Mar. I desire to find him so, that I may worthily aote him. Bawd. Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man whom I am bound to. Mar. If he govern the country, you are bound to him indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not. Bawd. 'Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold. Mar. What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive. Lys..Have you done? Bawd. My lord, she's not paced yet; you must take some pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will leave his honour and her together. [Exeunt Bawd, Pander, and Boult. Lgs. Go thy ways.-Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade? Mar. What trade, Sir? Lys. What I cannot name but I shall offend. Mar. I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it. Lys. How long have you been of this profession? Mar. Ever since I can remember. Lys. Did you go to it so young? Were you a gamester at five, or at seven ? Mar. Earlier too, Sir, if now I be one. Lys. Why, the house you dwell in, proclaims you to be a creature of sale. Mar. Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come into it? I hear say, you are of honourable parts, and are the governor of this place. Lys. Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am? Mar. Who is my principal? Lys. Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly apon thee. Come, bring me to some private place. Come, come. Mar. If you were born to honour, shew it now; If put upon you, make the judgment good That thought you worthy of it. Lys. How's this? How's this?-Some more;-be Perséver still in that clear way thou goest, Mar. The gods preserve you! Lys. For me, be you thoughten That I came with no ill intent; for to me The very doors and windows savour vilely. Farewell. Thou art a picce of virtue, and I doubt not but thy training hath been noble. Hold; here's more gold for thee. A curse upon him, die he like a thief, worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a spaniel. Come your ways. Mar. Whither would you have me? Boult. I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall execute it. Come your way. We'll have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say. Re-enter BAWD. Bawd. How now! What's the matter? Boult. Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the lord Lysimachus. Bawd. O abominable! Boult. She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of the gods. Bawd. Marry, hang her up for ever! Boult. The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snowball; saying his prayers too. Bawd. Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable. Boult. An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall be plough'd. Mar. Hark, hark, you gods! Bawd. She conjures: away with her. Would she had never come within my doors! Marry hang you! She's born to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind? Marry come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays! [Exit Bawd. Boult. Come, mistress; come your way with me. Mar. Whither would you have me? Boult. To take from you the jewel you hold so dear. Mar. Pr'ythee tell me one thing first. Mar. What canst thou wish thine enemy to be? Boult. Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress. Mar. Neither of these are yet so bad as thou art, Since they do better thee in their command. Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend Of hell would not in reputation change: Thou'rt the damn'd door-keeper to every coystrel That hither comes enquiring for his tib; To the choleric fisting of each rogue thy ear Is liable; thy very food is such As hath been belei'd on by infected lungs. Boult. What would you have me? Go to the wars, would you; where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one? Mar. Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty I doubt not but this populous city will Boult. But can you teach all this you speak of? Boutt. Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee, I will. Mar. But, amongst honest women? Boult. 'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them. But since my master and mistress have bought yon, there's no going but by their consent; That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou hear'st therefore I will make them acquainted with your from nie, It shall be for thy good. [As Lysimachus is putting up his Purse, Boult enters. Boull. I beseech your honour, one piece for me. Lys. Avaunt, thou damn'd door-keeper! Your house, But for this virgin that doth prop it up, Would sink, and overwhelm you all. Away! [Exit Lysimachus. Boult. How's this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish chastity, which is not ⚫ A wanton. purpose, and I doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways. [Exeunt. ACT V. Enter GOWER. Gow. Marina thus the brothel scapes, and chances Into an honest house, our story says. She sings like one immortal, and she dances • Cope or canopy of heaven. + Paltry fellow. 1 Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her neeld↑ Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry; Thence, driven before the winds, he is arrived Es banners sable, trimm'd with rich expence; [Exit. greet them fairly. Lys. Tis well bethought. She, all as happy as of all the fairest, [He whispers one of the attendant Lords.- ness Mar. Sir, I will use My utmost skill in his recovery, [The Gentlemen and the Two Sailors descend Provided none but I and my companion and go on board the Barge. Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and LORDS; the Tyr. Sail. Sir, This is the man that can, in aught you would, Lys. Hail, reverend Sir! The gods preserve you! Lys. You wish me well. Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs, Lys. I am governor of this place you lie before. Dar vessel is of Tyre, in it the king; Be suffer'd to come near him. And the gods make her prosperous! [Marina sings, Lys. Mark'd he your music? Mar. I ani a maid, My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes, A man, who for this three months hath not spoken And to the world and aukward casualties Hel. Behold him, Sir: [Pericles discovered.] this You are like something that-What countrywo Lys. Sir, king, all hail! The gods preserve you! Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am And onsed as richly in pace another Juno; Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, The more she gives them speech. Where do you live? Mar. Where I am but a stranger; from the deck You may discern the place. Per. Where were you bred? And how achieved you these endowments, which You make more rich to owe? Mar. Should I tell my history, "Twould seem like lies disdain'd in the reporting. Per. Pr'ythee speak ; Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st And make my senses credit thy relation, And wherefore call'd Marina ? Mar. Call'd Marina, For I was born at sea. Per. At sea? Thy mother? Mar. My mother was the daughter of a king; Who died the very minute I was born, As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft Deliver'd weeping. Per..0, stop there a little! This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story, Mar. You'll scarce believe me; 'twere best I did give o'er, Per. I will believe you by the syllable Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave :How came you in these parts? Where were you bred? Mar. The king, my fatber, did in Tharsus leave me; Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife, ⚫ Possess. 1. e. No puppet dressed up to deceive me. Per. I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now (As in the rest thou hast been godlike perfect,) My drown'd queen's name, thou art the heir of kingdoms, And another life to Pericles thy father. e a For Mar. Is it no more to be your daughter, than A To say, ny mother's name was Thaisa? Thaisa was my mother, who did end, The minute I began. Per. Now, blessing on thee, rise; thou art my child. Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus, Per. I embrace you, Sir. Give me my robes; I am wild in my beholding. O heavens bless my girl! But hark, what mu sic! Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, How sure you are my daughter.-But what music? Hel. My lord, I hear none. Per. None? The music of the spheres: list, my Marina. And give them repetition to the life. Awake, and tell thy dream. [Diana disappears. I will obey thee!-Helicanus ! Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, and MARINA. Hel. Sir. Found there rich Jewels ; recover'd her, and placed her Here in Diana's temple. Per. May we see them? Cer. Great Sir, they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you. Look! Thaisa is Thai. O, let me look! Per. My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike If he be none of mine, my sanctity For other service first: toward Ephesus Shall we refresh us, Sir, upon your shore, As our intents will need? Lys. With all my heart, Sir; and when you come ashore, I have another suit. Per. You shall prevail, Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems You have been noble towards her, Lys. Sir, lend your arm. Per. Come, my Marina. [Exeunt. Gow. Now our sands are almost run; More a little, and then done. This, as my last boon, give me (For such kindness must relieve me,) That you aptly will suppose What pageantry, what feats, what shows, To greet the king. So he has thrived, [Exit. SCENE III-The Temple of Diana at Ephesus : Thaisa standing near the Altar, as High priestess; a number of Virgins on each side; Cerimon and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending. Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady. Per. Hail Dian; to perform thy just command, I here confess myself the king of Tyre; Who, frighted from my country, did wed The fair Thaísa, at Pentapolis. At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth Was nursed with Cleon; whom at fourteen years You are-you are-O royal Pericles! [She faints. Per. What means the womar? She dies! Help, gentlemen! Cer. Noble Sir, Will to my sense⚫ bend no licentious ear, Per. The voice of dead Thaisa! Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed dead, And drown'd. Per. Immortal Dian! Thai. Now I know you better. When we with tears parted Pentapolis, The king, my father, give you such a ring. [Shews a Ring. Per. This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness Makes my past miseries sport: you shall do well, That on the touching of her lips I may Melt, and no more be seen. O come, be buried A second time within these arms. Per. You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute. Can you remember what I call'd the man? I have named him oft. Thai. 'Twas Helicanus then. Per. Still confirmation: Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is Now do I long to hear how you were found; Thai. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man Through whom the gods have shewn their power; that can From first to last resolve you. Per. Reverend Sir, The gods can have no mortal officer Cer. I will, my lord. Beseech you, first go with me to my house, Where shall be shewn you all was found with her; How she came placed here within the temple; No needful thing omitted. Per. Pure Diana! I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer Thai. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, Sir, that my father's dead. Per. Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen, We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves Enter GoWER. [Exeunt. Gow. In Antioch ‡, and his daughter, you have heard Of monstrous lust the due and just reward: • Sensual passion. ti. e. His beard. i. e. The king of Antioch. In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame That him and his they in his palace burn. To punish them; although not done, but meant. END OF THE DRAMATIC WORKS. 1 |