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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 admird lays.
    Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes
    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
    She gives the cursd bawd. Here we her place,
    And to her father turn our thoughts again,
    Where we left him on the sea. We there him lost,
    Where, driven before the winds, he is arrived
    Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast
    Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
    God Neptune's annual feast to keep; from whence
    Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
    His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense;
    And to him in his barge with fervour hies.
    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 discovered. Please you sit and hark.
                                        [Exit.

The Coast of Mytilene.
 On board Pericles' ship.
 A pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES within it.
 Lysimachus' barge lies beside the Tyrian vessel.
 Enter HELICANUS; to him TWO SAILORS, one of the Tyrian vessel,
 and one of the Mytilene barge.

1st Sailor    [To the 2nd SAILOR.]
    Where is Lord Helicanus? He can resolve you. O, here he is.
    [To HELICANUS.] Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,
    and in it is Lysimachus the governor, who craves to come
    aboard. What is your will?

Helicanus    That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.

1st Sailor    Ho, gentlemen! My lord calls.

                      Enter two or three GENTLEMEN.

1st Gentleman    Doth your lordship call?

Helicanus    Gentlemen, there is some of worth would come aboard; I pray
    greet him fairly.
                                        [GENTLEMEN go on board the barge.

     Enter, from the barge, LYSIMACHUS and LORDS, with the GENTLEMEN.

1st 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, 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?

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 anyone, nor taken
    sustenance 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.

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.

Helicanus    Behold him.

   Draws the pavilion curtain, to reveal PERICLES reclined on a couch.

    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!

Helicanus    It is in vain; he will not speak to you.

1st 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 and other chosen attractions, would allure, and
    make a battery through his deafened parts, which now are
    midway stopped. She is all happy as the fairest of all, and
    with her fellow maids is now upon the leafy shelter that
    abuts against the island's side.
                     [Whispers 1st LORD, who exits to the barge.

Helicanus    Sure, all effectless; yet nothing we'll omit that bears
    recovery's name. But since your kindness we have stretched
    thus far, let us beseech you that for our gold we may
    provision have, wherein we are not destitute for want, but
    weary for the staleness.

Lysimachus    O, sir, a courtesy which if we should deny, the most just
    God for every graff would send a caterpillar, 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.

             Re-enter 1st LORD with MARINA and her COMPANION.

Lysimachus    O, here's the lady that I sent for.
    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 assured
    Came of gentle kind and noble stock, I'd wish
    No better choice, and think me rarely wed.
    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
    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 suffered to come near him.

Lysimachus    Come, let us leave her;
    And the gods make her prosperous!
                                        [They withdraw. MARINA sings.

Lysimachus    [Advancing.] Marked he your music?

Marina    No, nor looked on us.

Lysimachus    See, she will speak to him.

Marina    Hail, sir! My lord, lend ear.

Pericles    [Repulsing her.] Hum, ha!

Marina    I am a maid,
    My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,
    But have been gazed on like a comet. She speaks,
    My lord, that maybe hath endured a grief
    Might equal yours, if both were justly weighed.
    Though wayward fortune did malign my state,
    My derivation was from ancestors
    Who stood equivalent with mighty kings;
    But time hath rooted out my parentage,
    And to the world and awkward casualties
    Bound me in servitude. [Aside.] I will desist;
    But there is something glows upon my cheek,
    And whispers in mine ear 'Go not till he speak'.

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
    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
    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,
    As silver-voiced, her eyes as jewel-like
    And cased 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
    You may discern the place.

Pericles    Where were you bred?
    And how achieved you these endowments which
    You make more rich to owe?

Marina    If I should tell my history, it would seem
    Like lies, disdained in the reporting.

Pericles    Prithee speak.
    Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou lookest
    Modest as Justice, and thou seemest a palace
    For the crowned Truth to dwell in. I will believe thee,
    And make my senses credit thy relation
    To points that seem impossible; for thou lookest
    Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?
    Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back,
    Which was when I perceived thee, that thou cam'st
    From good descending?

Marina    So indeed I did.

Pericles    Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st
    Thou hadst been tossed from wrong to injury,
    And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,
    If both were opened.

Marina    Some such thing
    I said, and said no more but what my thoughts
    Did warrant me was likely.

Pericles    Tell thy story.
    If thine considered prove the thousandth part
    Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I
    Have suffered like a girl; yet thou dost look
    Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
    Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?
    How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?
    Recount, I do beseech thee. Come, sit by me.

Marina    My name is Marina.

Pericles    O, I am mocked,
    And thou by some incensd god sent hither
    To make the world to laugh at me.

Marina    Patience, good sir,
    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,
    And called 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?
    And wherefore called Marina?

Marina    Called 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
    Delivered weeping.

Pericles    O, stop there a little!
    This is the rarest dream
    That e'er dull 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,
    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?

Marina    The king my father did in Tarsus leave me,
    Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
    Did seek to murder me; and having wooed a villain
    To attempt it, who having drawn to do't,
    A crew of pirates came and rescued me,
    Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,
    Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? It may be
    You think me an impostor. No, good faith,
    I am the daughter to King Pericles,
    If good King Pericles be.

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,
    That thus hath made me weep?

Helicanus    I know not;
    But here is 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.

Pericles    O Helicanus, strike me, honoured sir;
    Give me a gash, put me to present pain,
    Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me
    O'erbear the shores of my mortality,
    And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,
    Thou that begett'st him that did thee beget;
    Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,
    And found at sea again. O Helicanus,
    Down on thy knees; thank the holy gods as loud
    As thunder threatens us. This is Marina.
    What was thy mother's name? Tell me but that,
    For truth can never be confirmed 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 my
    Drowned queen's name, as in the rest you said
    Thou hast been godlike perfect, the heir of kingdoms,
    And another like to Pericles thy father.

Marina    Is it no more to be your daughter than
    To say my mother's name was Thaisa?
    Thaisa was my mother, who did end
    The minute I began.

Pericles    Now, blessing on thee! Rise; th' art my child.
    Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;
    She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,
    By savage Cleon. She shall tell thee all,
    When thou shalt kneel and justify in knowledge
    She is thy very princess. Who is this?

Helicanus    Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,
    Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
    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,
    How sure you are my daughter. 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.

Pericles    Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?
                                        [Music.
Lysimachus    My lord, I hear most heavenly music.

Pericles    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.
    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.

Diana    My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither,
    And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
    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.
    Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe;
    Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!
    Awake, and tell thy dream.
                                        [Disappears.
Pericles    Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,
    I will obey thee. Helicanus!

               Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA.

Helicanus    Sir?

Pericles    My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike
    The inhospitable Cleon; but I am for other service first.
    Toward Ephesus turn our blown sails;
    Eftsoons I'll tell thee why.
    [To LYSIMACHUS.] Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
    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, 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.