hope, is none that envies it. [2] => In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, [3] => To make some good, but others to exceed; [4] => And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o' [5] => the feast,-- [6] => For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place: [7] => Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KNIGHTS [LINE] => We are honour'd much by good Simonides. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your presence glads our days: honour we love; [1] => For who hates honour hates the gods above. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Marshal [LINE] => Sir, yonder is your place. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Some other is more fit. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Knight [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen [1] => That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes [2] => Envy the great nor do the low despise. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => You are right courteous knights. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Sit, sir, sit. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts, [1] => These cates resist me, she but thought upon. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By Juno, that is queen of marriage, [1] => All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury. [2] => Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He's but a country gentleman; [1] => Has done no more than other knights have done; [2] => Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => To me he seems like diamond to glass. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yon king's to me like to my father's picture, [1] => Which tells me in that glory once he was; [2] => Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne, [3] => And he the sun, for them to reverence; [4] => None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights, [5] => Did vail their crowns to his supremacy: [6] => Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night, [7] => The which hath fire in darkness, none in light: [8] => Whereby I see that Time's the king of men, [9] => He's both their parent, and he is their grave, [10] => And gives them what he will, not what they crave. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => What, are you merry, knights? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Knights [LINE] => Who can be other in this royal presence? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,-- [1] => As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,-- [2] => We drink this health to you. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KNIGHTS [LINE] => We thank your grace. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet pause awhile: [1] => Yon knight doth sit too melancholy, [2] => As if the entertainment in our court [3] => Had not a show might countervail his worth. [4] => Note it not you, Thaisa? ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What is it [1] => To me, my father? ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, attend, my daughter: [1] => Princes in this should live like gods above, [2] => Who freely give to every one that comes [3] => To honour them: [4] => And princes not doing so are like to gnats, [5] => Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at. [6] => Therefore to make his entrance more sweet, [7] => Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, my father, it befits not me [1] => Unto a stranger knight to be so bold: [2] => He may my proffer take for an offence, [3] => Since men take women's gifts for impudence. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How! [1] => Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him, [1] => Of whence he is, his name and parentage. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => The king my father, sir, has drunk to you. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I thank him. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Wishing it so much blood unto your life. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And further he desires to know of you, [1] => Of whence you are, your name and parentage. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles; [1] => My education been in arts and arms; [2] => Who, looking for adventures in the world, [3] => Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men, [4] => And after shipwreck driven upon this shore. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles, [1] => A gentleman of Tyre, [2] => Who only by misfortune of the seas [3] => Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune, [1] => And will awake him from his melancholy. [2] => Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, [3] => And waste the time, which looks for other revels. [4] => Even in your armours, as you are address'd, [5] => Will very well become a soldier's dance. [6] => I will not have excuse, with saying this [7] => Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads, [8] => Since they love men in arms as well as beds. [9] => So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd. [10] => Come, sir; [11] => Here is a lady that wants breathing too: [12] => And I have heard, you knights of Tyre [13] => Are excellent in making ladies trip; [14] => And that their measures are as excellent. ) [STAGEDIR] => The Knights dance ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => In those that practise them they are, my lord. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, that's as much as you would be denied [1] => Of your fair courtesy. [2] => Unclasp, unclasp: [3] => Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well. [4] => But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct [5] => These knights unto their several lodgings! [6] => Yours, sir, [7] => We have given order to be next our own. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => The Knights and Ladies dance [1] => To PERICLES [2] => To PERICLES ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I am at your grace's pleasure. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Princes, it is too late to talk of love; [1] => And that's the mark I know you level at: [2] => Therefore each one betake him to his rest; [3] => To-morrow all for speeding do their best. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Tyre. A room in the Governor's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES [1] => Enter two or three Lords [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, Escanes, know this of me, [1] => Antiochus from incest lived not free: [2] => For which, the most high gods not minding longer [3] => To withhold the vengeance that they had in store, [4] => Due to this heinous capital offence, [5] => Even in the height and pride of all his glory, [6] => When he was seated in a chariot [7] => Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him, [8] => A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up [9] => Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk, [10] => That all those eyes adored them ere their fall [11] => Scorn now their hand should give them burial. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCANES [LINE] => 'Twas very strange. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And yet but justice; for though [1] => This king were great, his greatness was no guard [2] => To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCANES [LINE] => 'Tis very true. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See, not a man in private conference [1] => Or council has respect with him but he. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => It shall no longer grieve without reproof. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Lord [LINE] => And cursed be he that will not second it. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Know that our griefs are risen to the top, [1] => And now at length they overflow their banks. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince you love. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane; [1] => But if the prince do live, let us salute him, [2] => Or know what ground's made happy by his breath. [3] => If in the world he live, we'll seek him out; [4] => If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there; [5] => And be resolved he lives to govern us, [6] => Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral, [7] => And leave us to our free election. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure: [1] => And knowing this kingdom is without a head,-- [2] => Like goodly buildings left without a roof [3] => Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self, [4] => That best know how to rule and how to reign, [5] => We thus submit unto,--our sovereign. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Live, noble Helicane! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages: [1] => If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear. [2] => Take I your wish, I leap into the seas, [3] => Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease. [4] => A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to [5] => Forbear the absence of your king: [6] => If in which time expired, he not return, [7] => I shall with aged patience bear your yoke. [8] => But if I cannot win you to this love, [9] => Go search like nobles, like noble subjects, [10] => And in your search spend your adventurous worth; [11] => Whom if you find, and win unto return, [12] => You shall like diamonds sit about his crown. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield; [1] => And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us, [2] => We with our travels will endeavour us. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands: [1] => When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Pentapolis. A room in the palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door: the Knights meet him [1] => Exeunt Knights [2] => Enter PERICLES [3] => Enter THAISA [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Knight [LINE] => Good morrow to the good Simonides. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Knights, from my daughter this I let you know, [1] => That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake [2] => A married life. [3] => Her reason to herself is only known, [4] => Which yet from her by no means can I get. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Knight [LINE] => May we not get access to her, my lord? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied [1] => Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible. [2] => One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery; [3] => This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd [4] => And on her virgin honour will not break it. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Knight [LINE] => Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So, [1] => They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter: [2] => She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight, [3] => Or never more to view nor day nor light. [4] => 'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine; [5] => I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't, [6] => Not minding whether I dislike or no! [7] => Well, I do commend her choice; [8] => And will no longer have it be delay'd. [9] => Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => All fortune to the good Simonides! ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you [1] => For your sweet music this last night: I do [2] => Protest my ears were never better fed [3] => With such delightful pleasing harmony. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is your grace's pleasure to commend; [1] => Not my desert. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Sir, you are music's master. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => The worst of all her scholars, my good lord. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me ask you one thing: [1] => What do you think of my daughter, sir? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => A most virtuous princess. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => And she is fair too, is she not? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you; [1] => Ay, so well, that you must be her master, [2] => And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I am unworthy for her schoolmaster. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => She thinks not so; peruse this writing else. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre! [2] => 'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life. [3] => O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord, [4] => A stranger and distressed gentleman, [5] => That never aim'd so high to love your daughter, [6] => But bent all offices to honour her. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art [1] => A villain. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By the gods, I have not: [1] => Never did thought of mine levy offence; [2] => Nor never did my actions yet commence [3] => A deed might gain her love or your displeasure. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Traitor, thou liest. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Traitor! ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Ay, traitor. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Even in his throat--unless it be the king-- [1] => That calls me traitor, I return the lie. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My actions are as noble as my thoughts, [1] => That never relish'd of a base descent. [2] => I came unto your court for honour's cause, [3] => And not to be a rebel to her state; [4] => And he that otherwise accounts of me, [5] => This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No? [1] => Here comes my daughter, she can witness it. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then, as you are as virtuous as fair, [1] => Resolve your angry father, if my tongue [2] => Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe [3] => To any syllable that made love to you. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, sir, say if you had, [1] => Who takes offence at that would make me glad? ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory? [1] => I am glad on't with all my heart.-- [2] => I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection. [3] => Will you, not having my consent, [4] => Bestow your love and your affections [5] => Upon a stranger? [6] => who, for aught I know, [7] => May be, nor can I think the contrary, [8] => As great in blood as I myself.-- [9] => Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame [10] => Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you, [11] => Either be ruled by me, or I will make you-- [12] => Man and wife: [13] => Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too: [14] => And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy; [15] => And for a further grief,--God give you joy!-- [16] => What, are you both pleased? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Aside [1] => Aside ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Yes, if you love me, sir. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Even as my life, or blood that fosters it. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => What, are you both agreed? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOTH [LINE] => Yes, if it please your majesty. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SIMONIDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed; [1] => And then with what haste you can get you to bed. ) ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [PROLOGUE] => Array ( [TITLE] => [Prologue] [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout; [1] => No din but snores the house about, [2] => Made louder by the o'er-fed breast [3] => Of this most pompous marriage-feast. [4] => The cat, with eyne of burning coal, [5] => Now crouches fore the mouse's hole; [6] => And crickets sing at the oven's mouth, [7] => E'er the blither for their drouth. [8] => Hymen hath brought the bride to bed. [9] => Where, by the loss of maidenhead, [10] => A babe is moulded. Be attent, [11] => And time that is so briefly spent [12] => With your fine fancies quaintly eche: [13] => What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech. [14] => By many a dern and painful perch [15] => Of Pericles the careful search, [16] => By the four opposing coigns [17] => Which the world together joins, [18] => Is made with all due diligence [19] => That horse and sail and high expense [20] => Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre, [21] => Fame answering the most strange inquire, [22] => To the court of King Simonides [23] => Are letters brought, the tenor these: [24] => Antiochus and his daughter dead; [25] => The men of Tyrus on the head [26] => Of Helicanus would set on [27] => The crown of Tyre, but he will none: [28] => The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress; [29] => Says to 'em, if King Pericles [30] => Come not home in twice six moons, [31] => He, obedient to their dooms, [32] => Will take the crown. The sum of this, [33] => Brought hither to Pentapolis, [34] => Y-ravished the regions round, [35] => And every one with claps can sound, [36] => 'Our heir-apparent is a king! [37] => Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?' [38] => Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre: [39] => His queen with child makes her desire-- [40] => Which who shall cross?--along to go: [41] => Omit we all their dole and woe: [42] => Lychorida, her nurse, she takes, [43] => And so to sea. Their vessel shakes [44] => On Neptune's billow; half the flood [45] => Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood [46] => Varies again; the grisly north [47] => Disgorges such a tempest forth, [48] => That, as a duck for life that dives, [49] => So up and down the poor ship drives: [50] => The lady shrieks, and well-a-near [51] => Does fall in travail with her fear: [52] => And what ensues in this fell storm [53] => Shall for itself itself perform. [54] => I nill relate, action may [55] => Conveniently the rest convey; [56] => Which might not what by me is told. [57] => In your imagination hold [58] => This stage the ship, upon whose deck [59] => The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak. ) [SUBHEAD] => DUMB SHOW. [STAGEDIR] => Enter, PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door, with Attendants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES shows it SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to him. Then enter THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse. The KING shows her the letter; she rejoices: she and PERICLES takes leave of her father, and depart with LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt SIMONIDES and the rest ) ) [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PERICLES, on shipboard [1] => Enter two Sailors [2] => Exit LYCHORIDA [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges, [1] => Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast [2] => Upon the winds command, bind them in brass, [3] => Having call'd them from the deep! O, still [4] => Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench [5] => Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida, [6] => How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously; [7] => Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle [8] => Is as a whisper in the ears of death, [9] => Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O [10] => Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle [11] => To those that cry by night, convey thy deity [12] => Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs [13] => Of my queen's travails! [14] => Now, Lychorida! ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYCHORIDA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is a thing too young for such a place, [1] => Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I [2] => Am like to do: take in your arms this piece [3] => Of your dead queen. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => How, how, Lychorida! ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYCHORIDA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm. [1] => Here's all that is left living of your queen, [2] => A little daughter: for the sake of it, [3] => Be manly, and take comfort. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O you gods! [1] => Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, [2] => And snatch them straight away? We here below [3] => Recall not what we give, and therein may [4] => Use honour with you. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYCHORIDA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Patience, good sir, [1] => Even for this charge. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, mild may be thy life! [1] => For a more blustrous birth had never babe: [2] => Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for [3] => Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world [4] => That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows! [5] => Thou hast as chiding a nativity [6] => As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make, [7] => To herald thee from the womb: even at the first [8] => Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit, [9] => With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods [10] => Throw their best eyes upon't! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Sailor [LINE] => What courage, sir? God save you! ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw; [1] => It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love [2] => Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer, [3] => I would it would be quiet. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou? [1] => Blow, and split thyself. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss [1] => the moon, I care not. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high, [1] => the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be [2] => cleared of the dead. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => That's your superstition. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still [1] => observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore [2] => briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => As you think meet. Most wretched queen! ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYCHORIDA [LINE] => Here she lies, sir. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear; [1] => No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements [2] => Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time [3] => To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight [4] => Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze; [5] => Where, for a monument upon thy bones, [6] => And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale [7] => And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, [8] => Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida, [9] => Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, [10] => My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander [11] => Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe [12] => Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say [13] => A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked [1] => and bitumed ready. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Sailor [LINE] => We are near Tarsus. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thither, gentle mariner. [1] => Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it? ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Sailor [LINE] => By break of day, if the wind cease. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, make for Tarsus! [1] => There will I visit Cleon, for the babe [2] => Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it [3] => At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner: [4] => I'll bring the body presently. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CERIMON, with a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwrecked [1] => Enter PHILEMON [2] => Exeunt all but CERIMON [3] => Enter two Gentlemen [4] => Enter two or three Servants with a chest [5] => She moves [6] => Exeunt, carrying her away ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Philemon, ho! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PHILEMON [LINE] => Doth my lord call? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Get fire and meat for these poor men: [1] => 'T has been a turbulent and stormy night. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have been in many; but such a night as this, [1] => Till now, I ne'er endured. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your master will be dead ere you return; [1] => There's nothing can be minister'd to nature [2] => That can recover him. [3] => Give this to the 'pothecary, [4] => And tell me how it works. ) [STAGEDIR] => To PHILEMON ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Good morrow. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Good morrow to your lordship. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentlemen, [1] => Why do you stir so early? ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea, [2] => Shook as the earth did quake; [3] => The very principals did seem to rend, [4] => And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear [5] => Made me to quit the house. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That is the cause we trouble you so early; [1] => 'Tis not our husbandry. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => O, you say well. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But I much marvel that your lordship, having [1] => Rich tire about you, should at these early hours [2] => Shake off the golden slumber of repose. [3] => 'Tis most strange, [4] => Nature should be so conversant with pain, [5] => Being thereto not compell'd. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I hold it ever, [1] => Virtue and cunning were endowments greater [2] => Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs [3] => May the two latter darken and expend; [4] => But immortality attends the former. [5] => Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever [6] => Have studied physic, through which secret art, [7] => By turning o'er authorities, I have, [8] => Together with my practise, made familiar [9] => To me and to my aid the blest infusions [10] => That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; [11] => And I can speak of the disturbances [12] => That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me [13] => A more content in course of true delight [14] => Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, [15] => Or tie my treasure up in silken bags, [16] => To please the fool and death. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth [1] => Your charity, and hundreds call themselves [2] => Your creatures, who by you have been restored: [3] => And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even [4] => Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon [5] => Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => So; lift there. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => What is that? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, even now [1] => Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest: [2] => 'Tis of some wreck. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Set 't down, let's look upon't. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => 'Tis like a coffin, sir. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whate'er it be, [1] => 'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight: [2] => If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold, [3] => 'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => 'Tis so, my lord. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed! [1] => Did the sea cast it up? ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I never saw so huge a billow, sir, [1] => As toss'd it upon shore. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wrench it open; [1] => Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => A delicate odour. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it. [1] => O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse! ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Most strange! ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured [1] => With full bags of spices! A passport too! [2] => Apollo, perfect me in the characters! [3] => 'Here I give to understand, [4] => If e'er this coffin drive a-land, [5] => I, King Pericles, have lost [6] => This queen, worth all our mundane cost. [7] => Who finds her, give her burying; [8] => She was the daughter of a king: [9] => Besides this treasure for a fee, [10] => The gods requite his charity!' [11] => If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart [12] => That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight. ) [STAGEDIR] => Reads from a scroll ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Most likely, sir. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, certainly to-night; [1] => For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough [2] => That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within: [3] => Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet. [4] => Death may usurp on nature many hours, [5] => And yet the fire of life kindle again [6] => The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian [7] => That had nine hours lien dead, [8] => Who was by good appliance recovered. [9] => Well said, well said; the fire and cloths. [10] => The rough and woeful music that we have, [11] => Cause it to sound, beseech you. [12] => The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block! [13] => The music there!--I pray you, give her air. [14] => Gentlemen. [15] => This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth [16] => Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced [17] => Above five hours: see how she gins to blow [18] => Into life's flower again! ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit a Servant [1] => Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The heavens, [1] => Through you, increase our wonder and set up [2] => Your fame forever. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She is alive; behold, [1] => Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels [2] => Which Pericles hath lost, [3] => Begin to part their fringes of bright gold; [4] => The diamonds of a most praised water [5] => Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live, [6] => And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature, [7] => Rare as you seem to be. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O dear Diana, [1] => Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this? ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Is not this strange? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Most rare. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hush, my gentle neighbours! [1] => Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her. [2] => Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to, [3] => For her relapse is mortal. Come, come; [4] => And AEsculapius guide us! ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with MARINA in her arms [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone; [1] => My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands [2] => In a litigious peace. You, and your lady, [3] => Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods [4] => Make up the rest upon you! ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally, [1] => Yet glance full wanderingly on us. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O your sweet queen! [1] => That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither, [2] => To have bless'd mine eyes with her! ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We cannot but obey [1] => The powers above us. Could I rage and roar [2] => As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end [3] => Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom, [4] => For she was born at sea, I have named so, here [5] => I charge your charity withal, leaving her [6] => The infant of your care; beseeching you [7] => To give her princely training, that she may be [8] => Manner'd as she is born. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fear not, my lord, but think [1] => Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, [2] => For which the people's prayers still fall upon you, [3] => Must in your child be thought on. If neglection [4] => Should therein make me vile, the common body, [5] => By you relieved, would force me to my duty: [6] => But if to that my nature need a spur, [7] => The gods revenge it upon me and mine, [8] => To the end of generation! ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I believe you; [1] => Your honour and your goodness teach me to't, [2] => Without your vows. Till she be married, madam, [3] => By bright Diana, whom we honour, all [4] => Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain, [5] => Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave. [6] => Good madam, make me blessed in your care [7] => In bringing up my child. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have one myself, [1] => Who shall not be more dear to my respect [2] => Than yours, my lord. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Madam, my thanks and prayers. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore, [1] => Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and [2] => The gentlest winds of heaven. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will embrace [1] => Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears, [2] => Lychorida, no tears: [3] => Look to your little mistress, on whose grace [4] => You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CERIMON and THAISA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, [1] => Lay with you in your coffer: which are now [2] => At your command. Know you the character? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is my lord's. [1] => That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, [2] => Even on my eaning time; but whether there [3] => Deliver'd, by the holy gods, [4] => I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles, [5] => My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again, [6] => A vestal livery will I take me to, [7] => And never more have joy. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak, [1] => Diana's temple is not distant far, [2] => Where you may abide till your date expire. [3] => Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine [4] => Shall there attend you. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My recompense is thanks, that's all; [1] => Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. ) ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [PROLOGUE] => Array ( [TITLE] => [Prologue] [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre, [1] => Welcomed and settled to his own desire. [2] => His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus, [3] => Unto Diana there a votaress. [4] => Now to Marina bend your mind, [5] => Whom our fast-growing scene must find [6] => At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd [7] => In music, letters; who hath gain'd [8] => Of education all the grace, [9] => Which makes her both the heart and place [10] => Of general wonder. But, alack, [11] => That monster envy, oft the wrack [12] => Of earned praise, Marina's life [13] => Seeks to take off by treason's knife. [14] => And in this kind hath our Cleon [15] => One daughter, and a wench full grown, [16] => Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid [17] => Hight Philoten: and it is said [18] => For certain in our story, she [19] => Would ever with Marina be: [20] => Be't when she weaved the sleided silk [21] => With fingers long, small, white as milk; [22] => Or when she would with sharp needle wound [23] => The cambric, which she made more sound [24] => By hurting it; or when to the lute [25] => She sung, and made the night-bird mute, [26] => That still records with moan; or when [27] => She would with rich and constant pen [28] => Vail to her mistress Dian; still [29] => This Philoten contends in skill [30] => With absolute Marina: so [31] => With the dove of Paphos might the crow [32] => Vie feathers white. Marina gets [33] => All praises, which are paid as debts, [34] => And not as given. This so darks [35] => In Philoten all graceful marks, [36] => That Cleon's wife, with envy rare, [37] => A present murderer does prepare [38] => For good Marina, that her daughter [39] => Might stand peerless by this slaughter. [40] => The sooner her vile thoughts to stead, [41] => Lychorida, our nurse, is dead: [42] => And cursed Dionyza hath [43] => The pregnant instrument of wrath [44] => Prest for this blow. The unborn event [45] => I do commend to your content: [46] => Only I carry winged time [47] => Post on the lame feet of my rhyme; [48] => Which never could I so convey, [49] => Unless your thoughts went on my way. [50] => Dionyza does appear, [51] => With Leonine, a murderer. ) ) ) [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE [1] => Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers [2] => He seizes her [3] => Enter Pirates [4] => LEONINE runs away [5] => Exeunt Pirates with MARINA [6] => Re-enter LEONINE [7] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't: [1] => 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known. [2] => Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon, [3] => To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience, [4] => Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom, [5] => Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which [6] => Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be [7] => A soldier to thy purpose. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here [1] => she comes weeping for her only mistress' death. [2] => Thou art resolved? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => I am resolved. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, I will rob Tellus of her weed, [1] => To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues, [2] => The purple violets, and marigolds, [3] => Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave, [4] => While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid, [5] => Born in a tempest, when my mother died, [6] => This world to me is like a lasting storm, [7] => Whirring me from my friends. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, Marina! why do you keep alone? [1] => How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not [2] => Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have [3] => A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed [4] => With this unprofitable woe! [5] => Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it. [6] => Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there, [7] => And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come, [8] => Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, I pray you; [1] => I'll not bereave you of your servant. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come; [1] => I love the king your father, and yourself, [2] => With more than foreign heart. We every day [3] => Expect him here: when he shall come and find [4] => Our paragon to all reports thus blasted, [5] => He will repent the breadth of his great voyage; [6] => Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken [7] => No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you, [8] => Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve [9] => That excellent complexion, which did steal [10] => The eyes of young and old. Care not for me [11] => I can go home alone. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, I will go; [1] => But yet I have no desire to it. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, I know 'tis good for you. [1] => Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least: [2] => Remember what I have said. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => I warrant you, madam. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while: [1] => Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood: [2] => What! I must have a care of you. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My thanks, sweet madam. [1] => Is this wind westerly that blows? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit DIONYZA ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => South-west. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => When I was born, the wind was north. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => Was't so? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My father, as nurse said, did never fear, [1] => But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling [2] => His kingly hands, haling ropes; [3] => And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea [4] => That almost burst the deck. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => When was this? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When I was born: [1] => Never was waves nor wind more violent; [2] => And from the ladder-tackle washes off [3] => A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?' [4] => And with a dropping industry they skip [5] => From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and [6] => The master calls, and trebles their confusion. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => Come, say your prayers. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => What mean you? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you require a little space for prayer, [1] => I grant it: pray; but be not tedious, [2] => For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn [3] => To do my work with haste. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Why will you kill me? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => To satisfy my lady. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why would she have me kill'd? [1] => Now, as I can remember, by my troth, [2] => I never did her hurt in all my life: [3] => I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn [4] => To any living creature: believe me, la, [5] => I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly: [6] => I trod upon a worm against my will, [7] => But I wept for it. How have I offended, [8] => Wherein my death might yield her any profit, [9] => Or my life imply her any danger? ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My commission [1] => Is not to reason of the deed, but do it. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You will not do't for all the world, I hope. [1] => You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow [2] => You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately, [3] => When you caught hurt in parting two that fought: [4] => Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now: [5] => Your lady seeks my life; come you between, [6] => And save poor me, the weaker. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am sworn, [1] => And will dispatch. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Pirate [LINE] => Hold, villain! ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Pirate [LINE] => A prize! a prize! ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Pirate [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Half-part, mates, half-part. [1] => Come, let's have her aboard suddenly. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes; [1] => And they have seized Marina. Let her go: [2] => There's no hope she will return. I'll swear [3] => she's dead, [4] => And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further: [5] => Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her, [6] => Not carry her aboard. If she remain, [7] => Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Mytilene. A room in a brothel. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT [1] => Exit [2] => Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA [3] => Exeunt Pandar and Pirates [4] => Exit [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Boult! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Sir? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of [1] => gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being [2] => too wenchless. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We were never so much out of creatures. We have but [1] => poor three, and they can do no more than they can [2] => do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for [1] => them. If there be not a conscience to be used in [2] => every trade, we shall never prosper. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor [1] => bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven-- ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But [1] => shall I search the market? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind [1] => will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o' [1] => conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that [2] => lay with the little baggage. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat [1] => for worms. But I'll go search the market. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a [1] => proportion to live quietly, and so give over. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get [1] => when we are old? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor [1] => the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore, [2] => if in our youths we could pick up some pretty [3] => estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. [4] => Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods [5] => will be strong with us for giving over. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Come, other sorts offend as well as we. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse. [1] => Neither is our profession any trade; it's no [2] => calling. But here comes Boult. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To MARINA ) [1] => she's a virgin? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Pirate [LINE] => O, sir, we doubt it not. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see: [1] => if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Boult, has she any qualities? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent [1] => good clothes: there's no further necessity of [2] => qualities can make her be refused. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => What's her price, Boult? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your [1] => money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her [2] => what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her [3] => entertainment. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her [1] => hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her [2] => virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall [3] => have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap [4] => thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done [5] => as I command you. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Performance shall follow. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow! [1] => He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates, [2] => Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me [3] => For to seek my mother! ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Why lament you, pretty one? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => That I am pretty. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Come, the gods have done their part in you. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => I accuse them not. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => You are light into my hands, where you are like to live. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The more my fault [1] => To scape his hands where I was like to die. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Ay, and you shall live in pleasure. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => No. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all [1] => fashions: you shall fare well; you shall have the [2] => difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears? ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Are you a woman? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => What would you have me be, an I be not a woman? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => An honest woman, or not a woman. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have [1] => something to do with you. Come, you're a young [2] => foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have [3] => you. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => The gods defend me! ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men [1] => must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir [2] => you up. Boult's returned. [3] => Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market? ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter BOULT ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs; [1] => I have drawn her picture with my voice. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the [1] => inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort? ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, they listened to me as they would have [1] => hearkened to their father's testament. There was a [2] => Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to [3] => her very description. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the [1] => French knight that cowers i' the hams? ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Who, Monsieur Veroles? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the [1] => proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore [2] => he would see her to-morrow. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease [1] => hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will [2] => come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the [3] => sun. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we [1] => should lodge them with this sign. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To MARINA ) [1] => have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must [2] => seem to do that fearfully which you commit [3] => willingly, despise profit where you have most gain. [4] => To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your [5] => lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good [6] => opinion, and that opinion a mere profit. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => I understand you not. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these [1] => blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your [1] => bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go [2] => with warrant. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if [1] => I have bargained for the joint,-- ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => I may so. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the [1] => manner of your garments well. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a [1] => sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom. [2] => When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good [3] => turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou [4] => hast the harvest out of thine own report. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake [1] => the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up [2] => the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Come your ways; follow me. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, [1] => Untied I still my virgin knot will keep. [2] => Diana, aid my purpose! ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us? ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEON and DIONYZA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter [1] => The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think [1] => You'll turn a child again. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Were I chief lord of all this spacious world, [1] => I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady, [2] => Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess [3] => To equal any single crown o' the earth [4] => I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine! [5] => Whom thou hast poison'd too: [6] => If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness [7] => Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say [8] => When noble Pericles shall demand his child? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates, [1] => To foster it, nor ever to preserve. [2] => She died at night; I'll say so. Who can cross it? [3] => Unless you play the pious innocent, [4] => And for an honest attribute cry out [5] => 'She died by foul play.' ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, go to. Well, well, [1] => Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods [2] => Do like this worst. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be one of those that think [1] => The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence, [2] => And open this to Pericles. I do shame [3] => To think of what a noble strain you are, [4] => And of how coward a spirit. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To such proceeding [1] => Who ever but his approbation added, [2] => Though not his prime consent, he did not flow [3] => From honourable sources. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be it so, then: [1] => Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead, [2] => Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. [3] => She did disdain my child, and stood between [4] => Her and her fortunes: none would look on her, [5] => But cast their gazes on Marina's face; [6] => Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin [7] => Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through; [8] => And though you call my course unnatural, [9] => You not your child well loving, yet I find [10] => It greets me as an enterprise of kindness [11] => Perform'd to your sole daughter. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Heavens forgive it! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And as for Pericles, [1] => What should he say? We wept after her hearse, [2] => And yet we mourn: her monument [3] => Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs [4] => In glittering golden characters express [5] => A general praise to her, and care in us [6] => At whose expense 'tis done. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou art like the harpy, [1] => Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face, [2] => Seize with thine eagle's talons. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIONYZA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are like one that superstitiously [1] => Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies: [2] => But yet I know you'll do as I advise. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short; [1] => Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't; [2] => Making, to take your imagination, [3] => From bourn to bourn, region to region. [4] => By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime [5] => To use one language in each several clime [6] => Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you [7] => To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you, [8] => The stages of our story. Pericles [9] => Is now again thwarting the wayward seas, [10] => Attended on by many a lord and knight. [11] => To see his daughter, all his life's delight. [12] => Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late [13] => Advanced in time to great and high estate, [14] => Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind, [15] => Old Helicanus goes along behind. [16] => Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought [17] => This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought; [18] => So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,-- [19] => To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone. [20] => Like motes and shadows see them move awhile; [21] => Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile. [22] => See how belief may suffer by foul show! [23] => This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe; [24] => And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd, [25] => With sighs shot through, and biggest tears [26] => o'ershower'd, [27] => Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears [28] => Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs: [29] => He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears [30] => A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears, [31] => And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit. [32] => The epitaph is for Marina writ [33] => By wicked Dionyza. [34] => 'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here, [35] => Who wither'd in her spring of year. [36] => She was of Tyrus the king's daughter, [37] => On whom foul death hath made this slaughter; [38] => Marina was she call'd; and at her birth, [39] => Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth: [40] => Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd, [41] => Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd: [42] => Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint, [43] => Make raging battery upon shores of flint.' [44] => No visor does become black villany [45] => So well as soft and tender flattery. [46] => Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead, [47] => And bear his courses to be ordered [48] => By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play [49] => His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day [50] => In her unholy service. Patience, then, [51] => And think you now are all in Mytilene. ) [SUBHEAD] => DUMB SHOW. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train; CLEON and DIONYZA, at the other. CLEON shows PERICLES the tomb; whereat PERICLES makes lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a mighty passion departs. Then exeunt CLEON and DIONYZA [1] => Reads the inscription on MARINA's monument ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Mytilene. A street before the brothel. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Did you ever hear the like? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she [1] => being once gone. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But to have divinity preached there! did you ever [1] => dream of such a thing? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses: [1] => shall's go hear the vestals sing? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I [1] => am out of the road of rutting for ever. ) ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. The same. A room in the brothel. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT [1] => Enter LYSIMACHUS [2] => Exit BOULT [3] => Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and BOULT [4] => Re-enter BOULT [5] => Exit [6] => Re-enter Bawd [7] => Exit [8] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she [1] => had ne'er come here. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god [1] => Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must [2] => either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she [3] => should do for clients her fitment, and do me the [4] => kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks, [5] => her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her [6] => knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil, [7] => if he should cheapen a kiss of her. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us [1] => of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Pandar [LINE] => Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me! ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the [1] => way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish [1] => baggage would but give way to customers. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => How now! How a dozen of virginities? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Now, the gods to-bless your honour! ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => I am glad to see your honour in good health. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You may so; 'tis the better for you that your [1] => resorters stand upon sound legs. How now! [2] => wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal [3] => withal, and defy the surgeon? ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never [1] => came her like in Mytilene. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Well, call forth, call forth. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall [1] => see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but-- ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => What, prithee? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => O, sir, I can be modest. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it [1] => gives a good report to a number to be chaste. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never [1] => plucked yet, I can assure you. [2] => Is she not a fair creature? ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter BOULT with MARINA ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea. [1] => Well, there's for you: leave us. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and [1] => I'll have done presently. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => I beseech you, do. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To MARINA ) [1] => an honourable man. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man [1] => whom I am bound to. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he govern the country, you are bound to him [1] => indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will [1] => you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Ha' you done? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some [1] => pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will [2] => leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => What trade, sir? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => How long have you been of this profession? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => E'er since I can remember. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at [1] => five or at seven? ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a [1] => creature of sale. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, [1] => and will come into 't? I hear say you are of [2] => honourable parts, and are the governor of this place. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Who is my principal? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots [1] => of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something [2] => of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious [3] => wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my [4] => authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly [5] => upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place: [6] => come, come. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you were born to honour, show it now; [1] => If put upon you, make the judgment good [2] => That thought you worthy of it. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => How's this? how's this? Some more; be sage. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For me, [1] => That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune [2] => Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came, [3] => Diseases have been sold dearer than physic, [4] => O, that the gods [5] => Would set me free from this unhallow'd place, [6] => Though they did change me to the meanest bird [7] => That flies i' the purer air! ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did not think [1] => Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst. [2] => Had I brought hither a corrupted mind, [3] => Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee: [4] => Persever in that clear way thou goest, [5] => And the gods strengthen thee! ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => The good gods preserve you! ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For me, be you thoughten [1] => That I came with no ill intent; for to me [2] => The very doors and windows savour vilely. [3] => Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and [4] => I doubt not but thy training hath been noble. [5] => Hold, here's more gold for thee. [6] => A curse upon him, die he like a thief, [7] => That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost [8] => Hear from me, it shall be for thy good. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => I beseech your honour, one piece for me. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper! [1] => Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it, [2] => Would sink and overwhelm you. Away! ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How's this? We must take another course with you. [1] => If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a [2] => breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, [3] => shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like [4] => a spaniel. Come your ways. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Whither would you have me? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common [1] => hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll [2] => have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => How now! what's the matter? ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy [1] => words to the Lord Lysimachus. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => O abominable! ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She makes our profession as it were to stink afore [1] => the face of the gods. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Marry, hang her up for ever! ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The nobleman would have dealt with her like a [1] => nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a [2] => snowball; saying his prayers too. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: [1] => crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she [1] => is, she shall be ploughed. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Hark, hark, you gods! ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Bawd [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She conjures: away with her! Would she had never [1] => come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born [2] => to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind? [3] => Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays! ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Come, mistress; come your ways with me. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Whither wilt thou have me? ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => To take from you the jewel you hold so dear. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Prithee, tell me one thing first. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Come now, your one thing. ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => What canst thou wish thine enemy to be? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Neither of these are so bad as thou art, [1] => Since they do better thee in their command. [2] => Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend [3] => Of hell would not in reputation change: [4] => Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every [5] => Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib; [6] => To the choleric fisting of every rogue [7] => Thy ear is liable; thy food is such [8] => As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What would you have me do? go to the wars, would [1] => you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss [2] => of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to [3] => buy him a wooden one? ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty [1] => Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth; [2] => Serve by indenture to the common hangman: [3] => Any of these ways are yet better than this; [4] => For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak, [5] => Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods [6] => Would safely deliver me from this place! [7] => Here, here's gold for thee. [8] => If that thy master would gain by thee, [9] => Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, [10] => With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast: [11] => And I will undertake all these to teach. [12] => I doubt not but this populous city will [13] => Yield many scholars. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => But can you teach all this you speak of? ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prove that I cannot, take me home again, [1] => And prostitute me to the basest groom [2] => That doth frequent your house. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can [1] => place thee, I will. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => But amongst honest women. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOULT [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them. [1] => But since my master and mistress have bought you, [2] => there's no going but by their consent: therefore I [3] => will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I [4] => doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough. [5] => Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways. ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [PROLOGUE] => Array ( [TITLE] => [Prologue] [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances [1] => Into an honest house, our story says. [2] => She sings like one immortal, and she dances [3] => As goddess-like to her admired lays; [4] => Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes [5] => Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, [6] => That even her art sisters the natural roses; [7] => Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry: [8] => That pupils lacks she none of noble race, [9] => Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain [10] => She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place; [11] => And to her father turn our thoughts again, [12] => Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost; [13] => Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived [14] => Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast [15] => Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived [16] => God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence [17] => Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies, [18] => His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense; [19] => And to him in his barge with fervor hies. [20] => In your supposing once more put your sight [21] => Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark: [22] => Where what is done in action, more, if might, [23] => Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark. ) ) ) [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => 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. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS [1] => Enter two or three Gentlemen [2] => The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go on board the barge [3] => Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with the Gentlemen and the two Sailors [4] => Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS [5] => Re-enter, from the barge, Lord, with MARINA, and a young Lady [6] => MARINA sings [7] => Music [8] => Sleeps [9] => Exeunt all but PERICLES [10] => DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision [11] => Disappears [12] => Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA [13] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Tyrian Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To the Sailor of Mytilene ) [1] => he can resolve you. [2] => O, here he is. [3] => Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene, [4] => And in it is Lysimachus the governor, [5] => Who craves to come aboard. What is your will? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => That he have his. Call up some gentlemen. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Tyrian Sailor [LINE] => Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Doth your lordship call? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard; [1] => I pray ye, greet them fairly. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Tyrian Sailor [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => This is the man that can, in aught you would, [2] => Resolve you. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you! ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And you, sir, to outlive the age I am, [1] => And die as I would do. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You wish me well. [1] => Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs, [2] => Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us, [3] => I made to it, to know of whence you are. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => First, what is your place? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => I am the governor of this place you lie before. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king; [2] => A man who for this three months hath not spoken [3] => To any one, nor taken sustenance [4] => But to prorogue his grief. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Upon what ground is his distemperature? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Twould be too tedious to repeat; [1] => But the main grief springs from the loss [2] => Of a beloved daughter and a wife. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => May we not see him? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You may; [1] => But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Yet let me obtain my wish. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Behold him. [1] => This was a goodly person, [2] => Till the disaster that, one mortal night, [3] => Drove him to this. ) [STAGEDIR] => PERICLES discovered ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you! [1] => Hail, royal sir! ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => It is in vain; he will not speak to you. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager, [2] => Would win some words of him. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis well bethought. [1] => She questionless with her sweet harmony [2] => And other chosen attractions, would allure, [3] => And make a battery through his deafen'd parts, [4] => Which now are midway stopp'd: [5] => She is all happy as the fairest of all, [6] => And, with her fellow maids is now upon [7] => The leafy shelter that abuts against [8] => The island's side. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit [1] => That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness [2] => We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you [3] => That for our gold we may provision have, [4] => Wherein we are not destitute for want, [5] => But weary for the staleness. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, sir, a courtesy [1] => Which if we should deny, the most just gods [2] => For every graff would send a caterpillar, [3] => And so afflict our province. Yet once more [4] => Let me entreat to know at large the cause [5] => Of your king's sorrow. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sit, sir, I will recount it to you: [1] => But, see, I am prevented. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, here is [1] => The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one! [2] => Is't not a goodly presence? ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => She's a gallant lady. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She's such a one, that, were I well assured [1] => Came of a gentle kind and noble stock, [2] => I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed. [3] => Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty [4] => Expect even here, where is a kingly patient: [5] => If that thy prosperous and artificial feat [6] => Can draw him but to answer thee in aught, [7] => Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay [8] => As thy desires can wish. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I will use [1] => My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided [2] => That none but I and my companion maid [3] => Be suffer'd to come near him. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, let us leave her; [1] => And the gods make her prosperous! ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Mark'd he your music? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => No, nor look'd on us. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => See, she will speak to him. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Hum, ha! ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am a maid, [1] => My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes, [2] => But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks, [3] => My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief [4] => Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd. [5] => Though wayward fortune did malign my state, [6] => My derivation was from ancestors [7] => Who stood equivalent with mighty kings: [8] => But time hath rooted out my parentage, [9] => And to the world and awkward casualties [10] => Bound me in servitude. [11] => I will desist; [12] => But there is something glows upon my cheek, [13] => And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.' ) [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My fortunes--parentage--good parentage-- [1] => To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you? ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage, [1] => You would not do me violence. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me. [1] => You are like something that--What country-woman? [2] => Here of these shores? ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, nor of any shores: [1] => Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am [2] => No other than I appear. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping. [1] => My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one [2] => My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows; [3] => Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight; [4] => As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like [5] => And cased as richly; in pace another Juno; [6] => Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, [7] => The more she gives them speech. Where do you live? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Where I am but a stranger: from the deck [1] => You may discern the place. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Where were you bred? [1] => And how achieved you these endowments, which [2] => You make more rich to owe? ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I should tell my history, it would seem [1] => Like lies disdain'd in the reporting. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prithee, speak: [1] => Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st [2] => Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace [3] => For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will [4] => believe thee, [5] => And make my senses credit thy relation [6] => To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st [7] => Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends? [8] => Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back-- [9] => Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest [10] => From good descending? ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => So indeed I did. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st [1] => Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury, [2] => And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine, [3] => If both were open'd. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some such thing [1] => I said, and said no more but what my thoughts [2] => Did warrant me was likely. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tell thy story; [1] => If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part [2] => Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I [3] => Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look [4] => Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling [5] => Extremity out of act. What were thy friends? [6] => How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin? [7] => Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => My name is Marina. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, I am mock'd, [1] => And thou by some incensed god sent hither [2] => To make the world to laugh at me. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Patience, good sir, [1] => Or here I'll cease. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, I'll be patient. [1] => Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me, [2] => To call thyself Marina. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The name [1] => Was given me by one that had some power, [2] => My father, and a king. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How! a king's daughter? [1] => And call'd Marina? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You said you would believe me; [1] => But, not to be a troubler of your peace, [2] => I will end here. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But are you flesh and blood? [1] => Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy? [2] => Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born? [3] => And wherefore call'd Marina? ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Call'd Marina [1] => For I was born at sea. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => At sea! what mother? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My mother was the daughter of a king; [1] => Who died the minute I was born, [2] => As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft [3] => Deliver'd weeping. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, stop there a little! [1] => This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep [2] => Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be: [3] => My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred? [4] => I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story, [5] => And never interrupt you. ) [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will believe you by the syllable [1] => Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave: [2] => How came you in these parts? where were you bred? ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The king my father did in Tarsus leave me; [1] => Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife, [2] => Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd [3] => A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't, [4] => A crew of pirates came and rescued me; [5] => Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir, [6] => Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? [7] => It may be, [8] => You think me an impostor: no, good faith; [9] => I am the daughter to King Pericles, [10] => If good King Pericles be. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Ho, Helicanus! ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Calls my lord? ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou art a grave and noble counsellor, [1] => Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst, [2] => What this maid is, or what is like to be, [3] => That thus hath made me weep? ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not; but [1] => Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene [2] => Speaks nobly of her. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She would never tell [1] => Her parentage; being demanded that, [2] => She would sit still and weep. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir; [1] => Give me a gash, put me to present pain; [2] => Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me [3] => O'erbear the shores of my mortality, [4] => And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither, [5] => Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget; [6] => Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus, [7] => And found at sea again! O Helicanus, [8] => Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud [9] => As thunder threatens us: this is Marina. [10] => What was thy mother's name? tell me but that, [11] => For truth can never be confirm'd enough, [12] => Though doubts did ever sleep. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => First, sir, I pray, [1] => What is your title? ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now [1] => My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said [2] => Thou hast been godlike perfect, [3] => The heir of kingdoms and another like [4] => To Pericles thy father. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is it no more to be your daughter than [1] => To say my mother's name was Thaisa? [2] => Thaisa was my mother, who did end [3] => The minute I began. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child. [1] => Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus; [2] => She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been, [3] => By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all; [4] => When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge [5] => She is thy very princess. Who is this? ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene, [1] => Who, hearing of your melancholy state, [2] => Did come to see you. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I embrace you. [1] => Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding. [2] => O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music? [3] => Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him [4] => O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, [5] => How sure you are my daughter. But, what music? ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => My lord, I hear none. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => None! [1] => The music of the spheres! List, my Marina. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => It is not good to cross him; give him way. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear? ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => My lord, I hear. ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most heavenly music! [1] => It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber [2] => Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A pillow for his head: [1] => So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends, [2] => If this but answer to my just belief, [3] => I'll well remember you. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither, [1] => And do upon mine altar sacrifice. [2] => There, when my maiden priests are met together, [3] => Before the people all, [4] => Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife: [5] => To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call [6] => And give them repetition to the life. [7] => Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe; [8] => Do it, and happy; by my silver bow! [9] => Awake, and tell thy dream. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Celestial Dian, goddess argentine, [1] => I will obey thee. Helicanus! ) ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Sir? ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike [1] => The inhospitable Cleon; but I am [2] => For other service first: toward Ephesus [3] => Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why. [4] => Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore, [5] => And give you gold for such provision [6] => As our intents will need? ) [STAGEDIR] => To LYSIMACHUS ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => With all my heart; and, when you come ashore, [2] => I have another suit. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You shall prevail, [1] => Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems [2] => You have been noble towards her. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LYSIMACHUS [LINE] => Sir, lend me your arm. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Come, my Marina. ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter GOWER, before the temple of DIANA at Ephesus [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now our sands are almost run; [1] => More a little, and then dumb. [2] => This, my last boon, give me, [3] => For such kindness must relieve me, [4] => That you aptly will suppose [5] => What pageantry, what feats, what shows, [6] => What minstrelsy, and pretty din, [7] => The regent made in Mytilene [8] => To greet the king. So he thrived, [9] => That he is promised to be wived [10] => To fair Marina; but in no wise [11] => Till he had done his sacrifice, [12] => As Dian bade: whereto being bound, [13] => The interim, pray you, all confound. [14] => In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd, [15] => And wishes fall out as they're will'd. [16] => At Ephesus, the temple see, [17] => Our king and all his company. [18] => That he can hither come so soon, [19] => Is by your fancy's thankful doom. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => 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. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady [1] => Faints [2] => Shows a ring [3] => Kneels to THAISA [4] => Exit Act [5] => Enter GOWER [6] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command, [1] => I here confess myself the king of Tyre; [2] => Who, frighted from my country, did wed [3] => At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa. [4] => At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth [5] => A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess, [6] => Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus [7] => Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years [8] => He sought to murder: but her better stars [9] => Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore [10] => Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us, [11] => Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she [12] => Made known herself my daughter. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Voice and favour! [1] => You are, you are--O royal Pericles! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen! ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noble sir, [1] => If you have told Diana's altar true, [2] => This is your wife. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Reverend appearer, no; [1] => I threw her overboard with these very arms. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Upon this coast, I warrant you. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => 'Tis most certain. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look to the lady; O, she's but o'erjoy'd. [1] => Early in blustering morn this lady was [2] => Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin, [3] => Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and placed her [4] => Here in Diana's temple. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => May we see them? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house, [1] => Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, let me look! [1] => If he be none of mine, my sanctity [2] => Will to my sense bend no licentious ear, [3] => But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord, [4] => Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake, [5] => Like him you are: did you not name a tempest, [6] => A birth, and death? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => The voice of dead Thaisa! ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That Thaisa am I, supposed dead [1] => And drown'd. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Immortal Dian! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now I know you better. [1] => When we with tears parted Pentapolis, [2] => The king my father gave you such a ring. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness [1] => Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well, [2] => That on the touching of her lips I may [3] => Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried [4] => A second time within these arms. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARINA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My heart [1] => Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa; [1] => Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina [2] => For she was yielded there. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Blest, and mine own! ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELICANUS [LINE] => Hail, madam, and my queen! ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => I know you not. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre, [1] => I left behind an ancient substitute: [2] => Can you remember what I call'd the man? [3] => I have named him oft. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => 'Twas Helicanus then. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Still confirmation: [1] => Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he. [2] => Now do I long to hear how you were found; [3] => How possibly preserved; and who to thank, [4] => Besides the gods, for this great miracle. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man, [1] => Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can [2] => From first to last resolve you. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Reverend sir, [1] => The gods can have no mortal officer [2] => More like a god than you. Will you deliver [3] => How this dead queen re-lives? ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CERIMON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will, my lord. [1] => Beseech you, first go with me to my house, [2] => Where shall be shown you all was found with her; [3] => How she came placed here in the temple; [4] => No needful thing omitted. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I [1] => Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa, [2] => This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter, [3] => Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now, [4] => This ornament [5] => Makes me look dismal will I clip to form; [6] => And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd, [7] => To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THAISA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir, [1] => My father's dead. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PERICLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen, [1] => We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves [2] => Will in that kingdom spend our following days: [3] => Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign. [4] => Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay [5] => To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GOWER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard [1] => Of monstrous lust the due and just reward: [2] => In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen, [3] => Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen, [4] => Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, [5] => Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last: [6] => In Helicanus may you well descry [7] => A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty: [8] => In reverend Cerimon there well appears [9] => The worth that learned charity aye wears: [10] => For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame [11] => Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name [12] => Of Pericles, to rage the city turn, [13] => That him and his they in his palace burn; [14] => The gods for murder seemed so content [15] => To punish them; although not done, but meant. [16] => So, on your patience evermore attending, [17] => New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )