3.2 Enter Lord CERIMON, with a Servant and another poor man, both storm-beaten.

CERIMON     Philemon, ho!
Enter PHILEMON.
PHILEMON     Doth my lord call?
CERIMON     Get fire and meat for these poor men;
’T has been a turbulent and stormy night.
Exit Philemon.

SERVANT     I have been in many; but such a night as this,	5
Till now, I ne’er endur’d.
CERIMON     Your master will be dead ere you return;
There’s nothing can be minister’d to nature
That can recover him.
[to poor man]     Give this to the ’pothecary
And tell me how it works.	10
Exeunt Servant and poor man.
Enter two Gentlemen.
1 GENTLEMAN     Good morrow.
2 GENTLEMAN     Good morrow to your lordship.
CERIMON     Gentlemen, why do you stir so early?
1 GENTLEMAN     Sir,
Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,	15
Shook as th’earth did quake. The very principals
Did seem to rend and all to topple. Pure
Surprise and fear made me to quit the house.
2 GENTLEMAN
That is the cause we trouble you so early;
’Tis not our husbandry.
CERIMON     O, you say well.	20
1 GENTLEMAN
But I much marvel that your lordship, having
Rich tire about you, should at these early hours
Shake off the golden slumber of repose.
’Tis most strange,
Nature should be so conversant with pain,	25
Being thereto not compell’d.
CERIMON     I hold it ever,
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater
Than nobleness and riches; careless heirs
May the two latter darken and expend,
But immortality attends the former,	30
Making a man a god. ’Tis known I ever
Have studied physic, through which secret art,
By turning o’er authorities, I have,
Together with my practice, made familiar
To me and to my aid the blest infusions	35
That dwells in vegetives, in metals, stones;
And can speak of the disturbances that
Nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me
A more content in course of true delight
Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,	40
Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,
To please the fool and death.
2 GENTLEMAN
Your honour has through Ephesus pour’d forth
Your charity, and hundreds call themselves
Your creatures, who by you have been restor’d;	45
And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even
Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon
Such strong renown as time shall never raze.
Enter two or three Servants with a chest.
1 SERVANT     So; lift there.
CERIMON     What’s that?
1 SERVANT     Sir, even now
Did the sea toss up upon our shore this chest;	50
’Tis of some wreck.
CERIMON     Set’t down; let’s look upon’t.
2 GENTLEMAN     ’Tis like a coffin, sir.
CERIMON     Whate’er it be,
’Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight.
If the sea’s stomach be o’ercharg’d with gold,
’Tis a good constraint of fortune	55
It belches upon us.
2 GENTLEMAN     ’Tis so, my lord.
CERIMON     How close ’tis caulked and bitumed! Did the
sea cast it up?
1 SERVANT     I never saw so huge a billow, sir, as tossed it
upon shore.	60
CERIMON     Wrench it open: soft! it smells most sweetly in
my sense.
2 GENTLEMAN     A delicate odour.
CERIMON     As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it.
O you most potent gods! what’s here? a corse!	65
1 GENTLEMAN     Most strange!
CERIMON     Shrouded in cloths of state; balmed and
entreasured with full bags of spices! A passport too!
Apollo, perfect me in the characters!
[Reads from a scroll.]
Here I give to understand,	70
If e’er this coffin drives a-land,
I, King Pericles, have lost
This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
Who finds her, give her burying;
She was the daughter of a king.	75
Besides this treasure for a fee,
The gods requite his charity!
If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
That even cracks for woe! This chanc’d to-night.
2 GENTLEMAN     Most likely, sir.
CERIMON     Nay, certainly to-night;	80
For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough
That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within;
Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.
Exit a Servant.
Death may usurp on nature many hours,
And yet the fire of life kindle again	85
The o’erpress’d spirits. I heard of an Egyptian
That had nine hours lien dead,
Who was by good appliance recovered.
Enter Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire.
Well said, well said; the fire and cloths.
The still and woeful music that we have,	90
Cause it to sound, beseech you.           [Music.]
The viol once more; how thou stirr’st, thou block!
The music there!                             [Music.]
I pray you, give her air.
Gentlemen, this queen will live.
Nature awakes a warm breath out of her.	95
She hath not been entranc’d above five hours;
See, how she ’gins to blow into life’s flower again!
1 GENTLEMAN
The heavens, through you, increase our wonder,
And set up your fame forever.
CERIMON     She is alive!
Behold, her eyelids, cases to those	100
Heavenly jewels which Pericles hath lost,
Begin to part their fringes of bright gold.
The diamonds of a most praised water
Doth appear to make the world twice rich. Live,
And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,	105
Rare as you seem to be. [She moves.]
THAISA     O dear Diana,
Where am I? Where’s my lord? What world is this?
2 GENTLEMAN     Is not this strange?
1 GENTLEMAN     Most rare.
CERIMON     Hush, my gentle neighbours!	110
Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her;
Get linen: now this matter must be look’d to,
For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;
And Aesculapius guide us!
Exeunt, carrying Thaisa away.

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

PERICLES     Most honour’d Cleon, I must needs be gone;
My twelve months are expir’d, and Tyrus stands
In a litigious peace. You and your lady,
Take from my heart all thankfulness! the gods
Make up the rest upon you!
CLEON     Your strokes of fortune,	5
Though they hurt you mortally, yet glance
Full woundingly on us.
DIONYZA     O your sweet queen!
That the strict fates had pleas’d you had brought her hither,
To have bless’d mine eyes with her!
PERICLES     We cannot but obey
The powers above us. Could I rage and roar	10
As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end
Must be as ’tis. My gentle babe Marina,
Whom, for she was born at sea, I have nam’d so, here
I charge your charity withal; leaving her
The infant of your care; beseeching you	15
To give her princely training, that she may
Be manner’d as she is born.
CLEON     Fear not, my lord, but think
Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,
For which the people’s prayers still fall upon you,
Must in your child be thought on. If neglection	20
Should therein make me vile, the common body,
By you reliev’d, would force me to my duty.
But if to that my nature need a spur,
The gods revenge it upon me and mine,
To the end of generation!
PERICLES     I believe you;	25
Your honour and your goodness teach me to’t,
Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,
By bright Diana, whom we honour, all
Unscissor’d shall this hair of mine remain,
Though I show ill in’t. So I take my leave.	30
Good madam, make me blessed in your care
In bringing up my child.
DIONYZA     I have one myself,
Who shall not be more dear to my respect
Than yours, my lord.
PERICLES     Madam, my thanks and prayers.
CLEON
We’ll bring your grace e’en to the edge o’th’ shore,	35
Then give you up to the mask’d Neptune and
The gentlest winds of heaven.
PERICLES     I will embrace
Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,
Lychorida, no tears;
Look to your little mistress, on whose grace	40
You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.     Exeunt.

3.4 Enter CERIMON and THAISA.

CERIMON     Madam, this letter and some certain jewels
Lay with you in your coffer; which are
At your command. Know you the character?
THAISA     It is my lord’s. That I was shipp’d at sea
I well remember, even on my eaning time;	5
But whether there deliver’d, by the holy gods,
I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,
My wedded lord, I ne’er shall see again,
A vestal livery will I take me to,
And never more have joy.	10
CERIMON     Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,
Diana’s temple is not distant far,
Where you may abide till your date expire.
Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine
Shall there attend you.	15
THAISA     My recompense is thanks, that’s all;
Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.
Exeunt.
4.Ch.     Enter GOWER.
GOWER
Imagine Pericles arriv’d at Tyre,
Welcom’d and settled to his own desire.
His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,
Unto Diana there’s a votaress.
Now to Marina bend your mind,	5
Whom our fast-growing scene must find
At Tharsus, and by Cleon train’d
In music’s letters; who hath gain’d
Of education all the grace,
Which makes her both the heart and place	10
Of general wonder. But, alack,
That monster envy, oft the wrack
Of earned praise, Marina’s life
Seeks to take off by treason’s knife;
And in this kind hath our Cleon	15
One daughter and a wench full-grown,
Even ripe for marriage-rite. This maid
Hight Philoten; and it is said
For certain in our story, she
Would ever with Marina be:	20
Be’t when she weav’d the sleided silk
With fingers long, small, white as milk;
Or when she would with sharp neele wound
The cambric, which she made more sound
By hurting it; or when to th’ lute	25
She sung, and made the night-bird mute
That still records with moan; or when
She would with rich and constant pen
Vail to her mistress Dian; still
This Philoten contends in skill	30
With absolute Marina: so
With dove of Paphos might the crow
Vie feathers white. Marina gets
All praises, which are paid as debts,
And not as given. This so darks	35
In Philoten all graceful marks,
That Cleon’s wife with envy rare
A present murderer does prepare
For good Marina, that her daughter
Might stand peerless by this slaughter.	40
The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,
Lychorida, our nurse, is dead;
And cursed Dionyza hath
The pregnant instrument of wrath
Prest for this blow. The unborn event	45
I do commend to your content;
Only I carried winged time
Post on the lame feet of my rime;
Which never could I so convey,
Unless your thoughts went on my way.	50
Dionyza does appear,
With Leonine, a murtherer.      Exit.

4.1           Enter DIONYZA with LEONINE.

DIONYZA     Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do’t.
’Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.
Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,
To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,
Which is but cold, or flaming love thy bosom	5
Enslave too nicely; nor let pity, which
Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be
A soldier to thy purpose.
LEONINE     I will do’t; but yet she is a goodly creature.
DIONYZA     The fitter then the gods should have her.	10
Here she comes weeping for her only mistress’ death.
Thou art resolv’d?
LEONINE     I am resolv’d.
Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers.
MARINA No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,
To strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues,
The purple violets, and marigolds,	15
Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,
While summer-days doth last. Ay me! poor maid,
Born in a tempest, when my mother died,
This world to me is as a lasting storm,
Whirring me from my friends.	20
DIONYZA     How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?
How chance my daughter is not with you?
Do not consume your blood with sorrowing:
Have you a nurse of me! Lord, how your favour’s
Chang’d with this unprofitable woe!	25
Come, give me your flowers. On the sea-margent
Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,
And it pierces and sharpens the stomach.
Come, Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.
MARINA
No, I pray you; I’ll not bereave you of your servant.	30
DIONYZA     Come, come;
I love the king your father and yourself
With more than foreign heart. We every day
Expect him here; when he shall come and find
Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,	35
He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;
Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve
That excellent complexion, which did steal	40
The eyes of young and old. Care not for me;
I can go home alone.
MARINA     Well, I will go;
But yet I have no desire to it.
DIONYZA     Come, come, I know ’tis good for you.
Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least.	45
Remember what I have said.
LEONINE               I warrant you, madam.
DIONYZA     I’ll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while.
Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood.
What! I must have care of you.
MARINA               My thanks, sweet madam.
Exit Dionyza.
Is this wind westerly that blows?
LEONINE     South-west.	50
MARINA     When I was born, the wind was north.
LEONINE               Was’t so?
MARINA     My father, as nurse says, did never fear,
But cried ‘Good seamen!’ to the sailors, galling
His kingly hands, haling ropes;
And, clasping to the mast, endur’d a sea	55
That almost burst the deck.
LEONINE     When was this?
MARINA     When I was born.
Never was waves nor wind more violent;
And from the ladder-tackle washes off	60
A canvas-climber. ‘Ha!’ says one, ‘wolt out?’
And with a dropping industry they skip
From stem to stern; the boatswain whistles, and
The master calls and trebles their confusion.
LEONINE     Come, say your prayers.	65
MARINA     What mean you?
LEONINE     If you require a little space for prayer,
I grant it. Pray, but be not tedious;
For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn
To do my work with haste.
MARINA          Why will you kill me?	70
LEONINE     To satisfy my lady.
MARINA     Why would she have me kill’d?
Now, as I can remember, by my troth,
I never did her hurt in all my life.
I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn	75
To any living creature; believe me la,
I never kill’d a mouse, nor hurt a fly;
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for’t. How have I offended,
Wherein my death might yield her any profit,	80
Or my life imply her any danger?
LEONINE     My commission
Is not to reason of the deed, but do’t.
MARINA     You will not do’t for all the world, I hope.
You are well favour’d, and your looks foreshow	85
You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,
When you caught hurt in parting two that fought.
Good sooth, it show’d well in you. Do so now.
Your lady seeks my life; come you between,
And save poor me, the weaker.
LEONINE          I am sworn,	90
And will dispatch. [Seizes her.]
Enter Pirates.
1 PIRATE     Hold, villain!           Leonine runs away.
2 PIRATE     A prize! a prize!
3 PIRATE     Half-part, mates, half-part! Come, let’s have
her aboard suddenly.      Exeunt Pirates with Marina.	95
Enter LEONINE.
LEONINE
These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;
And they have seiz’d Marina. Let her go;
There’s no hope she’ll return. I’ll swear she’s dead
And thrown into the sea. But I’ll see further;
Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,	100
Not carry her aboard. If she remain,
Whom they have ravish’d must by me be slain.     Exit.

4.2 Enter Pandar, Bawd and BOULT.

PANDAR     Boult!
BOULT     Sir?
PANDAR     Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of
gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being
too wenchless.	5
BAWD     We were never so much out of creatures. We have
but poor three, and they can do no more than they can
do; and they with continual action are even as good as
rotten.
PANDAR     Therefore let’s have fresh ones, whate’er we	10
pay for them. If there be not a conscience to be us’d in
every trade, we shall never prosper.
BAWD     Thou say’st true; ’tis not our bringing up of poor
bastards, as I think I have brought up some eleven –
BOULT     Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again.	15
But shall I search the market?
BAWD     What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind
will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.
PANDAR     Thou sayest true; there’s two unwholesome, a’
conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that lay	20
with the little baggage.
BOULT     Ay, she quickly poop’d him; she made him
roast-meat for worms. But I’ll go search the market.
Exit.
PANDAR     Three or four thousand chequins were as
pretty a proportion to live quietly, and so give over.	25
BAWD     Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get
when we are old?
PANDAR     O, our credit comes not in like the commodity,
nor the commodity wages not with the danger;
therefore, if in our youths we could pick up some	30
pretty estate, ’twere not amiss to keep our door
hatch’d. Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with
the gods will be strong with us for giving o’er.
BAWD     Come, other sorts offend as well as we.
PANDAR     As well as we? ay, and better too; we offend	35
worse. Neither is our profession any trade; it’s no
calling. But here comes Boult.
Enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA.
BOULT     Come your ways, my masters; you say she’s a
virgin?
1 PIRATE     O, sir, we doubt it not.	40
BOULT     Master, I have gone through for this piece you
see. If you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest.
BAWD     Boult, has she any qualities?
BOULT     She has a good face, speaks well, and has
excellent good clothes; there’s no farther necessity of	45
qualities can make her be refus’d.
BAWD     What’s her price, Boult?
BOULT     I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.
PANDAR     Well, follow me, my masters; you shall have
your money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her	50
what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her
entertainment.      Exeunt Pandar and Pirates.
BAWD     Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her
hair, complexion, height, her age, with warrant of
her virginity, and cry ‘He that will give most shall have	55
her first.’ Such a maidenhead were no cheap thing, if
men were as they have been. Get this done as I
command you.
BOULT     Performance shall follow.                Exit.
MARINA     Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!	60
He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates
Not enough barbarous, had not o’erboard
Thrown me for to seek my mother!
BAWD     Why lament you, pretty one?
MARINA     That I am pretty.	65
BAWD     Come, the gods have done their part in you.
MARINA     I accuse them not.
BAWD     You are light into my hands, where you are like
to live.
MARINA     The more my fault	70
To ’scape his hands where I was like to die.
BAWD     Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.
MARINA     No.
BAWD     Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all
fashions. You shall fare well; you shall have the	75
difference of all complexions. What do you stop your
ears?
MARINA     Are you a woman?
BAWD     What would you have me be, and I be not a
woman?	80
MARINA     An honest woman, or not a woman.
BAWD     Marry, whip thee, gosling; I think I shall have
something to do with you. Come, you’re a young
foolish sapling, and must be bow’d as I would have
you.	85
MARINA     The gods defend me!
BAWD     If it please the gods to defend you by men, then
men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir
you up. Boult’s return’d.
Enter BOULT.
Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?	90
BOULT     I have cried her almost to the number of her
hairs; I have drawn her picture with my voice.
BAWD     And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the
inclination of the people, especially of the younger
sort?	95
BOULT     Faith, they listen’d to me as they would have
hearken’d to their father’s testament. There was a
Spaniard’s mouth water’d and he went to bed to her
very description.
BAWD     We shall have him here to-morrow with his best	100
ruff on.
BOULT     To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know
the French knight that cowers i’the hams?
BAWD     Who? Monsieur Verolles?
BOULT     Ay, he; he offer’d to cut a caper at the	105
proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore he
would see her to-morrow.
BAWD     Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease
hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will
come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the sun.	110
BOULT     Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we
should lodge them with this sign.
BAWD     [to Marina] Pray you, come hither awhile. You
have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must
seem to do that fearfully which you commit willingly;	115
despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that
you live as ye do makes pity in your lovers: seldom but
that pity begets you a good opinion, and that opinion
a mere profit.
MARINA     I understand you not.	120
BOULT     O, take her home, mistress, take her home; these
blushes of hers must be quench’d with some present
practice.
BAWD     Thou sayest true, i’faith, so they must; for your
bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go	125
with warrant.
BOULT     Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress,
if I have bargain’d for the joint, –
BAWD     Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.
BOULT     I may so?	130
BAWD     Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like
the manner of your garments well.
BOULT     Ay, by my faith, they shall not be chang’d yet.
BAWD     Boult, spend thou that in the town; report what a
sojourner we have; you’ll lose nothing by custom.	135
When nature fram’d this piece, she meant thee a good
turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou
hast the harvest out of thine own report.
BOULT     I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so
awake the bed of eels as my giving out her beauty	140
stirs up the lewdly inclin’d. I’ll bring home some
to-night.
BAWD     Come your ways; follow me.
MARINA     If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,
Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.	145
Diana, aid my purpose!
BAWD     What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will
you go with us?               Exeunt.

4.3 Enter CLEON and DIONYZA.

DIONYZA     Why are you foolish? Can it be undone?
CLEON     O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter
The sun and moon ne’er look’d upon!
DIONYZA     I think you’ll turn child again.
CLEON     Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,	5
I’d give it to undo the deed. A lady,
Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess
To equal any single crown o’th’ earth
I’th’ justice of compare! O villain Leonine!
Whom thou hast poison’d too.	10
If thou hadst drunk to him, ’t had been a kindness
Becoming well thy fact. What canst thou say
When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
DIONYZA     That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,
To foster it, not ever to preserve.	15
She died at night; I’ll say so. Who can cross it?
Unless you play the pious innocent,
And for an honest attribute cry out
‘She died by foul play.’
CLEON     O, go to. Well, well.
Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods	20
Do like this worst.
DIONYZA     Be one of those that thinks
The petty wrens of Tharsus will fly hence,
And open this to Pericles. I do shame
To think of what a noble strain you are,
And of how coward a spirit.
CLEON     To such proceeding	25
Who ever but his approbation added,
Though not his prime consent, he did not flow
From honourable sources.
DIONYZA     Be it so, then.
Yet none does know but you how she came dead,
Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.	30
She did distain my child, and stood between
Her and her fortunes. None would look on her,
But cast their gazes on Marina’s face,
Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin
Not worth the time of day. It pierc’d me through;	35
And though you call my course unnatural, –
You not your child well loving – yet I find
It greets me as an enterprise of kindness
Perform’d to your sole daughter.
CLEON     Heavens forgive it!
DIONYZA     And as for Pericles,	40
What should he say? we wept after her hearse,
And yet we mourn. Her monument
Is almost finish’d, and her epitaphs
In glitt’ring golden characters express
A general praise to her, and care in us	45
At whose expense ’tis done.
CLEON     Thou art like the harpy,
Which, to betray, dost with thine angel’s face,
Seize with thine eagle’s talons.
DIONYZA     Ye’re like one that superstitiously
Do swear to th’ gods that winter kills the flies;	50
But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.      Exeunt.

4.4      Enter GOWER.

GOWER
Thus time we waste, and long leagues make short;
Sail seas in cockles, have and wish but for’t;
Making, to take our imagination,
From bourn to bourn, region to region.
By you being pardon’d, we commit no crime	5
To use one language in each several clime
Where our scene seems to live. I do beseech you
To learn of me, who stand i’th’ gaps to teach you
The stages of our story. Pericles
Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,	10
Attended on by many a lord and knight,
To see his daughter, all his life’s delight.
Old Helicanus goes along. Behind
Is left to govern it, you bear in mind,
Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late	15
Advanc’d in time to great and high estate.
Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought
This king to Tharsus – think his pilot thought;
So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on –
To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.	20
Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;
Your ears unto your eyes I’ll reconcile.
Dumb Show.
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, Dionyza and the rest.
See how belief may suffer by foul show!
This borrow’d passion stands for true-ow’d woe;
And Pericles, in sorrow all devour’d,	25
With sighs shot through and biggest tears o’ershower’d,
Leaves Tharsus and again embarks. He swears
Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs.
He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears
A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,	30
And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit
The epitaph is for Marina writ
By wicked Dionyza.
[Reads the inscription on Marina’s monument.]
The fairest, sweet’st and best, lies here,
Who wither’d in her spring of year.	35
She was of Tyrus the king’s daughter,
On whom foul death hath made this slaughter.
Marina was she call’d; and at her birth,
Thetis, being proud, swallow’d some part o’th’ earth.
Therefore the earth, fearing to be o’erflow’d,	40
Hath Thetis’ birth-child on the heavens bestow’d;
Wherefore she does, and swears she’ll never stint,
Make raging battery upon shores of flint.
No visor does become black villainy
So well as soft and tender flattery.	45
Let Pericles believe his daughter’s dead,
And bear his courses to be ordered
By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play
His daughter’s woe and heavy well-a-day
In her unholy service. Patience, then,	50
And think you now are all in Mytilen.      Exit.

4.5      Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen.

1 GENTLEMAN     Did you ever hear the like?
2 GENTLEMAN     No, nor never shall do in such a place as
this, she being once gone.
1 GENTLEMAN     But to have divinity preach’d there! did
you ever dream of such a thing?	5
2 GENTLEMAN     No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-
houses. Shall’s go hear the vestals sing?
1 GENTLEMAN     I’ll do anything now that is virtuous; but
I am out of the road of rutting for ever.      Exeunt.

4.6      Enter Pandar, Bawd and BOULT.

PANDAR     Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her
she had ne’er come here.
BAWD     Fie, fie upon her! she’s able to freeze the god
Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must
either get her ravish’d or be rid of her. When she	5
should do for clients her fitment and do me the
kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks, her
reasons, her master-reasons, her prayers, her knees;
that she would make a puritan of the devil, if he would
cheapen a kiss of her.	10
BOULT     Faith, I must ravish her, or she’ll disfurnish us
of all our cavalleria, and make our swearers priests.
PANDAR     Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!
BAWD     Faith, there’s no way to be rid on’t but by the way
to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus, dis-	15
guis’d.
BOULT     We should have both lord and lown, if the
peevish baggage would but give way to customers.
Enter LYSIMACHUS.
LYSIMACHUS     How now! How a dozen of virginities?
BAWD     Now, the gods to bless your honour!	20
BOULT     I am glad to see your honour in good health.
LYSIMACHUS     You may so; ’tis the better for you that
your resorters stand upon sound legs. How now,
wholesome iniquity, have you that a man may deal
withal, and defy the surgeon?	25
BAWD     We have here one, sir, if she would – but there
never came her like in Mytilene.
LYSIMACHUS     If she’d do the deeds of darkness, thou
wouldst say.
BAWD     Your honour knows what ’tis to say well enough.	30
LYSIMACHUS     Well, call forth, call forth.
BOULT     For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall
see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but –
LYSIMACHUS     What, prithee?
BOULT     O, sir, I can be modest.	35
LYSIMACHUS     That dignifies the renown of a bawd no
less than it gives a good report to a number to be
chaste.      Exit Boult.
BAWD     Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never
pluck’d yet, I can assure you.	40
Enter BOULT with MARINA.
Is she not a fair creature?
LYSIMACHUS     Faith, she would serve after a long voyage
at sea. Well, there’s for you; leave us.
BAWD     I beseech your honour, give me leave a word, and
I’ll have done presently.	45
LYSIMACHUS     I beseech you, do.
BAWD     [to Marina] First, I would have you note, this is
an honourable man.
MARINA     I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note
him.	50
BAWD     Next, he’s the governor of this country, and a
man whom I am bound to.
MARINA     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	55
you use him kindly? he will line your apron with gold.
MARINA     What he will do graciously, I will thankfully
receive.
LYSIMACHUS     Ha’ you done?
BAWD     My lord, she’s not pac’d yet; you must take some	60
pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will leave
his honour and her together. Go thy ways.
Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and Boult.
LYSIMACHUS     Now, pretty one, how long have you been
at this trade?
MARINA     What trade, sir?	65
LYSIMACHUS     Why, I cannot name’t but I shall offend.
MARINA     I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you
to name it.
LYSIMACHUS     How long have you been of this profession?
MARINA     E’er since I can remember.	70
LYSIMACHUS     Did you go to’t so young? Were you a
gamester at five or at seven?
MARINA     Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.
LYSIMACHUS     Why, the house you dwell in proclaims
you to be a creature of sale.	75
MARINA     Do you know this house to be a place of such
resort, and will come into’t? I hear say you’re of
honourable parts and are the governor of this place.
LYSIMACHUS     Why, hath your principal made known
unto you who I am?	80
MARINA     Who is my principal?
LYSIMACHUS     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,	85
my authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly
upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place;
come, come.
MARINA     If you were born to honour, show it now;
If put upon you, make the judgement good	90
That thought you worthy of it.
LYSIMACHUS
How’s this? how’s this? Some more; be sage.
MARINA     For me,
That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
Have plac’d me in this sty, where, since I came,
Diseases have been sold dearer than physic –	95
That the gods
Would set me free from this unhallow’d place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i’th’ purer air!
LYSIMACHUS     I did not think
Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne’er dreamt thou couldst.	100
Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,
Thy speech had alter’d it. Hold, here’s gold for thee.
Persever in that clear way thou goest,
And the gods strengthen thee!
MARINA     The good gods preserve you!	105
LYSIMACHUS     For me, be you thoughten
That I came with no ill intent; for to me
The very doors and windows savour vilely.
Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and
I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.	110
Hold, here’s more gold for thee.
A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost
Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.
Enter BOULT.
BOULT     I beseech your honour, one piece for me.	115
LYSIMACHUS
Avaunt thou damned door-keeper! Your house,
But for this virgin that doth prop it,
Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!      Exit.
BOULT     How’s this? We must take another course with
you. If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a	120
breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall
undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a
spaniel. Come your ways.
MARINA     Whither would you have me?
BOULT     I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the	125
common hangman shall execute it. Come your ways.
We’ll have no more gentlemen driven away. Come
your ways, I say.
Enter Bawd and Pandar.
BAWD     How now! what’s the matter?
BOULT     Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken	130
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!	135
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	140
malleable.
BOULT     And if she were a thornier piece of ground than
she is, she shall be plough’d.
MARINA     Hark, hark, you gods!
BAWD     She conjures: away with her! Would she had	145
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! Exeunt Bawd and Pandar.
BOULT     Come, mistress; come your ways with me.	150
MARINA     Whither wilt thou have me?
BOULT     To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.
MARINA     Prithee, tell me one thing first.
BOULT     Come now, your one thing.
MARINA     What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?	155
BOULT     Why, I could wish him to be my master, or
rather, my mistress.
MARINA     Neither of these are so bad as thou art,
Since they do better thee in their command.
Thou hold’st a place, for which the pained’st fiend	160
Of hell would not in reputation change;
Thou art the damned door-keeper to every
Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib;
To the choleric fisting of every rogue
Thy ear is liable; thy food is such	165
As hath been belch’d on by infected lungs.
BOULT     What would you have me do? go to the wars,
would you? where a man may serve seven years for the
loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to
buy him a wooden one?	170
MARINA     Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty
Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth;
Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
Any of these ways are yet better than this;
For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,	175
Would own a name too dear. That the gods
Would safely deliver me from this place!
Here, here’s gold for thee.
If that thy master would gain by me,
Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,	180
With other virtues, which I’ll keep from boast;
And will undertake all these to teach.
I doubt not but this populous city will
Yield many scholars.
BOULT     But can you teach all this you speak of?	185
MARINA     Prove that I cannot, take me home again,
And prostitute me to the basest groom
That doth frequent your house.
BOULT     Well, I will see what I can do for thee; if I can
place thee, I will.	190
MARINA     But amongst honest women.
BOULT     Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.
But since my master and mistress hath bought you,
there’s no going but by their consent; therefore I will
make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt	195
not but I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I’ll
do for thee what I can; come your ways.      Exeunt.
5.Ch. Enter GOWER.
GOWER
Marina thus the brothel ’scapes, and chances
Into an honest house, our story says.
She sings like one immortal, and she dances
As goddess-like to her admired lays.
Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes	5
Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
That even her art sisters the natural roses;
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:
That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain	10
She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place,
And to her father turn our thoughts again,
Where we left him on the sea. We there him lost,
Whence, driven before the winds, he is arriv’d
Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast	15
Suppose him now at anchor. The city striv’d
God Neptune’s annual feast to keep; from whence
Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
His banners sable, trimm’d with rich expense;
And to him in his barge with fervour hies.	20
In your supposing once more put your sight;
Of heavy Pericles, think this his bark,
Where what is done in action, more, if might,
Shall be discover’d; please you sit and hark.     Exit.

5.1     Enter HELICANUS, to him two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge.

TYRIAN SAILOR
Where is Lord Helicanus? he can resolve you.
O, here he is.
[to Helicanus] Sir, there is a barge put off from Mytilene,
And in it is Lysimachus the governor,
Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?	5
HELICANUS     That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.
TYRIAN SAILOR     Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.
Enter two or three Gentlemen.
1 GENTLEMAN     Doth your lordship call?
HELICANUS     Gentlemen, there is some of worth would
come aboard; I pray, greet him fairly.	10
[Gentlemen and Sailors descend, and go on board the barge.]
Enter from thence LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with them the gentlemen and sailors.
TYRIAN SAILOR     Sir,
This is the man that can, in aught you would,
Resolve you.
LYSIMACHUS     Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!
HELICANUS     And you, to outlive the age I am,	15
And die as I would do.
LYSIMACHUS     You wish me well.
Being on shore, honouring of Neptune’s triumphs,
Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,
I made to it to know of whence you are.
HELICANUS     First, what is your place?	20
LYSIMACHUS
I am the governor of this place you lie before.
HELICANUS     Sir,
Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;
A man who for this three months hath not spoken
To any one, nor taken sustenance	25
But to prorogue his grief.
LYSIMACHUS     Upon what ground is his distemperature?
HELICANUS     ’Twould be too tedious to repeat;
But the main grief springs from the loss
Of a beloved daughter and a wife.	30
LYSIMACHUS     May we not see him?
HELICANUS     You may;
But bootless is your sight; he will not speak
To any.
LYSIMACHUS     Yet let me obtain my wish.	35
HELICANUS     Behold him.
PERICLES discovered.
This was a goodly person,
Till the disaster that, one mortal night,
Drove him to this.
LYSIMACHUS     Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!
Hail, royal sir!	40
HELICANUS     It is in vain; he will not speak to you.
1 LORD     Sir,
We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,
Would win some words of him.
LYSIMACHUS     ’Tis well bethought.
She, questionless, with her sweet harmony	45
And other chosen attractions, would allure,
And make a batt’ry through his deafen’d ports,
Which now are midway stopp’d.
She is all happy as the fairest of all,
And with her fellow maids is now upon	50
The leavy shelter that abuts against
The island’s side.
[Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of
Lysimachus.]
HELICANUS     Sure, all effectless; yet nothing we’ll omit
That bears recovery’s name. But, since your kindness
We have stretch’d thus far, let us beseech you	55
That for our gold we may provision have,
Wherein we are not destitute for want,
But weary for the staleness.
LYSIMACHUS     O, sir, a courtesy
Which, if we should deny, the most just God
For every graff would send a caterpillar,	60
And so inflict our province. Yet once more
Let me entreat to know at large the cause
Of your king’s sorrow.
HELICANUS     Sit, sir, I will recount it to you.
But see, I am prevented.
Enter Lord from the barge, with MARINA and one of her companions.
LYSIMACHUS     O, here’s the lady that I sent for.	65
Welcome, fair one! Is’t not a goodly presence?
HELICANUS     She’s a gallant lady.
LYSIMACHUS     She’s such a one that, were I well assur’d
Came of gentle kind and noble stock,
I’d wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.	70
Fair one, all goodness that consists in beauty,
Expect even here, where is a kingly patient,
If that thy prosperous and artificial feat
Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,
Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay	75
As thy desires can wish.
MARINA     Sir, I will use
My utmost skill in his recovery, provided
That none but I and my companion maid
Be suffer’d to come near him.
LYSIMACHUS     Come, let us leave her;
And the gods make her prosperous!	80
[They withdraw. Marina sings.]
Mark’d he your music?
MARINA     No, nor look’d on us.
LYSIMACHUS     See, she will speak to him.
MARINA     Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.
PERICLES     Hum, ha! [pushing her back.]
MARINA     I am a maid,	85
My lord, that ne’er before invited eyes,
But have been gaz’d on like a comet; she speaks,
My lord, that, may be, hath endur’d a grief
Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh’d.
Though wayward fortune did malign my state,	90
My derivation was from ancestors
Who stood equivalent with mighty kings;
But time hath rooted out my parentage,
And to the world and awkward casualties
Bound me in servitude. [aside] I will desist;	95
But there is something glows upon my cheek,
And whispers in mine ear ‘Go not till he speak’.
PERICLES     My fortunes – parentage – good parentage –
To equal mine – was it not thus? what say you?
MARINA     I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,	100
You would not do me violence.
PERICLES
I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.
You’re like something that – What countrywoman?
Here of these shores?
MARINA     No, nor of any shores;
Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am	105
No other than I appear.
PERICLES     I am great with woe
And shall deliver weeping. My dearest wife
Was like this maid, and such a one
My daughter might have been: my queen’s square brows;
Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;	110
As silver-voic’d; her eyes as jewel-like
And cas’d 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?
MARINA     Where I am but a stranger; from the deck	115
You may discern the place.
PERICLES     Where were you bred?
And how achiev’d you these endowments which
You make more rich to owe?
MARINA     If I should tell my history, ’twould seem
Like lies, disdain’d in the reporting.
PERICLES     Prithee, speak;	120
Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look’st
Modest as Justice, and thou seem’st a palace
For the crown’d Truth to dwell in. I will believe thee,
And make my senses credit thy relation
To points that seem impossible; for thou look’st	125
Like one I lov’d indeed. What were thy friends?
Didst thou not say when I did push thee back,
Which was when I perceiv’d thee, that thou cam’st
From good descending?
MARINA     So indeed I did.
PERICLES     Report thy parentage. I think thou said’st	130
Thou hadst been toss’d from wrong to injury,
And that thou thought’st thy griefs might equal mine,
If both were open’d.
MARINA     Some such thing I said,
And said no more but what my thoughts
Did warrant me was likely.
PERICLES     Tell thy story;	135
If thine consider’d prove the thousandth part
Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
Have suffer’d like a girl; yet thou dost look
Like Patience gazing on kings’ graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?	140
How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
Recount, I do beseech you. Come, sit by me.
MARINA     My name is Marina.
PERICLES     O, I am mock’d,
And thou by some incensed god sent hither
To make the world to laugh at me.
MARINA     Patience, good sir,	145
Or here I’ll cease.
PERICLES     Nay, I’ll be patient.
Thou little know’st how thou dost startle me,
To call thyself Marina.
MARINA     The name
Was given me by one that had some power,
My father and a king.
PERICLES     How, a king’s daughter?	150
And call’d Marina?
MARINA     You said you would believe me;
But, not to be a troubler of your peace,
I will end here.
PERICLES     But are you flesh and blood?
Have you a working pulse, and are no fairy
Motion? Well, speak on. Where were you born,	155
And wherefore call’d Marina?
MARINA     Call’d Marina
For I was born at sea.
PERICLES     At sea! what mother?
MARINA     My mother was the daughter of a king;
Who died the minute I was born,
As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft	160
Deliver’d weeping.
PERICLES     O, stop there a little!
This is the rarest dream that e’er dull’d sleep
Did mock sad fools withal; this cannot be
My daughter, buried; well; where were you bred?
I’ll hear you more, to th’ bottom of your story,	165
And never interrupt you.
MARINA
You scorn; believe me, ’twere best I did give o’er.
PERICLES     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?	170
MARINA     The king my father did in Tharsus leave me,
Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
Did seek to murder me; and having woo’d
A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do’t,
A crew of pirates came and rescu’d me;	175
Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,
Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? It may be
You think me an impostor: no, good faith;
I am the daughter to King Pericles,
If good King Pericles be.	180
PERICLES     Ho, Helicanus!
HELICANUS     Calls my lord?
PERICLES     Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,
Most wise in general. Tell me, if thou canst,
What this maid is, or what is like to be,	185
That thus hath made me weep?
HELICANUS     I know not;
But here’s the regent, sir, of Mytilene,
Speaks nobly of her.
LYSIMACHUS     She never would tell
Her parentage; being demanded that,
She would sit still and weep.	190
PERICLES     O Helicanus, strike me, honour’d sir!
Give me a gash, put me to present pain,
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
O’erbear the shores of my mortality,
And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,	195
Thou that beget’st him that did thee beget;
Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tharsus,
And found at sea again. O Helicanus,
Down on thy knees! thank the holy gods as loud
As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.	200
What was thy mother’s name? tell me but that,
For truth can never be confirm’d enough,
Though doubts did ever sleep.
MARINA     First, sir, I pray, what is your title?
PERICLES     I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now	205
My drown’d queen’s name, as in the rest you said
Thou hast been godlike perfect, the heir of kingdoms,
And another life to Pericles thy father.
MARINA     Is it no more to be your daughter than
To say my mother’s name was Thaisa?	210
Thaisa was my mother, who did end
The minute I began.
PERICLES     Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.
Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus,
She is not dead at Tharsus, as she should have been,	215
By savage Cleon; she shall tell thee all,
When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge
She is thy very princess. Who is this?
HELICANUS     Sir, ’tis the governor of Mytilene,
Who, hearing of your melancholy state,	220
Did come to see you.
PERICLES     I embrace you.
Give me my robes; I am wild in my beholding.
O heavens bless my girl! But hark, what music?
Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
O’er point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,	225
How sure you are my daughter.     [Music.]
But what music?
HELICANUS     My lord, I hear none.
PERICLES     None?
The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.
LYSIMACHUS     It is not good to cross him; give him way.	230
PERICLES     Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?
LYSIMACHUS     Music, my Lord? I hear.
PERICLES     Most heavenly music!
It nips me unto list’ning, and thick slumber
Hangs upon mine eyes; let me rest. [Sleeps.]
LYSIMACHUS     A pillow for his head. So, leave him all.	235
Well, my companion friends,
If this but answer to my just belief,
I’ll well remember you.     Exeunt all but Pericles.
DIANA appears to Pericles in a vision.
DIANA     My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither,
And do upon mine altar sacrifice.	240
There, when my maiden priests are met together,
[     ] before the people all,
Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife.
To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter’s, call
And give them repetition to the life.	245
Or perform my bidding, or thou liv’st in woe;
Do’t, and happy; by my silver bow!
Awake, and tell thy dream.     Disappears.
PERICLES     Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
I will obey thee. Helicanus!
Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS and MARINA.
HELICANUS     Sir?	250
PERICLES     My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike
The inhospitable Cleon; but I am
For other service first; toward Ephesus
Turn our blown sails: eftsoons I’ll tell thee why.
Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,	255
And give you gold for such provision
As our intents will need?
LYSIMACHUS     Sir,
With all my heart; and when you come ashore,
I have another suit.
PERICLES     You shall prevail,	260
Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems
You have been noble towards her.
LYSIMACHUS     Sir, lend me your arm.
PERICLES     Come, my Marina.
Exeunt.

5.2     Enter GOWER.

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.

GOWER     Now our sands are almost run;
More a little, and then dumb.
This, my last boon, give me,
For such kindness must relieve me,
That you aptly will suppose	5
What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
What minstrelsy and pretty din,
The regent made in Mytilin
To greet the king. So he thriv’d,
That he is promis’d to be wiv’d	10
To fair Marina; but in no wise
Till he had done his sacrifice,
As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
The interim, pray you, all confound.
In feather’d briefness sails are fill’d,	15
And wishes fall out as they’re will’d.
At Ephesus the temple see
Our king and all his company.
That he can hither come so soon,
Is by your fancies’ thankful doom.     Exit.	20

5.3     Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS and MARINA.

PERICLES     Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
I here confess myself the king of Tyre;
Who, frighted from my country, did wed
At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.
At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth	5
A maid-child call’d Marina; who, O goddess,
Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tharsus
Was nurs’d with Cleon, who at fourteen years
He sought to murder; but her better stars
Brought her to Mytilene; ‘gainst whose shore	10
Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Made known herself my daughter.
THAISA     Voice and favour!
You are, you are – O royal Pericles! [Faints.]
PERICLES
What means the nun? she dies, help, gentlemen!	15
CERIMON     Noble sir,
If you have told Diana’s altar true,
This is your wife.
PERICLES     Reverend appearer, no:
I threw her overboard with these very arms.
CERIMON     Upon this coast, I warrant you.
PERICLES     ’Tis most certain.	20
CERIMON     Look to the lady. O, she’s but o’erjoy’d.
Early one blustering morn this lady was
Thrown upon this shore. I op’d the coffin,
Found there rich jewels; recover’d her, and plac’d her
Here in Diana’s temple.
PERICLES     May we see them?	25
CERIMON
Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is
Recovered.
THAISA     O, let me look!
If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,	30
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
Like him you are. Did you not name a tempest,
A birth and death?
PERICLES     The voice of dead Thaisa!
THAISA     That Thaisa am I, supposed dead	35
And drown’d.
PERICLES     Immortal Dian!
THAISA     Now I know you better.
When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
The king my father gave you such a ring.
[Points to his ring.]
PERICLES
This, this: no more. You gods, your present kindness	40
Makes my past miseries sports. You shall do well,
That on the touching of her lips I may
Melt and no more be seen. O come, be buried
A second time within these arms.
MARINA     My heart
Leaps to be gone into my mother’s bosom.	45
[Kneels to Thaisa.]
PERICLES
Look, who kneels here, flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;
Thy burden at the sea, and call’d Marina
For she was yielded there.
THAISA     Bless’d, and mine own!
HELICANUS     Hail, madam, and my queen!
THAISA     I know you not.
PERICLES
You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,	50
I left behind an ancient substitute;
Can you remember what I call’d the man?
I have nam’d him oft.
THAISA     ’Twas Helicanus then.
PERICLES     Still confirmation!
Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.	55
Now do I long to hear how you were found,
How possibly preserv’d, and who to thank,
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.
THAISA     Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,
Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can	60
From first to last resolve you.
PERICLES     Reverend sir,
The gods can have no mortal officer
More like a god than you. Will you deliver
How this dead queen re-lives?
CERIMON     I will, my lord.
Beseech you, first go with me to my house,	65
Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
How she came plac’d here in the temple;
No needful thing omitted.
PERICLES     Pure Dian,
I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer
Night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,	70
This prince, the fair betrothed of your daughter,
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now
[     ] this ornament
Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;
And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d	75
To grace thy marriage-day I’ll beautify.
THAISA     Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
My father’s dead.
PERICLES
Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
We’ll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves	80
Will in that kingdom spend our following days.
Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
To hear the rest untold: sir, lead’s the way.     Exeunt.

EPILOGUE

Enter GOWER.
GOWER
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
Of monstrous lust the due and just reward.
In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,
Although assail’d with fortune fierce and keen,
Virtue preserv’d from fell destruction’s blast,	5
Led on by heaven, and crown’d with joy at last.
In Helicanus may you well descry
A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty.
In reverend Cerimon there well appears
The worth that learned charity aye wears.	10
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Had spread his cursed deed to th’ honour’d name
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
That him and his they in his palace burn:
The gods for murder seemed so content	15
To punish; although not done, but meant.
So on your patience evermore attending,
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.
Exit.