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PERICLES 
 
 1609 
 
 FACSIMILE 
 
LONDON 
 
 HENRY FROWDE, M.A. 
 
 PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF OXFORD 
 
I SHAKESPEARES i 
 
 PERICLES ! 
 
 BEING A REPRODUCTION IN FACSIMILE OF 
 
 THE FIRST EDITION 
 
 1609 
 
 FROM THE COPY IN THE MALONE COLLECTION 
 IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY 
 
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 WITH INTRODUCTION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
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 PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTERPRESS 
 
 BY HORACE HART, M.A. 
 
 PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 INTRODUCTION TO PERICLES— 
 
 I. The Story ...... 
 
 II. Shakespeare's Share in the Play . 
 
 III. The Reception of the Piece . 
 
 IV. The History of the Publication and Text 
 V. A Census of Copies .... 
 
 Illustrative Title-Page — 
 The Edition of 1611 . 
 
 FACE 
 
 1 
 II 
 
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 FACSIMILE OF THE EDITION OF 1609 
 
The play of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, dramatizes a tale of The novel 
 great antiquity and world-wide popularity. The fiction deals °ius of Tyre. 
 with the adventurous travels of an apocryphal hero, called 
 Apollonius of Tyre, who in the play is re-christened Pericles. 
 The vein is frankly pagan. The story was doubtless first 
 related in a Greek novel of the first or second century a. d. 
 The incidents of a father's incestuous love for his daughter, of 
 adventures arising from storms at sea, of captures by pirates, 
 of the abandonment for dead of living persons, are very 
 common features of Greek novels of the period. But the 
 Greek text has not survived. It is in a Latin translation that 
 the story enjoyed its vogue through the Middle Ages. More 
 than a hundred mediaeval manuscripts of the Latin version are 
 extant, of which one at least dates from the nnith century.' The 
 Latin version was printed about 1470 for the first time, but 
 the volume has no indication of place or date of production.^ 
 
 Meanwhile the Latin tale was rendered into almost all its Euro- 
 the vernacular languages of Europe — not only into Italian, ''^^" ^°^"'^' 
 
 ' There are eleven in the British Museum. 
 
 - A vast amount of energy has been devoted in Germany to a study of 
 the story of Apollonius of Tyre in the Latin version, and of its developments 
 and analogues in modern languages. A useful summary of results, with 
 a good account of the vast German literature on the subject, will be found in 
 Mr. Albert H. Smyth's Shakespeare's Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre : a study in 
 comparative literature, Philadelphia, 1898. A valuable paper by N. Delius 
 on the play ' Ueber Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre', in Jahrbuch der 
 Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, i8()8 (iii), pp. lyj-zo-f, should be read 
 with papers by Mr. F. G. Fleay (in his Shakespeare Manual, 1878, pp. 205-23), 
 and by Mr. Robert Boyle on ' Wilkins' share in the play called Pericles', 1882. 
 
versions. 
 
 8 PERICLES 
 
 Spanish, Provenc^al, French, and English, but also into German, 
 Danish, Swedish, Dutch, and mediaeval Greek. It found its 
 way into cyclopaedias of mediaeval learning like Godfrey 
 de Viterbo's P anthem (r. 1186), and into the popular collection 
 of stories, Gesta T{gmanorum^ in which it figured from the 
 fourteenth century onwards. A version was included in 
 Belleforest's Histoires tragiques (t. vii, Histoire cxviii, pp. 113- 
 20(J, 1604), a French compendium of popular fiction which 
 had an universal vogue ; it was there described as ' une 
 histoire tiree du grec '. 
 The English In English the earliest version belongs to the eleventh 
 
 century, A manuscript of that date is in the library of 
 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, At the end of the 
 fourteenth century the poet Gower introduced an original 
 English rendering into his Confessio Ammitis. An English 
 translation of a French prose version was made by Robert 
 Copland, and Avas printed by Wynkyn de Wordc in if 10. 
 In 1^76 the tale was again 'gathered into English [prose] 
 by Laurence Twine, gentleman ', under the title : ' The 
 Patterne of painefull Aduentures, Containing the most 
 excellent, pleasant, and variable Historic of the strange 
 accidents that befell vnto Prince ApoUonius, the Lady Luctna 
 his wife and Tharsia his daughter. Wherein the vncertaintie 
 of this world, and the fickle state of mans life are liuely 
 described. Gathered into English by Lavrence Twine Gentle- 
 man. Imprinted at London by William How. 1776.'' This 
 
 ' The book was licensed by the Stationers' Company to the printer and 
 publisher, William How, July 17, lyyt), thus: ' Willm Howe. Receyved of 
 him, for his licence to ymprint a booke intituled the most excellent pleasant 
 and variable historic of the strange adventures of prince ApoUonius, Lucina 
 his wife, and Tharsa his Daughter. . . . viijV.' No copy of How's edition is 
 known. Only a copy of the third edition now seems accessible. This is in 
 the Bodleian Library, and has the imprint, ' Printed at London by Valentine Sims, 
 1(^07.' The second undated edition bore the imprint, ' Imprinted at London 
 
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 volume was twice reissued (about if 95* and in 1^07) before 
 the play was attempted. The translator, Laurence Twine, 
 a graduate of All Souls College, Oxford, performed his task 
 without distinction. 
 
 The reissue in \6oj of Twine's English rendering of the The play 
 old Latin story of Apollonius of Tyre may have suggested veision!"'^'^^ 
 the dramatization of the theme. But those who were 
 responsible for the effort did not seek their material alone in 
 Twine's verbose narrative. They based their work on the 
 earlier, briefer, and more spirited version in Gower's Confessio 
 ^mantis. That poem, which was first printed by Caxton in 
 1483, was twice reprinted in the sixteenth century by Thomas 
 Berthelet in if 3 2 and if 5*4, and the latest edition was 
 generally accessible at the beginning of the seventeenth 
 century. A prominent feature of the Shakespearean play is 
 ' the chorus ' or ' presenter ' who explains the action before 
 or during the acts. The *■ chorus ' takes the character of 
 the poet Gower. Of his eight speeches (filling in all 3 0f lines), 
 five (filling 212 lines) are in the short six- or seven-syllable 
 rhyming couplets of Gower's Confessio. Abundant internal 
 details corroborate the professed claim of the writers to 
 dramatize Gower's version of the ancient story. Twine's 
 volume only furnished occasional embellishment. Most of 
 the characters bear the names which figure in Gower's story. 
 All differ materially from those in Twine's version. 
 
 Not that the drama fails to deviate on occasion from the The nomen- 
 path which Gower followed. At three points the nomen- [^I'^^i^y 
 clature of the play differs from all the authorities. In Gower 
 
 by Valentine Simmes for the Widow Newman ' ; a copy was formerly in 
 E. V. Utterson's library and sold at his sale in i85'4 for £j -js. od.-^ this 
 was reprinted in Collier's Shakespeare's Utrary, 1843, i. 182-157 (re-edited by 
 W. C. Hazlitt, pt. i, vol. iv, 247-334). 
 
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 Pericles' wife has no name, and the daughter is called Thaise. 
 In Twine the wife is called Lucina and the daughter 
 Tarsia. In the Shakespearean play the wife is called Thaisa, 
 and the daughter is christened Marina — a cognomen for 
 which there is no suggestion in the old narratives. But 
 the most notable change of all is in the name of the hero. 
 Throughout the previous literature on the subject he is known 
 solely as Apollonius of Tyre. The name of Pericles naturally 
 suggests the Athenian statesman, who would be familiar to 
 any reader of Plutarch. The Pericles of the drama seems, by 
 way of justifying his Athenian designation, to emphasize his 
 'education in arts and arms' (ii. 3. 82). But the name is 
 something more than an echo of Athenian history. It is a 
 reminiscence of Pyrocles, one of the heroes of Sidney's romance 
 of Jnadia\ In the early scenes of the play, too, many 
 expressions reflect a recent study of Sidney's romance. 
 Defects of The play, whatever literary merit attaches to a small por- 
 
 the plot. ^-Qj^ of it, proves, as a whole, that the old story of Apollonius' 
 travels is ill adapted to drama. The action is far too multi- 
 farious to present a homogeneous effect. The scene rambles 
 confusedly by sea from Antioch to Tyre, Tarsus, Mytilene, 
 Ephesus, and Pentapolis. The events cover too long a period 
 of time to render them probable or indeed intelligible in 
 representation. At least nine months separate the last scene 
 of Act ii, where the hero's marriage is celebrated, from the 
 first scene of Act iii, where his first child is born ; a year 
 elapses between Scenes 2 and 3 of the latter Act, and as 
 many as fourteen years pass between its close, where the 
 child figures as an infant of one year, and the opening of 
 
 » Richard Flecknoe, writing of the play in \6^o^ called the hero Pyrocles. 
 Musidorus, the other hero of Sidney's romance, had already supplied the title 
 of another romantic play, Mucedorus, which appeared in i^^<;. 
 
PERICLES 1 1 
 
 Act iv, where she is a full-grown woman. The choruses, 
 which are themselves interrupted by dumb-shows, supply 
 essential links in the narrative. They 'stand i' the gaps to teach 
 the stages of the story '. The whole construction gives the 
 impression of clumsy incoherence.' Dryden, when defending 
 the construction of his own play. The Conquest of Granada^ 
 in I (J 7 2, instanced Pericles and the 'Historical Plays of Shake- 
 speare' as illustrative of the awkward practice of dramatists of 
 the past in working on ' some ridiculous, incoherent story, 
 which in one play many times took up the business of an 
 age '. The censure is fully applicable to Pericles. 
 
 The play was produced in the spring of i6o% at the Shake- 
 Globe Theatre by the King's Company of players, of which ^^j'jf'pj 
 Shakespeare was a member. On May 20 of that year a licence authorship. 
 was secured for its publication. The drama was published, 
 with a title-page bearing the date \6o^^ and assigning the 
 authorship to ' William Shakespeare '. 
 
 II 
 
 The literary quality of the bulk of the play, and some Publisher's 
 external evidence, refute the assertion of the title-page of sh3^el° 
 1 509 that Shakespeare was sole author of the drama. Such spe-^re's 
 testimony as the title-page offers counts in itself for little. 
 There are several instances of the appearance of Shakespeare's 
 
 ' In 16^6 Richard Flecknoe, in his D'larium^ p. (j(>, has the epigram : — 
 * On the play of the life and death of Pyrocles.' 
 Ars longa, vita brevis, as tliey say, 
 But wlio inverts that saying made this play. 
 = The conjecture that there was an edition of \6o% is uncorroborated. 
 The statement that the Duke of Roxburghe's copy of the First Quarto (now in 
 the Boston Public Library, No. VJI infra) bore the date \6o% is untrue. Some 
 sentences in the fishermen's talk in Tericles, Act ii, Sc. i, are closely copied in 
 John Day's comedy called Law Tricks^ wliich was undoubtedly published in 
 i(fo8. But the fishermen's talk was generally reproduced in Wilkins' novel 
 of 160%, and Day might have read it there. 
 
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 name. 
 
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 PERICLES 
 
 name on volumes with which he had no concern. Apart 
 from the poetic anthology called The Passionate Pilgrim (i fpp), 
 which was described on the title-page as ' by William Shake- 
 speare ', the initials ' W. S.' had been fraudulently paraded on 
 the title-page of the play Locrine as early as ifpf, and they 
 had reappeared with no greater justification on the title-pages 
 of the plays, Lord. Cromwell and The Puritaine^ in \6oi and 1607 
 respectively. Furthermore, Shakespeare's full surname had 
 adorned the title-pages of no less than three plays for which 
 others were responsible. In 1600 The first part of the true G? 
 honourable history of the life of Sir John Oldcastle^ the good Lord 
 Cobham, which was printed for T. P. (i.e. Thomas Pavier), bore 
 the words on the title-page, 'Written by William Shakespeare.' 
 Five years later a comedy entitled, The London Prodigal/, which 
 was printed by T. C. for Nathaniel Butter, bore on its title- 
 page the words, 'By William Shakespeare.' Finally, in i(Jo8, 
 J the year in which Pericles was licensed for the press, ^ TorJ^shire 
 Tragedy was ' printed by R. B. for Thomas Pauier ', and bore 
 on the title-page the words, ' Written by W. Shakespeare.' 
 That Shakespeare had any hand in any of these six pieces to 
 which his initials or his full name were attached may be 
 confidently denied. The introduction of his name was a 
 publisher's device, and was intended to deceive the unwary. 
 Shake- The assignment of the whole play of Pericles to Shake- 
 
 shareYn spcarc in I (5 09 was a transaction in the vein of the publisher 
 Pericles. of The Passionatc Pilgrim. It was less reprehensible than such 
 ventures as Locrine, Lord Cromwell, The Puritaine, Sir John Old- 
 castle, The London Prodigall, and ^ Torkshire Tragedy, because 
 there is good evidence that while Shakespeare had no hand in 
 full two-thirds of the piece, he and he alone was responsible for 
 the remaining one-third. The greater part of Acts iii and v 
 and some portions of Act iv may without much hesitation 
 
PERICLES I J 
 
 be assigned to Shakespeare's pen. A scattered line or two 
 here aiid there at other points of the play have a Shake- 
 spearean ring, but nowhere else is there any sustained evidence 
 of Shakespeare's handiwork. Most of the other scenes are 
 penned in a ' dipt jargon ' which lacks his literary feeling. 
 
 All the Shakespearean scenes deal with the story of The story of 
 Pericles' daughter, Marina. They open with the tempest at '^''""''' 
 sea during which she is born, and they close with her final 
 restoration to her parents and her betrothal. The language 
 is throughout in Shakespeare's latest manner. The ellipses 
 are often puzzling. The condensed thought is intensely 
 vivid, and glows with strength and insight. The blank verse 
 adapts itself, in defiance of strict metrical law, to every phase 
 of sentiment. The themes of Shakespeare's contributions 
 to the play anticipate many of those which occupied 
 him in his latest work. The tone of Marina's appeals to 
 Lysimachus and Boult in the brothel resembles that of 
 Isabella's speeches in Measure for Measure. Thaisa, whom 
 her husband Pericles imagines to be dead, shares some of the 
 experiences of Hermione in The Wititer's Tale. The picture 
 of the shipwreck which accompanies Marina's birth adumbrates 
 the opening scene of The Tempest j and there are ingenuous 
 touches in the portrayal of Marina herself which suggest the 
 girlhood of Perdita. 
 
 The most reasonable explanation of the manner, of Coleridge's 
 Shakespeare's association with the piece is suggested by Cole- ' '"°'^^' 
 ridge. According to Coleridge, Pericles illustrated < the way 
 in which Shakespeare handled a piece he had to refit for 
 representation. At first he proceeded with indifference, only 
 now and then troubling himself to put in a thought or an 
 image, but as he advanced he interested himself in his employ- 
 ment, and [large portions of the last three acts] are almost 
 
14 PERICLES 
 
 entirely by him '. This explanation absolves Shakespeare's 
 responsibility for the choice of the intractable plot and for the 
 piece's clumsy construction. The eifect of his own work is 
 impaired by such dominant features as those. The dramatic 
 intensity, which colours the scenes in which Pericles recognizes 
 his long-lost daughter and wife, is weakened by the duplica- 
 tion, which the plot requires, of the motive within very 
 narrow limits of space. Shakespeare's interposition failed 
 to relieve materially the strain of improbability which is 
 inherent in the ancient story. The play as a whole fills a 
 secondary rank in any catalogue ra'isonne of dramatic literature. 
 Gcoi!;c There seems good ground for assuming that the play of 
 
 the chief I^crlcles was originally penned by George Wilkins, and that 
 .luthor. it was over his draft that Shakespeare worked. Wilkins 
 
 was a dramatist of humble attainments who had already 
 produced, either alone or in collaboration with others, 
 plays for the King's Company at the Globe Theatre, which 
 included Shakespeare among its members and first produced 
 Pericles. In 1607 Wilkins had published under his own name 
 a piece called The Miseries of Inforst Mariage — a popular 
 domestic tragi-comedy, of which the plot was treated anew in 
 the following year in yi Torkshire Tragedy, one of the pieces 
 fraudulently assigned by publishers to Shakespeare. Both 
 The Miseries and yi Torkshire Tragedy were performed by 
 Shakespeare's company of actors at the Globe. Although the 
 characters and plot are very different from those of Pericles^ 
 , there is sufficient resemblance between the rhetorical vehe- 
 mence and syntactical incoherence of passages in the non- 
 Shakespearean part of Pericles and in Wilkins' Miseries to 
 render it possible that both came from the same pen.' 
 
 ' The suggestion that the prose portions of the brothel scenes were from 
 the pen of a third coadjutor rests on more shadowy ground. Some critics 
 
PERICLES I s 
 
 One curious association of Wilkins with the play of wiikins' 
 Pericles is attested under his own hand. He published in his "°^f' °^ 
 
 ^ Pericles. 
 
 own name a novel in prose which he plainly asserted to be 
 based upon the play. The novel preceded the publication 
 of the drama. The evidence of the filial relation in which 
 the romance stands to the play is precisely stated alike in 
 the title-page of the former and in ' The Argument to the 
 Whole Historie '. The title runs: — The | Painfull Aduentures | 
 o^ Pericles Prince of [ Tyre. | Bei7ig \ The true History of the 
 Play of Pericles^ as it was | lately presented by the worthy and 
 an-|cient Poet lohn Gower. | at London | Printed by T. P. for 
 Nat: Butter, | 1 60%. Y In the Argument the reader is requested 
 ' to receive this Historie in the same maner as it was under 
 the habite of ancient Gorper, the famous English Poet, by the 
 King's Maiesties Players excellently presented '. 
 
 Wilkins' novel follows the play closely in its general The novel's 
 outline. The preliminary ' Areaiment' of the whole 'Historic' ^'^P"'"'^"" 
 
 r J o on the play. 
 
 precisely summarizes the plot. There follows a list of the 
 
 would assign those scenes to WiJliam Rowley, a professional collaborator who 
 contributed scenes to a large number of plays designed by others. Rowley 
 was undoubtedly capable of the Pericles brothel scenes, but they do not seem 
 beyond the scope of Wilkins, who treats them with considerable fullness in the 
 novel which he based on the play of Pericles. 
 
 ' In the centre of the title-page is a rough woodcut portrait of the poet 
 Gower. Only two copies of the novel are known, and of these only one is 
 quite perfect. Some fragments of a third copy belonged to John Payne Collier. 
 The copy in the British Museum, which formerly belonged to Nassau and 
 Heber successively, lacks the dedication which is addressed to Master Henry 
 Fermor, one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, and is 
 signed ' George Wilkins '. The other copy, which is quite perfect, is in the 
 public library at Ziirich, and was reprinted at Oldenburg by Prof. Tycho 
 Mommsen in 185-7, ^^^^ ^^ introduction by John Payne Collier. The Zurich 
 copy seems to have been purchased in London about 1^14. by Johann Rudolph 
 Hess, of Zurich (i5-88-i^5'5). It subsequently belonged to a Swiss poet, Martin 
 Usteri (174.1-1817). The 'T. P.' by whom the novel was printed ('Printed 
 by T. P. for Nat: Butter ') was the printer Thomas Purfoot, junior. He 
 must not be confused with the bookseller Thomas Pavier, who published under 
 the same initials, ' T. P.', the iditj edition of the play oi Pericles. 
 
16 PERICLES 
 
 < dramatis personae ' headed < The names of the Personages 
 mentioned in the Historic ', which is not to be found in the 
 play but seems to belong to it. But there are places in which 
 the novel develops incidents which are barely noticed in the 
 play, and elsewhere the play is somewhat fuller than the novel. 
 At times the language of the drama is exactly copied,and, though 
 it is transferred to prose, it preserves the rhythm of blank verse.' 
 
 The novel is far more carefully printed than the play, 
 and corrects some of the manifold corruptions of the printed 
 text of the latter. One or two phrases which have the 
 Shakespearean ring are indeed found alone in the play. The 
 novel may be credited with embodying some few lines from 
 Shakespeare's pen, which exist nowhere else."" 
 
 But this point cannot be pressed very far. The dis- 
 crepancies and resemblances between the two texts alike 
 suggest that Wilkins followed a version of the play, which 
 did not embody the whole of Shakespeare's revision. There 
 is much in Wilkins' prose which appears to present passages 
 
 ' Take, for example, Pericles' account of himself in the novel and the 
 play. The passage runs in the play thus (ii. 3. 81-5') : — 
 
 A Gentleman of Tyre, my name Pericles, 
 My education beene in Artes and Armes : 
 Who looking for aduentures in the world. 
 Was by the rough Seas reft of Ships and men, 
 and after shipwracke, driuen vpon this shore. 
 In the novel the passage runs (in the third person) as follows: — < A gentleman 
 of Tyre, his name Pericles, his education been in arts and arms, who, looking 
 for adventures in the world, was by the rough and unconstant seas, most 
 unfortunately bereft both of ships and men, and, after shipwreck, thrown upon 
 that shore.' 
 
 '^ When Pericles greets his new-born babe Marina on shipboard (iii. i. 
 30 sqq.), he exclaims in the play : — 
 
 Thou art the rudelyest welcome to this world, 
 That euer was Prince's Child. 
 In the novel his speech opens thus : — ' Foor Inch of nature^ thou art as rudely 
 welcome to the worlde as euer Princesse Babe was,' &c. ' Poor Inch of 
 nature ' is undoubtedly a Shakespearean touch which the transcriber of the play 
 for the press overlooked. 
 
PERICLES 17 
 
 from the play in a state anterior to Shakespeare's final revision. 
 If we assume Wilkins to be author of the greater part 
 oi the play, we must conclude that in the novel he para- 
 phrased his own share more thoroughly than the work of 
 his revising coadjutor, or that he retained in the novel passages 
 which his collaborator cut out or supplanted in the play.' 
 
 Ill 
 
 Of the popularity of the piece, both on the stage and The popu- 
 among readers, there is very ample evidence. There were at pll]J/°^ 
 least six editions issued within twenty-six years of its production, 
 two in i(?o9,andonein each of the years i6i r, i(Ji9, 1(^30, and 
 i()3j. The title-page of the early editions, all of which 
 announced the work to be by Shakespeare, described it as 
 'the late and much admired play', and noted that it had' been 
 diners and sundry times acted '. Not more than six plays of 
 Shakespeare were printed more frequently in quarto within the 
 same period of time. It was, however, excluded from the First 
 Folio of 162^ and from the Second Folio of 16^ z. Together 
 with the six spurious plays which had been fraudulently assigned 
 to Shakespeare in his lifetime, it was appended to a reissue of 
 
 ' For example, Marina's appeals to Lysimachus and to Boult in the brothel 
 scene, iv. 6, are far longer in the novel than in the play, yet they obviously 
 come from the latter, at an earlier stage of its development than that which is 
 represented by the printed text. One of Marina's speeches in the novel (p. 66) 
 ends thus : — ' O my good Lord, kill me, but not deflower me, punish me how 
 you please, so you spare my chastitie, and since it is all the dowry that both 
 the Gods haue giuen, and men haue left to me, do not you take it from me ; 
 make me your seruant, I will willingly obey you ; make mee your bondwoman, 
 I will accompt it freedome ; let me be the worst that is called vile, so I may 
 Hue honest, 1 am content : or if you think it is too blessed a happinesse to haue 
 me so, let me euen now, now in this minute die, and He accompt my death 
 more happy than my birth.' A very slight transposition of the words, with an 
 occasional omission, would restore this passage to the blank verse from which 
 it was obviously paraphrased. 
 
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 the Third Folio in 1 66^ and to the Fourth Folio of id 8 f. Some 
 doubt clearly lurked in the minds of Shakespeare's earliest 
 editors as to the extent of his responsibility for the piece. 
 
 Numerous references to the piece in contemporary litera- 
 ture attest the warm welcome which the public extended to 
 its early representations. As early zsi6o^ some popular doggerel 
 entitled 'Pimlyco or Runne Red-cap. Tis a mad world at 
 Hogsdon' (Sig. C i, line 6) included the lines :— 
 
 Amazde I stood, to see a Crowd 
 
 Of Civi/i Throats stretchd out so lowd; 
 
 (As at a Nerv-play) all the Roomes 
 
 Did swarme with Gentiles mix'd with Groomes^ 
 
 So that I truly thought all These 
 
 Came to see Shore^ or Pericles. 
 
 In the prologue to Robert Tailor's comedy, The Hogge hath 
 lost his Pearle^ i<^M) ^he writer says of his own piece : — 
 
 If it prove so happy as to please, 
 Weele say 'tis fortunate like Pericles. 
 
 On May 24, i(Ji9, the piece was performed at Court on the 
 occasion of a great entertainment in honour of the French 
 ambassador, the Marquis de Trenouille. The play was 
 still popular in 1630 when Ben Jonson, indignant at the 
 failure of his own piece. The New Inn^ sneered at 'some 
 mouldy talc like Pericles ' in his sour ode beginning <■ Come 
 leave the lothed stage'. On June ic, 1(^31, the piece was 
 revived before a crowded audience at the Globe Theatre 
 < upon the cessation of the plague '. At the Restoration 
 
 ' Skr,re mx^ be the play by Thooias Hcywood, printed in iiJoo, entitled 
 The first and second parts of King Ed-ward the Fourth &c. It presents the whole 
 story of Jane Shore. 
 
PERICLES 19 
 
 Pericles renewed its popularity in the theatre, and Betterton 
 was much applauded in the title role. 
 
 From an early date critics were divided as to its merits. Early 
 An admirer, Samuel Sheppard, in 16^6^ in The Times Displayed ^'"'"'"'• 
 blindly instanced the piece as that work of ' great Shake- 
 speare ' wherein he outran the powers of Aristophanes. Owen 
 Feltham, in id^o, wrote more intelligibly of ' th' unlikely 
 plot ' of pieces that ' do displease As deep as Pericles \ Another 
 poet, John Tatham, who personally approved the play, quoted 
 in I (J J- 2 some current censure which condemned Pericles as one 
 of Shakespeare's conspicuous failures : — 
 
 But Shakespeare^ the Plehean Driller ', was 
 Founder'd in's Pericles^ and must not pass. 
 
 A greater critic, Dryden, took a low view of the piece, 
 although he never doubted Shakespeare's responsibility. He 
 wrongly excused the incompetence that he detected in it 
 on the ground that it was Shakespeare's first experiment in 
 drama (Prologue to Charles Davenant's Circe^ 1684): — 
 
 ShakespeaPs own Muse her Pericles first bore, 
 The Prince of Tyre was elder than the Moore. 
 
 Although the exclusion of the piece from the Folios of The lecog- 
 1(52 3 and kj 3 2 may have been due to suspicion of Shakespeare's divided 
 full responsibility, the belief that Shakespeare was author, not authorship. 
 of the whole play, but only of those scenes which are 
 dominated by Marina, was not expressly stated till 1738. On 
 August I in that year the dramatist George Lillo produced at 
 Covent Garden Theatre an adaptation of the later portions 
 of the drama in a piece entitled 'Marina ; a play in three Acts. 
 In the prologue the author, although no professional critic, 
 
 ' Driller is probably a misprint for 'droller'. 
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20 PERICLES 
 
 displayed a saner judgement regarding Shakespeare's part in 
 the composition of Pericles than any previous writer : — 
 
 We dare not charge the whole unequal play 
 
 Of Pericles on him ; yet let us say, 
 
 As gold though mix'd Avith baser matter shines, 
 
 So do his bright inimitable lines 
 
 Throughout those rude wild scenes distingiiish'd stand, 
 
 And shew he touch'd them with no sparing hand. 
 
 Dr. Farmer was the earliest professed critic to accept 
 Lillo's suggestion. In 1766 he pronounced Shakespeare's hand 
 to be visible in certain scenes and in those only. He as 
 stoutly opposed the attribution of the whole to Shakespeare 
 as the complete withdrawal of the piece from his record. 
 No subsequent Shakespearean commentator of repute has 
 questioned in substance the justice of Dr. Farmer's verdict. 
 
 IV 
 
 Blount's Much mystery surrounds the original publication of the 
 
 licence. pj^y jj-j 1(^09. The Statioiicrs' Registers show that on 
 
 May 20, i5o8, Edward Blount, the most cultivated publisher 
 
 of the day, obtained a licence for its publication. The 
 
 entry runs : — 
 
 [ido8] 20 Maij 
 Entred [to Edward Blount] for his copie under thandes 
 of Sir George Buck knight and Master Warden Seton A booke 
 called. The booke of Pericles prytice of Tyre vjd.' 
 
 On the same day Blount also obtained a licence for ' A 
 booke Called Anthony and Cleopatra '. In spite of these grants 
 Blount had no hand in publishing Pericles. Nor is Antony and 
 Cleopatra known to have been published till seventeen years 
 
 ' Arber, iii. 378. 
 
PERICLES 21 
 
 had passed away, when it appeared in the First Folio of 162^^ 
 of which Blount was one of the syndicate of five publishers. 
 
 Pericles was published in i6o<) by Henry Gosson. Gosson Henry 
 was an undistinguished ' stationer ', although his family had ^°^^°" ^ 
 been for some time closely connected with the trade. He 
 was apprenticed to his father, Thomas Gosson, who was in 
 active business from 1^79 to i<$oo', and died early in idoi. 
 Henry was admitted a freeman of the Company per patrimo/iium 
 on August 3, i5oi, his widowed mother, Alice Gosson, stand- 
 ing surety. In 1503 he established himself at the sign of the 
 ' Sun ' in Paternoster Row, where Pericles was published six 
 years later. He mainly confined himself to chapbooks, 
 pamphlets of news, and ballads, but most of the occasional 
 works of John Taylor, the Water Poet, were issued by him. 
 
 Gosson employed many printers, and it is not easy to The printer. 
 identify the press to which he entrusted his ' copy ' of 
 Pericles. But there is some ground for assuming that it came 
 from that of William Jones, in Ship Alley, Red Cross Street. 
 Jones, who served his apprenticeship with a man of position 
 in the trade, John Windet, took up his freedom in i y 9 <J, and 
 carried on a small printing business from i<Joi to i6i6. The 
 form of imprint on the title-page of Gosson's edition of 
 Pericles associates it nearly with a quarto pamphlet in prose by 
 George Wilkins, which Jones printed for Gosson (without 
 date) about i <So^.' 
 
 ' The elder Gosson took up his freedom on February 4., 1 5:77, as the appren- 
 tice of Thomas Purfoote. Besides Henry, he had two sons, Edward and 
 Richard, both apprenticed to the Stationers • but they never reached the rank 
 of freemen of the Company. 
 
 =• The pamphlet is entitled ' Three Miseries of Barbary ', and the imprint 
 runs : ' Printed by W. I. for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold in Pater 
 Noster Rowe at the signe of the Sunne.' There is a copy in the British 
 Museum. All excepting the prefatory page is in black letter. In 1606 
 Gosson employed the veteran, James Roberts, to print for him in quarto a prose 
 
22 PERICLES 
 
 There is no notice in the Stationers' Register of a transfer 
 of the copyright of Verides from Blount to Gosson. It may 
 be that Gosson issued the work in defiance of Blount's just 
 claim to it, or that Blount tacitly withdrew his pretensions 
 owing to inability to obtain an authentic copy of the piece. 
 The coraipt Xhc incohcrcnce of the text in the first edition, the careless- 
 tcxr ° '^ ness with which it was printed and produced, indicates that 
 the ' copy ' followed some hasty and unauthorized transcript, 
 and that the type Avas not corrected by an intelligent proof- 
 reader. Malone asserted with truth — ' There is I believe no 
 play of our author's, perhaps I might say in the English 
 language, so incorrect as this. The most corrupt of Shake- 
 speare's other dramas, compared with Pericles^ is purity itself ' 
 The con- That the text was not derived from an authentic manu- 
 
 Aision of script is proA^ed most clearly by the circumstance that a very 
 
 verse and -i -T ■> -i _ ^ _ ■> 
 
 prose large portion of the blank verse is printed as prose, or is cut 
 
 up into lines of unequal length (each beginning with a capital 
 letter), which ignores all metrical characteristics. In the last 
 two acts, in which figure many speeches from Shakespeare's 
 pen, very little of the Averse escapes the disguise of prose.^ 
 
 translation from the Italian ' Newes from Rome', and in i<}o8 he com- 
 missioned Robert Ra worth to print a new quarto edition in black letter of 
 his father's copyright, ' The Contention bctweene three brethren. The Whore- 
 Monger, the Drunkard, and the Dice-Player.' Raworth's press had just 
 reopened, after a temporary suppression on account of his endeavour to infringe 
 Leake's copyright by printing an unauthorized edition of Shakespeare's Venus 
 and Adonis, But such small evidence as exists suggests that William Jones 
 was responsible for Fericles, rather than either Roberts or Raworth. 
 
 ' Malone, Suppleme7it (1780), vol. ii, p. 4.7/, 
 
 ^ Act iii, Sc. 5 offers a good example of the method of printing blank 
 verse. It is a short scene, consisting, when printed properly, of no more than 
 forty-one lines. Not one line is printed in accordance with the requirements 
 of the metre. A dozen of the blank verse lines are printed as prose. All the 
 others are combined in different lengths, each beginning with a capital, and 
 are robbed of metrical significance. Cf. also iii. 4.. 4.-11 • iv. i. 1-8, ji-^-z, 
 71-81 J iv. 6. 101-Z7 (the scene of Marina with Lysimachus), 
 
PERICLES 
 
 23 
 
 All Marina's verse in Act iv is so disguised. In some of 
 the early scenes blank verse is suffered suddenly to masquerade 
 as prose, and then resumes its correct garb. At other times 
 two lines are run into one (cf. ii. 3. do-i j ii. y. 47, 42-3); 
 or one line is set out in two (c£ ii. 4. 25-). Elsewhere prose 
 is printed as irregular verse. The second fisherman's final speech 
 (ii. I, i74-<S) is printed thus : — 
 
 Wee'le sure prouide, thou shalt haue 
 
 My best Gowne to make thee a paire; 
 
 And He bring thee to the Court my selfe. 
 
 How Gosson acquired the corrupt ' copy ' is not easily a shorthand 
 
 determined. The practice of taking down a piece in short- '""'"'P' 
 
 hand from the actor's lips was not uncommon,' There is 
 
 ' Plays were often ' copied by the ear '. Thomas Heywood included in 
 his P/easant Dialogues and Dramas^ i<^37 (PP- H^-*))? ^ prologue for the revival 
 of an old play of his concerning Queen Elizabeth, called 'If you know not me, 
 you know Nobody \ of which he revised the acting version. Nathaniel Butter 
 had published the first and second editions of the piece in \6o') and i(Jo8, and 
 Thomas Pavier the third in i6'io. In a prose note preceding the new prologue 
 the author denounced the printed edition as ' the most corrupted copy, which 
 was published without his consent'. In the prologue itself, Heywood declared 
 that the piece had on its original production on the stage pleased the audience : 
 
 So much that some by stenography drew 
 
 The plot, put it in print, scarce one word true. 
 
 And in that lameness it hath limpt so long 
 
 The Author now to vindicate that wrong 
 
 Hath took the pains, upright upon its feet. 
 
 To teach it walk, so please you sit and see't. 
 Sermons and lectures were frequently described on their title-page as ' taken 
 by characterie '. (Cf. Stephen Egerton's Lecture, 1589, and Sermons of 
 Henry Smith, lyijo and lyjii.) The popular system of Elizabethan short- 
 hand was that devised by Timothy Bright in his ' Characterie : An arte of 
 shorte scripte, and secrete writing by character', 15-88. In 15-90 Peter Bales 
 devoted the opening section of his ' Writing Schoolmaster ' to the ' Arte of 
 Brachygraphy '. In id'ix Sir George Buc, in his 'Third Vniversitie of 
 England' (appended to Stow's Chronicle), wrote of 'the much-to-be-regarded 
 Art of Brachygraphy ' (chap, xxxix), that it 'is an Art newly discovered 
 or newly recovered, and is of very good and necessary use, being well and 
 honestly exercised, for, by the meancs and hclpe thereof, they which know it 
 can readily take a Sermon, Oration, Vlay^ or any long speech, as they are 
 spoke, dictated, acted^ and uttered in the instant '. 
 
24 PERICLES 
 
 a likelihood that Gosson commissioned a shorthand writer to 
 report the piece in the theatre, or that at any rate he pur- 
 chased a shorthand writer's notes. Many incoherences may be 
 attributed to confused hearing, and the failure to respect the 
 just metrical arrangements is hardly explicable in any other way. 
 Several of the least intelligible passages in the early 
 editions can be with certainty restored to sense by reference 
 to the corresponding passage in Wilkins' novel. A comparison 
 of the shape that many words take respectively in novel and 
 play shows beyond doubt that the play's incoherences are 
 errors of the ear. In i. 4. 39 in the speech, in which Cleon, 
 governor of Tarsus, describes the straits to which his subjects 
 are put by the pending famine, a hopeless line runs : — 
 
 Those pallats rvho not yet too sauers younger^ 
 Must haue inuentions to delight the tast. 
 
 The novel shows the correct words are ; — 
 
 Those palates who 7iot yet trvo summers younger^ &c. 
 
 In Act ii, Prologue, z2 it is said of Helicanus, Pericles' 
 deputy at Tyre, that he 
 
 Sailed one of all that haps in T^yre. 
 The no^^el reads in like context that ' Helicanus let no 
 occasion slip wherein hee might send word to Tharsus of what 
 occurrents soeuer had happened'. Sailed me is an ignorant 
 mishearing of ' sends word '. 
 
 In iii. 3. 29 Pericles vows : 
 
 All vnsisterd shall this heyre of mine remayne. 
 The novel relates how Pericles vows that his ' head should grow 
 znscisserd '. 
 
 The quotations in foreign languages are hopelessly mis- 
 
 ' In the novel it is said of the famine-stricken city that she '^ not yet two 
 stmimers younger did excell in pompe '. 
 
PERICLES 25- 
 
 printed from the same cause. In the Spanish motto 
 (ii. 2. 27) the words 'Piu' and 'que' appear as 'Pue' and 
 <kee' respectively, and in the Latin motto (li, 2. 30) the 
 word ' pompae ' is disguised as ' Pompey '. 
 
 Pericles was printed at least eight times in the course Piogiewivc 
 of the seventeenth century. Each edition differs from the of the'^teTt" 
 other in minute points of typography. But no endeavour 
 was made by the editors or printers to give intelligibility to 
 the corrupted text or to respect the metrical intention of the 
 authors until 1709, when Pericles was included in Nicholas 
 Rowe's collection of Shakespeare's plays. Small literary interest 
 attaches to the successive seventeenth-century editions. They 
 present a curious picture of the progressive degradation of 
 a text which was at the outset inexcusably corrupt. 
 
 Two editions were produced by Gosson in 1(^09, and it is The two 
 difficult to determine which is the earlier. It is obvious that \^oT^ '^ 
 they are nearly related to one another. They closely resemble 
 each other in their general incompetence. The title-pages 
 are at all points identical. But the variations in spelling and 
 typographic detail, which from the literary point of view are 
 imimportant, are sufficiently numerous to prove that they 
 represent two settings of the type, one of which followed the 
 other with slight arbitrary changes. The ornamental initial 
 letter ' T ', at the opening of the text, is of different pattern in 
 each edition. An occasional correction was introduced in the 
 second setting, but it was usually balanced by the insertion 
 elsewhere of a new misprint or misspelling, so that it is not 
 easy to state that the text of one edition of 1609 is better 
 than that of the other. The one is easily distinguished from 
 the other by the first stage-direction, which in the one appears 
 correctly ' En/er Gower ', and in the other is misprinted 
 < En^r Gower '. The copy in the Malone collection in the 
 
 D 
 
26 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The diffei- 
 ences of 
 reading. 
 
 Bodleian Library, which is reproduced here in Eicsimile, has 
 the ' En/er Gower ' opening. Although certainty on the 
 point is impossible, the ' Untev Gower ' opening seems to be 
 the mark of the first setting of the type. ' 
 
 The actual differences of reading are few. But on the 
 whole the compositor of the ' En^'er Gower ' edition, who may 
 be judged to have worked direct from the corrupt manuscript, 
 seems to have been more careful than the compositor of the 
 ' Encer Gower ' edition, who worked from his colleague's proof 
 
 Some of the misprints of the first compositor were 
 avoided by the second. But the obvious misprints are more 
 numerous in the second setting than in the first. Thus, where 
 the first prints nghtlj potion (i. 2. (5 8), the other misprints 
 portio7i. Similar examples are : — 
 
 In the < En/^er ' 
 
 In the ' Enter ' 
 
 (first) edition. 
 
 (second) edition 
 
 i. I. 41. thee 
 
 hee 
 
 i. 2. fy. plants 
 
 planets 
 
 93. spares 
 
 feares 
 
 ii. Chor. 14, Statue 
 
 Statute 
 
 iii. Chor. 5-3. fell 
 
 selfe 
 
 iii. I. f. gently 
 
 dayly 
 
 60. give 
 
 bring 
 
 iii. 2. 91. there 
 
 their 
 
 iii. 3. 19. still 
 
 dayly 
 
 iv. I. 21. keep 
 
 v/eepc 
 
 ' The ' En^er ' copy has throughout on the left-hand page (even on the 
 Jast left-hand page, which has no right-hand companion) the headline, ' The 
 Play of,' and on the right-hand ' Pericles, Prince of Tyre ' ; while the 'En/er' 
 copy, w hich has on the right-hand page throughout the same heading ('Pericles, 
 Prince of Tyre'), repeats those words on nineteen of the thirty-four left-hand 
 pages of the text, and only on the remaining fifteen left-hand pages does 'The 
 Play of appear. 
 
PERICLES 2 7 
 
 In the two following places neither text is right. But the 
 ' En^er ' (first) text is nearer the right reading than the < En^er ' 
 (second). In iii. z. 93-4 the sense requires ' warmth breathes'. 
 The 'En/er' copy gives 'warmth breath', the 'En^'er' copy 
 'warme breath'. In v. i. 47 the sense requires 'deafened'. 
 The ' En^er ' copy gives ' defend ', the ' Enter ' copy 
 ' defended '. 
 
 At least three necessary words are omitted in the ' Eneer ' 
 copy, viz. ii. 1 . 1 3 4 ' to ' • j. 7 1 ' say ' ; iii. i . 9 ' as '. 
 
 Only one omission, and that a stage direction, is notice- 
 able in the ' Enter ' copy, viz. ii. 5-. 1 3 ' Exit '. 
 
 The cases where the ' En^er ' (second) goes right and the 
 ' En/'er ' (first) wrong are fewer. But they are not unimpor- 
 tant. The five most noticeable corrections are : — 
 
 iii. 1 . 66. Paper for Taper 
 
 IV. Chor. 17. ripe /or right 
 
 iv. 6. 1 2. Caualeres (i. e. Cavaliers) for Caualereea 
 1 6^. women-kinde for wemen-kinde 
 
 V. Chor. 20. fervor for former 
 
 Irregularities in spelling" where the two editions differ Spelling 
 merely reflect the caprices of the two compositors. A super- ' ^'^"'^^*- 
 fluous '-e ' following words, e. g. ' booke ', ' keepe ', ' vnlesse ', 
 ' retvirne ', frequently occurs in both copies. But the words 
 that have it in one copy often lack it in the other. Where 
 the one copy reads ' fruite ' and ' fellowe ', the other copy 
 reads ' fruit ' and ' fellow '. But the latter copy has ' moun- 
 taine ' and ' devoure ' though the former has ' moimtain ' and 
 ' devour'. Fifty words, which have the superfluous '-e' in the 
 'En/-er' (first) edition, are withoitt it in the ' En^'cr' (second) 
 edition. Forty words, which have the same ending in the 
 
 D 2 
 
text of i5l I. 
 
 28 PERICLES 
 
 'En^er' (second) edition, are without it in the 'En^^er' (first) 
 edition. 
 Disposition Similarly, capitals beginning common nouns within the 
 
 iett"n"^ line are distributed capriciously through both issues. But 
 they do not appear in the same places in both copies. It may 
 be estimated that the superfluous capital appears sixty-five 
 times in the ' JLuter ' copy in places where it is absent from 
 the other copy, and sixty-nine times in the ' En/?er ' copy 
 in places where it is absent from the ' En^er ' edition. It is 
 a peculiarity of the ' En/er ' copies that a small letter dis- 
 tinguishes the word ' king ' at the heading of the King's 
 speeches. In the ' Enter ' copy the ordinary form ' King ' is 
 invariable. 
 Stafford's The edition of 161 1 was 'printed by S. S.', i.e. Simon 
 
 Stafford." No other name or initial appears in the imprint, 
 but Gosson was in all probability the publisher again. It is 
 a hasty badly- v/orked reprint page by page of the ' Enter ' 
 (second) quarto. Except in one place the catchwords are 
 identical. A few new misprints are introduced (e.g. i. i. 10 
 
 < fit ' for ' sit ', iv. 1.87' chaught ' for ' caught '), and there arc 
 variations in the spelling (e, g. on title-page ' History ' for 
 
 < Historic ' ; ' sayd ' for ' said ' and ' Maiestyes ' for 'Maiesties'). 
 Paviei's The edition of kJi? came from different hands. Pericles 
 
 did not then reappear in an independent volume. It was 
 appended to a new edition of The Whole Contc7ition hetweene 
 . . . Lancaster and Torke. With the Tragicall Ends cf the 
 
 ' Stafford was originally a member of the Drapers' Company, and became 
 a freeman of the Stationers' Company ' by translation ' on May 7, if 99. His 
 press was, before i(Jox, in Adling Street, on Adling HiU, 'near Carter Lane 
 Inn ' (now Addle Street, E.C.), and from idoz onwards in Hosier Lane, near 
 Smithfield. His more notable undertakings before \6o^ were Richard Care^v's 
 Survey of Corniuall tor John Jzgg'XYdy in idoi, and the pre-Shakespearean play 
 of King Lear for John Wright in idoj. 
 
 edition of 
 1^19 
 
PERICLES 29 
 
 good DuJ^ Humfrey, l^lcbard^ Duke of Torke and Kjng Henrie 
 the sixt. Divided into two parts. (These two parts were 
 early drafts of the second and third parts of Henry VI., 
 which figured in a finally revised shape in the First Folio.) 
 A new title-page introduces Pericles^ but the signatures of the 
 volume are continuous throughout. The title-pages of both 
 The Whole Contention and Pericles bear the imprint 'Printed 
 for T. P.' These initials are those of Thomas Pavier. He 
 had acquired in a formal way the copyright of the first and 
 second parts of Henry the vjth^ ii. bookes as early as April 19, 
 1(^02,' but he undertook no edition of any play relating 
 to Henry VI before the volume of 1^19. There is no entry 
 of the transfer to Pavier of Gosson's interest in Pericles. But 
 Pavier was long engaged in making an unprincipled use of 
 Shakespeare's name, and he would probably be none too 
 scrupulous in employ ing ' copy ' which would serve his purpose. 
 In i(Jo8 he had issued j4 Yorkshire Tragedy . . . Written by 
 W. Shakespeare with his own full name in the imprint, 'Printed 
 by R. B. for Thomas Pauier ', and in 161^ he produced a new 
 edition of that spurious production with the same form of 
 imprint as in the volume containing Pericles^ ' Printed for 
 T. P.' ^ Thomas Pavier had obtained copyright in the 
 
 ' Arber, iii. 504.. The reference is probably to the Ccntnttten and the 
 True Tragedy^ the unrevised drafts of the second and third parts (not the first 
 and second) of Shakespeare's Henry VI. Of both of these pieces Thomas 
 Millington, who assigned the copyright to Pavier in idoz, had before that 
 date issued two editions. 
 
 ' Pavier was originally a draper, and on June 3, i(5'oo, was admitted ' by 
 translation ' a freeman of the Stationers' Company. In his wiJl (P. C. C. 19 
 Hele) he speaks of the pubhsher William Barley as his master. From almost 
 the date of his admission fines were exacted from him for irregular conduct- 
 e.g. for causing Edward Allde to print a book contrary to order, October, 
 \6oi • and for selling an unauthorized edition of the Basilicon Boron on 
 June 27, 1(^03. Nevertheless, he was admitted a liveryman on June 30, \6o\. 
 On August 14, i(Joo, he acquired the copyright in a large number of 
 
30 PERICLES 
 
 ordinary v/ay for A Yorkshire "Tragedy on May 2, i5o8 ; the 
 work is described in the Stationers' Registers, lii. 377, thus: 
 ' A booke called A Yorkshire Tragedy written by Wylliam 
 Shakespere.' 
 
 Small change was made in Pavier's text of Pericles. It 
 followed closely the <En/^r' (first) edition of 1509. But 
 there are one or two rational emendations (cf i. 2, 8 6 
 'thinke' for 'doo't', recte ' doubt 'j i. 3. 34 'my' for 
 'now'; iv. 6. 28 'impunity' for 'iniquity'; v. i. 89 
 ' weighed ' for ' wayde '). 
 
 In 1623 a syndicate of publishers produced the First 
 Folio collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. Pericles was 
 not included, either owing to Pavier's unreadiness to part with 
 his interest, or to suspicions on the part of the editors of the 
 First Folio as to the authenticity of the piece. Pavier carried 
 on business till his death early in i(?2d, and apparently retained 
 Tiansfei of his claim to Pericles till the last. On August 14, 16 z6^ his 
 Krd'and^ "^ widow made over to Edward Brewster and Robert Bird all the 
 Brewster. estate, right, title, interest, of her late husband in some sixty 
 specified volumes as well as '■in Shakespere' s plaies or any of them''. 
 1 he specified books include The play of Henry Fift, Sir John 
 Oldcastle^ A play Tytus and Andronicus^ Plistory of Plamhlett^ 
 all of which seem to have been treated as Shakespeare's 
 work.' Pericles was among the unspecified plays placed to 
 Shakespeare's credit, which were included in the property 
 made over by Pavier's widow to Bird and Brewster. 
 
 ' tliinges formerJye printed ', including The Historye of Henry the Fifth, iiiith 
 the Battell of Agencourt, and The Spaiiishe Tragedie. He published two imper- 
 fect editions of Shakespeare's Henry V (in idoi and ido8). On April 19, 
 i6'oi, Pavier acquired from Thomas Millington, besides the two parts o."' 
 Henry FI, ' a booke called Titus and Andron'icus^ and on August 30, i6'o8, he 
 received licence to publish A history of Tytana and Theseus, possibly a draft of 
 A Midsummer Night's Dream, of which nothing more is known. Arber, iii. 388. 
 ' Arber, iv. i6i\., 165-. 
 
PERICLES 3 1 
 
 In 16^0 Bird produced a new edition of Pericles^ which Biid's edition 
 was printed by John Norton.' Bird's edition followed ^^jj^^/J'o 
 Pavier's text of idicj. On some title-pages he set out his imprints. 
 address at the sign of the Bible in Cheapside. Other copies 
 merely bore the imprint, < Printed by J. N. for R. B.' At 
 Bird's hands, the text underwent further deterioration. Here 
 and there an essential word is omitted altogether (cf. v. i . 222 
 'state' omitted) or is hopelessly misprinted (cf. iii. 2. 27 
 ' endwomens ' for ' endowments ', and v. 3 . 8 8 ' hough ' for 
 'Although'). The whole line, i. 2. 23 (' Heele stop the 
 course by which it might be knowne '), and the necessary stage 
 direction 'Enter all the Lords to Pericles' (i. 2. 3 3) were suffered 
 to fall out. On the other hand a necessary stage direction, 
 which was previously omitted (' Exit Gower ' in iii. Prol. 1. <Jo), 
 here for the first time finds a place. But this seems Bird's 
 sole contribution to the elucidation of the confused text. 
 
 Bird did not retain his interest in Pericles long. Thomas Cotes' 
 Cotes, an enterprising printer with whom a brother, Richard ^^'"°"° 
 Cotes, was in partnership, acquired in 1627, on the death of 
 Isaac Jaggard, chief proprietor of the First Folio, Jaggard's 
 printing-press and most of his stock. Part of the property 
 which passed to the brothers Cotes was Jaggard's ' part in 
 Shackspheere playes', and on November 8, 1(530, the partners 
 made an important addition to their Shakespearean property 
 by purchasing from Bird his 'copies' of Shakespeare's Henry F, 
 Titus Andronicus^ Hamlet^ and Pericles^ all of which had at one 
 time been in Pavier's possession. Thomas Cotes printed the 
 Second Folio edition of Shakespeare's collected works in 1632, 
 but once again Pericles suffered exclusion from that treasury. 
 Cotes, however, made amends by producing at his press and 
 
 ' Norton was of a family long engaged in the trade, and had for a time 
 been in partnership with Nicholas Okes. 
 
32 PERICLES 
 
 publishing for himself a new edition of Pericles in quarto in 
 i53f. Cotes' edition closely follows Bird's text of 1(^30, and 
 is equally incoherent. 
 The Third No further edition of Pericles appeared till 1 5(^4, when 
 
 orepnnr. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ length iucludcd in a collective edition of 
 Shakespeare's works. It then figured in the opening pages 
 of an appendix containmg in addition six other plays which 
 had been falsely ascribed to Shakespeare in his lifetime. 
 The volume was the second [not the first) impression of the 
 Third Folio. The first impression, which has the imprint, 
 * London. Printed for Philip Chetwinde i(J<J3,' reproduces 
 the thirty-six plays which appeared in the First and Second 
 Folios. The second impression has a new title-page running: — 
 ' M'. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. 
 Published according to the true original copies. The 
 third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven 
 Playes, never before printed in Folio, viz. Pericles Prince 
 of Tyre. The London Prodigall. The History of Thomas 
 L''. Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The 
 Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of 
 Locrine. Printed for P. C: Lmdon^ 166^.'' 
 
 The seven ' Playes never before printed in Folio ' appear 
 at the end of the volume with new paginations and new 
 signatures. The text of Pericles fills ten leaves, of which the 
 first six belong to a quire signed ' a ', and the second four to 
 a quire signed 'b'. The pagination runs 1-20. The intro- 
 ductory heading runs : — ' The much admired Play called 
 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, with the true Relation of the 
 whole History, Adventures, and Fortunes of the said Prince, 
 Written by W. Shakespeare, and published in his life time.' 
 Chetwinde's text is that of the quarto of 1 6^ 5-, but there are 
 many conjectural alterations. For the first time the play is 
 
PERICLES 3 3 
 
 divided into five Acts, and the first scene is headed Actus 
 Primus : Scena Prima. There is no further indication of scenes. 
 For the first time there also appears a list of dramatis personae. 
 This is placed under the heading ' The Actors Names ' at the 
 end of the piece. It is imperfect and there are curious errors. 
 The daughter of Antiochus, who is unnamed m the play, is 
 called ' Hesperides ' from the figurative language of i. i. 2.7. 
 ' Philoten, daughter toCleon ', who is merely mentioned in the 
 text and does not take any part in the action, is included in 
 the list. '■ Dionyza ' is miscalled ' Dionysia ', and Mytilene is 
 misspelt Metaline. 
 
 The play oi Pericles is as completely separated from what 
 follows it in the Third Folio, as from what precedes it. 'The 
 London Prodigally, which succeeds Pericles., opens a new set of 
 signatures and a new pagination, which are both continuous to 
 the end of the volume. ' It was clearly the original intention 
 of the publisher Chetwinde to add to the Folio collection of 
 Shakespeare's plays Pericles alone. The extension of the 
 appendix so as to admit the six other plays is shown by the 
 signatures and new pagination to have been an afterthought. 
 
 The Fourth Folio of \6%^ is a reprint of the second The Fourth 
 impression of the Third Folio of \66\. Pericles figures in the JO"^P"" ■ 
 same place in the volume, but it does not begin a new 
 pagination ; the piece is paged continuously with the tragedies. 
 The signatures throughout the volume are also continuous 
 and are quite regular. The list of dramatis personae — ' The 
 Actors Names ' — is found at the head of the play, instead of 
 at the end as in the Third Folio. 
 
 Nicholas Rowe, in his first critical edition of Shakespeare's Rowe's text. 
 
 ' The concluding section of the volume consists of fifty leaves, irregularly 
 signed, thus :— * **, ***, ****, in fours ; ^A, IJB, in sixes j 1[C— ^F, in 
 fours j'HG, six leaves. 
 
 E 
 
34 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The two 
 editions of 
 
 works of 1709 (as well as in the reissue of 17 14), based his 
 text on that of the Fourth Folio and included Pericles and the 
 six spurious pieces. Rowe attempted for the first time to 
 distniguish the verse from the prose, and he made a fcv/ 
 verbal emendations. But he did not go far in the elucidation 
 of the text. Pope and the chief eighteenth-century writers 
 excluded Pericles^ together with the spurious plays, from their 
 editions of Shakespeare's works. Although Theobald did 
 not reprint the piece in his edition of Shakespeare (1733), he 
 
 was a careful student of it, as manuscript notes by him 
 
 m 
 
 Malone's 
 revised text. 
 
 extant copies of the 1530 and i 6 3 5- editions amply show (see 
 Nos. XLIX and LXV infra). 
 
 Two ri^'al reprints in 1 2mo of the Fourth Folio version 
 of Pericles appeared in London in 1734, independently 
 of any collective edition. One of these (' Pericles Prince 
 of Tyre by Shakespear,' sixty pages) was printed and pub- 
 lished by R. Walker at the Shakespear's Head. The other 
 (' Pericles Prince of Tyre By Mr. William Shakespear,' 
 sixty-seven pages) was < printed for J. Tonson and the 
 rest of the Proprietors '. To Tonson's edition was prefixed 
 an advertisement by William Chetwood, prompter at the 
 Drury Lane Theatre, challenging Walker's pretensions to 
 print this and other of Shakespeare's plays ' from copies made 
 use of at the Theatre ' j Chetwood denounced Walker's text 
 as * useless, pirated, and maimed '. But Tonson's version is 
 little better than his ri^"al's. Pericles was not republished again 
 until Malone printed it (in 178 o) with all the doubtful pieces 
 in his ' Supplement to Johnson and Steevens' edition of 
 1778 '. Malone for the first time recovered the verse from the 
 prose of the early version, and by somewhat liberal emenda- 
 tions rendered most of the text readable and intelligible. 
 
 It was at the suggestion of Dr. Richard Farmer that 
 
PERICLES , ^ 
 
 Pericles was first included in a thoroughly critical edition of 
 Shakespeare's plays. At Farmer's instance Malone introduced 
 It into his edition of Shakespeare of 1790. Steevens followed 
 Malone's example in 1793, and only one editor, Thomas 
 
 late years and it is difficult to trace the present owners. Half 
 of the untraced copies are doubtless in America. Oi the 
 fifty-seven copies of which the present ownership is now 
 known, thirty are in Great Britain, twenty-six in America, 
 
 E 2 
 
34 PERICLES 
 
 works of 1709 (as well as in the reissue of 17 14), based his 
 text on that of the Fourth Folio and included Pericles and the 
 six spurious pieces. Rowe attempted for the first time to 
 distinguish the verse from the prose, and he made a kw 
 T,o^K-ii ^m/=v./^o«-;r>nc "Rnt- hp did not fro far in the elucidation 
 
 ERRATUM 
 Page 3 J, section v, line jj/o-- twenty-two copies re.zd twenty-three copies 
 
 Perii/tj: ]inrod:iction. 
 
 1778 '. Malone for the first time recovered the verse from the 
 prose of the early version, and by somewhat liberal emenda- 
 tions rendered most of the text readable and intelligible. 
 Maione's j,- ^^g ^^ j-j^g supfeestion of Dr. Richard Farmer that 
 
 revised text. '-"-' 
 
PERICLES 3 J- 
 
 Pericles Avas first included in a thoroughly critical edition of 
 Shakespeare's plays. At Farmer's instance Malone introduced 
 It into his edition of Shakespeare of 1790. Steevens followed 
 Malone's example in 1793, and only one editor, Thomas 
 Keightley— m 18(54— has excluded it since. 
 
 None of the six quarto editions of Pericles are common, Census of 
 but the number of extant copies of each varies greatly. In '^°'"^^' 
 no case do more than twenty-two copies of any one edition 
 seem now traceable. O'i the fourteen copies dated 160^ 
 which are known, nine belong to the ' En/er Gower ' (first) 
 impression, which is reproduced in this volume, and five to 
 the ' Eni?er Gower ' (second) impression. The edition of 1611 
 is scarcer than any other j only two copies are traceable. The 
 1 519 edition is the commonest. At least twenty-three extant 
 copies are now identifiable. Of the 1(530 edition, which 
 exists in two impressions with different imprints, some sixteen 
 copies are enumerated below, seven of which bear the shorter 
 imprint, nine the longer. The claim that has been put 
 forward in behalf of the 16^0 short-imprint edition to 
 extreme scarcity seems barely justified. The edition of 1(535- 
 is again fairly common ; nineteen copies are described below. 
 A singularly large number of the extant copies of all editions 
 passed through the hands of J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps]. 
 
 Of the six quarto editions, at least seventy-four copies Distribution 
 survive in all. A fourth of that number has changed hands of ° '^^'""' 
 late years and it is difficult to trace the present owners. Half 
 of the untraced copies are doubtless in America. Oi^ the 
 fifty-seven copies of which the present ownership is now- 
 known, thirty are in Great Britain, twenty-six in America, 
 
 E 2 
 
3<J PERICLES 
 
 and one is in Germany. Of the British copies no less than 
 twenty-one are in public libraries, eight being in the British 
 Museum, and four each at the Bodleian Library and at Trinity 
 College, Cambridge. Of the twenty-six traceable American 
 copies ele\'en arc m public libraries. 
 Pnces. The highest price paid for any quarto edition of Pericles 
 
 was ;^i7i, which was paid by Mr. Perry, of Providence, in 
 1896, for an exemplar of the 1^09 edition, at John Chaloner 
 Smith's sale. 
 
 Copies of later editions, when they have been offered 
 for sale of late years, have not fetched very high prices. In 
 1901 an unbound copy of the id 19 edition at Sotheby's 
 brought ^100 (February 2j), and a copy of the 167,^ edition 
 /<J(J (May id).' Many fair copies of the four latest quartos 
 have changed hands for £1 f and under. 
 
 The Edition In each of the two imprcssions of Gosson's edition of 
 
 ^l" "^°9 1609 the leaves in quite perfect copies number thirty-six. 
 
 The signatures run A-I in fours. The last leaf is blank. 
 
 The text starts on A 2 recto and ends on 1 3 verso. The 
 
 pages are unnumbered. Facsimiles of the two impressions of 
 
 i6o<) by E. W. Ashbee were privately issued m 1862 and 1871 
 
 respectively, under the direction of J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps]. 
 
 Copies with The copy at the Bodleian Library, which is reproduced 
 
 'Enter' \^ this volumc, mcasurcs Jti" ^ Jrr '• ^^ i^ inlaid, and forms 
 
 crn'ed'I'iRST P^rt of a volume of se^-en Shakespearean quartos which were 
 
 Quarto I. bound together by Malone and labelled ' Shakespeare Old 
 
 No. I. Quartos, Vol. III.' The volume, which is numbered Malone 34, 
 
 rw 1 el opens with Liter ece^ if5>4i and is followed by the Sonnets^ id 09 
 
 copy. (Aspley imprint) j by Hamlet^ 1607 ^ by Lovers Labour'' s Lost^ 
 
 15-98 J by this edition of Pertcies, 1609; by the 1619 edition 
 
 of Pericles-^ and by A Yorkshire Tragedy, ido8. 
 
 ' At a London sale on November 14, idyS, a 163 5 copy was sold in 
 a bundle of eleven other plays for ^y. 6d. Another copy, at the Thomas 
 Pearson sale (May-June, 1788), fetched sixpence. 
 
PERICLES 3 7 
 
 The British Museum copy, which measures 6-~"x^'\ has The edition 
 been roughly cut down and inhiid in paper measurnig of i6oc,{i). 
 H '^ '^'h"- The leaves number thirty -five. Some hcad-Hnes ^°-^/' 
 and initial letters have been injured. The title-page has been Museum 
 torn. It is leather-backed with marbled cardboard sides, copy. 
 The pressmark is C. 12. h. j. This copy has been reproduced 
 in Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles (No. 21), with a preface by 
 Mr. P. Z. Round, 188^. 
 
 The copy in the Capell collection at Trinity College, No, 111. 
 Cambridge, measures 7^" x j~\ and wants the last blank leaf j ^''f^'^" 
 it consists of thirty-five leaves instead of thirt)^-six. ™''^' 
 
 Mr. A. H. Huth's copy in perfect condition, consisting No, iv. 
 of thirty-six leaves, was acquired by Henry Huth, father of ^"''' '^°''>' 
 the present owner, at the sale of George Daniel's library in 
 July, 1854, through the bookseller Lilly, for /84. It seems 
 to have been acquired by Daniel, at Heber's sale, in 1834 
 for ^18. It is bound in olive morocco by Charles Lewis, 
 and has the blank leaf at the end, and on the title-page 
 the autograph in contemporary hand of 'Scipio Squyer f. Maij 
 ido[9]'. 
 
 The copy belonging to Earl Howe, at Gopsall, Leicester- No, v, 
 shire, was acquired about 17^0 by Charles Jennens (the Gopsall 
 virtuoso and friend of Handel), who \n 1773 bequeathed it ™''^' 
 with his property at Gopsall to William Pen 11 Assheton Curzon, 
 ancestor of the present owner. It measures ^~" x 771;-". 
 Leaf F4 is supplied in manuscript. The leaves number 
 thirty-four only. 
 
 The copy belonging to Mr. John Murray, of Albemarle No. vi. 
 Street, London, which measures 7^" x j^", was acquired about Munaycopy, 
 1 8 21 by John Murray, the grandfather of the present owner. 
 
 The interesting copy in the Barton collection in the Boston No, vii. 
 Public Library belonged to George Steevens, whose autograph R"toncopy, 
 
 1 A ,. •> 1 • o V 1 1 ,H r /l Boston Pub- 
 
 it bears. At Steevens' sale m 1800 it was bought for the Hc Library, 
 
 Duke of Roxburghe's collection for £1 zs. od. At the Duke's u,s.a. 
 
 sale in 18 12 it fetched £1 ijs. o^., and was acquired by 
 
 Thomas JoUey, F.S.A., whose autograph and book-plate are 
 
 both inserted in it. At Jolley's sale in 1844 it passed 
 
3^ 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The Edition 
 OF 1609 (I). 
 
 No. VIII. 
 Mr. W. A. 
 White's 
 
 copy, New 
 York, U.S. A. 
 
 No. IX. 
 Mr. E. 
 Dwight 
 
 Church's 
 copy, New 
 York,U.S.A. 
 
 Copies with 
 
 ' Eneer ' 
 
 opening, 
 
 called 
 
 Second 
 
 Quarto II. 
 
 No. X. 
 
 British 
 
 Museum 
 
 copy. 
 
 No. XI. 
 
 Devonshire 
 
 copy. 
 
 No. XII. 
 Hamburg 
 copy. 
 
 through the bookseller, Thomas Rodd, for /13 to the 
 America)! collector, T. P. Barton, whose books were presented 
 to the Boston Public Library in 1870. The copy, which is 
 slightly foxed, is half-bound in old red morocco. 
 
 Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, who owns a first impres- 
 sion of I (Jo 9, purchased it for £60 from the library of 
 Frederick Perkins of Chipstead, which was sold on July 20, 
 1889. It measures 6^" x 4-f^", and is bound in morocco. It 
 belonged at one time to George Steevens, whose autograph it 
 bears ; but it is to be distinguished from the Steevens copy 
 sold at his sale in 1800, which is now in the Barton collec- 
 tion (see No. VII). 
 
 The copy formerly in the Rowfant library of Frederick 
 Locker Lampson now belongs to Mr, E. Dwight Church of 
 New York. It measures 6}" x f" and is bound in red morocco 
 by Bedford. It formerly belonged to Sir William Tite, at 
 whose sale in i 8 74 it fetched /y 3 i oj-. od. 
 
 The British Museum copy (pressmark C. 34. k. 35) is bound 
 in red russia, and stamped on the side with the arms of David 
 Garrick, who was the former owner. 
 
 It measures 6^' 
 
 1 o 
 
 xJt 
 
 The top edges are planed and the title has been repaired. 
 This copy has been reproduced in Shakspere-Quarto Fac- 
 similes (No. 22), with a preface by Mr. P, Z. Round, i8 8<). 
 
 The Duke of Devonshire's copy belonged to the actor, 
 John Philip Kemble, who purchased it at Dr. Richard Wright's 
 sale in 1787 for nine shillings. It bears upon its title-page in 
 Kemble's autograph the words, ' Collated and perfect. J. P. K. 
 1798.' It has been inlaid, and bound up with the i ^94 edition 
 of Lucrece^ and early editions of the four pseudo-Shakespearean 
 plays — Thomas Lord Cromwell^ ^f^i.^, Tlje London Prodigally 
 i(Joy-; Locrine^ ifpfj ^nd The first part of iSir John Oldcastle^ 
 1600. The volume is lettered outside, ' Plays vol. cxxi.' 
 
 The copy in the Public Library of Hamburg, which 
 measures 7 ,"/' ^ S~\"-> i* bound up with thirteen other con- 
 temporary quartos, and is labelled on the back Anglicana Varia. 
 It is the third item in the volume. The eleventh is a copy of 
 the KJ09 edition of Marlowe's Faustus^ which is believed to be 
 
PERICLES 
 
 39 
 
 unique. The ninth, is George Wilkins' Isliseries of In for st TheEdition 
 Marria<re^ i(5o7.' of 1609 (II). 
 
 A perfect copy of thirty-six leaves, belonging to No. xiii. 
 Mr. Marsden J. Perry, measures 6\" x j-|". It is unbound, M'-M-^'sden 
 and with it is stitched up Samuel Daniel's The ^eeiPs Arcadia ^Qpy us. A. 
 [1606). On the title-page are the autographs of two former 
 owners, ' Edw. Palmer ' and ' Jno. Fenn ', 1782. The latter was 
 Sir John Fenn (1739-94), editor of the ' Paston Letters', who 
 owned the 1(524 edition of Lucrece (Census No. XXII). The 
 copy was bought for the present owner at the sale of John 
 Chaloner Smith's library, on February 12, 1895, for ^i7i- 
 
 A defective copy was sold at Halliwell-[Phillipps'] sale. No. xiv. 
 July I, 1889, for ^30. The title is a modern reprint, and u",'|'^'^^|f 
 leaves A 4 and I are wanting." fPhiiiipps'] 
 
 The I (J 1 1 edition has the same number of leaves (thirty- copy 
 six) in its perfect condition as in the case of the \6o<) edition, 
 which it reprints. The signatures run A-I in fours. C 2 is 
 unmarked, and the last leaf is blank. It is without pagination. 
 
 Only two copies are known, and only one is complete. 
 The British Museum owns the imperfect one. The complete 
 copy is in Mr. Marsden J. Perry's library. Providence, Rhode 
 Island, U.S.A. 
 
 The British Museum copy (C. 34. k. 37) which measures No. xv. 
 7^"x4-f-" was acquired on November 9, i8y8, from James 
 
 The Edition 
 
 OF I 6 I I . 
 
 Biitish 
 
 Museum 
 copy. 
 
 ' The remaining items, of which a list has been kindly forwarded to me 
 by the Librarian, Dr. J. Spitzer, are, with two exceptions, plays which were 
 published between \Go(i and \6qi). The abbreviated titles are : i. Chapman's 
 Buke of Byron, 160% ; z. Heywood's ' If you know not me ', 160% ; 3. Pericles, 
 160^; 4. Tourneur's Revengers Jragaedie, 160J ; <;. The Tragedie of Nero, 
 160J • 6. Barnes' Divi/s Charter, l6oj ; 7. Htstorie of ^ Orlando Turioso, 15:99; 
 8. Heywood's Rape of Lucrece (date cut off); 9. Wilkins' Miseries, i6oj ; 10. 
 Dekker's Whore of Babylon, \6o-] ; ii. Marlowe's Faustus, i6o<) ; 11. The 
 Returne from Pernassus, 1606; I?. Middleton's A Mad World, \6o% ; 14. 
 Trhomas] PFope] G[oodwine]'s Historie of Blanchardine, 1^97 (unique). 
 
 ^ Copies of the xCot) edition were sold at the sales of the Duke of Marl- 
 borough, White Knights, in 18 19 (for jTi %s. od.), of William Barnes Rhodes, 
 in iSz^ (for £<) 91. odXznd of John Dunn Gardner, with title-page in facsimile, 
 in 185-4 (for jCil)- There is no means of identifying them precisely with any 
 of the traceable copies. 
 
40 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 THE L/iT/'B* 
 
 d mtith admired 'P%^ 
 
 
 c 
 
 'th^t^liMn txfmg% and wofsBy iisd&em% 
 in eht Birth ana tife, of bit O^t^^ 
 
 file Baod-Sd^ 
 
 fmi^ ^ l-or4ah by So Si . 
 
PERICLES 41 
 
 Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps],and was by him identified with the theEdition 
 one sold by auction for2i4 3/. 6d. at James Edwards' first sale ^^ '^'i- 
 in 1 8 04. A note by Halliwell[-Phillipps] pasted in a fly-leaf 
 runs: — 'Although the present volume wants two leaves in sheet D 
 (unless indeed the omission is to be ascribed to the printer, 
 the catchwords being right) it is of great literary curiosity and 
 importance, being not only imique but unused by and unknown 
 to all the editors of Shakespeare. Mr. Collier is the only one 
 who even names it, at first with doubt as to its existence, and 
 afterwards only on my information. The present is no doubt 
 Edwards' copy which sold in 1804 for what was in those 
 days the large price of £1 4, since which time it seems to have 
 disappeared until purchased privately by me.' Signatures 
 D 2 and D 3 are missing and have been replaced by two 
 blank leaves. This copy was facsimiled for private circulation 
 in 1 8 d8 by E. W. Ashbee under Halliwell[-Phillipps'] direction. 
 
 The complete copy belonging to Mr. Perry, which No. xvi. 
 measures 6^' x 4I", was purchased privately by him of Mr. u*s'^'^°^^' 
 Maurice Jonas, of London, in 189(5. It is bound by Riviere 
 in red morocco, and consists of thirty-five leaves. The last 
 blank page has disappeared. 
 
 The edition of 1519 formed the third and concluding The Edition 
 section of a volume which opened with a reprint of the two '^^ '*^'9- 
 parts of The Whole Contention between the two famous houses 
 Lancaster and Toi\ Those two plays occupy the leaves signed 
 A-Qjn fours, ' The First Part ' filling A2-H4 verso, and ' The 
 Second Part ' I-Q£ verso. The title-page of Pericles is on an 
 unsigned inserted leaf following Q£. The text of Pericles 
 opens on a leaf signed R, and runs regularly in fours to the 
 verso of B b I . B b 2 in perfect copies is blank. Pericles 
 thus consists of thirty-four leaves without pagination. The 
 Pericles portion of the volume is usually found detached and 
 separately bound. The title-page of The Whole Contention has 
 no date. That of Pericles is dated 1519, and runs thus:— 
 The Late, | And much admired Play, | Called, | Pericles, 
 Prince of | Tyre. | With the true Halation of the whole //z'-lstory, 
 aduentures, and fortunes of | the saide Prince. | Written by 
 
42 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The Edition 
 OF 1^19. 
 
 Copies 
 artached to 
 Tl,e IJ^Mk 
 Contention. 
 
 No. XVII. 
 Britisli 
 
 Musenm 
 copy. 
 
 No. XVIII. 
 New York 
 Public 
 Library. 
 
 No. XIX. 
 Virgifiia 
 University 
 copy, U.S.A. 
 
 No. XX. 
 Mr. E. D. 
 Church's 
 (Rowfant) 
 copy. 
 
 No. XXI. 
 Huth copy. 
 
 Detached 
 copies. 
 No. XXII. 
 
 W. Shakespeare. ] Printed for T. P. K^rp. | There is a device 
 on the title with the motto Heb. Ddim. Heb. Ddiev. 
 
 The copy in the British Museum (C. 34. k. 38), which 
 measures j—^" x fvi", still forms part of the volume of which 
 the first portion is occupied by The Whole Contention (in two 
 parts). The title-page of 'Pericles is missing. Two blank 
 leaves intervene between the close of the second part of "The 
 Whole Contention and the opening of the text of Pericles. The 
 latter play fills thirty-three leaves instead of thirty-four. 
 The volume is bound in red morocco, and on the front 
 cover is stamped the arms of David Garrick, the former owner. 
 
 A copy in the Lenox collection of the New York 
 Public Library in fine condition is bound without title-page 
 with the 1619 edition of The Whole Contention. Its earlier 
 owners have been C. W. Loscombe, F.S.A., at whose sale in 
 185-4 it fetched £i\ lys. od.:, J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps], at 
 whose sale in 18/6 it fetched ^6 7s. 6d. ; and Sir William Tite, 
 at whose sale in 1874 it fetched ^zi, and was bought for the 
 Lenox collection. 
 
 A copy in the library of the L^niversity of Virginia at 
 Charlottetown is bound with an imperfect copy of The Whole 
 Contention and some other early quarto plays. The volume 
 was presented by Col. Thomas Mann Randolph, son-in- 
 law of Thomas Jefferson (1743^1826), President of the 
 United States. 
 
 A copy, lacking" the title-page, but bomid up as published 
 with the idi9 edition of The Whole Contention.^ now in the 
 possession of Mr. E. D wight Church of New York, was 
 formerly in the Rowfant library of Frederick Locker 
 Lampson. It measures 7-^-" x ff ". 
 
 In no other known copies does Pericles retain its original 
 shape of supplement to The Whole Contention. 
 
 In Mr. Huth's library, though Pericles.^ k^^i?) is separately 
 bound, the copy of The Whole Contention to which it was 
 attached is preserved in separate binding in the same collection. 
 
 A detached perfect copy in the British Museum (C. 1 2. h. 6) 
 was formerly in the library of George Steevens, Avhose auto- 
 
PERICLES 43 
 
 graph IS on the title-page. It was sold at his sale in 1800 for TheEdition 
 ij-j". The page measures ?}" x T~' ^ it is inlaid on paper of" '^'9- 
 measurino- g-^" x 6-^" British Mu- 
 
 The copy in the Malone collection at the Bodleian no"xxiii 
 Library, which measures dff" x 4H" (Malone 34), is inlaid, Bo°dieian 
 and was bound up by ]Malone with his copy of the 160^ '^°?y- 
 edition of Pen'cks^ and five other early quartos as described 
 above (No. I). 
 
 The copy in the Capell collection at Trinity College, No. xxiv. 
 Cambridge, measures 7^" x f}". Capeii copy. 
 
 A copy in the Dyce collection of the Victoria and Albert No. xxv. 
 Museum at South Kensington, measuring 6f|" x 4I", belonged ^y" ^p^- 
 to Dr. Farmer, who has written on the title-page a manuscript 
 note '[The Name at length is to the edit. 1609]' below the 
 words ' Written by W. Shakespeare '. 
 
 A copy belongs to Earl Howe, and is at Gopsall in the No. xxvi. 
 collection formed by Charles Jennens. It measures yf" x yf". Gops.iii copy. 
 
 There is a copy in the possession of Mr. F. A. Newde- No. xxvii. 
 gate, M.P., at Arbury, bound up with five other quarto The Arbury 
 plays, viz. Sir John Ideas tie, 1600^ A Torkshire Tragedy, ™^^' 
 idij) ; Birih of ISlerlin, 16 6 z ; Lovers Labour ''s Lost and Muce- 
 dorus, 16 61. 
 
 A detached copy of Pericles, kJicj, is in the Lenox No.xxviii. 
 collection of the New York Public Library, as well as the ^'^".°" '^^'^ 
 copy attached to The Whole Contention (ifJip). New°Yoik 
 
 The copy in the Barton collection of the Boston Public No. xxix. 
 Library is clean, and is bound in red morocco by Charles Barton copy, 
 Lewis. The title-page has been repaired. lie iTbriry' 
 
 A copy formerly in the possession of J. O. Halliwell U.S.A. 
 [-Phillipps] now belongs to Mr. Perry, of Providence. The No. xxx. 
 margins are much cut down, but the text is perfect and fJ"^/,^ 
 measures 6^^" x a^\". The volume is bound by W. Pratt, and 
 consists of thirty-four leaves. The title is defective. 
 
 A second copy belonging to Mr. Perry, in a perfect con- No. xxxi. 
 dition, forms part of a volume containing eight other ^'^"y 
 Shakespearean quartos, which was found in a German library ^ 
 in 1902. It is bound in seventeenth-century calf, and is 
 
 F 2 
 
44 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The Edition of 
 ii?i9. 
 
 No. XXXII. 
 Folger copy. 
 No. XXXIII. 
 Furness copy. 
 Untraced copies. 
 
 No. XXXIV. 
 Roxburghe-Titc- 
 Gaisford copy. 
 
 No. XXXV. 
 Cosens copy. 
 
 No. XXXVI. 
 Crawford copy. 
 
 No. XXXVII. 
 Warwick copy. 
 
 No. XXXVIII. 
 Stevens copy 
 
 No. XXXIX. 
 
 Burton-Griswold 
 
 copy. 
 
 Stamped on the side with the name of a seventeenth-century 
 collector, Edward Gwynn.' 
 
 Other American owners are Mr. Folger, of New York, 
 and Mr. H. H. Furness, of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, whose 
 copy is imperfect/ 
 
 The present ownership of the following copies, one or 
 two of which may possibly be identifiable with some already 
 enumerated, cannot be positively stated : — 
 
 A copy, bound in olive morocco, belonging successively 
 to the Duke of Roxburghe and to William Nanson Lettsom 
 (i79<^-i8<Jy), at whose sale in i8(Jy it fetched £<) lys. od. ; 
 it was resold at the Tite sale, in 1874, to A. Russell Smith for 
 £^ I f J-. o^., and at the Thomas Gaisford sale, on April 23, 1890, 
 to Messrs. Pearson for £^0. It has autograph notes by Bishop 
 Warburton, and a few manuscript annotations transcribed 
 from Theobald's copy by Lettsom. 
 
 F. W. Cosens' copy, bound by Riviere, sold November 1 1, 
 1890, with all faults, to Bernard Quaritch for £1 2 js. od. 
 
 Copy of W. H. Crawford, of Lakelands, sold March 12, 
 1 8 9 1 , to Quaritch for £1 7 ; bound in morocco by Bedford. 
 
 The copy belonging to the Earl of Warwick, acquired 
 c. 1 8(^7, through J. O. Halliwell[-Phillipps], by George Guy, 
 fourth Earl of Warwick (1818-93), was disposed of to an 
 American purchaser in 18 95. 
 
 An unbound detached copy, sold at a miscellaneous sale 
 at Sotheby's, on February 2j, 1901, with minute fragments of 
 the date rubbed off, but otherwise perfect, ending B b i , was 
 purchased by B. F. Stevens, the American agent, for ^^loo. 
 
 The American actor, W. E. Burton, who died in 18 (Jo, 
 owned a copy which was afterwards in the library of 
 Almon W. Griswold of New York. 
 
 ' Gwynn seems to have collected a valuable library in the seventeenth 
 century, and his full name is usually stamped on the front side cover of his 
 books. A collection of royal proclamations, dating between i()34. and 1661, 
 in the British Museum, yod. h. 11, is in a calf binding, stamped in this manner 
 with Gwynn's name. 
 
 ° Mr. Furness' copy resembles that which formerly belonged to Asa I. 
 Fish of Philadelphia. 
 
PERICLES 4 J. 
 
 The title of the 16^0 edition runs:— 'The late, and The edition'of 
 much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With '^i°- 
 the true Relation of the whole History, adventures, and 
 fortunes of the sayd Prince : Written by Will: Shakespeare.' 
 There is a device with the motto In domino confido^ as in the 
 1532 edition oi Lucrece. The imprint is given in two different 
 forms. On some copies it appears as ' london, | Printed by 
 /. N. for 7^. B. and are to be sould | at his shop in Cheapside, 
 at the signe of the | Bible. i6t,o. \ The other imprint is : 
 LONDON, I Printed by J. N. for 1^ B. 167,0. \ The signatures 
 run A-I2 in fours. The leaves number thirty-four without 
 pagination. Sig. E2 is wrongly printed D2. Leaf B4 is 
 marked. Usually the signatures Hi and 1 2 are omitted. 
 The text ends on the recto of 1 2. 
 
 Copies with the short imprint are reckoned the more Copies with the 
 valuable, though they seem to be almost as frequently met Short Imprint, 
 with as those with the long imprint. 
 
 The British Museum copy (C. 34. k. 40), which measures No. xl. 
 (5|" X 4f", was acquired on November 9, 185-8, from J. O. Halli- British Museum 
 well[-Phillipps], who has inserted this manuscript note : — *^°^^" 
 *■ Most copies of this edition vary considerably in the title-page. 
 See my other copy which has quite a different imprint. The 
 present is of great rarity, if not unique.' The top of leaf C 3 
 has been torn and mended. 
 
 The copy in the Dyce collection of the Victoria and No. xli. 
 Albert Museum at South Kensington measures 7!" x j-|". ^y" "^^Py 
 Inside the cover is pasted a manuscript note, presented to 
 Dyce by Halliwell[-Phillipps], pointing out the rarity of the 
 short imprint. 
 
 A copy in the Edinburgh University Library measures No. XLir. 
 6W" X 5-", and is bound in red morocco. It was presented l^^^^^f^ 
 to the University in 1872 by Halliwell[-Phillipps], who has 
 inserted a note describing its excessive rarity. 
 
 A copy in the Lenox collection of the New York Public No. XLiii 
 Library was formerly in the possession of Richard Heber, Ne"jYo°k'pubiic 
 and was sold in 18 5-7, at the sale of the library of E. V. Utter- Library. 
 son, for four guineas. 
 
4(J 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The Edition of 
 1(530. 
 
 No. XLIV. 
 Barton copy, 
 Boston Public 
 Library, U.S.A. 
 
 Untraccd copies. 
 No. XLV. 
 Tite copy. 
 No. XLVI. 
 Lamb copy. 
 Copies with Longer 
 Imprint, 1630. 
 No.XLVn. British 
 Museum copy. 
 No. XLVIIL 
 Bodleian copy. 
 
 No. XLIX. 
 Edinburgh 
 University copy. 
 
 No. L. Capcll copy 
 
 No, LL 
 
 Lenox collection. 
 New York Public 
 Library. 
 No. LIL 
 Barton copy, 
 Boston Public 
 Library, U.S.A. 
 
 TJic copy in the Barton collection of the Boston 
 Public Library was acquired from Halliwell[-Phillipps] in 
 18 f 8 for /f I2J-. (5r/., and was bound in green morocco by 
 Riviere. 
 
 Of two untraccd copies, one was sold at the Tite sale in 
 1874, to jNIr. Sabin, the American agent, for four guineas, 
 and the other at the sale of A. G. Lamb, of Dundee, February 7, 
 1898, to Messrs. Pickering for £\ i fx. od. 
 
 A copy, with the longer imprint, in the British Museum 
 (C. 34. k. 39) measures j-|-" x 7\". It belonged to Garrick. 
 
 The copy in the Bodleian Library belonged to Malone 
 (Malone 222). It is bound up with other pieces, and measures 
 
 /ri" ^ .,13" 
 
 <^4 ^ 4T6- • _ 
 
 A copy in the Edinburgh LTnivcrsity Library was pre- 
 sented by J. O. Hallivvell[-Phillipps] in 1 8 7 2. He seems to ha^^e 
 paid five guineas for it. The copy belonged to Theobald, who 
 has placed on the title-page this inscription : — ' Collated w'"* 
 an Old edition exactly w*" the same Title Printed for T. P. 
 i6i<). L. Theobald.' At the back of the title-page is 
 another note, signed by Theobald, stating that he had collated 
 it also with the edition of idop, which he calls < another old 
 Edition '. Marks of Theobald's collation are scattered through 
 the volume. The title-page and a few leaves are mended. 
 At the end of the \'olume, which measures 7^" x j-^" and is 
 bound in morocco, three leaves from another copy of the 
 same edition are pasted down j they show slight discrepancies 
 of typography, which indicate that they were a first rough 
 proof; they contain a greater number of wrong letters than 
 appear in the ordinary copies. 
 
 The copy in the Capell collection measures j- x yf. 
 
 A copy in the Lenox collection of the New York 
 Public Library was formerly in the library of Sir Charles 
 Aldis. 
 
 The copy in the Barton collection of the Boston Public 
 Library, acquired from Halliwell[-Phillipps] in May, 1 8 5-7, for 
 ^f, is bound in red morocco by Bedford. The lower edge of 
 the title-page has been clipped. 
 
PERICLES 47 
 
 Private American owners include Mr. H. C. Folgcr, The edition of 
 junior, of New York, and Mr. H. H. Furness, of WaUmgford, '^3°- 
 Pennsyhania, whose copy is imperfect. ^°; ^^^^■ 
 
 A -1 A-.- I • 1 . ^ Folecr copy. 
 
 A copy m the Tite sale m 1874 was purchased for No Liv. 
 ^4 IOJ-. od. by Mr. Sabin, the American agent. Furness copy. 
 
 The title-page of the 163; edition is identical with that no^lv'^TiTco 
 of KJ30 save that ' Said Prince ' now appears in place of ' Savd -r-!' c ', '!! ™^' 
 Prmce : while Shakespeare's name is now given as ' W. Shake- 1635. 
 speare ' instead of ' Will Shakespeare ', and there is the fresh 
 imprint, 'Printed at London by Thomas Cotes^ k^S)'-' The 
 number of leaves is thirty-four as in the 1630 edition. There 
 is no pagination. The signatures run A-I2 in fours. B4 
 is marked, but 1 2 is omitted. There is the same printer's 
 device as in the \6\<) issue, with the motto Heb. Ddim. 
 Heb. Ddiev. 
 
 The copy in the British Museum (C. 34. k. 41) measures No. Lvi. British 
 6W" X JtV"- The binding is in red russia, and some of the Museum copy. 
 lea^-es are closely shaved. 
 
 The copy in the Bodleian is numbered Malone 875-. It No. Lvii. 
 measures 7^"y-5\"-, and is bound separately in nineteenth- Bodleian copy. 
 century binding. It did not form part of the original Malone 
 collection. 
 
 Other copies are in the Capell collection (measuring No. Lviir. 
 7^" X f ") and in the Howley Harrison Library at Canterbury No^^Lix^^Cantei- 
 
 Catiiedrai. buryCathedralcopy. 
 
 The copy at Bridgewater House, the property of the No. lx. Biidge- 
 Earl of Ellesmere, forms part of the library originally brought "atei- House copy. 
 together by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater {\6xz- 
 168 5). The leaves have been much cut down, and the copy 
 measures 6~' x 4I". 
 
 A copy bound in morocco by Bedford, which is now No. LXi. 
 in the Britwell library, was sold for £x^ at the sale of ^"tweii copy. 
 W. H. Crawford's Lakeland library, March 12, 1891. It 
 seems at one time to have belonged to Haniwell[-Phillipps]. 
 
 A copy in the Lenox collection of the New York Public No, lxii. 
 Library has on the title-page an early transcript note ^ew Yo°k'pubiic 
 running: ' Left by Sir George Etherege [something obliterated Library. 
 
48 
 
 PERICLES 
 
 The Edition of 
 1635:. 
 
 No. LXIII. Barton 
 copy, Boston Public 
 Library, U.S.A. 
 No. LXIV. Perry 
 copy, U.S.A. 
 
 No. LXV. Furness 
 copy, U.S.A. 
 
 No. LXVI. White 
 copy, U.S.A. 
 No. LXVII. Folger 
 copy, U.S.A. 
 
 Untraced copies. 
 No. LXVIII. 
 Tite copy. 
 
 No.LXIX. 
 
 Sewall copy. 
 
 Nos. LXX, LXXL 
 Cosens copies. 
 
 No. LXXII. 
 Tyrrell copy. 
 
 No. LXXIII. 
 No. LXXIV. 
 
 and undecipherable] kJS?.' Etherege the dramatist died 
 in 16^1. 
 
 The copy in the Barton collection of the Boston Public 
 Library is in good condition, and is bound in red morocco. 
 
 Mr. Perry's copy, which was acquired with the Halliwell 
 [-Phillipps] collection of Shakespearean rarities in 1895-, 
 measures yf" x 5-^". It has the book-plates of Sir Francis 
 Freeling and John Kershaw, and some manuscript notes by 
 HalliweU[-Phillipps]. 
 
 Mr. H. H. Furness possesses an imperfect copy, which was 
 at one time in the possession of Theobald, who has inserted 
 many marginal notes. 
 
 Other American owners are Mr. W. A. White, of 
 Brooklyn ; and Mr. H. C. Folger, of New York. 
 
 The ownership of the following seven copies has not 
 been traced with certainty : — 
 
 The Tite copy, bomid by Bedford, was sold to Ellis and 
 White in i 8 74 for £6 i oj-. orf'. 
 
 A copy boimd in half-calf was bought at the sale of 
 Mr. Henry F. Sewall's library by Bangs & Co. of New York 
 in January, 1897, for £1^. 
 
 Two copies belonging to F. W. Cosens were sold 
 Nov. II, 1890, to Messrs. Pickering; one bound by Zaehns- 
 dorf in morocco for ^14 yj-. od. j the other, with head-lines cut 
 into, for £1 2 j-/. o^. 
 
 A copy belonging to Lieut.-Col. Walter R. Tyrrell was 
 sold at Christie, Manson & Woods', Dec. 7, 1 89 1, to Mr, Ellis, 
 the London bookseller, for ^^8 i yj-. od. 
 
 A copy, unbound, was sold July 18, 1900, to Messrs. 
 Pickering for ^^211 oj-. od. 
 
 A large and unwashed copy, bound in morocco by 
 Riviere, was sold at Sotheby's, May id, 1901, to Messrs. 
 Pickering for £66^ the highest price which this edition has 
 yet reached. 
 
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 y 
 
 THE LATE, 
 
 And much admired Play, 
 
 Called 
 
 Pericles, Prince 
 
 of Tyre. 
 
 Wuh rhe true Relation of the whole Hiiloric, 
 aduenturcs,an.d fortunei of the laid Prince; 
 
 As alfo. 
 The no ledc flrange,and worthy accidents, 
 iw the Birth and Lifc,of his Daughter 
 CM A Kl AN A. 
 
 As it hath been diucrs and fundry times a£tcd by 
 his Maieftics Seruaiits,at the Globe on 
 theBanck-fidc. 
 
 By VTilliam (^-^^^ Shakcfpearc. 
 
 Imprime:! at London ioxHmr) Gcfoff,znd2,ic 
 to be fold at the n2;ne of the Sunnein 
 Pater-noftcr roVs', 6cc, 
 I 6 o <?. 
 
The Play of Pericles 
 
 Prince ol- Tyrc.SCc. 
 Enter Gowcr% 
 
 O (Ing a Song that old was fong, 
 From afhes.aunticnt Gtvtr is coine, 
 
 AfTumingmans infirmities. 
 
 To glad your carc,andplcafc your eyes: 
 
 It liath been fung at Fcaftiuals, 
 
 On Ember eues,and Holydayes : 
 
 And Lords and Ladyes in their hues, 
 
 Haucrcdit forreftoratiues : 
 
 The purchafe is to makcmen glorious, 
 
 Zt konum cjuo jinticjuiui c» mtbtu : 
 
 If you,bornc in thofe latter times, 
 
 When Wi tts more ripe, accept my rimesj 
 
 And that to heare an old man fing, 
 
 Ma^ to your Wilhespleafurc bring : 
 
 I life would wifli.and that I mizht 
 
 Waftcit for youJikcTapcr light. 
 
 This ytntttch, then Arittochus the great, 
 
 Buylt vp this Citic,for his chiefeft Seatj 
 
 The ftyrcft in all Sjn4. 
 
 I tell you what mine Authors faye: 
 
 ThisKing vnto him sookc a Pcere, 
 
 Who dycri,and left a female hey re, 
 
 So buckfoniCjblnh.and fiill efface, 
 
 Asheauer had lent her all his grace: 
 
 With whom the Father liking tooke, 
 
 And her to Liceft did prouokc : 
 
 Bad child, worfe father, to mucc his owos 
 
 Ai^ To 
 
 I. 1-27 
 
j o f i:i!i,ili(iii1d be (lone I", ii i;.c 
 
 r>nt cufloiue what they did beam, 
 
 "Was with lonp; vfc,accoiint'd no linne \ 
 
 The bcautie of tliis finfull Dame, 
 
 Made many Princes thitlicr fraiTiC 
 
 i oiec'tx-chcr as abcdlcllow, 
 
 Jnmaryagcplofures, playfellow ; 
 
 Which to prcucn tjie made a Law, 
 
 Tokecpeher Hill, and men in awe : 
 
 That who fo askther for his wife. 
 
 His Riddle touldinot,lclf his life: 
 
 So for her many of vvij;ht did die, 
 
 As you2,rimniclookcsdo tcrtifie. 
 
 What now enfiics,to the iudgement of your eye, 
 
 Igiucmy caufc,w]iobcftcaniuihhc. fxit. 
 
 Enfer tArttti>(hKS,?rwct Tertiln.andf'Uowers. 
 
 Anil. Young Prince of Ty?/ you haue at large rccciucd 
 Tlic d anger of the taskeyouvndcr take. 
 
 Peri. I hauc (^lyiaiiochm) and with a fouleemholdncd 
 With the glorvoflier pray fe,thinl-:c death no hazard, 
 In this cnterprife. 
 
 /ini. Miilickc'bring in our daughtcr,cIothcd like a bride. 
 For cmhraccmcnts cucn of lout hirafelfc ; 
 At whofe conception, till Lttctn* rained, 
 Nature this dowry gauc-, to glad her prcfence^ 
 ThcSeanate houfe ofPianeci all did fit, 
 To kmt inhcr, theirbcft perfcftions. 
 
 EtJift fy^ntiarhus daughter. 
 Per. See where fhc comes, appareled like the. Spring 
 Graces her fubierts.and her thoughts theKing, 
 Oftucrv Vcrtuc e;uies rrnowne to men : 
 Her face the booke of [irayfc$,w liere is read, 
 Notiiintr but curious picafures.as from thence-, 
 STrrow u crccucrra<i>e,and tca{!ie wrath. 
 Could neucrbc hcrtnilde companion. 
 
 You 
 
 I. 28-42— I. i. 18 
 
Ptrictis Pr/tJce of Tjri. 
 
 You Gods tliat madcmc man,and('wayinloue*, 
 Thathauc cnflamdedcfircinmy breaft, 
 Totailcthefruircofyon cclcihall tree, 
 (Or die in th'aducnture) b,c my hclpcs. 
 As 1 .imfonnf and fcruantto your will, 
 To comp.TlTcf'icli a Uoiidlcirchappiiicirc, 
 vf',7j. Prince Fir:clet , 
 
 '/ tri. That would be fonnc to wrcat Anti$chi(s. 
 yirit. Before thee (landes tKis ftirc Hcfpertdu, 
 VVuh2,o!denfruite,but dangcrovis tobetoucht : 
 For Death like Dra<Ton J hecrc afTnght thee hard: 
 HcrtncehkcHeauen, intitcth thee to view 
 HcrcountlflTcolory •, which dcfertmuR game : 
 And which without dcfcrt, becaiife thine eye 
 PrefuiTies to reach, all the whole hcape muft die : 
 yonfomctinaes famous Princes, like thy felfc, 
 Drawnc by report, nduentrous by dcfire, 
 Tell thee w ith fpeaclilclTe tongues, and femblancc pale, 
 Thatwithout coiicrn;'^, faue )'on field ofStarres, 
 Hcerc thcv OandM.,, [vrs naincin CupiJs Warres: 
 A.u! vv itli dead chcekeSjaduife thee todefilt, 
 1 oi 'j;oing on deaths net, whomnoncrcfill. 
 
 'J'er. y1nriocl'tf,\ thankc thce,who hath taught, 
 Mv fraylemortalitictoknow it fclfe; 
 And by thofefearefuli cbiciftes.to prepare 
 Tl.;sbodv,hketothcm,to what Imuft : 
 For Death remembered iliould behkeamyrrour, 
 Who teh vs, life's butbrcat!i,ro trufliterrour : 
 lleniakcmv VVdl then, and aslickcmen d.ie, 
 Who know the World, fee Hcaufn,biit feclingwoc, 
 Gripe not atca;thlv io-, c? ascarrt they did; 
 So 1 bcqncatli ahappv [leac c to \ on, 
 And all zocd men, as ciicr\ Pnncc i],ould<loc!, 
 M\ ritclic; to t!ie earth, from whence tiicy camet 
 Biitmy vnlpo't'-d fireofLouejtoyoii : 
 Tims ic.dy ft il'.e way of lifcor death, 
 J waj re ili^ I;,..! 'iclt blow ' Ji.uoc^.ui ) 
 
 A V 5cornin« 
 
 I. i. 19—55 
 
The PUj of 
 
 * * ■ Scorning nduice 5 read thcconclufiontlicrr: 
 Wliichrcad and not expounded, tis decreed, 
 , As thcfe before tliee^thou thy felfe^halt bleed. 
 
 T>c<:i2h. Of all fayd yet,mayft thou proouc profperoiM, 
 Ofallfaydyet.Iwifli thcchappincfTe. 
 
 riri. Like a bold Cliampionl alTunic the Liflcs, 
 Nor aske aduifc of any other thought, 
 But fiy thfulneffe and courage. 
 
 The Riddlt. 
 
 I am no Viper, yet Ified 
 
 On mothcnflid] which didme breed; 
 
 I (ini^ht a Hn[banii, tn ^bich labour^ 
 
 ] found thM kindnefi in a Father • 
 
 Hee's F/iH)er, Sonne, and fjhjhand mildt ; 
 
 /, Mother, VVffi ; and yet hu child: 
 
 Hove they may be, andjet in two. 
 
 As yiu xvili kite refelitc ttyoH. 
 ^r, • Sharpe Phificke is the lafl: : But o you powers/ 
 
 Thatgiues hcauencountleffe eyes to view men5a(ftc$ 
 Why cloude they not their fights perpetually. 
 If this be true, which makes me pale to read it? 
 FaircGlafic of light,! lou'd you,and could ftill, 
 Were not this glorious Casket flor'd with ill : 
 But I muft tell you, now my thoughts reuolt, 
 For hee's no man on whom perfedions waite, 
 Thatknowing finne within, will touch the gate. 
 You arc a faire Violl, and your fcnfe, the ftringes-, 
 Whofinger'd tomakemanhislawfullmuficke. 
 Would draw Hcauen downe,and all the Gods to haiktn: 
 But being playd vpon before your time, 
 Hell onely daunceth at fo harlli a chime : 
 Good foothjl care not for you. 
 
 Ant. Prince P^r/c/er, touch notjVpon thy hfc; 
 For that's an Article within our Law, 
 As dan2;erous as the reft : your t!nie's expir'd. 
 Either expound novv, or recciue }'our fciittnct , 
 
 Veri, 
 
 I. i. 56 — 90 
 
Pfricles Prince ef Tyn, 
 
 Ten. Great K-ing, 
 Few louc to licarc the finnes they loue to a<ft, 
 T\vould bra ydc your felfe too nearc forme to tell it : 
 A Vho has a bqokc of all that Monarches doc, 
 Hec's more fecurc to kccpe it niut,then Hiownc. 
 For Vice rcpcated,is like the wandringWind, 
 Blowesdufl in others eyes tofpreaditfclfcj 
 And yet the end of all is bought thus dearc, 
 The breath is gonc,and thcforc eyes fee clcarc : 
 To ftop the Ayrc would hurt than, the blind Mole caftct 
 Copt hillcs towards hcaucn.to teJl the earth is throng'd 
 By mans opprefsion,and the poo re Worme doth die for't: 
 Kinges are earths Gods j in vice, their law's their will : 
 And \{ lent ftray,who dares fay,/««* doth ill : 
 ]t isenough you know,anditisfit5 
 What being more knownc,growes worfe, tofmothcrit. 
 All loue the Wombe that their firf^ beeing bred, 
 Then siue my tongue like leaiie, to loue my head. (ning: 
 
 yint. Heauen,that I had thy head; he ha's found the mca- 
 But Iwiil gloze with him. Yoiiir:;l'rjnccof Tye^ 
 Though by the tenourof ) our Ihictedift, 
 Your ex-pofition mifmterpreting, 
 We might proceed to counfell of your dayesj 
 Yet hope, fucccedingfrom fo faire a tree 
 As your faire fclfi:,doth ttinc vsotherwifc { 
 Fourtie daves longer we doe refpite you, 
 If by which time,our fecret be vndone, 
 This mercy fhewes,wee"le ioy in fuch a Sonne; 
 A nd vntil! thcn.your entertainefhallbec 
 As doth befit our honour and your worth. 
 
 Mtmet Teridufolus, 
 
 Pci. How courtefie would fecme to couer (liinc, 
 When what is done,is like an hipocritc, 
 The which is good in nothing but in fight. 
 Ifit be true that I interpret falfc, 
 1 hen wcreit certaine you were not fo bad. 
 As with foulc Inceft to abufe your foulc ; 
 
 Where 
 
 I. i. 91 — 126 
 
Vv'licrcnowyou both a Father ami a Soiiiif, 
 
 Bv your vntimcly clafpinc^s with youiCliiK!, 
 
 (Which pkafiircs iittcs a husband, not a (ai.hcr) 
 
 And Ibce an cater of'hcr Mothers ilclli, 
 
 Bv tlicdcfihnj of her Parents bed, 
 
 /ind bothhke Serpents are; wlio tliou<;h tlicy feed 
 
 On fweetcrt Flowers, yet they Poy Ton breed. 
 
 rt^ntioch farewell, for Wifcdomc fees thofcmcri^ 
 
 Blufli not in alliens blacker then the night, 
 
 Will fhew no courfe to keepe thcni from the hglit : 
 
 One finnc(I know)anot!icr dotii prouoke •, 
 
 Aliirtlicr's as ncere to Luft,as Flame to Smoakc : 
 
 Poyfon and Treafon are the hands ofSinnc, 
 
 I, and the targets to put ofFthc Ibamc, 
 
 Then leaft ray life be crept, to kccpe you clcare, 
 
 By fllght,llc ihun the danger which I fcarc. Sx't, 
 
 £riter ^Kticchus. 
 
 j4ritt. He hath found thcmeaning. 
 For which wcmeane tohauchishead : 
 Hemuflnotliueto trumpet foorth my infamic, 
 Nor tell the world tyinriuchtu doth fmne 
 In fuch a loathed manner : 
 And therefore mftantly this Prince muft die. 
 For by his fair,my honour mafl keepe hie. 
 Who attends vs there? 
 
 Enter ThttltiirJ. 
 
 Thati. Doth your highncs call ? 
 
 Antto. Thalurd^yoM arc ofour Chamber, T^«j/Mr£^, 
 And our minde^crtakcs her priuat aOions, 
 Toyourfccrecic; and for your fay thfulncs, 
 Wc will aduaunce you, Thnhard : 
 Behold, hecre's Poyfon,andheere'sGo!d : 
 Wcc hate the Prince of Fj-re, and thou raufl kill him, 
 I[fittes thee not to askcthc reafon whv ? 
 Bccaufc u e bid it ; lay.is it dout ? 
 
 7, ;..'/». MyLord, t.'.sdoi.c. 
 
 I. i, 127—159 
 
Ttriftes Prhge cfTyt. 
 Enter ^ Mef[enftr. 
 Afiti, Enough. Lceyour breath cooie your fclftjtdling 
 yoiirhaflc. 
 
 Meff'. My Lord*^ Prince TerkUs is fled, 
 
 An:s.'i, AftWou wilt liuJ^ic after , and like sb arrow ffiot 
 froTiawch cxpcricnft Arohcr hits the markc his ere doth 
 Iciidl at : (o chou acucrrcturnc vnlclfc thou fay Prince P«- 
 pitlts is dcaS. 
 
 Th.tl^ My Lord,ifl cangcrhim wiehiR my Pidols 
 length , ilc mike hitn furc enough s io farewell toyour 
 hignncire. 
 J>J.v 'ThiUia^A]^d\z\.\i\\\Prrkle3 he dtA^., 
 
 h\y heart can lend no fuccoLT tons y heado 
 Enter Peru Uf imth his LercL. 
 
 rir.LcenonriditliirbvSjU'hy fhold '•hischagcofthcughtj 
 The Qd companion dull cyde melanchoiicj 
 Byraefovfjcagiiert.ai not an houie 
 In the dayes glorious walke or peaceful! night, 
 Tht romacuhcrcgricfc (louid Occpc csn breed mc quiet. 
 Here plealurcs court mine cies,and mine cicslliuii them, 
 An«' .'aungef wluch I fearde is at /tnnc^h, 
 Whcfc armcr fccn-.ef fi'te too fho/t to hit mc here, 
 Yrj neither picafuresi '".rt can ioy mv fpintSj 
 iSioryct the others dilhncccomrorrmc, 
 Then it isthus,thc pifSons of the mmd. 
 That 1 .auc their nrft ccnceptr.p. by ra-rdread, 
 Hauc after nour'Tnmfrtandiiic,byc.ire 
 A'vlwhatvvasfr'lbutrcare,v.'hjf mifhr bcdonC) 
 Grooc s elder now^and cares it be not done, 
 And fo wiih mc rhct^reat 4miorh-.r, 
 Caini} w bom ! am too little rn conrend. 
 Since hf'?'.^ fo grTat.can irake his vi!! bisaA, 
 Will thinkc me (pcakirp,tb<-ugh I fvvfarc to filcncr} 
 Kor b^■'-'^^$ itiri^to fay, Ihofiour, 
 If ha iufpcA I may didionour him. 
 
 I. i. i6o — I. ii. 21 
 
J'lr'uks Prifict »f Tjfe. 
 
 /wdwhatmay in.ikc limi Muili ni being knownc, 
 Hecic flop the coLrrfc by uhich it might be knownc, 
 With holhlc forces hcclcorc-fprcaJ riic l.r.ul, 
 And with the Qintofwarrc Will lookcfohuge, 
 Ainazcnicntni.ill Jriuc courage !roin the (lite, 
 Oyr men Ix; vaiiqailht crc they dot relill^ 
 And fu!>icds piini(ht that ncrc thought otfcncc, 
 Which c.irc ofthemjnot piftic ot my fclfc, 
 Who once no more bur as the tops of trees, 
 Which fence the rootcs they grow by and defend them, 
 Makes both my bodic pine,and foulc to languifh. 
 And punilli that before that he would punifh, 
 Enlir tiltthe Lordjto I'lrtclff, 
 
 1 . L*rd. loy and al I comfort in your facrcd brc ft. 
 
 i.LorJ. And Iteepe your mind till you rctarne ton 
 peaceful I and comfortable. 
 
 //<•/. Feice,peace,and giue cxpeVicncc tongue^ 
 They doe abufc the King that flatter him, 
 For flattcrie is the bellowcs blowcs vp finne, 
 Thcthipg thcwhichis flattered, but a fparke, 
 To which that fparkegiue? heate,aiid Rronger 
 Glowing,\vhercas rcproofe obedient and in order, 
 fits kings as they are men/or they may errc, 
 Wiicnyr^/jjor Tooth here does proclaimc peace, 
 ' He flatters you, makes warrc vpon your life. 
 Prince paadon me,or flrike me if you pieafe, 
 I cannot be much lower then my knees. 
 
 Per, All Icauc vs clfeibut let your cares ore-looke. 
 What |]iippinij,and what ladings in our haucn, 
 A:-. J then rcturnc to vj,//(r///f4J»/thou hafl, 
 MoojJc\ s, what fccf^ thou inourlookcsJ 
 Hel, An aiicric brow, dread Lord. 
 Per, If there be fachadartin Princes frowncs, 
 How durfl thy fon^ye niouc anger to our face? 
 
 Htl, Howd»rcsthcpIantslooke vptohcau«\> 
 
 I. ii. 22—55 
 
■-^. p- 
 
 ^mcUs Phfice tf Tyre. 
 From whence thcyhaiic their nounnimcnt? 
 
 Per, Thouknowcft I hauc power to ukc thy life froi* 
 
 He/, IhauegroundtheAxcmyfclfc, (thcc 
 
 Doc but you ftrikctheblowe. 
 
 Per, Rife,prcthcc rifc,fit downc,thou art na flatterer, 
 I thankc thcc forfjand htauc forbid 
 TliatkingsOiouldlctthcircareshcarethcirfaultshid. 
 P<t Coutifcllor,and fcruant for a Prince, 
 Who by thy wifdomc makes a Prince thy feruant. 
 What wouldft thou haite me doc? 
 
 Hei. Tobearc with patience fuch gricfcj as youyoas 
 fclfc doe lay vpon your fclfc. 
 
 Per. Thou fpcakftlike a Phyfition Hellic*Hus, 
 That minifters a potion vnto me: 
 Thatthou wouldft tremble torcccuie thy fclfe. 
 Attend me then,I went to Jnttoch , 
 Whereas thou knowftaeainft the face of death, 
 I fought the purchafc ora glorious beautic. 
 From whence an itfiK I might propogat*, 
 Arcarmes to Princcs,and bring ioics to fubiedts, 
 Her face was to mine eye beyond all won Jcr, 
 The reft harkc in thine care,as Wacke as inceft, 
 Which by my knowledge found , the finful father 
 Secmdc not to ftrike,butfiiiooth,but thou knowft this, 
 Tis time to fcarc when tyrants fccmcs to killc. 
 Which fcarc fo grew in mc I hither fled , 
 Vnder the couering of a careful! night. 
 Who (eemd my good protcftor,and being here, 
 Bethought what was paft,what might fuccced, 
 I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants feare 
 Decreafc not,bui< grow faftcr then theyearcs, 
 And fhould he doo't,a$ no doubt he doth, 
 Thatlfliould opcntotheliftning ayre , 
 How m-my worthie Princes blouds were flied, 
 To kccpchisbcdof blackncllcvnlaydcope, 
 
 B a To 
 
 I. ii. 55—89 
 
FerWts Pr'rnee tfTjrt. 
 
 Tolop tlut Joiibr,hcr"ic fill rhis land vvithirmcJ, 
 AnJmJ-;'* picrcoLCo! wrong tlut I luucdoac him, 
 Wliciuli toi ramcjif I may c^ll ottcncc, 
 M^ull ftcl wars blov, who fparcs not innocence, 
 WRvch lou-r to all ot whicn thy Iclfcart one, 
 Who iio^' rc'prou'dll: mc tore* 
 HI!. AUjMr. 
 
 Vcr, Drew Ikcp out ofminccicSjblooci fromy chcckes» 
 Mulings into my mind,u ith thouland doubts 
 How I might (top till J temped ere it came, 
 And hnding little comfort to rclitucthcm, 
 I thought it princely charity tocriu; for them. 
 
 Hc/i. Well my LorJ,finceyouhaucgiuen mcc Iftauc to 
 Froely will I ^^iVcyAtntchus you teare, (fpc^ike, 
 
 And ludly too, I thinkeyoufearc the tyrant, 
 "\Vh,o cither by publikc warrCjOr priuat trca'on, 
 Will takeaway your lite : thcrforcmy Lord, gotraurli Pof 
 a\\h:lc, tillrhat hit rage and anger be forgot, o' till the De- 
 (\inie€uoecut histhrccd of. life -your rule direi^ to anie, 
 iltome, day lerucs not light more faithfull then He be. 
 
 Per. I doe not doubt thv faith. 
 But riiould he wrong my Ubcrtics in my abfencc ? 
 
 He', VVedc mingle our bloods togither ir the earth. 
 From whence we had our being, and our birth. 
 
 Per. Tye I novr looke from thee then^nd ta TharQts 
 Intend mv trauaiie,wherc He heare from thee, 
 And by u hole Letters He difpolc my fclfc. 
 The care \ had and haue offujicc^sgood, 
 On theeIljy,whofc\virdoBicsl}rcngrhcanbeareit, 
 ] !c take thv word, for faith not aske thine oath. 
 Who ihuas not to breakcont, will cricke botti» 
 [kit 111 our or!i!> will liueforound, and fafc, 
 Tlut rttiie ot 1 Kirh this truth Ibali ncre conuince, 
 Th.ou tiicwdfl a fubicAs Ihmc, 1 a. true Prince. . Exit. 
 
 rntrr 
 
 I. ii. 90—124 
 
feruks Friftce if Tyre^^ 
 
 E/ter Tlnlitrd^'olm. 
 
 So rliis is Tjrt, and this the Court , hccrc nnift I kill 
 Kl.^g f^en.i'ej, and if I doc it not , I am furc to be liang'd »t 
 hciiuc : t'ls daungcroiis. 
 
 Well, I pcTCCiiic Ik was a v ifc fc!!o\\c,and had pood 
 ciitrction , that hccing bid to askc what hcc would ot the 
 King.i'cfircd hcmight krowciioncof hislccrets. 
 
 Now doc I fee hcc had [omc reafon for't : for if a 
 kingbiddcaman bcca villiinc,hcc's boundby thcindcn- 
 jurrt.ihis oath to bcc one. 
 
 Uufhtjhccrc comes the Lorutot Tjire. 
 
 £>rter Hifiicrnut , E/cttnes , tvttk 
 tther Ltrds. 
 
 Ihlli. Yoli fhall not ncede my fellow- Peers of Tr'^'' 
 further to qiieflion mcc of your king« departure : hisfca* 
 ledComtriifTion left miruft with mcc, docsffx-akclutici" 
 cntly hec's goncto tr.iuaiJe. 
 
 T'^a/iata. How ? the King goi'c? 
 
 He/L It further yet you will be fatisfied , (whr^s it 
 were vnlicenfcd of your ioucs) he would depart? lie glue 
 fome lightvntoyou>bccmgat y^utioch. 
 
 T^i.t/. What from j4»ttoch i 
 
 Hill. Royall y^w^^sf^/won what caufc I knowe nof , 
 tookefomedifplcafureat him ,at Icift hccmdg'cc fo: and 
 doubting Icfl hcc had '•rr'dc or linn'de,ro fliewe hislorrow, 
 hcc'Jc corre(5Vhimfclfc -, fo puts himftlfc vntothe Ship- 
 mans toylc , With whomc cache minute threatens life or 
 dcjth. 
 
 ' Thalixrd. Well, I pcTcciuc I fhall not be hing"d now, 
 althou^tthl would , but fincc hec's gone, the Kings Teas 
 niu(}pl<afc : Lecfcap'tc thcLand toperi(liatthcSca, I'fc 
 J5r(.fcnt my ftlfc. Fcacctothe Lordaof Tvre, 
 
 B i Lord 
 
 I. iii. 1—30 
 
^cl 
 
 ? tricks P rkce e/Tyrtj'. 
 
 Lord Tkiliayd from Antiechw it welcome* 
 
 Thai. From him I come with mclfage rnto princely 
 Pericles ^ui fmcc my landing,! hauc vndcrftood your Lord 
 has betake himfelfcto vnknowrnc trauailcs, nowmelFagc 
 murtreturncfrom whence it came. 
 
 ■ Hell, Wee haueno rcafan to defire it, commendetl 
 to our maifter not to vs , yet ere you fhall depart , this wee 
 dclircas friends to Anttoch wee may feall in Tyn. Exit, 
 
 Enter Clean the GtHcmtttr of TkAtfiu yycith 
 liK wife And others. 
 
 Cle»n. My DjonizM ftiall wcc reft VS hccrc, 
 And by relating talcs ofothcrs griefes, 
 See if twill teach vs to forget our owne ? 
 
 Z)<»«. That were to blow at fire in hope to quench i^. 
 For who digs hills becaufc they doc afpirc I 
 Throwcs downc one msuntainc to caft vp a higher: 
 O my diftrclTcd Lord,cnen fuch our griefes are, 
 Hcere they are but fc!t,and fcenc with mifchiefs eyes, 
 But like to Groues, being topt, they higher rife. 
 
 CUon, O Diemza.) 
 Who wanteth food, and will not fay hcc wants it. 
 Or can conccalc his hunger till hec familh i 
 Our foungs and forrowcs to found dcepc: 
 Our woes into thcairc, our eyes to wcepc. 
 Til! toungs fetch breath that may proclaimc 
 Them louder, that if heauenflumbcrjwhilc 
 Their creatures want, they may awake 
 Their helpers, to comfort them. 
 iJethendifcourfc our woes felt feuerallyeares, 
 And wanting breath to fpeake, helpc mee with tcarcs. 
 
 Z)/#w^c^. Iledoemy befiSyr. (mcnf, 
 
 Cleo». This Tharfm ore which I hauc the gouernc- 
 A Citric on whom plentie held full hand : 
 For riches ftrcw'dc herfclfccucninhcr ftrcctcs, 
 
 Whofe 
 
 I. iii. 31— I. iv. 23 
 
Pericfts PriiKet/Tjxc. 
 
 VVhofc towers bore heads fo high they kift thedowdi, 
 A id lUungcrsncrc beheld, but wondrcd at, 
 W'l !ofc men and dames fo jetted and adorn'de. 
 Like one anothers glalfe to trim them by, 
 Their tables were ftor'de full to glad the fight, 
 And not (b niich to fecdeon as delight, 
 All pouertie\vasrcor'nde,and pride fo great. 
 The nameof helpcgrewcodioueto repeat. 
 
 Btott. Ot'is too true. 
 
 Cle. But fee what heacTen can doe by this our change, 
 Thcfc aiouthes whobut of late,earih,fca,anda)'re, 
 Were all too little to content and pleafe, 
 Although thy gauc their creatures in abundance. 
 As huufcs aredefil'dc for wantofvfe. 
 They are now ftaru'de for want of excrcife, 
 Thofe pallats who not yet too faucrs younger, 
 Mult haue inuenrions to delight the tad, 
 Would now be glad of bread and beg for it, 
 Thofc mothers who to nouzell rp their babe». 
 Thought nought too curious,arereadie now 
 To cat thofelittlc darlings whom they lou'de, 
 So riurpeare hungers teeth, that man and wife, 
 Drawc lots who firft fliall die, to lengthen life. 
 Hcere ftandsa Lord.and there a Ladie weeping .' 
 Hccre manic fincke,yet thofc which fee them fall, 
 Hauc fcarcc flrcngth left to giuc them buryall. 
 
 Is not this true? 
 
 Dion. Ourcheekesand hollow eyes docwitncllc if. 
 
 CU. O let thofc Cities that of plenties cup. 
 And her profpcritics fo largely tafte. 
 With their fupcrfluous riots hcare thefc teares. 
 The mifcrie of Z-b^irv'iM raay be theirs. 
 EntcraLorA* 
 
 Lord. Wheres the Lord Gouemour? 
 C/<-. Hcrc/pcakcoutthy forrowcsjwhichthcc bring «^ 
 
 I. iv. 24 — 58 
 
Ptriclcs FrinctifTjrt^t 
 
 »n Iia3, for comfort i$ toofarrc for vttoc%\pt&. 
 
 Ltrd. Wee haue dcfcrycd rpon our ncighbouriHg 
 Aorc, a portlicfjilcoflbipjmakchithcrward. 
 
 CA#«. I rhought as nuch. 
 One I'orrowc ncucr como but bringt an hcire. 
 That fuay fucccc Jc as Uis inheritor : 
 And fo in our$> fomc neighbouring nation^ 
 Taking iG'uantii<»c of our mJcric, 
 That ftulf' r rhc holiow vclTcIs with their power, 
 To beat vs downc, the which arc downe alrcaflii^ 
 Kn i make a cont^ucd of vnhappic mcC| 
 Whereas no glories got tooucrcomc. 
 
 L'jr.i, Tliat's theleaftfcarc. 
 For by th<. fcmblanccofrhcir white tlaggesdifpliyde.they 
 bring vj peace, and come to vsai fauourcrs y not as fj's. 
 
 Cleoit. Tliourji(rik''Hikehimnesvnturerd fo repeat, 
 Who makes the fair-|} Ihowc, mcanes mc^ft deccipt. 
 But Sriugtheywhatthevvfill^nJw hat riirvca i, 
 Wharnecd wceicaue our 'rou vjj rue io aril.-' 
 And'vecarehai'c wiy chcre : G >c tciifni. r Gcnrr-'iM'eff 
 attend him hccrc, to know for w hat hcwomcSyiuJ wlicnc« 
 he comes , and what He cr^ucs? 
 
 Lati. I for my Lord. 
 
 Cleim. \Vclcnmc is peace, if h» on peace cop fiiT^ 
 
 I f warrcs , wee ure vnablc to rcli It. 
 
 Tnter PeridcS vir *■ alter 'fonts. 
 P-'. Lord Goucrnour, for fo wrehearcyouarc, 
 Let notour Ships and number of ourmei, 
 B* like a bcico'i fcr'dc, t'imaz-your ercx, 
 Wee h..u» hiarJ voiirr.iif'ries a* farreas Tjrt, 
 And (cenethcdcfi'iit'oT of your ftrcets, 
 Nor come wc toa J Jc firrow to your tcircs. 
 But to'clic-iir rhrm of th-irhrauy loidc, 
 And chcfc our Shipsyou happily may thinkc, 
 
 Ate 
 
 I. iv. 58 — 92 
 
Pericles Prince of Tyre » 
 
 Arc lilcc theTroian Horfc, was ftuft within 
 With bloody vcincs expcrting ouerthrow. 
 Arc ftor'd with Comc,to makcyour neeciic bread. 
 And giuc them lifc,whomhun2;er-ftariJ''dhalfc dead. 
 
 OfiV ts. The ( jods of (.jrcue protcift voii. 
 And wce'le pray h>r you. 
 
 Ter. Arife I pray you.rife; wc do not looke for rciicrcncc. 
 But for louc.and harboragcfor our felfe, our fhips,(3c men. 
 
 Clem. The which when any (liaH not gratific, 
 Orpayyou with vnthankfulnefTe in thought. 
 Be it our Wiues.our Children, or our felucs, 
 TheCurfeofheauenandinen fuccced their cuil<: 
 Till when the which (I hope) fhall nearebefecnc: 
 Your Grace IS welcome toourTowncand V5. 
 
 Pert. Which welcome wce'le acccpt.feaft here awhile, 
 Vntill our Starres that frowne, lend v$ a frailc. Sxennt. 
 
 EttttrGo^er. ' 
 
 Hecre haue voii fccne a mightic Kmg, 
 
 His child I'wis to inccft bring : 
 
 A better Prince, and benignc Lord, 
 
 That Will proueawfuU both in deed aad word/ 
 
 Be quictthen.as men fhould bee, 
 
 Till he hath pad nccefsitie: 
 
 rie /"hew you thofc m troubles raigncj 
 
 LoofingaMite.aMountainegaiac : 
 
 The good in conucrfation, 
 
 To whomlgiuemy bcnizon: 
 
 Isftillatr/j4r/h//,wlierceachnian, ; 
 
 Thinkes all is writ.he fpokcn can : 
 
 And to remember w hat he does, 
 
 Build his Statue to make him glorious : 
 
 But tidingc! to the contrane, 
 
 Arebrou2htyoureycs,whatnccdfpcakcI. 
 
 C. Dmbt 
 
 I. iv. 93 — II. 1-16 
 
Jhe rUy if 
 
 Intgr dt mt hrt Vcuf:\zus6<fng with Clcon , titfthe train*- 
 w.tk ihnn ; Eiin Mt^ otlx;rdort,4t (jentUman with », 
 Letter tt Periclcs,Perklcs (iu^u the Lttttr (a Cleon^ 
 Pericles ftaes the A-ttffcngtr a rtvutrd^und Knights hiau 
 £xii Pendes^4' out oerf, <i»J Clconat t$n other. 
 
 Gpod Htiicor, that ftayde at home. 
 
 Not to cate Hony like a Drone, 
 
 From others labours j for though he ftriue. 
 
 To killen bad, keepegooclaliue: 
 
 And to fulfill hjs prince d^firc, 
 
 Sau done of all that haps in Tyre • 
 
 How Tbalturi came full bent w)th finnc> 
 
 And hid in Tern to murdrcd him 5 
 
 And thatin T<;^r/i, wasnotbt-ft, 
 
 Loneer tor him to make his reft : 
 
 He doing fo,put foot th to Seas j 
 
 Where when men been there's fetdomc cafe. 
 
 For now the Wind begins to blow, 
 
 ThurMJcraboue,and deepen below.. 
 
 Makes fuch vnqiuet, that theShippc, 
 
 Should houfe him fafe •, ij wrackt and fplit^ 
 
 And he (goodPrincc) hauing all loft, 
 
 B V Waues/rom coaft to coaft u toft : 
 
 AJI peri(lien.of Bian of pelfe, 
 
 Ne ought efcapend butbimfelfcv 
 
 Till Fortune tit'd with domg bad. 
 
 Threw him a fhore,to giuc him ejad: 
 
 And hcere ht comes : what fhaii be next, 
 
 Pardonold CjoVecr, this long's the text. 
 
 Enter Ttrtclet watt. 
 Vert. Yet ccafcyonr ire you angry Starrei •fheauca, 
 Wind,Rainc, and Thunder,remcmber earthly man 
 Isbutafubftauncethatmuftyceldtoyou : 
 And I (as fits my nature) do obey you. 
 
 Alaffc, 
 
 II. 17-40 — II. i. 4 
 
Pericles Prince ofT-^f, 
 
 AlafTc.tJieSeas hath cart me on the Rodn, 
 W'a/>it mcfrom iTiorc to i}]orc,and left my breath 
 Notliinw to thTnkcon,buteafuing death: 
 Let It fufFize the greatHcfTcofyour powers, 
 Tohaucbercfta Princcofall hisfortuncj-, 
 And hauingthrownc him from yjur watry giaue, 
 Hecre to hauc death in peace,is all hec'le craue. 
 Lntfrihrtt t^er-men. 
 
 1. \V!iat,topclch> 
 
 2. Ha,corae and bring away thcNel5. 
 I. What Patch-breech, T fay. 
 
 3. What fay you Mai Qcr» 
 
 r. Lookchow tliou f^irr'd now : 
 Come aw a\', or Ilefctch'th with a wan ion. 
 
 3. Fflyth Maifter,! am thinking; ofthcpoorcmeit, 
 That were ca^ awav before vs euen now. 
 
 I . Alartc pooi e ('oulcs,it e;ricut;d my heart to hearc. 
 What pittifull cr\ es they made to vs,to helpc them, 
 Wllm(^vcll^da^■ we could fcarce helpcoui felucs. 
 
 7. N.i\" Maidcr, ("as d not I as much, 
 When I favv tliePorpas how he honnfl and tumbled? 
 They fay theyYcha!fcfil>,,halfefierh : 
 A plagueon them.they nereccmebutllooke tobcwallif. 
 JMainerlmaruellhow theFifheshueintheSca? 
 
 I. Whv,asMcn doea-land', 
 Tlie great ones eate vp thehttlconci : 
 lean compare ournch iMifcrs to nothing fo fitly, 
 As to a Wliale ; a pla\es and tumbles, 
 Dr\'uin';; the pooie Fry before him, 
 And atla(},dei:o vvrc them all atamonthfuU ; 
 Sue!) Whales iiaue 1 iicard on, a'ch land, 
 Who neucrlcaiicgapirv:;, till tlicy (v\allow't4 
 1 he whole Paril}i,Church,Stceplc, Belles and all 
 Poi. Apretticmorall. 
 -■. IJiit Maifler,if ! had been the Sexton, 
 K would lianc- dec lUhat day ni the bdfric, 
 
 I. Why.Mjr.J 
 
 C 2. V. Becjufc 
 
 II. i. 5—43 
 
7 he Flaj of 
 
 J. Bccauff he {TiCHild Hauc fwallowedmcc too. 
 And when I bad been in his bell)', 
 3 would hane kept fuchaianehngofthcBelicj, 
 Thathelhouid ncucr hauc left, 
 
 Till he call BelIes,Stecple,Church and PanO-i vp againc: 
 But jf the good King Simomau were ot my mmde. 
 
 Ihr. StmorttdCif 
 
 2,. We \\ ould purse the land of thefe Drones, 
 That robbe tlicBee of hcrHony. 
 
 Pir. How from the fenny fubie£l of the Sea, 
 Thefe Filhers tell the infirmities ofmen, 
 And from their watry empire recollcft, 
 All that may men approue,ormen deteft. 
 Peace be at your labour, honell Filhcr-racn, 
 
 .•>.. Honeft good fellow what's that, if it be a day fits you 
 Search ouf of the Kalender, and no body looke after U? 
 
 Pen. May fee the Sea hath tall vpon)'our coafl: 
 
 2. What a drunken Knaue was the Sea, 
 Tocail thee mour way? 
 
 Ter . A man whom both tlic \Vaters and the Winde, 
 In th at vaR Tennis -court, hath made the Ball 
 For tliem to play vpon,intrcates you pittie hirn : 
 Hee askcs of ^-oUjthat ncuer vf'd to beggc. 
 
 1. Nofriend,cannotyou begge? 
 Heer's them in our countrey oicjrctct^ 
 
 Gets more with beggin2,thcn wecan doe with workjng. 
 
 2. CanR thou catch any Fiflies then ? 
 Ten'. I ncuer praftizdc it. 
 
 2. Na)' then tiiou \^'iltlfarue furc ; for heer's nothing to 
 begotnovv-adayrs,\'nleflethoucanft hlli for't. 
 
 '/■«?. Vv Iiat 1 haue been, I haue forgot to know, 
 But what I am, want teaches me to thinkeon : 
 A manthrong'd vp with cold, my Veines are chill, 
 AndhaueViOm-oreofiifc then may fuffizc, 
 To giuc my tongue that heai to aske your helpe : 
 Whithifyou fhallrcfiife, wheni amdead, 
 For chat I am a man,pray you fee me buried, 
 
 J. Die 
 
 II. i. 44—82 
 
PericUs Ttinct^fTye, 
 
 1. Ditjk<AtlM^riowGo<4sforbj(i'J, andThauca Gownc 
 hcerc, come put Uon,kecp€ thee warHieiHOw afore meea 
 hand fomc fellow : Come, th»u fhalt goc home, and wee'le 
 haueFlcflifor all day, FiHifor faftin^-davesand more 5 or 
 Piiddingcs and Flap-jackes,and thou fhalt be welcome. 
 
 Ftr. 1 thankc you fir. 
 
 2. Harke you my friend : You fayd you could not beg? 
 ftr. Ididbutcrauc. 
 
 J. Butcraue? 
 Thea lie turne Craucr too,and fo I fhall fcapc whipping. 
 
 Ttr. why, are you Bc22;crs whipt then? 
 J. Oh not all, my friend, not all : for it all your Beggers 
 were whipt,I would wilh no better office, then to be Bcacllc: 
 ButMajftcrJlcgoc draw vp the Net. 
 
 Ter. How well this honcR mirth becomes tiieir labour? 
 
 I. Harke) ou (ir ; doeyou know vvhereyec are? 
 
 Ttr. Not well. 
 
 I. Why lie tell you, this I cald P.mtapola, 
 And our King, the good >ymor:i -e!. 
 
 fir. Tlie<^ood iT-mwy/iie^, doe )'ou call him? 
 
 8. I,fir,ai)dhc dcfcrucs foto be cal'd, 
 For his peaceable rajgnc, and good gouernemcnt, 
 
 Tir. He is a happy King.fince hcgaincs from 
 His rubie(ftsthcnam€ofgood,by his gouernment. 
 How farreis hisCourfdiifant from this Hjore? 
 
 I. Alarv hr, halfca da)esiourney : And He tcllyoii, 
 He hath a fairc Daughter, and to morrow is her birtfi -day, 
 And there arc Princes and Knights come from all partes of 
 the World, to lufland Turncy forhcrloue. 
 
 Ptr . Were my fortunes equall to my dclires, 
 ] couJd Willi to make one there. 
 
 1. O fir, things niufl be as they may :and what n man can 
 not get, he may lawfully dealefor his Wiucs foule. 
 
 h>it(rihe ivo Fi(her-m(n,dr(mwf vpa 7\ljt. 
 
 2 . Hclpc Mnifler helpe-, hecre's a Fifh hanges in the Net, 
 Like a poorcmani right in the law : t'will hardly come out. 
 Ha bots on'tjUs corncatlart •, SttistUTJid to arui^y Armour. 
 
 C 3. J'er. An 
 
 II. i. 83 — T29 
 
The Play of 
 
 Tfr. An Armourfricttdsjlpiryyoulctmcfcfiit? 
 Tliankes Fortune, yc«£ that after alt croflcs, 
 Tliou giucft me fomcwhat to rcpairc ttiy felfc : 
 Aiidrhouah it wasmineownepart ofmy Iicritage, 
 Whichmy dead Fathcrdidbeqvicath tome, 
 With this fti ift charge cucn as nc left his life, 
 Kcepcirisy /^fryc/u.ithathbccna Shield 
 Twixt me and death, and poynted to this brayfe, 
 For t'.-.at It failed sTie,kecpc it in like ncccfsiric : 
 The whichthcGcKis proteft thc€,Famc may defend thcc; 
 Itk'cpt wlicrelkeptjlfc! dearcl)'ioirdit, 
 Till the rough SeaSjthatfpircs not any man, 
 Tooke It in i-age,t[iough calm'djiaue giucn't againc : 
 Ttliar.ke theefor't,my fhipwrackcnowsno ill, 
 Since I haiMrheeremy Father gauc in ins Wiil. 
 
 I. What nieane you ilrt 
 
 Ffrt. Tobeg2;cof^•ou(klndfi•icnds)thlsCoatcofwo!th, 
 For it was rotnetime Target to a King; 
 I know It b\ this markc : !u loued me dcarcly. 
 And for his fake, 1 wiOi the Iiauing of it^ 
 A;)d thatvou d guiderric toyourSoueraignes Coart^ 
 Vy'herc with it,! may appearc a Gentleman : 
 And if thajeucrmy lew fortune's belter, 
 lie pay vour bounties •, tiIlthcn,rcftyoiir dcbtcr, 
 
 1. Why wiit ttiouturncy forthcLady^ 
 
 1'ert. llel))cw dievertucl ha.icbornein Amies. 
 
 t. Why di'etakcit .-and the Gods gir.e thee good an*t. 
 
 2. Ibutharke you my friciid, twa* wee that made vp 
 this Garment through the rough feamcs of the Waters: 
 there are ccrtaine Condoicments, certame ^''ailcs : 1 hope 
 fir, if you thnue, you le remember from whence you had 
 riicni. 
 
 / tn. Beleeuc't, I wiH: 
 Bs your furtherance I am cloth'd in Steele, 
 And fpightofall the rupture of the Sea, 
 Thislcvveli hoidtshisbuyidingonmy iitat'. 
 Vntothy value! will mount my fcUc 
 
 VpOA 
 
 II. i. 130—169 
 
Peridfi Prttiee of Tyre. 
 
 I'ponaCoiirfer.whoftdcIijiln'neps, ■>'> -h^ 
 
 Slullmulcctlicgnzcrioy to kcli m tread ; 
 
 Onel\ (iriy fiicud I yet «m vnproiiirl'd of a palrc of Bafcs. 
 
 1. Wcc Icfurcprouiidi, tlioii liialtliauc 
 My bed Gowru: toui^kc dice a pnitt-, 
 And lie bring tliec to the Court my (elfe. 
 
 'Pen. TiicnHonourbcbiitaGoaktomy Will, 
 This day lie rile, or eifc addciU to ill. 
 
 Enter SimtnjdttjWfih altsncLtHnce , anuThntfi, 
 
 K.n^. Are the Knights ready to begin the Try umph? 
 I Loyu. They are my Lcidgc,and ftay yourcommino-. 
 To prcfent them fclues. 
 
 A'i'.'p- Retur:H- them, We are ready, & our daughter beere, 
 In honour ofwhofeBirththefc Triumphs arc, 
 Sits heere li ke Beauties child, whom Nature gat, 
 Formen to fee-, and feemg.wooiidcr nt. 
 
 Th^i. Ir plea(eth) ot! ('my rovai! Father) to exprcCfe 
 My Conirncndanons great, ^shoftment's Icfle. 
 
 ^"j?. It's fitit Hiould beio, foi' Princes are 
 A modeU which Hcauen makes like to it fclfe : 
 As [cwcls ioo/e their glory ,ifn<gkfted, 
 S'> Princes thcirRenowncs.rfnotrefpeftcd ; 
 T H now your honour (Daughter) toentcrtaine 
 Tiic labour o'^each Kniglit.in his deuice. 
 
 Th^'. Winch to prcfeiiic mine honoiirjl'lc perfbiois. 
 
 The fir (I Kriq^hr p^ifi^i hj. 
 Kmq. Who is flic fir,'t, that doth preferrehimfclfe? 
 That. A Knightof 3^^1-/4 (my rcnovsncd father) 
 And the deuice he bcares vpon his Shield, 
 Jsa blackeEthyopc reaching at theSunne: 
 TIk word : Luxtutviiamrhi. 
 
 Kio^. He loHesyou well, tiiatholdcs his lifcofyou. 
 T hf l<rc(»^d K''ipf>t . 
 Whoistliefccond, thatprcftablumfclfc? 
 
 Th4. A 
 
 II. i. 170 — II. ii. 23 
 
Tht'Plty of 
 
 Ti)a. APrinccof/W4f«^(myroyaMfether) 
 And chedcuicchcbearcsvponhuShicUJ, 
 Is an Armed Knight.that's conquered by a Lady: 
 The motto thus in Spanifh. Tut Per doiter^t kti ftrforfa. 
 ^.Kni^hi. Kw. And with the third? 
 
 Thai. Tht third, of jiitsxh^ and his'dcuice, 
 A wrcathofChiually : the word: Me Pvmftyfrouexit ef(x. 
 ^.Kfii^bt. ATw. what IS the fourth,. 
 
 Thas. AburningTorch that's turned vpfidedownq _ 
 The word : Qj^t mc nbt mt exttnftiti, ^- > • » 
 
 Km. Which fhtwes that Bcautie liath his power & will, 
 Which can aswcllcnflame, asitcankill. 
 
 S.Km^ht. Tfe<».Th»fift,anH3ndcnuironed with Clouds, 
 Holding out Goldjthac's by thcTouch-ftonc tride: 
 Tbemotto thus ; Stc^iHesridrt-fides. 
 
 d.Kni/hr. iTw. And what's the ilxt, and laft-, ibc which. 
 The knight himfclf with fuch a graceful coiirtcfie deliucrcd? 
 
 Tb,ii. Heefccmcs to be a Stranger .-but his PrefcntJJ 
 A wifhercd Branch, that's oncly greene at top, 
 Tf.e motto •■ Inhtc fp'viuo. 
 
 Km. A pretty morrall frfi the deicded Qate wherein hc is. 
 He hopes by you, his fortunes vet may flourifh. 
 
 /. Lord. He had nccdmeanc bcfter.dien his outward fhcvf 
 Can any wav fpeaW m Wt auft commend s 
 For by hisruRicoutfide he appearej, 
 To hauepraftis'd more tf>eWhipfloclce,then the LauHce. 
 
 2 . Lcrd. He well m»y be a Strangcr,for he comes 
 Toan honoured tryumph.flrangiyfurnil'ht. 
 
 ^.Lerd. And on fctpufpofciee his Armour ruft 
 Vntillthisday,tofcdwreitinthediift. 
 
 Kw. Opfsjon's butafoolc,thatmake$vsfcan 
 The outward habk.by thfiinwardman. 
 But flav, the Knights arc camming, ■ 
 Wc will with-draw into ehcGallcrie 
 
 (SrtKijhMf^.AhdaBcry^thtmcane Km^ht. 
 
 enter 
 
 II. ii. 24—59 
 
Pericles Prince of Tyre^ 
 
 Enter the Kmg mi Knight tfrem Tilting. 
 
 Kwg. Knights,tofay you're wclcome.werefuperfluouj, 
 I place vpon the volume of your d^edci, 
 A.S in a Title page,your wortli in armci, 
 Were more then you cxpcftj or more then's hr 
 Since eucry worth in fhcw coitimends it fclfe : 
 Prepare i^ormirthjfor mirth becomes aFcaft. 
 You are Princes, and my guellcs. 
 
 Thai. But you my Knight and gueft, 
 To whom this Wreath of vi(ftorie I giuc, 
 And crowne you Kin^ of this daycs happineflc. 
 Pert. Tis more by Fortune(I,ady)then my Merit. 
 King, Call it by what you will, the day is your. 
 And here (I hope) isnonethatcnuiesit : 
 In fraaiin^ an Artift,art hath thus decreed, 
 To make fome good, but others to exceed. 
 And you are herlabourd fcholler : come Quecac a th'fealt. 
 For (Daughter'; (o you are ; heere take your place : 
 Martiall the reft, as they deferde their grace. 
 
 Knights. We are honour'd much by good SymoniJtt. 
 Kfg- Your prcfencc glads our day es, honour wc louc, 
 lor who hates honour.hates the Gods abouc. 
 Aiarfhal. Sir,yonder is your place. 
 Pert. Some other is more fit. 
 I. Knight. Contend not fir, for we arc Gentlemen, 
 Hauc neither in our hearts,nor outward eyes, 
 Enuiesthegreatjnor/hallthelowdefpifc. 
 Tm. You arcrijht courtiousKnio-hts, 
 King. Sit fir, fit. 
 Bv /c«? (I wonder) that is King of thoughts, 
 ThcfcCatesrefiRmee,lKcnottl, ought vpon. 
 
 Tha By /«"<> (thatisQuceneofmanagc; 
 All Viands that I cate do feeme vnfaucry, 
 WifTiing him my meat : furc hec's a gallant Gentleman. 
 
 Kw. Hcc's hut a countrie Gentleman: ha's donenomorc 
 Then other KtU2;hw hauc donc,lia's broi<cn a StafFc, 
 
 D. Oi 
 
 II. iii. 1—35 
 
Orfo5 folctitpaffc, 
 
 Thj, To race he fccmcs like Diamond, to Glaflc. 
 Pert. You Kings to race, like to my fathers piAurc, , 
 
 Which tels in that glory once he was, 
 
 Had Princes i'lt lilce Starrer about his Throane, 
 
 And hcc the Sunne for them to reuercnce; 
 
 Kone that bclield him, but like leflerlightSy 
 
 Did vailetheirCrownestohJs fuprcmacicj 
 
 Where now his fonne like a Glowornic in the night, 
 
 The which hath Fire in darknc(Te,none in lightt 
 
 Whereby I fee that Time's the King of men, 
 
 Hce'sho'h theirParent,andheis their Grauc, 
 
 And giue? them vvliat he vviihiiot what they crane. 
 
 J^ing. What,are you merry, Knights'? 
 
 Xmghts, Who can be orher,in this royal! prefencc. 
 
 ^'rg. Heere.with a Cup that~s ftiir'd vnto the brim^ 
 Asdoyouloue.filltoyourMiftrislippcSj 
 Wee drinke this health to yo'J. 
 
 Kmghti, Wc thanke your Grace, 
 
 Kinf, Yccp-i\ife awhile, yon Knight doth lit too melan- 
 As ifthe entcruinemcntm our Court, (choly. 
 
 Had notaflicvvroightcounteruailchis worth : 
 Note it not you, Ti;*(,'i.. 
 
 Tba. What is't to njCjiny father? 
 
 kitif. O attend my Daughter, 
 Princes in thisjihould liuc like Gods abouc, 
 Wliofrcely giac to euery one diat come to honour them: : 
 And Princes notdoingfo,arcl!keto Gnats, , . ■, . ,,. 
 Vviiichmakeafound,butkild,are wondredat: 
 Therefore to make his entraunce more fwect, 
 Hccr'.-jfav ueedrinke this Handing bouleofwine to him. ■ 
 
 T^a. Aiasray Fatlicr,it befits not mec, 
 Vntoalirangeilvnight to be fo bold, ,! ; 
 He njay my profer take for an offence, 
 Since mejR takewomens giftesforimpud,^ncc, 
 
 k'",^. How? doe as Ibidyou,oryou'lcmGouemcclfc. 
 
 Thu. Now by the Godsjie could nolpleale me better.. ' , 
 
 n. iii. 35—73 
 
Terktes Prince of Tjre, 
 
 kin^. And furthermore tell lilni,wedefire to /cnowofBim 
 Ofwhcr.cG lie is,hisnaine,and Parentage? 
 
 T ha, ThcKinginy father(rir) has diunlceto you. 
 
 P*r>. 1 thanke hmi. 
 
 Tba, WilLiii'T it (b much blood vnto )'our life. 
 
 Ttrt. ] tlmiiLe both him and you, and pled f^eliini freely. 
 
 Tha. And turthcr.hedcfires to know of you, 
 Gfvvlicnce \ ou are, your name and parcnta^Tc 5 
 
 'Pcrf. A Gentleman of T^rf^my name Pcncki, 
 My education beene m Artes and Arnics : 
 Wholookin'Tfor ailueiituresm tlie world, 
 Was by tlicrou[;h Seas reft ofSliips andnicn, 
 and after iliipwrackc,drnien vpon this lliorc. 
 
 Th.i. Kethankcs yourGrace; names himfclfc Pcric'es^ 
 A(>cnt!Lnian ofTyc : -vhooncly b)' nnsfortuncoft-Iic fcajj 
 Bereft ofSbip|ies and Men.cafton this /liorc. 
 
 h'l"- Now by the Gedsjpittyhismisfortune, 
 And will awake him frorr- hismelancholy. 
 ConieGcntleincn, we fit tooloiii on tr'fles. 
 And w afle the time wlueli lookes for other reuc!;; 
 Eucnin ) our Armours as you are addrcit. 
 Will well become a Souidicrsdaunce : 
 I will not haue oxcufe with faying this, 
 Lowd Mufickc is too harlh for Ladyes heads, 
 Since titeyloue men inaimcs.as well as beds. 
 
 They dan»it. 
 So, tb.is was w cH askt, t'was fo well performM. 
 Come fir, h.eer's a Lady that wants breathing too,. 
 And 1 haue heard,you Knights of r>'r*, 
 A:e excellent nimakmg Ladyes trippe-, 
 And that their Meafures are as excellent, 
 
 Icrt. In thofe that praftizethcm,theyarc(my Lord.) 
 
 hr:^. Oh that's as much, as you would be denycd 
 Of your faire courtcfie : vnclarpe,vnclafpe. 
 
 Thankcs Gen>tlcmso to all.all Imie done well j 
 Bucyoutlicbea -.Pages and ligh;s,tocoadua 
 
 P2,. Thcfc.- 
 
 II. iii. 73 — 109 
 
The PUj ef 
 
 Thefe Knights mto their fcucrall Lodgings j 
 YoOrs (ir, wc haue giuen order be next our o wae. 
 
 'Pert. I am at your Graces pleafur«. 
 Princes, it is tooIatetotalkeofLoao, 
 And that's the marke 1 know, you Icucll at; 
 Therefore each one betake him to his reft, 
 To Biorrow all for fpecding do their beft. 
 
 Enter HeUtcmm mid Efc<ma. 
 
 HfH No EfcMtti, know this ofmce, 
 ^ylnttochm from inccft liued notfrce : 
 For which the mofthigli Gods not minding. 
 Longer to with-holdthc vengeance that 
 They had in ftore, due to this hey nous 
 Opitall oflFence,euen m the height and pride 
 Of all hisglory,whenhe wasfcatedm 
 A Chariot of an ineftimable value,and his daughter 
 With him, a fire from hcaueii came and Hiriueld 
 Vp thofe bodyes eucn to lothing.for they fo ftounke, 
 That all thofe eyes ador'd them, ere their fall, 
 Scornc now their hand fhould giue them buiiall. 
 
 Efc*ne». T^wai very ftrange. 
 
 Ht^ And yet but iufticejfor though this King were great. 
 His greatnefle was no gard to barrclieauens diaft, 
 But hnnchad his reward. 
 
 Ejam. Tis very true. 
 
 tnter trro or three Ltrds. 
 
 I. Lord. See, not a man in priuate conference. 
 Or counfailc.ha's refpeft with him but hee. 
 
 2. Lord. It Diall no longer gricuc, without rcprofi^ 
 
 g. Ltrd. And curd be he that will not fecond it. 
 
 I. Lmrd. Follow me theft : Lord HeiUtsne^^viovA. 
 
 Hell, Withmee?andwdcomehaj>pyday,Fny Lords. 
 
 i.Lsrd. Know.thatourgiiefcs are rifen to the top. 
 And now at length they oucr-flow their bankes. 
 
 HeiJ. YourgricfcJ, for what* 
 
 Wrong 
 
 II. iii. no — II. iv. 25 
 
Perkks frlnct of Tyre. 
 Wrang not your Princc,you loae. 
 
 I. Lord. Wrong not your fdfcthcn.noblc fitllic/m^ 
 But if thcPrincc do liuc.lct n falutc him. 
 Or know what !^round's madchappv \s\ ln's breath ; 
 If in the world hcliue,wcc'lc fcckc him out : 
 If in hisGrauc he rcft,wcc'le find him there, 
 Xnd be rcfolucd he hues to goiicrne ts: 
 Or dcad,giuc*s caufc tomoumc his funeral], 
 Andlcauc v$to our free cleftion. 
 
 2. Lord. Whofc death in deed, the ftrongcft in our fenfarc, 
 And knowing this Kmgdome is without a head, 
 Like goodly Buyldings left without a Roofe, 
 Soone fall to ruine : your noble felfe, 
 That beft know how to rule, and how to raignc. 
 Wee thus fubmit vnto our Soueraignc. 
 
 Omnei. Liue noble He/ltcarte. 
 
 Htll. Try honours caufe j forbeareyoar fuflfragei: 
 If that you louc Prince P*r»f/«,forbearc, 
 (Take I your vv)lb,Ileape into the fcas, 
 Where's howcrlv trouble, for a minuts eafc) 
 Atwelue-monthlongcr,Ietmcintreatyou 
 Tofofbcarc theabfencc of your King > 
 Ifin which time cxpir*d,he not rctume, 
 I fhall with aged patience bearc your yoake : 
 But if I cannot winne you to this loue, 
 Goe fearchhke nobles, like noble fubie^s, 
 And in your fcarch,fpend your aduenturoui worth, 
 Whom if you find, and winne vnto returnc, 
 Vou f}iall like Diamonds fit about his Crowne. 
 
 i.Lord. To wifcdomc, bee's a foole, that will not yccld: 
 And finceLord A/*//«Mw«enioyneth vs, 
 We with our trauels will cndeauour. 
 
 Hell. Then you louc v$, wc vou, & wceic clafpc hands; 
 WhcnPcercs thus knit.aKingdomc cuer O^ands* 
 £nt(r tht Kivy re^dm^ of a letttr *t one doer*, 
 the Knt^htci meeie him. 
 I . Knight. Good morrow to the good Simituiti. 
 
 II. iv. 25 — II. V. I 
 
"Xhe Play of 
 
 J^in^. Knights/roni my daughter this I let you know,. 
 That forthi5twcluc->nioiuh,i}iee'Je not vndertake 
 Amiried life: herrcafontoher felfeisonely knownc,. 
 Whiclifromhcrjby ncmeanei can I get. 
 
 2. lOiiibr. JVlay wenoC'gctaccciretohcrfrny Lord?) 
 
 h^-^^- Fayth,bynonieanes,)Lc)-iathf6 (tnt'^Jy 
 Tycd her to her Charnbcrjtliat t*ij impofsible : 
 One twehie Moones more fhcc'le vvearc DtMas liucrie: . 
 This by the eye of Cwf/;^'-« hath £hc vowed, 
 AnflionJierVtr^inlionour, will not breakcit. 
 
 3;/^f-zi;/3?. .Lothto bidfarcwcll,wcrakc our leaues. 
 
 h^trsg, So,they are well difpatcht : 
 Kow to my daughters Letter •, (he tclles ine hear, 
 Sh^e'Ie wcddc the ftvanger Knight, 
 Orneuermore to viewnorday norligiit. • 
 T'is well MiftrJS,your c!:o)'Cc agrees wjtli mijic : 
 1 like that well: nay how abfolutelhc's in 't, 
 Notminding whctiier I di;,likeor no, ■ 
 Well, I do commend her chovce,and will no lon?er ■ 
 Haueitbe delayed : Sohjiecrehecomcs, 
 Imurtdillemblcj:. . .:■. 
 
 Enter Peric'ai. 
 
 Tcri. All fortune to the c;ood Symwi'Ief. 
 
 Kino. To ) OL! asiiu;ch : ,Sir,Inni behouldin'/ to yon 
 Foryour fwecte Muficke this lall night : 
 I do protcft,my cares were nciier better fedde , 
 
 W)th fuch dclightftill pleafing harmonic. 
 
 Tin. It is your Graces pleafurc to commend^ 
 Notm\dercrt. 
 
 K'-'^- Sir,voii areA'l,ufickes maifter. 
 
 ''P<n. T he word of all her fchollers (my good Lord.) 
 
 kn^. Lctmeaske you one thing: 
 What do y op thinkc of my Daughter, fir J 
 
 Ptri. AmoftvertuousPrincdfe. . 
 
 ^'"7^. And /lie IS fairc tuOjis ilicnot?' ■- 
 
 Veru AsafiaiedayinSoiraxicr;vvoondrousfairc. 
 
 n. V. 2 — 36 
 
Tirkks Prince of Tyre, 
 
 k'fj^. Sir.my Dauglucr thinkcs very well ofyoUj 
 I Co wdl.th.u you muTl bchcrMaiftcr, 
 And Hie will be your Sclioller^ therefore looke to it. 
 
 Pen. lam vn worthy for her Scholemaiflcr. 
 
 k'fg- She thinkes not fo : perufe this writing elfc. 
 
 T-i-r. What's herc,aletterthatnie]ouestheknightof7jr<r? 
 T'is the Kings fubtiltie to haue my life : 
 Oh fceke not to intrappc mc.graciousLord, 
 A Stranger, and diftreffed Gentleman, 
 That ncuer aymed fo hie, to loue your Daughter. 
 But bent all offices to honour her. 
 
 h"Z- Thou haflbewJtcht my daughter, 
 Andthou artavillamc, 
 
 P^n. By the Gods I haue not; ncuer did thought 
 Ofmineleuie offence ; nor neuer did mv aftions 
 let commence a deed might gaanc her loue, . , . . 
 Oryourdifplcafurc. ;• " , 
 
 ^w. Traytor.thoulycfi:. 
 
 Ptti. Traytor? 
 
 k'li- I, tray tor. 
 
 Pei^f. EueninhistbrDat,vnlefreitbcthcKing, ■> 
 ThatcalsrtieTraytor,Ircturnethelye. • ,-■ ' ' '-. 
 
 ki"^ . Nov/ by the Gods,I do applaude his courage. 
 
 P'^^. My aftions arc as noble as my thoughts, 
 Thatneuerreli/Titofabafedifcent: 
 I came vnto your Court for Honours caufe^ 
 Andnot tobeaRebelltoherffatc : • ' - '.■ 
 
 And he thatotherwife accciinites ofmee, ' < ' - 
 This Sword fhallprooue,hee's Honours eriemic. 
 kifi^. NoSlieere comes my Daughter,fhe can witnefTe it. 
 
 Enter Tha'fi. 
 
 P^?-;. ThenasyouareasvertuouS,asfairc, • 
 Refolue your angry Father, ifhiy tongue /- 
 Didcrcfolicitc, ormyhandfubfcribc' ■'■ ' 
 To any fiilablc that made loue to you? ' 
 
 Tkat. Why fir,fay ifyou had, vvho takes dfi'ence? 
 
 ... At 
 
 II. V. 37-72 
 
The rijy of 
 
 At that, would nuke me o !ad j 
 
 Kwff. Yea Miftris;.are you fo pcrcBiptoric? 
 I am glad on't with all my heart, 
 
 lie tame you-, lie bring you in fubicftion. jlfidt. 
 
 Will you not.liaumgmy conrcnt, 
 Bcftow your loue and youraffeftions, 
 Vpon a Stranger? who for ought I know, 
 May be (nor can I thinlcc the contrary) jifide, 
 
 A* great in blood as I my fclfe : 
 Thcrcforc,hcarc you Miftris, cither frame 
 Your will to mine : and you fu^heare you; 
 Either be rul'd by mce,or lie make you, 
 Man and wife : nay come, your hands, 
 Andlippesmuftfcaleittoo : and being ioynd. 
 He thus your hopes deftroy.andfor ftirther ericfe : 
 God giue you ioy 5 what arc you bothpLcaled ? 
 
 Tiia. Ycs,ifyouloaeme fir? 
 
 Teri. Euenasmy life,mv blood that foftcri it. 
 
 Kitig. Whatare you both agreed? 
 
 jimho. Yes, iPt plcafc your Maieftie. 
 
 KiTf^. Itpleaicth mcfo wcll,thatl will fee you wed. 
 And thca with what haftc yow cafl,{;et you to kcd. Sxeunt^ 
 
 Enter ^*Wer. 
 
 Now fleepeyflackcd hath the rout,. 
 No din but fnorcs about the hpufe, 
 Made louder by the orefcd brcaft. 
 Of this moft pompous mary age Feaft : 
 The Catte with cyne of burning cole. 
 Now coutches from the Moufes hole; 
 And Cricket fing at the Ouens mouthy 
 Are theblyther for their drouth : 
 Hymtv hath brought the Bride to bed, 
 Whereby the !of[e of maydenhead, 
 A Babe 15 mouldc4 : b^.aiCcut, 
 
 Alul 
 
 II. V. 72 — III. I-II 
 
F trick'! Prince t/T^re] 
 
 AndTiincthat is fo briefly fpent, 
 VVithyourfinefancies quaintly each, , 
 What's diimbc in iheWjI'lcpIainc widi fpcach. 
 
 Entn Perulcs <ind Symonidcs at one dore ^ith Attendanter, 
 a Mefiin^erititcta th(m,l{neties «W(i^»«« Pericles *l(irer, 
 Pericles j'7;irw« it SymoniAts,the Lords l^necle to himi, 
 then inter Thayfa with ibtlti ,'9etthU\c\ionAA4nnrf(^ 
 P'€ Kmg [htvtu her the letter, jhe rtitycu : (he And Pcriclc J 
 r«/;« lettue ojberjhthtr^ivid depart. 
 
 By many a dearnc and paincfijIIpMrch 
 
 diPnycics tlic careful! fearch. 
 
 By the fower oppofing Cngncs, 
 
 Winch the world togeathcr ioyncs. 
 
 Is made v^ith all due diligence, 
 
 That horfe and Tayle and hie cxpcnce, 
 
 Canftccd theqneft at lartfromTvi'*: 
 
 Fame anrwcringib.cinoft ftrange enquire, 
 
 To'th Courtof King SymoHtan, 
 
 Arc Letters brought,ti)e tenour thefc : 
 
 %y4ntioihut and his daughter dead, 
 Themcnof r^yrw/, on the head 
 Q)i HelycarHs would fct on 
 . TheCrovvncofr^f, bathe will none t 
 The Hiutanic, hec dierc haftes t'oppreflc, 
 Saycs to'em, ifKing /'rw/« 
 Come not home in twifc fixe Moones, 
 He obedient to their doomes, 
 ■Will take the Crowne : the funimc ofthis. 
 Brougiu hither to Ttnikpelu, 
 Iranylhcd the regions round. 
 And euery one with claps can found, 
 Our hey re apparant is a King : 
 Who dreampt? who thought of fuch a thing? 
 Ericfe he mi:l> hence depart to Tyre, 
 'i.- HisQiieencwuhchild^makcshcrdcfiic, 
 
 .f ^ E» Which 
 
 III. 12-40 
 
Th ^Ia-j of 
 
 Whichwho Hiall croflTc along to goc» 
 Omit wc all their dole and woe : 
 Z-K W<i^ her Nurfe Ihc takes. 
 And fo to Sea ; their vefTell Aakcs, 
 On !7\{<,''f«««<billow,halfe the flood, ' 
 Hath their Kecle cut : but fortune mou'd. 
 Varies againe,the grifledNortl^ 
 Difgorgcs fuch a tempeft forth, 
 That as a Duckc for life that diucs, 
 So vp and downc the poorc Ship driue* r 
 The Lady fhxeekes, and wel-a-neare. 
 Do's fall in trauayle with her feare: 
 And what enfucs in this fell ftorme» 
 Shall for it fclfe, it fdfe pcrfomic i 
 I nill relate, ad:on may 
 Conuenicntly the reft conuay; 
 Which might not ? what by mcls told. 
 In your imagination hold : 
 This Stage, the Ship,vpon whofe Decke 
 The fcas toft Ftnclet appearcs to fpeake. 
 
 Enter Pericla a ShiphearJ. 
 PerK The God of this gKat Vaft,rcbuke thcfe furges. 
 Which wafh both heauen and hell,and thou that hafi 
 VpontheWindescommaund.bind theminBraflcj 
 Hauing calPd them from the deepe, 6 ftill 
 Thy deafningdreadfull thundcrs,gcntly quench 
 Thy nimble lulphirous flaftes : 6 How Lfchorida !• 
 How does my Queene? then ftormc vcnomouffy, 
 Wiltthoa fpeat all thy fclfe? the fea-mans Whiffle 
 Is as a whifper in the earcs of death 
 Vnheard Lychoridaf Lucwa^ oh .' 
 Diuineft patrioneflcjand my wife gentle 
 To thofe that cry by-night,conuey thy deitie 
 Aboard our dauncing Boat.makc fwift the pangucs 
 Of my Queencs trauaylcs ? now Lifchertda^ 
 
 Stittr 
 
 III 41-60 — III. i. 14 
 
Ttricla Prince ef Tyre^ 
 Snier LychtriiU. 
 
 lyc^or. Hcere is a thing too young for fuch a place, 
 Who if it had conccit.would dic.ai I am like to doc : 
 Take in your armej this pcccc of your dead Queenc. 
 
 fer$. How? how Lythortaa ? 
 
 Lycho. Paticncefgoodfir) donotafsiftthcftorme, 
 Hccr's all that is left liuing of your Quccne j 
 A litlc Daughter : for the fake of it, 
 Bcmanly.and take comfort. 
 
 Per. O you Gods.' 
 Why do you make vs louc your goodly gyfti, 
 
 Andfnatch them ftraight away? we heerc below. 
 Recall not what we giuc, and therein may 
 Vfchonour with you. 
 
 Lycho. Patience (good fir) cuen for this charge. 
 
 7'tr. Now rnylde may be thy life, 
 For a more blufterous birth had neuer Babe: 
 Quiet and gentle thy conditions; for 
 Thou art the rudelycft welcome to this world, 
 Thateuer was Princes Child : happy what followcs. 
 Thou haft as chiding a natiuitic. 
 As Fire.Ayre, Watcr,Earth,and Heaucn can make, 
 To harould thee from the wombc : 
 Euenat the firft.thylofTc is more then can 
 Thy portage quit.with all thou canft find hcere: 
 Now the goocf Gods throw their bcft eyes vpon'f. 
 
 Enter fico Saylers . 
 
 I. Say I. What courage fir? God fauc you. 
 
 Ter. Courage enougli.I do not feare the flaw. 
 It hath done to me the worft ;yctfor the louc 
 Of this poore Infant,thisfrelli new fca-farer, 
 I would It would be quiet. 
 
 i.Sayl. Slake the bolinsthcrcj thou wilt not wilt thou*: 
 Blow and fplit thy fclfe. 
 
 i.Sayl. Bu t Sca-roomc,and the brine and cloudy billow 
 Kifli the Moone,l care not. 
 
 E 2. f.Sayi, Sir 
 
 III. i. 15—46 
 
T. SiryourQtieenenwfli.ouerboarcIithefca workeshic. 
 The Wind is lo wd, and will not lie till tljc Ship 
 Be dcard of tl>e dead. . /. 
 
 Ttr. That's your fuperftition. 
 
 I. Pardon vs/ir-, with vs at Sea it hath bin ftillobfcrucd. 
 And wc arc ftrong in eaflcmCjlhcrcfore briefly yccld'er, 
 
 Ttr. As you thinkcmectjfor ihemuft ou^r board ftraight: 
 Mofl wretched Qucene." j. 
 
 Lychor. Heere/helycs fir. 
 
 Peri. Atcrribl«Child-bedhaflthouhad(inydearc^ 
 No light,no fire,tli'vnfricndly clemcntij 
 Forgot thee vtter! v,nor hauc I time 
 To glue thee halloiwd to thy graue, but flraight, 
 Mull cafl thee fcarclyCofFind, in oare, . 
 
 Where for a monuroent vpon thy bones, 
 The ayrc rcmayninj^lampesjthe belching Whale, 
 And humming Water mult orcwelme thy corpes, 
 
 Lying with finiple fhds t a ^^f'^'W'c'''*, 
 
 Bid T^efler bring me Spices,Inckc,and Taper, 
 
 My Casket, and my lewels j and bid 7s(tc<tndef 
 
 Bring me the Sattin Coffin : lay the Babe 
 
 Vpon the Pillow ; hie thee whilesi fay 
 
 A prieftly fiircwell to her : fodainely, woman. 
 
 2. Sir, we haue a Chiftbeneath the hatches, 
 Caulkt and bittumed ready. 
 
 Pni. Ithankc thee : Mariner fay,whatCoa{li$^his J 
 
 a. WeearencercTfc^jjGf. . * 
 
 Ttrt. Thither gentle Mariner, 
 Alter thy courfc for Tyre : Wiien canfl thou reach it? 
 
 2. By breakeofday, ifthc Wiiidceafe. 
 
 Tat, OniakeforT^(ify«j, 
 There willl vifit C/f£)n,for the Babe 
 Cannot hold out to Tyms-^ there He laauc it 
 At careful] nurfing : goe thy waycs goodMariner, 
 lis bring the body prcfcntly. Exin 
 
 Sunt 
 
 III. i. 47-83 
 
Ferules Pmce of Tyre. 
 
 Enter LordCtryrxoti "ieith a firtiaati 
 
 Cery, Thyh7aon,\\ot. 
 
 Suter Phy'cmon. 
 
 Thyl. DotlimyLordca!!? 
 
 Ce^y. Get Fire aiul meat for thefcpooreinen, 
 T'ss been a turbulent and ftormie night, 
 
 Stru. Ihauc been in many, butfuclianightas tliis. 
 Till novv,I ncare endured: 
 
 (^trj. Your Maiftcr will be dead ere you returne, 
 Tbere's nothing can be miniflred to Nature, 
 That can rccoucr him : giue this to the Pothccary, 
 And tellmchowitworkcs. 
 
 Snter two (jentlimeti. 
 i.Cjtnt. Goodniorrow. 
 2 . Gent. Good morrow to your Lordfbip, 
 Cery. Gentlemen,why doe you ffirrefo early? 
 \.(^ent. Sir.ourlodgings flandingblcake vpon the fea, 
 Shooke as the earth did quake : 
 
 Tlie very principals did fecme to rend and all to topple : 
 Pure furprizc and fearc,made me to quite the houfe. 
 i.Cjent. Thatis the caufcvvctroubleyoufo early, 
 T'is notour husbandry. 
 dry. OyoufaywcU. 
 
 ^.Giertt. Butlmuchmaruaile that your Lorcliliip, 
 Hauingrich tire about yo'j,fhould at thcfeearly bowers^ 
 Shake oflfthc goJdcn (lumber of repofc, tis moft firange 
 Nature rheuld be fo conuerfant with Paine, 
 Being thereto not compelled. ' 
 
 Ctry. ] hold if euer Vertue and Cunning, 
 Were cndo'.vmentsgreatcr,tlienNoblcncfIe&; Riches; 
 CarclefTc Heyrcs, may the two latter darken and expend; i 
 Butlmmortalitie attendcs thefoimer,! 
 Making a man a god : ;■'•.•.'. •.- 
 
 T'is.knownc,IeuerliauenudiedPhyrtcke; 
 Through which fccrctArt,by turning ore Authorities, 
 
 E ^, Iluuc 
 
 III. ii. 1-33 
 
The Play of 
 
 I hauc togcathcr with my praftizc,made famyliar, 
 
 To me and to my aydc,thc blcft inftifions that dwcls 
 
 In VceetiucSjin Mettals.Stones : and can fpcakc of the 
 
 Difturbances that Nature works, and of her cures •, 
 
 which doth giuc mc a more content in courfe of true delight 
 
 Then to be thirfty after tottering honour, or 
 
 Tie my pleafure vp in filkcn Baggcs, 
 
 To pleafethcFoole and Death. 
 
 Z.Gent. Your honour has through Ephefm, 
 Poured foorth your charitic,and hundreds call therafeluci. 
 Your Creatures; who by you,haue been rcflorcd •, 
 And not your knowlcdge,your perfonall paync. 
 But eucn your Purfe flill open, hath built Lord Cerimm, 
 Such ftrong rcno wne,ai time fhall ncuer. 
 
 Enter fi^ oar three mtha Chifi . 
 
 Stru. So,lift there. 
 
 Cer. What's that? 
 
 Ser. Sir,eucn now did the fca tolTe vp vpon our fliorc 
 This Chift J tis of fomc wracke, 
 
 Cer. Set't downe, let's lookc vpon't. 
 
 2.^ent, T'islikeaCoffin,fir. 
 
 C"^. Whatereitbe,t'is wooadroushcauicj 
 Wrench it open flraight : 
 If the Seas ftomacke be orccharg'd with Gold, 
 T'ls a good conftraint of Fortune it belches vpon v%. 
 
 2.Cjem. T'isfo,my Lord. 
 Ctr. How clofe tis caulkt & bottomed,did the fca cart it vp} 
 
 Ser. I ncucr faw fo huge a billow (!r,as toft it vpon fhore. 
 Crr. Wrench it open foftjit fmels moft fwcetly inmy fenfc. 
 
 .2. ^c«f. A delicate Odour. 
 
 Ctr. Aseuer hitmynoftriU :fo,vpwithit. 
 Oh you mod potent Gods .' what's here,a Corfc? 
 
 S.Gent. Mofl flrange. 
 
 Cer. Shrowded in Cloth of flate,balmed and cntrcafurcd 
 with full bagges of Spices, a Pafport to tyifotiof perfcft mce 
 an the Charadcrs : 
 
 Hurt 
 
 in. ii. 33—67 
 
? tricks frlnct of Tyrt, 
 
 Heere I ^iitt to vnt^erfttind. 
 If ert this C(ffir, drtuts aUod ; 
 / King Pericles hxue loft 
 This Qjtcme^vfurth atl oHr mua^amt (dfi i 
 Who finds her, giue her bury it f. 
 She nas the Daughter of a K'lm : 
 "Befides, this TreafHrefor a fee, 
 The (j«ds recjutt htti charitie. 
 If tliOLi liueft7V<f/«, thoa haft a heart. 
 That cuer cracks for woe.this chauuc'd to night. 
 2. Gent. MolHikcIyfir. 
 
 ^T.Nay certaincly to night.forlookchow frcili/lieloolc* 
 They were too rough, that threw herinthefea. 
 Makca Fire within; fetch hither all my Boxes inmy Clofet, 
 Death may vfurpc on Nature many hovver$,ancl yet 
 The fire ofhfc kindle againe the orc-preft fpirits •■ 
 1 heard of an E^iprMn that had p.howers lien dead. 
 Who was by good applyaunce recouered. 
 
 hni'r one rvith N ifkfns ind Fire. 
 Well fayd, well fayd ; the fire and clothes : the roue,h and 
 WofuU iVhifitk that wehaue.caufc it to found befcech you; 
 The Violl once more j how thou ftirr'ft thou blockcj 
 The Mufickc there : I pray you giuchcrayrc: 
 Gentlemen, this Quccnc will Iiuc, 
 Nature awakes a warmth breath out of her; 
 She hath not been cntranc'ft abouefiue howers ; 
 Sec how fhc ginnes to blow into lifes flower againe. 
 
 / .rfent. The Heauens,through you,encreafc our wonder. 
 And (ct% vp your fame for cuer. 
 
 Cer. Shcisaliue,beholdhcrcylids, 
 Cafes tothofcheauenlyieweis which Pfnc/fthathlof^, 
 Bcgm to part their fringes of bright gold, 
 TheDiamondsofamoftprayfcd water dotRappcarc, 
 To make the world twifc rich, hue, and make vs weepe. 
 To hcare your fate,faire crcaturc/are as you fccDic to bcc. 
 Shee rrii ttes , 
 
 Th4i. O dcare Dnwa, where am I i whcrc's my Lord? 
 
 Whar 
 
 III. ii. 68—106 
 
The Play of 
 
 What world is tliis? 
 
 2. Gen:. Is not thisftrang'?? -i.Cjeht. Mod rare. 
 
 Cm. Hufh (my gentle neighbours) lend mc your hands, 
 To the next Chamber beare her :gctl)nncn: 
 Now this matter muR be lookt to for her relapfc 
 Is morrali ; come, £ome j and SJceUjims guide vs. 
 
 Tbcycirryherawity, SxiHntomm!, 
 Enter Pfrsc!if,j4thar/us,'Vith Clean and Dionipi. 
 
 Per. Mtfft honored C/coB J mart needs be gonc,my tvvcluc 
 tnonths arc cxpir'd,andTy>>M Randesin aUtigious peace: 
 Yon and your Lady take from my heart ail thankfulncffi:, 
 TheGods make vp the reft vpon you. 
 
 Cie. Your niakesoffortune.jhoughtheyhantyoumor- 
 
 Yet glaunce ful! wondringly on vs. (tally 
 
 ®.'.0 your fweet QMCcne / that the ftriQ fates had plcaPd, 
 
 you had brought her hither to haue bkft mine ties with her. 
 
 Ter. Wc cannot butobcy the powers aboucvs; 
 Could I rage and rore as doth the fea fhe lies in. 
 Yet the end muft be as tis : my gentle babe M^rina^ 
 \V hom/or fiie wa^ borne at fea,I haue named fo. 
 Here I charge your charitiewithall', icauing her 
 The infant of your carc,befeechingyou to giuchcr 
 Princely trainings tliat fhe may be nianerc'd as fhe is borne. 
 
 CU. Fcare not(my Lord)but thinke your Grace, 
 ThatfcdmyCountriewith your Corne', forwhich, 
 The peoples prayers Rill fall vpon y ou,niufl in your child 
 Be though ton,ifncglc(ftiori fhould therein make mc vile, 
 The common body by you relieu'd, 
 "Would force mc to my ducty : but if to that, 
 My nature ncede a fpurre.thc Gods reuenge it 
 Vpon me and minejto the end ofgencration. 
 
 Per, I bcleeueyoii,your honour and .your goodnes, 
 Teach me too't without your vowes,till fhc be maricd, 
 Madame, by bright D(4n<?,whom wc honour, 
 AH vnliRerd ilial! this heyre of minc'Vemayne, . 
 Though I ZTicw will in't^foltakcmylcauc: 
 Good Madame,make me bleffcd in your care 
 In bringing vp ray Child. QtY, I 
 
 III. ii. io6 — III. iii. 32 
 
Pericles Trinct efTjre. 
 
 Dion. I haiic one iiiyfclfc,who fliall not be more dccfo 
 to my refpcd then yours,my Lord, 
 
 Pert. Madam,my thanks and prayers. 
 
 Cler. Wee! bring your Grace cne to the edge ath fnore, 
 thengiucyou vptothc niask'd Neftunc^ and the gcntlcll: 
 winds of heaucn. 
 
 Peri. I will imbraceyour offer, come dcercft Madame, 
 O noteares Z,«-/Kr>-«Wa,noteares,Iooke to your litle MiRns, 
 on whofc grace you may depend hereafter : corac mjr 
 Lord. 
 
 Enter Cerimon^nnA Thar fa. 
 
 Cer, Madam, thiiLetterjandfomccertaincIewels, 
 Lay with you in your Coffcr,which are at your command t 
 Know you the ChareAcr? 
 
 Thiir.\x.'\% rayLords,thatIwasfhiptatfcaIwell rcmcm- 
 kcrjcuen on my learning time, but whether there dcliuc- 
 redjby the holic gods I cannot rightly fay : but fince King 
 P<T*V/<r/ my wedded Lord,I ncrc Ihall fee againe, « vaflall 
 Jiucric wiil I take me to,and ncucr morehiue ioy. 
 
 CUr. Madam, if this you purpofe as yc fpcakc, 
 Diaitaes Temp]c is not diftant farre, 
 Where you may abide till your date expire, 
 Moieoucr if you pleafciN^ccc of mine, 
 Shall there attend yout 
 
 ThiK, My recompcncc is thanks, thats all, 
 Yet my good will is great, though th< gift fnaall* Ixtt. 
 
 Infer Saver. 
 
 Imagine PerkUstti'widcitTjre, 
 Wclcomd andfctledto his ownedcfire: 
 His wofull Quccnc we Icaucat Efhefm, 
 Vnto Z)*««4tHcr's a Votariflfc. 
 
 F New 
 
 
 III. iii. 32— IV. 1-4 
 
Pericles Prince $f fjre. 
 
 Now to Marina bcnd your mind. 
 
 Whom ourfall growing fceiicmufl findc 
 
 At Thn^jus,And by Clean rraind 
 
 InMu(icks!ctters,whohathgaiiid 
 
 Of cdiicarion all the grace. 
 
 Which makes hie both the art and place 
 
 Ofgenerall wonder : but alackc 
 
 That monller Enuic oft the wrackc 
 
 Of earned praiie, i^anrtMlifc 
 
 Seckc to take oif by treafons knife, 
 
 And in this kindc, our C/rot hath 
 
 One daughter and a full grownc wench, 
 
 Eucn rigfit for marriage light : this Maid 
 
 Hight Philorn : and it is faid 
 
 For ccrtainc in cur rtorie, lliec 
 
 Would cucrwith Afartnabcc. 
 
 Beer when tlxy wcaude thefleded Hike, 
 
 With fingers long,fiTiail,whitc as milke, 
 
 Or when ihc would withOiarpe needle wound, 
 
 The Cambrickc which fhr made more found 
 
 By hurting it or when too'ch Lute 
 
 She fuag,and made the night bed mute. 
 
 That ftill records with mone,of when 
 
 She would with rich and conftanrpcn, 
 
 Vailc to her Miftrelle Dtan (till, 
 
 This P^r/^f<'« contends in skill 
 
 With abfolutc ^rfTifirf : fb 
 
 The Doueof P<s;)Aoj- might with the crcnv 
 
 Vie feathers white, A/anna gets 
 
 All prayfes, which are paid as deb''*, 
 
 And not as g.uen, thisfodarkcs 
 
 In /'^7/«'<''?allgracefullmarkeyy 
 That C/.-OWJ wife with Enuicrare, 
 Aprefent murderer does prepare 
 For good Mariii4i,thit her daughter 
 
 Mighl 
 
 IV. 5-39 
 
ftricta frit$ce»fTfe, 
 Might ftandp«rcrlc(rc by this (laiighfcr. 
 The foo;irr her vilc thought* to ilwd J 
 Lt' hvriJa our nurfc is dead. 
 And curAd Dtomza hath 
 The prcciunt itinrumcntof wrarh, 
 Prcft for this blo.v,tlicvnhorpccucnt, 
 I dor com ncnd to yo'ir content, 
 0[icly I carried u inj^ed Time, 
 Pod one the lame fcctc orniy rime, 
 V\ hich ncucr could I foconucy, 
 Viilclfc youi tiioughts went on my way, 
 Z>»o*«^ docsappcarc, 
 With LetnsMc a murthcrcr. Exit, 
 
 Muter l9ie)iiz,i, tfith Letninc, 
 
 Dim. Thyoathrcnicmber,thouhaft /viorncto doo't, 
 tisbut J blowc which rciier Dial! bee knowne , thou 
 canft r.ot Joe a thing in the uorlde fo foonc to yccldc 
 thcc fon.icli protcc : let r:ot confciencc which is but 
 cold, in flaming, tiiy loue bcrome,tnflarrc 'oo nicelic, 
 rorlctpitticwh'cheuen won en hauc caftofF, melt thee, 
 but bealbuldcrto rhy purpofc. 
 
 Leoi. I w ill (ico'fjLuf yet (he is a goodly creature. 
 
 Dian. The fitter then the Gods Jbould hauc her, 
 Htre lliecomti wctpiiiglorhcronely Mirtrcirc death, 
 Thouartrtf )Ii;d' . 
 
 Leon, i amrvioi.iJc. 
 
 Enter Jlfdriuu with a t-isk^t offliwert. 
 
 M-vi. Ko : T wil! xohTelius of her nccoe to Hrowc 
 thvgr enc uirh Flowf rs, the ycilowes, bier, cs; the p-jrilc 
 Violctx,a.id M .ripoids, ibjll as a Carpet hang vpon tiy 
 graiiCjW hilc Scninicr daycs doth iaft:Ayc mepoorc n-a.dj 
 
 r i bori^.c 
 
 IV. 40-52— IV. i. 17 
 
Per/cies Prince of Tjrti ' 
 borne in « tcmpcfl,whcn my mother didc,tlvs world to mc 
 is a lafting {lormc,whirring mc trom rey fri<?nds. 
 
 Dton. HownowAfariMa,why doeyow keep alone? 
 How chauncc my daughter is not with you? 
 Doc notconfumeyour bloui with forrowing, 
 Haue you a nurfc of mc ? Lord how your fauours 
 Cliangd with *his vnprofitablc woC: 
 Comcgiuc mcyour flowcrs,crc the leamirrc it, 
 Walkc with Leonmcthc ayrc is quickc there, 
 And it pcrccsand Iharpcns the ftomackc, 
 Corac Leofiwf take her by the armc, walkc with her. 
 Afari. No I pray you,Ilc not bercaueyou of yourferuat. 
 Dion. Comc,comc,l loucthe king your father,andyour 
 felfcjwith more then forrainc hcart,wcc cucry day cxpc(ft 
 himherc,whenhefhallcomcand find our Paragon to all 
 reports thus blafted, 
 
 He will repent the brcadthof his great voyage,blame both 
 my Lord and me, that we haue taken no care to your heft 
 courfeSjgo I pray you,walkc and be chearfull onc^ againe, 
 rcfcruethat excellent complexion , which did (Icaic the 
 eyes ofyong and old. Care not for me, I can gc e home a- 
 lone, 
 
 Afdri, Wdl,Twillgoc,butyctlhauc nodcfiretooit. 
 Dion, ComCj comc,I know tis good for you,walkehalfc 
 an houreZ<f«»<«?,atthcleaft,rcmcmbcrwhatI haue fed. 
 Lt»y, I warrant you Madam. 
 
 DfotJ4 He Icauc you my fwcetc Ladie, for a while , pray 
 walkcroftlyjdocnothcateyourbloud, what, I mud nauc 
 care of you. 
 
 Man. My thanks fwcetc Midamc,I$ this wind Wcftcrlic 
 that bl owes? 
 
 JLf»n. Southwcft. 
 
 Mari. VAicn I was borne the wind was North. 
 L<ro>7. VVadfo? 
 
 v^:/*r<, Myfithcr,asnutfefes,did ncucr fcarc,butcrycd 
 
 good 
 
 IV. i. 18—53 
 
Ttfklts Ftmce ofTyrt. 
 
 good fca-mc%fo the Saylcrs, galling his kingly hands ha- 
 ling ropes, andciafpingtothcMaft, endured a fca that al- 
 moin burft the decke. 
 
 LeoH. When was this? 
 
 A'lari, When I was borne, ncucrwas waucs nor winde 
 more violent,and from the ladder tackle, waOics oti'acan- 
 iias clymcfjha fcsone, woltout ?and with a dropping in- 
 durtrie they skip from Uernc to Itcrnc , the Boatlwainc 
 whiQlcs,and the Mailkrcalles and trebles their conlulion . 
 
 L'or., Come fay your prayers. 
 
 Afart. What mcaiie you ? 
 
 Leon, ifyou require a little fpacc for praicr, I graunt it, 
 pray,hut bee not tedious, for the Gods arcquKkeot care, 
 and I am fwornc to do my workc w ith hatk. 
 
 /tA-r/. Why willyoukill me? 
 
 Leon. Tofatisfic my Ladle, 
 
 Alan. Why would fhce haue mee kild now I as I can re- 
 member by my troth, I neucr did her hurt in allmy Idc , I 
 ncucr fpake bad wordc, nor did ill turne to anic lining crea- 
 ture : Belceuc me law,I ncucr killd a Moufc, nor hurt a Fly • 
 I trodevpon a wormcagainft my will,but I wept fort.How 
 haue I offcnded,whcrein my death might yeeld her aiiic 
 profit,ormylifc imply her any danger? 
 
 LeoK, MyCommillionisnottorcaron of the dccd.but 
 doo'f. 
 
 M*ri, You will not doo't forall theuorld I hope: you 
 are well fauourcd, and your lookcs forclhew you haue a 
 gentle heart,! faw you latclic when you caught hurt in par- 
 ting two that fought:goodfooth it iLewdcwell in you, do 
 fo now, your Ladic fctkes my ldcCome,you bctwecnc^nd 
 fauc poore mcc the weaker. 
 
 Leon, lamfwonieandwilldifpatch, EnCtrPirats. . 
 
 /■/r^/.i. Holdvillaine. 
 /'<>-/?,2. Aprizc,aprize. 
 
 PirM, ?. Halfc part mates, halfc part. Come kts haue 
 ' "^ F ^ her 
 
 IV. i. 53-95 
 
ftriclts Frina tftjrtJ, 
 
 her aboord fodainly. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Enter Lttmnt. 
 
 te»n. Thcfc roguf rng thccuesfcruc the great Pyraf* 
 VMes, and they hauc fcizd M*r$na, Icthcr goc, tier's no 
 hope fhcc will rcturnc , Ucfwcarc fhccs dead, and thrownc 
 into the Sea , but ilc fee further : pcrhappes they will but 
 plcafc themfclucs vpon her, not carric her aboord, itlhec 
 reniaine 
 Whome they hiuc rauiflit, aiuft by mee be ILiuic, 
 
 Exit. 
 
 [Enter the three Sawdef. 
 
 ParJir. Boult, 
 
 BquU. Sir. 
 
 TAnit r. Searche the market narrowely , Utiettrlyne is 
 full of gallants, wee loft too much much money this mart 
 by becing too wenchlcirc. 
 
 Band. Wee were ncuerfo much out of Creatures, wc 
 h uc but poore t hret, and the/ can doc no more then they 
 can doe, and they With continualJaftion, arc cucn as good 
 as rotten, 
 
 Pandi-r. Therefore lets haue frefh ones what ere wee pay 
 for them, if thcrcbcenotaconfcienccto bcvfic incucric 
 trade ^wcc fhall neucr profpcr, 
 
 h^vd. Thoufayft truc,ri$ not our bringing vp of poorc 
 baftardsjasi thinke,Ihaucbrou(>htvproincekiier. 
 
 Bo^i/t. I to cleucn, and brought tiicm downc againe, 
 but fljall Ifearche the market? 
 
 Bawde. Wbaf clfc man i the ftirtfc wc haue , a flrong 
 windcwiJlblowcittopccccs, they arc fo pittifully foducn. 
 
 IV. i. 95— IV. ii. 21 
 
tericUi Prince of rjK_j, 
 
 Vau^*.; Jhoii ntycft true, thcr's ruo viiwlioItroiHC a 
 confcicncc , the poorc Tr4»filMtniA» i^ dad tlut la> c wifli 
 tlic little bjuigadgc. 
 
 Boitlt. \j ihcc quickly poupthim.die made him roalV 
 mcatc tor wormc J , but I Ic goc Tcarche the marker, 
 
 Extr. 
 
 Pand. Three or fourc thoiifanJe Chcckinj were as 
 prcttie a proportion to liuc quietly, and fo giuc oucr. 
 
 Bdivd. Why, to giue oucr I pray you? Is it a lliamc to 
 get when wee arc oidc .'' 
 
 r^nd. Ohoiircrcditecomesnotin like the coninio- 
 ditie , rorthecommoditic wages not with the daungcr : 
 tlicreforc if m our /outhes we could picke vp Come prcttie 
 cllate, t'were notamiirc to kecpcour doorc hatch't, bcfidcs 
 the fore tearmcs we ftaiid vpon with the go Js, wilbc Hrong 
 vith vs for giuing ore. 
 
 Bund. Come other forts offend as wtll as wee. 
 
 Pamd. AswcIIaswce, I , and better too ,wccoffcndc 
 worfc, neither is our proferTion any trade , It's no calling, 
 but hecrc comes Btulr, 
 
 Enter Bonlt with the Ptrates *nd ^M^^ina, 
 
 Stitlt. Comcyour\vayc8mymai(lers,youfayriKc's a 
 rirgin. 
 
 Sajltr. O Sir,wec doubt it not. 
 
 B«ult. MaOcr,I hauegone throuah for this peccc you 
 (cC) if you like her fo, if not I haue loft my earncft. 
 
 Bif»d. .9Wf has fliecanic qualities J 
 
 Boult. Shce has a good face, fpfakes well, and has ex- 
 cellent good cloathcs : rhcres no farther nccclfitic of qiu- 
 liticscan make hcrbcrcfuz'd 
 
 B^md. What'i her price B*itU ? 
 
 Bow//, 
 
 IV. ii. 22-54 
 
ferleks Prince o/Tyre, 
 
 Sotilt, I cannot be bated one doit of a thou/and pctfCM. 
 PAnJ, VVcIljfollowfnc my nuiftcrs,you /hall hauc your 
 money prcfcnly, wife take her in,inrtru(n: her what Ihe hi* 
 to doc, that (he may not be rawc w her entertainment. 
 
 BtKn:!. j?wAj take you the markciof her, the colour of 
 her hairc-jcompjexion, height, hcragc, with warrantof her 
 virt;init!e,a!id cricjUc that wi! giiic moll (hjl haue her firft, 
 fuchamaydcnhcadwercnochrapething, if men were as 
 t hey hauc becnc:get this done as I command you. 
 Boult. Ptrformanceiliall follow. Exit, 
 
 Mr.y, Alackc that LeoatHevas fo flackc,fo flow,hc fhould 
 hauc Itrookc, not fpokc,or that thefe Pirates, not enough 
 barbarou3,had not orcboord thrownc aie,for to fcckc my 
 mother, 
 
 Bifwd. Why lament you prcttic one? 
 Afar, That I am prcttic* 
 Bav?d. Come,theGods haucdone their part in you* 
 AlAr, laccufethcmnot. 
 
 Bawdr You arc light into my hands,w here you are like 
 to hue. 
 
 Mar, The more my fault, to fcapc his handej, where I 
 was to die. 
 Bawd. I,andyoa fliall liuc in pcifure. 
 Mar. No. 
 
 Barrd. Yes indeed fhall you, and taflc Gentlemen of* all 
 falhions,youlhall fare wcll,you (hall haue the iifFcrcncc of 
 all complexionsjwhat doc you (lop your eares .' 
 Mar. Areyouawoman ? 
 
 Bawd* What would you hauc mee be,and I bee not a 
 woman i 
 Mar, Anhoneft woman,ornotawoman. 
 Bawd. Marie whip thcGolTeling , I thinkc I (hall hauc 
 fbmcthingto doc with you, come your a young foolifli. 
 fiipling,and muft be bowed as I would hauc you. 
 Mar. The Oods defend mc. 
 
 IV. ii. 55—95 
 
Pericles Prince tfTjre. 
 
 tAud. IfitplMfc the Gods to defend youliynien, then 
 men mud comfort you,mcn miift feed you , men ftir you 
 vp : BoHlts rcturnd. Now fir, haft thou cridc her tlirough 
 the Market? 
 
 BouJ', I hauc cryde her almoft to the number of her 
 haires,! haue drawne her pidurc with my voice. 
 
 Baud, j^ndlprethectellmcjhowdoft thou find the in- 
 clination ofthe peoplcjcfpccially of the yongcr fort? 
 
 Btult, Faith they hftencdto mee, as they would hauc 
 
 harkcncd to their fathers teftament, there was a Spaniards 
 
 mouth watred^nd he went to bed tohcrvcric dcfcriprion. 
 
 Baud. We rtiall hauc him here to morro\t witli his bell 
 
 rufFcon. 
 
 Boult. To night, tonight, bat Miftrelfedoeyouknowc 
 the French knight, that cowrcs cthc hams i 
 Ban^, Who, Mouitfjeur Verollns I 
 
 Boult. I, he, he offered to cut a caper at the proclama- 
 tion,buthc niadeagroancatitjand fworc he would fee her 
 to morrow. 
 
 Baud. Well,wcll,as for hi m,hee brought his difeafchi- 
 thcr,herehe docs butrepairc it, I knowchecwill come in 
 ourfiiadowjtofcattcrhis crownesin theSunnc. 
 
 Bouh, Well,ifwchad of eueric Nation a traucllcr,wec 
 lliould lodg< them wiih this figne. 
 
 Baud. Pray you come hither a while , you hauc 
 Fortunes comming vpponyou , markc mec, you mufl 
 feemc to doe that fearcfully, which you commit willing- 
 ly, dcfpifeprofite, where you haue moftgainc, towecpe 
 thatyouliucasycc doc, makes pittie in your Louers (lA- 
 dome, but that pittie begets you a good opinion, and that 
 opinion a mccrc profite. 
 Marit I vndcrftand younot. 
 
 Boult, OtakchcrhomcMiftreirCjtakcher home, thcfc 
 bludics of hers muft bcc qucncht with fomc prcfcnt 
 pradifc. 
 
 G ;' . Mm. 
 
 IV. ii. 96 — 139 
 
THricUs TrmeofTyrt, 
 
 Mtri, Thouri/cfttruc yfaitli, fo they mull, for your 
 Bfidcgocs to ch.it with fliimc,wli!cli ii her \txy to goc with 
 wurrj.it. 
 
 Bonlt. Faitlifomc doc.andfomc docnot,butMiftrc(l<: 
 if Ihaucb.irgainJ for the ioynt. 
 
 E-iif^. Thou niiift cue a uiorfcll off the fpit, 
 
 Bn.l(. 1 miv fcs 
 
 />'.;«..'. Wlio llioul J dcnic it ? 
 Come you;igo:ic,I like the manner of your girrocnrs 
 v.-cll. 
 
 Luult. I by my faith,thcy (lull not be changd yzt. 
 
 E^ud. ^eWf/prnd thou that in tlKtownc- report what 
 a lo!ounvT\vc liauc, you!c loofc nothing by cudonic. 
 WhciiNirurc fr.i.nJc this pcccc, (hcc meant thee a good 
 turae, thcrcfo.'.- fay whata pirragon Ihcii , and thou hall 
 tlic haru ■ lI: oi 1 1 of t hinc oa lie report. 
 
 RjhU. I uarr-uit you Miftrcllc, tiiunder fliall not foa- 
 wakcthcbcls of Eclci as my gluing out her bcauric lUrs 
 vpthc icu.Hy ciiL lined,! !c bring homcfjmeto night* 
 
 EauJ. Come vourwjycs,toilo\vmc. 
 
 AUn. Ifrtrcs be bote, knaics lharpe,or waters dccpe, 
 Viitidc Illiil my virgmknotwili kcepc. 
 DM-waydc my rnrpolc. 
 
 Bund. What haucwcto doc with i^*«4 > pray yott wjJI 
 Xougoc with vsf 
 
 Enter CU»n^«mt DitmKJtk 
 
 Dio»* Whyercyoufoohfti,canitbcvndon«f 
 Clem^ O /)»o*»<-«,fuclva pcccc of flaughtet. 
 The Sunnc and Moone nere lookt vpon* 
 Dtm, I tliinke youlc turoc &chidlc agcru 
 
 CJt* 
 
 IV. ii. 140 — IV. iii. 4 
 
TerkUs X'r.ncetf Tjre. 
 
 Chtn. Were I chicfc Lord of all this fpaclous worldJdc 
 
 gmcitrovndothcdccdc.OLadicmuchJcircmbloudthcn 
 vertuc ycf a Princcs'to cquall any finglcCrowncathcarth- 
 ith luUicc ofcompar(r,Ov'iIlainc,Z,f««t«^Av horn thou hart 
 poifncd too ; if tlicu hadft driinkc to him tad bccnc a 
 kindrdrcbecomming well thy face, what can 11 thou fa/ 
 V hen noble /^mWf/ (hail dcroaund his child.'' 
 
 D>oyi. That Qicc is dead, Nurfes arc not the fares fo fo- 
 ftcrit,nofcucrto prtfcruc,Tlic dide at nifhr,IIc fay fo, who 
 cancroircifVnlclfcyouplay the impio"iis Innocent^ and 
 ^or an honcft attribute , eric our (hcc dyde by foulc 
 play. 
 
 Clr, Ogoetoo,wcII,wcll,ofaIithe faidts bcncarh the 
 hcaucnjjtic Gods doc like fhis vvor(i 
 
 Dior, Bconcof rhofetbarthinkcs the petiic wrens of 
 T^^f/ixiMV ill flic hencc^ndopcn x\wa to Pmc I cs,\Ao lliamc 
 to thinkcof whata noble (Iraincyou arc*, and ofhow co- 
 uardafpir>« 
 
 CIc, To fuch proceeding v. l.o cuer but his approba- 
 tion addeJjthough not his pnncc confcnr, he did not flow 
 horn honourable courfes. 
 
 Dionc Be it fo then, yet none docs knowc but you 
 how lliee came dead, nornone can knowc Leor.me being 
 gone, Shecdid difdaincmychildc,and fioodc bcfvvccnc 
 her andiicr foraincs : none wouldc lookc on her, but 
 cjfl tbcir g:izcs on Mariiw^ hcc f whilcd rurs was blur- 
 ted at, and htldca Mawkin not worth the time of day, 
 Itpicrftrac thorow,an<l though you call my courfc vn- 
 i:.ujrall , you not youfchildc well loujng, yet I finde it 
 greets mecasancntcrpnzc of kindncircperformdtoyour 
 Ible daughter. 
 
 C A. Hcauen s fofgiuc it. 
 
 D»««. And as for Ptrieies, what fhould hcc fiy,v.'c wept 
 after her hcarfc,& yet we mournejher monument is a! mod 
 finifhcd^hcr epitaphs ill gIittringgoldcchara(3:cFscxprcs 
 . - - ' G * a ecnc- 
 
 IV. iii. 5—44 
 
PtricUs VrhctofTft. 
 
 i gencrrall prayfc to her, and care in vsat whofccxpcncc 
 tisdone. 
 
 Cle. Thou art like the Harpic, 
 Which to bctriy,docft with thine Angclls face ccazc with 
 
 thine Eagles talents, 
 
 Bion. Ycrc like one that fupcrfticiouny, 
 Doe fwcarctoo'th Gods, that Winter kills 
 The f liicsjbutycti know,youle 
 doc as laduifc. 
 
 Go-wer. Thus time wcw»flc,& long leagues make fliort, 
 Sailc fcas in Cockles, haue and wi(h but fort, 
 Making to take our imagination, 
 From bourne to bournc,region to region, 
 By you being pardoned wc commit no crime. 
 To vfe one language, in each feuerall clime. 
 Where out fceanes fecmestohuc, 
 1 dpcbefcech you 
 
 To Icarncofmewho (land with gappcs 
 To teach you. 
 
 The flagcs ofour ftorie PtrkUs 
 Is now againe thwarting thy wayward Tea j. 
 Attended on by many a Lord and Knight, 
 To fee his daughter all his hues delight. 
 OldHe/lcanua- goes along behind, 
 Is left to goucrne it,you bcarc in mind. 
 Old Efcenirs,whom He/Jicanfu lite 
 j^duancdein timetogreatandhiccrtatc. 
 Well fayling (hips,and bounteous winds 
 Haue brought 
 
 Thisking to T^^r/Wjthinke this Pilatthought 
 So with his ftcragCjfhall your thoughts gronc 
 To fetch his daughter homc,whofirft is gone 
 Like moats and lhadowcs,fcc them 
 Moueawhilc, 
 Your earesvnto your eyes lie reconcile. 
 
 Ihtter 
 
 IV. iii. 45— IV. iv. 22 
 
P tricks Prin ct of Tyre^. 
 
 f>,tc>Pertc!esat tne dt>cre,rftth xll hu trajne , Clcen tr.dDto- 
 r.i^j!: At tht other. CUonJhevreJ F (rides the t(,n>bc ,tihtreut I'e- 
 rtclf'S rr.ukes Lmerit/ttlOM , futj n$fack(-cloth, a»d i» <« might] 
 p.jjfinn departs. 
 
 Ganr. Sec how belccfc may fufFcr by fowlc fliowe, 
 This hoiTOwcdpjflion Hands for true oldc woe : 
 And Pericles in rorrowc alldeuoiir'd, 
 With lighcs fliot through, and biggcft tcarcs orc-lliowr'd. 
 Leaucs ■7'^*jr/»«,andagaincimbarGUCs,hecfwcarcs 
 Neuer to wafli his facc^nor cut his nayrcs : 
 Hee put on fack-cloth, and to Sea he bcares, 
 A Tempeft whichhismortall vclTcll tearcs. 
 And yet hcc rydcs it out , Nowe pleafe you wit: 
 The Epitaphisfor J/<«r<«<« writ, by wicked £)>*«<-^" 
 Thefatreji,fweettB,dfui beHljeshccre, 
 yyho yeithered tn her Jp ring ofjcAre : 
 She yr/u ofTjrm the Ki»gs daughter. 
 On Vfhomforole death hath made thu jlaughter. 
 Marina wiujhee cak'd , and at her byrth, 
 Thetis being prenvd,fivallened fame fart ttlt earth : 
 Therefore the earth fearing to be ore-fioyred. 
 Hath Thetii byrth-chtlde on t he heartens befion^ed, 
 fyhereferejhe does Midfwearesjheeleneuerfiwt, 
 Make raging Battery vt»njh«res tf flint. 
 No viior docs become olackc villanie. 
 So well as foft and tender flattcric : 
 Let Pericles bcleeue his daughter's dead, 
 And bcarc his courfes to be ordered j 
 By Lady /"or/wwr, while our Stcarc muft plajr. 
 His daughters woe and hcauie welladay. 
 In her vnholie fcruice : Patience then. 
 And thinkc you now arc all in Mittehn, 
 
 Exit. 
 Enter nvc ^entlemew. 
 
 l.Gent, Didyoucucrhcarcthclikc? 
 
 C J Ceiftr, 
 
 IV. iv. 23— IV. V. I 
 
PerkUs Prince o/fyre-j'. 
 
 i.Cent. NojnorncucrfhilldocJn fuchaplaceaith?*, 
 flicc bccing once gone. 
 
 I. But to hauc diuinrtie prcach't ehcrc ^ did you cucr 
 drcameof fucli athing? 
 
 z. No,no,coir)c, I am for no more bawdichoufcs,(liaIl'$ 
 goc hcarc tlic Vcftalls fing ? 
 
 I. lie doc any thing now thatis vertuous, but I am out 
 of the road of cutting for cucr. ExUt 
 
 Enter Boffdes f, 
 Pand, Well, I had rather then twice the worth of her 
 
 fticc hid nerc come hccrc* 
 
 Bawd^ Fyc, f yc, vpon her, fhcc's able to frezc the god 
 rr/rf^iiTj and vndoc a whole generation, wcmull cither get 
 her rauifhcd, or be rid of hcr,wlicn flic fliouJd doc for Cly~ 
 cnts her fitment, and doc nice the kindentlfe ofourpro- 
 fc(rion,flicc has mc her quirks,hcr rcafons, her maftcr rca- 
 fons, her prayers, her knees, that fiiec would make a Pw-s- 
 t^iKe oi thcdiKcIl, if hce lliould cheapen a kilTcof her. 
 
 Foi^/t. FaithI nnirtrauilhhcr, orflKL'lcdisfijrnifh vs 
 of all our Caualcrcraj and nuke our (wearers pricrf;, 
 
 P4»ci, Now the poxc vpon her greenc ficknts for mee, 
 
 Band, f^ith ther's no way to be riddc on't but by the 
 way to the pox.Hcre comes tiic Lord Lyfimachus difguifcd. 
 
 Bo!^.', Wcc ihould haue both Lordc and Lo\vnc,if the 
 |)eeuilh baggad^c woiil J but giuc way to cuftomcrs. 
 Enter Lyftmachm.. 
 
 Ljfim. How now, how a doiizcn of virginities? 
 
 ^;rw</. Now the Gotl> to bicjfc yocir Honour. 
 
 Botilt. I am glad to fceyonr Honour in good health. 
 
 Li. You may , 'i^ t'is the better for you that your rc- 
 fortcrs (land vpon found iegges , how nowf whollomcini- 
 quitichaucyou,thata man may dealcwithall , and dtfic 
 tJieSurgion? 
 
 Bawd. Wee Iiauc hco-c one Sir , if Ihcc would, but 
 
 there 
 
 IV. V. 2 — IV. vi. 31 
 
I / 
 
 I 
 
 F trie Its Prince »f Tjrc^; 
 thirc ncuer cam- hcrlike in Mtulw. {Uy. 
 
 /.J. If (liec'd doethcdccdesoFdarkncs thouwouldll 
 Biiwd, Your Honor knows what c'is to fay wcl enough. 
 Li. Wdl,call forth, wll forth. 
 EomU. for flcfliand bloud Sir, white and rcd,yoaflull 
 fee i role,and Ihc were a rofc indeed, if Ihec had but. 
 Li. What prithi i 
 BomU, OSir,Icanbcmodcft. 
 Li. That dignities the renowne of a Bawdc, nolcirc 
 tiicn it giucs a good report to a number to be chafte. 
 
 BawcL. Heerc conies that which growcs to the ftalkc, 
 Ncucr p'.uckt yet I can alFurc you. 
 Is (liec not a fairc creature? 
 
 Lj Faith Ihce would feruc after a long voyage at Se3^ 
 WclJ thcres for you, Icauc vs. 
 
 BMvd, I bcfcccheyour Honor giuc me Icauc a word, 
 And lie haue done prcfcntly. 
 X*. I bcfeechyoudoe. 
 
 Bsstd. f irllj I would haueyou note, this is an Hono- 
 rable man. (note him- 
 Mar. I dedretofinde himfo , that I may worthilic 
 Bawd. Next hccs the Goucrnor of this countrey,and 
 • man whom I am bound too. 
 
 Mu, If hcgoucrnc fhccountrcy you arc bound to him 
 indeed, but how honorable hccisinthat,! knowenot. 
 
 BuTvci, Pray you without anie more virginall fencings 
 Will you vfc him kindly.^ he will lync your apron with gold. 
 M**. What hce will doc gratioufly , I will thankfully 
 tcceiuc. 
 
 Li. Ha you done? 
 
 B<md. MyLordfhcesnotpac'ftcyct, you maft take 
 
 fome paincs to worke licr to your mannage, come wee will 
 
 Icauc his Honor,and her together, goc thy wayes. (trade i 
 
 Li. Nowprittieonc, how long haucyoubccnc at this 
 
 .*£«. What tude Sir? 
 
 Li. Why 
 
 IV. vi. 3T--75 
 
P:riel(sPrh^*fTjrtJ. 
 
 Li, Why, I cannot name but I fliall offend, (nime i€ 
 Mft, I cannot be offended with my trade , pleafeyou to 
 
 Li* How Jong haue you bene ot this profcflion ? 
 Alfa. Ere fince 1 can remember. 
 
 Li. Did yougoctoo't fo young, wcrcyouagamcftcr 
 atfiuCjOr atfcucn? 
 
 Mm. Earlycr too S ir, if now I bee one. 
 
 Ly. Why / the houfc you dwell in proclairacjyou to 
 be a Creature of falc. 
 
 Ma, Doe you knowe this houfe to be « place of fuch 
 rcfort, andwiil come intoo't? I hearcfay you're of honou- 
 rable parrs, and arcthcGoucrnourof this place. 
 
 Li. Why, hath your principall made knowncvnto 
 you who I am ? 
 
 Aid. Who is my principall f 
 
 Li. Why,your hearbe-woman , fhe that fets feeds and 
 rootcsoffhamcand iniiquitie. 
 
 O you haue heard lomcthing of my power, and Co 
 ftand aloft for morefcrious wooing, but I prorcfl to thee 
 prcttieonc, my authoriticfliall not fee thecjorelfclooke 
 fricndiyvpon thee, come bring mc to fomepriuatc place : 
 Come, come. 
 
 ■Ma. If you were borne to honour, fliew it now, if put 
 vpon you, make the iudgcmcnt good , that thought you 
 vvorthicof it. 
 
 Li. How's this ? how's this ? fomcmore , be (age. 
 
 A'fttr. Formethatama maide,though moftvngentle 
 Foi'tune haue plac't mcc in this Stic , where fince I came, 
 difeaftshaucbeene foldc decrer then Phifickc, that the 
 gods would fct me free from this vnhalowed place,though 
 they did chaunge mectothc roeaneft byrd that flycs i'th 
 purer ayrc. 
 
 Li. Ididnot thinkethoU couldfthaucfpoke fowcll, 
 ncre dremp't thou con! d'ft , had I brought hither a cor- 
 rupted mindc, thy fpecchc had altered it , holde,hecrcs 
 
 golde, 
 
 IV. vi. 76 — 115 
 
Perides Prince ofT'^rc^-. 
 goldc for thee, pcrfcuer in tlut clcarc vvav thou i^oed an"d 
 the gods rtrengthenthrc. 
 
 ^JMa. The good Gods prcrcriievoii. 
 Li. For nic be'youthoughtcn, that I came with no ill 
 intent, for tonic tile very dores and windows Huior v'llely, 
 fjrc thee \vclI,tiK)ii arra pccccof vcrtuc,&: I uouhtnot bt t 
 thy training hjth bcncnoblejiold, hccrcsmorcgoldc for 
 thee,a ciirfe vpon h;ni,dic lie iikc a thccfc that robs tl kc of 
 thy goodncs,if thou docR heirc fioin me it (halbe for thy 
 good. 
 
 Boclt. I bcfccche your Honor one [->ccce for mc. 
 Li. Anaunt thou damned dorc-kecper , your houfc but 
 for this virgin that docth prop it, wouidiinckc and oucr- 
 vhdmc-you. Away. 
 
 Bor-rir. How'sthis? wcemudtakc another courfc with 
 you ? if your pecnflli chaftitiCjwhich is not worth a brcake- 
 faft in the chcapcti: countrey vnder the coap, Ihall vndoc a 
 who'c houlholdjlet me be gelded like a fpanicljcomcyour 
 C?//. Whitr.crwouldyi.^u haucmccf (waves. 
 
 Bonlr. I nu!n!":.uicyourmayden-hcadtAkcnoff,orthc 
 ccmon hag-n^an ihal execute it,comc your way,weelc hauc 
 ncmoreGcntJcmcn driucn away, come your waycs I iay. 
 Enter B'lrcdes. 
 Barrel. How now, whats the matter? 
 Boult. Worfcand worrcminris,(hcchashccrcrpokcn 
 holie words to the Lord Ufim^chpu. 
 BavfA. O abhominablc. 
 
 Boutc. He makes our profefTion as it were to ftincke a- 
 forc the face of the gods. 
 
 Bii'nd. A'fane hang her vp for cucr. 
 Bouit. The Noble man would hauc dealt with her like 
 a KohIeman,andrheefciithima\'.ay ascolJcas a Snowc- 
 ball;, faying his prayers too. 
 
 B^yv:>. ^Po»l! take her awayjvfc her at rhv picafurc,crack 
 the qlalfe oflier virginitie, ai'.d make the reft maliablc. 
 
 H Bor:/t. 
 
 IV. vi. 115— 157 
 
rtricJes Prince of Tyr<^, 
 
 Bonit. And if fhccwcrc a thornycr pcccc of ground 
 thcnOiccis, fhccfliall be plowed, 
 
 Mii, Harkc, harkcyou Gods« 
 
 Bawd. She coniurcs, away with her, would rtic had nc- 
 uer conic within my doorcs,Marric hang you:nicc« borne 
 tovndocvs, will you notgoc the way of wcmcn-kindc i 
 Marry come vp my difh of chaftitie with rofcmary&baics. 
 
 houk. Come miftris ,come your way with mcc. 
 
 A^u. Whither wilt thpuhaucmec? 
 
 Botilt. To take from you the Icwcll you hold Co decre. 
 
 Ma, Prithee tell mcc one thing firft. 
 
 ^(i«A. Come now your one thing. 
 
 Ma. Whatcanftthou wi^li thine cncniie to be. 
 
 Boklt. why, I could wilh him to bee ray maftcr, or ra- 
 ther my millris. 
 
 M.i. Neither of thcfe are fo bad as thou art,fince they 
 doe better thee in their coTTimand,thou hoid'lta place for 
 which the pained ft feende of hell would not in reputation 
 change: Thou art the damned doore-kecpcr to eucry cu- 
 Ifcreli that comes enquiring for his Tib. To thrcholcrikc 
 filling of cucry roguc^thy care is lyabic, thy toodc is fuch 
 as hath bccnebclch't on by infcfted lungs. 
 
 .ffe.What wold you hauc rae do?go to the wars,wold youj 
 wher a man may fcruc 7.yccrs for the lolFc of a leg,& hauc 
 not money enough in the end to buy him a woodden one? 
 
 yl/.?. Doc any thing but this thou docft,emptic olde rc- 
 ccptaclcsjorcomnion-fhoresof filthc,femcby indenture, 
 to the common hang-man, anieof thefe waycs areyct 
 better then this: for what thou profclFeftja Baboone could 
 he fpeak,would owne a name too decre, that the gods wold 
 rafclydcliucrmefrom this place; hcre,hccrs gold for thee, 
 if that thy malkr would gaineby mc,proclaimethatI can 
 fing,weauc,fow,&dancc,with other vcrtucs.which lie keep 
 from boa fl,and will vndcrtakc all thefe to teache* I doubt 
 not but this populous Gittic will yceldc minie fchollcrs. 
 
 BihU*. 
 
 IV. VI. 158-203 
 
FerleUt TrtHttefTfrt^,. 
 SmU. But can you tcachcall thijyou fpcakc of* 
 AU Proouc tlut I cannot, take mcc home Jaainc, 
 
 And prollitutcmcctothc bafcil groomc that docth frc ' 
 
 quent your hoiile. 
 
 ^^*A. VVcli I \vill fee what I can doc for thcc ; rfl can 
 phcc thee 1 will. 
 
 f^f-i. Biitamongfl honed woman. 
 
 ^""''- Faith my aci^iiafiitar.cc lies jittleamon^ft them 
 But hncc my mailer and miilris hath boughtyou , thcrcs 
 no going but by their confent : tiicrcforc I wili make them 
 acc]uamtcd with your purpofcjand I doubt not but I Iball 
 hndcthcm tradable enough. Comc,IIc docfor thcewhat 
 I can, come your waycs. Excum. 
 
 Enter Gatver. 
 
 Aftrind thus the Brothell fcapesjand chaunce* 
 
 Into an HoHc's'i-hou'e our Stone faves : 
 
 Shcc linfTS hke one immortall,and (lice dauncc* 
 
 AiGoddelTc-Iike to her admired laves, (fe», 
 
 Dccpeckarksllicdumb's, andwitliher nccIcc«nipo- 
 
 Naturcs ow.ie rtiapc, of buddc,bird,branche, or berry. 
 
 That cuen her art lifters the naturall Rofcs 
 
 Her Inckle,SiIke Twine, with the rubied Cherric, 
 
 That puplct lackcs Ihe none of nobJe race, 
 
 Who powre the ir bountic on her : and her gainc 
 
 Shegiucs the curfed Bawd , here wee her place, 
 
 And to hir Father turnc our thoughts againe, 
 
 Where wee left him on the Sea , wee there him Icff, 
 
 where driucn before the windcs,hee isarriu'dc 
 
 Hccrc where his daughter dwcls,and on this coaft, 
 
 Suppofc him now at Anchor: the Citie Itriu'dc 
 
 God Neptmue) y^««M«//feaft to keepc, from whence 
 
 LyfimAchud our TjrM» Shipp*" efpics , 
 
 His banners Sablc,trim'd with rich cxpcncc, 
 
 H 2 And 
 
 jli'^X-^t^-^^i^W'*'--- -*• .'t^^ 
 
 IV. vi. 204 — V, 1-19 
 
Pcric'fs Trince o.[Tye^. 
 
 AnJtohini ia his Barge With fbriitcrhyc-s, 
 la your RippofiLig oner more put your lig! t, 
 Ot licaiiy fe-ttUs, rhinkc this Ins Bjrkc : 
 Whcrcwhat isdoncin ac^ oti, n-,orc if might 
 Slulbc difcou-rJ, |>lcarc you lltandharkc. Exit, 
 
 FiUcr Hc'iicumii ,to htm i. S^iyler.t. 
 I. ^j Where IS Lord h!dtr/i,:u>l hcecanrcToliicyou, 
 O hicrc he is S,r,r[7cre is a barge put offfrom /^/ t.hyh- and 
 in It i» LyHm.icli'f.i the Goucrnour , who craucs to cosr e a- 
 boord, wliat ii your will ? 
 
 Helh That hec haue his, call vp fome Gentlemen. 
 i, i".v.'. IJo GciitlcuKn, my LoiJca!!>. 
 r.nt^riiro or ihr/e G^::l [nnci:. 
 
 I. Gfr.(. Coc'th your Lord'hip c«!l ? 
 // // . Gentlemen there !s lonie ot worth would come 
 *'5cord, I pra/ greet hini fairely, 
 Enter Lyitm ic''<ir. 
 
 1. 5'j)^.Sir,this is the n>jn tl»at can in ought you would 
 rcfoi'uc yoLi. 
 
 Lyl. Hivlercutrent S' r the Godsprefcrucyou. 
 
 //<-//. Aiidyouto out-liuerhe age I *m , middic as I 
 would doe, 
 
 Lt. You wifli mec well, bccrng on (hore, honoring of 
 'N.-j>ti4* es triumphs, Seeing this goodly vctfc !1 ride before 
 vs, I maJe to ;t,roknowcoi^ whence youare. 
 
 .'/':■//. firll what 18 votH- place ? 
 
 Zi. 1 am the Goucrnour of this place you Ii'c before. 
 
 HelL Svr ourvedell is of 7>r?, in it the King , a man, 
 who for this three rarxxrths hath not fpoken to anie one, 
 nor taken fuften«nce,!>ut to prorogue his griefc. 
 
 L'. Vpoii wbatgrouiidi- his Jiftcmpcraturc? 
 
 Hell TwonJd be foo tedious to repeat , but the mayne 
 griefc (prin^i frothefolleof abcioucd daughter & a wife» 
 
 Lk M^vwecnotfcchim i 
 
 HclL 
 
 V. 20-24— V. i. 31 
 
Ttrhici Pri' a o' Tjre. 
 
 / W/. You may,bm bootklfe. 1$ yoir figl.f.hcc will not 
 (jK-kc to ai, y.'yct irt mc obtainc my \urt . '' 
 
 /:> Bclu:!.!him,this\vasjgoodly pcrfon. 
 
 f .. Tiilthc uirartcrtlutonemoTtaUwiahtJiouchim' 
 tothi?. -^ 
 
 /-■'. St King all hailc, the Gods nRfcriiC you, hailc 
 
 rcyjii.rr. 
 
 /-'. // It :s in vainc,hc\' ill rot fpcakc to you. 
 
 i,-'i. Sir wchaucd maid rn AUnUut, I tiuift wager would 
 \vi;ii'>i!'c words ofhin-i, 
 
 Z: . Tis ucll hcthcugl-t, (Tie qucflionlclfc with htfr fwcct 
 h.i!ii.orie,3nd othcrchor'rn attradions, wruld allure and 
 m.'.kcjhattriethrourh hii defend parrs, which now arc 
 ir^idway ftopt.niccisall hapnic asthcfaircflofail, and her 
 ftiinn maides, nowvpoa the Icauic l>icltcr thatahutts a- 
 gaiuft the lliands l^ic-. 
 
 /f'-iV. Suit all ctTcrtldrc,yctrothinq wcclc emit rhat 
 hcar<srccoucricsnamc. Bur iincc your kind nclfcwcchauc 
 ftrcTchr thus farrc, let vs bclecch yoii,that for our goidc 
 vc m.;y prouilion haur , wherein wcarc not dtftitucc kr 
 want,l nrwcjric forthe (Lltnellc, 
 
 Zt<. O fir,*currc(ic,whichirwcfhouiu denicjthc mcff 
 iut^Godforcuerv graffe would fend a Catcrpdiar, and fo 
 iiHic'^our Prouincc: vet once more let nice mtrcatc to 
 kno\vcat large the caufe otyourkinrsforroA. 
 
 Ho!!. Sit lir, I will recount it to you , but fee I am prc- 
 uentcJ. 
 
 Lji. Ohee'rsthcLadiethatl fentfor. 
 Welcome fairconc,ift not a goodly prtfrnt ? 
 
 fldU Shcc's a gallant Ladic. 
 
 \.yf. Shcc's fucn aonc, that were! well aluirdc 
 Cameofagcntlckindc,and noIilcQ<^cke,l dowdh 
 No better choife^d thinkc me rarelv to wed, 
 Faircon all goodnclft thatconfiftsni beautic, 
 Expcc^cucnhcrc.whcrcisakinply pat.ent, 
 
 H 3 rf 
 
 V. i. 32 — 71 
 
___ T er'uUs Prince tfTyrei 
 
 Ifthar thy profpcrous and irtificiall fate. 
 Can draw him but to anfwcre thee in ought, 
 Thy facrcd Phyfickc Qiali rccciuc fuch pay, 
 Ajthydcfircs canwiftu 
 
 Mar. SirlwillvfcmyvrmoftskillinhisrecoHcric, pro- 
 uidedthat none but I and my companion maid bcfuffcrcd 
 to come nccrc him, 
 
 Lyf. Comc,lct vj leaucher, and the Gods make her pro- 
 l]>erous. TheSofi^. 
 
 Lyf. Markc he your Mufickc? 
 MoYt No nor looktonvs. 
 
 Z;/^ Sec (he will (pealccto him. 
 
 Mar. Hailcnr,my Lord lend eare. 
 Per. Hum^ha. 
 
 M*r. lama maid,my Lorde , that nere before inuitcd 
 eycsjbut haue becnc gazed on like a Comet •■ Shcfpcakj 
 ray Lord, that may bc,hath endured a griefe might equall 
 yourself both were iuftly wayde, though wayward fortune 
 didmalignc my (late, mydcriuation was from anceftors, 
 who iloodcquiuolcntwithmightie Kings , buttime harh 
 rooted out my parcntage,and to the world , and augward 
 cafuaJtics, Uound me m fcruitudc, I will dcfilt, but tlicre is 
 , fomcthing glowes vpon my cheek, and whilpcrs inmi»c 
 eare,go not tfll he (peake. 
 
 Per» My fortunes , parentage, good parentage, to cquall 
 mine, was it not thus,what (ay you? 
 
 Mart, IfedmyLordjifyoudid know my parentage, 
 you would not do me violence. 
 
 Per, I do thinkc Ib,pray you turne your eyes vpon me, 
 your like fomethingthatjwhatCountrey women nearc of 
 tliefc (hewM? 
 
 Mar, No,nor of any fhewes,yet I was mortally brought 
 forth,and am no other then I appcarc. 
 
 Per. lam great with woe, and fliail deliucr wceping;my 
 dcM-eft wife was like this maid, and fucha one my daugh- 
 
 ICf 
 
 V. i. 72- 109 
 
ICl 
 
 'Ptrides FrwceofTjrt. 
 
 tcr Blight hauc bcenc : My Qiurcncs fquarc browcj,h.v 
 U-ULircto .in inch , as M-andiikc-ftraigh^asfilucr voyft, 
 Jur eyes as Iewcll-l,kc, and caftc a. richly, in pace an o- 
 rncr/*«^. Who Ibrucs the eares fliecfcedes, and makes 
 tl will hungric, the more llie giucs them fpccch.Whcrc doc 
 you liuc? 
 
 A Ur. Where I am but a araunger; from the deckc , you 
 raay difcernc the place. 
 
 P.-r. Where were you bred.'and howatchieu'd you thefc 
 indo\> mems which you make more rich to owe? 
 
 Af^r. irilhouldtclimyhyaorie, it would fccmc like 
 lies difdarnd m the reporting. 
 
 Per. Prethce Ipeakc, falfncire cannot come From thee, 
 for thou looked njodel} as iuf};ce, & thou fecmeft a PaiUs 
 for the crownd truth to dwell inji wil bclecue thcc& make 
 fenfes credit thy relation, to points that feenie impoilible, 
 for thou loo keitlikc one I loued indcede; what were thy 
 fnendspdidll thou not llay when I did pufli thccbacke, 
 which wa»,whcn I pcrceiu'd thee that thou camfl from 
 good difccnding. ALtr. So indeed I did. 
 
 Per, Report thy parentage,! think thou faid ft thou hairt 
 bcenetoCl from wrong toiniurie, andthatthou thoughts 
 thy griefs mightequall mine,ifboth were opened. 
 
 M^r, Somcfucn thmg I fcd,and fed no more, but what 
 mv thoughts did warrant mc.was likely. 
 
 Per, Tell thy ftorie,if thine confidercd prouc the thou- 
 fandpart ofmycnduraunce, thou art a man, and I hauc 
 furfercdhkea girlc, yet thou doell lookc like patience, 
 gazing on Kings grtucs, and fmiling extrcniitie out of 
 at"^ , what were thy friends? howe loft thou thy name, 
 my moft kinde Virgin? recount I doc bcfeech thee, Come 
 fit by mcc. 
 Mar, lAy nzmch Marifit, 
 • Per, Oh I am mockt,andthou by fornc infenccd Coci 
 fcnt hither tQ make chc world to laugh at nic- 
 
 Mm', F.jtiaice 
 
 V. i. 109 — 146 
 
P tricks Prince ^fT^rt, 
 
 Mar, Pat(cncegoodrir;or here lie ccafc. 
 
 Per. Nay lie be patient : thou I irieknowfthowc thou 
 doc ft Cur t\c tnz to Q&Wihy {dk Ai':riKa . 
 
 M.W. Th- nanie was giutfn nice by one that had fonic 
 power, my fatherland a King. 
 
 rc-\ Howji K;ngSflaii^htcr,andca!d Af.irvm^ 
 Mm-, Y(hi fe d yc>ii uould beiccue me, but not to bee a 
 rroublcT oF/our j-ca<-CjI will cnu here. 
 
 Per. But are you flcliiand blOLid? 
 Haue you %\vorkin^ piiilCjaudart .10 Fairic ? 
 Motion wcl,'; r,!eakc (>:i.-,vhcre >vct."you borne? 
 
 .Mid U'htfcforc Cjii -i .'.''r/*! ■ 
 
 /kttr^ CaHd l-/i--«^.j for I wasL-orncatrea. 
 
 Fk. At Tea, \v hit mother? , 
 
 A/a>; My mother was the daui^hrer of a King,whodieJ 
 themmute I was borne, as niv good N'urlc LichernU hath 
 oftdeliuered weepinc;. 
 
 Per. O ftoptherea iittlfjth's 's the rareft Jrctmc 
 That ere duld flccpe did mockeTad foioirs vithal!, 
 Th.^scannot beniy dauglitcr,bur. . -Iju.-il, ^o'r re •crcyoU 
 bred i lie heareyou more too'th botrome o^ .ou. itor.c, 
 and neiicfintrrruptyoii. 
 
 M4r. You fcorJrie,bcleeiic metMrrchcftI did f^iucore, 
 
 PfT. Iwjilbdeeucyau by rhcfyllablct>/\vha'^ /Oil (ball 
 deliuer,'yctgiue mcieaiie, howcameyou inthclc parts J 
 where were you bred ? 
 
 M*'-. The King my fatherdid in Th»rfki Jeauc me, 
 Tii/ cruel C7,f»Mwith his wicked wife, 
 B)io' feeke to murther mc.-and hauing wooed a villaine, 
 To attCHipt it,wh3 hsuing drawnc to doo't, 
 A crcwof Pirats cameindrefcued me, ^^ 
 Brought me to Mftttlmc,' 
 
 But good fir whither wil you haue me?why do<? voii weep? 
 It miy be you chinke rnec «n impofture, nogood fayth: I 
 am thodsughtcr to Km? P grides, H'^mi king Perkles bc- 
 
 Hoc 
 
 V. i. 146 — 181 
 
ftrttUsfrmtt afTy-c. 
 
 Hcl. Calls my Lord? 
 
 Pf>-. Thou jrt a graiic and nohle Cour.fcllcr, 
 Mod wifqin gcncrjll,tcli mc^if thou canfi^ hat this maydc 
 « , or whac is like to bcc , tlijt thus hath made mcc 
 wccpc. 
 
 HrU I know not,but hcrcs the Regent fir of AictnliKc, 
 fpcakcs nobly ot her. 
 
 Ljf. She nciicr voii'd tcll her parentage, 
 Being demaundcd/th^t/lic would fir llill and wcepe- 
 
 Per. Oh Hf/Jiranui, llrikc me honored (Ir , giue mce a 
 gJiTijOut me to prcfcnt p.iine,!caft this urcat lea of lovci ru- 
 flung vpun mc,orc-bcarcthc Ihorcs of my inorralitic, and 
 drownc me with their fwcetneCc . Oh come hither, 
 thoutliatbcgCi'^ 1-H-iTuhat did thee beget, ^ 
 Thou that,wa(} borne at fca,buricd itThMi/w, 
 AnJ found at U*4gen,0 H'titcHrnf, 
 Dov ne en thy knees, thankc the holie Gods as iouJ 
 Ai tliiinder threatens vS^this \<.Af^riw* 
 VVhj! vvjstliv mothers tiamc^ tcll me,Lutth:it 
 for truth canneuer tccnnhrm'dinouwh, 
 Though doubti did encr (iccyc. 
 
 Mar. Frift iir,I pray what !s your title i 
 
 Ptr, I am PtrtchioiTyn ;burtcil iiKe nou my 
 Dro'-nd Qnccncs namc,as m the re f} you .'av-, 
 Tnou haft becnc God-Iikc p.-rfit,the heirorkir.^idoii-ics, 
 
 And an other like to J'eruln tliy hrb-r. 
 
 ALu Is it no more to be your daughtcr/hcn to C^yAv.y 
 mothers namewas7/^^.yi?7/ji«/<«wa«my n.othtr, \\li3 did 
 end the minute I began. 
 
 ff. Now blcdingon thec,riftti-/artMvv cl^il'h 
 Giuc me frefli garments, mine ovnr Hd:.i.-.niii. (lice is W'^i 
 dcar^ at Th.irff^s as (hcc (liouid h.auc hcnic b v [jh-zc Clfcm- 
 nielLaiirclirhccaihwhentbou llialt kpcc-i.,a!iu luibhc i;. 
 kaowlcdgc-flio i-; thy vericPrii.ccs;wl-.o i;,th;i f 
 
 ^ f HcLSw 
 
 V. i. 182 — 220 
 
P irk Us PrincfofT'^rt. 
 
 H^i. S\v,\\ii\\c^oucTnoTO\ Afiiahne , who hearing of 
 yotiriiiebncholicQ.uc,didcomcrofrcyou, 
 
 Per. I cinbr jcf yoii,giuc rTic m v robes. 
 I am wildc in mv belH)ldmg,0 hcaucns bicffc my giric, 
 Hut harkc what Miificke tell, Hcii'tcAHMs'viy A-L^-nnal 
 Tell him ore point by point,loryct hciccincsto doat; 
 How.llirc you arc my daughfcr^but what mulickc? 
 Hel Mv Lord I hcarc none. 
 
 Per, Nonc,thc Miiliclicof the Spheres, \\^ my Marina, 
 
 Lji. It is not good to crolFc him,giuc him way. 
 
 Per. RjrclHound»,do yc not hcarc i 
 Lyf, Mulickc my Lord? 1 hcarc. 
 
 Per. Modhcaucniy Mulickc. 
 ltnipsmcvntolilhiing,and thickc llumbcr 
 Hangs vpon nunc eyes, let mcrcrfl. 
 
 Lif. A l^illow forhis hcad,(o Icauc him all, 
 Weil my coinpinion tricndi,if this but aiifwcrcto my iuft 
 bcLcfcjIlc well remember you. 
 
 Dm. My Temple ftandt i n EphefH!y 
 Hie thee thither, and doc vppon mine Altar Dcrifice^ 
 There when my maiden pricfts arc met togethcr^forcthc 
 people allircuealc^ewtnou at fca didftioofc thy wife ^ to 
 mourncthycroirci with thy daughters; call, & giue them 
 repetition tothclikc;or pcrformcmy bidding, or thou li- 
 iicft in \voc:doo't,«nd happic,by my filucr bowpwakc*ncl 
 tell thy drcamc. 
 
 Per, Celcfliall D/4«, GoddClIc Argentine, 
 Iwillohcy thcc:He//fc4HUj, He//, Sir. 
 
 Per. My purpofc was for Tinrfus, there to ftrikci 
 TheinhofpitablcC/fox^butl am for other feruicc hrft; 
 Toward Ephefus turncour blownclaylesi 
 Eftfooncs lie tell thccwhyjfliall wc rcfrcfhvs firvpon yoar 
 fhorc , and giuc you goldc icn fuch prouUion as our in- 
 tents will nccdc? 
 
 Lyft Sin, 
 
 V. i. 221 — 259 
 

 Lyf, Sir, icnim<? your armc. 
 Ptr. Come my J/^rw^. 
 
 ExtkHtt 
 
 Gmter. Kow our fandj arc aiaioH run 
 Morcalittlc^andthcndum. * 
 
 This mylaft boonegiucmce,- 
 for fuch kimlncrtc miift rclicucm*:; 
 That you aptly will fupjwfc, 
 
 What pagtantry,\vhatfcats,\vhatf}iow«s. 
 
 What minilrclficand prcttic din. 
 
 The Regent made in Metahtt, 
 
 To greet the King, fo hctlviucd, 
 
 Thatheispromifdcto bcwiucd 
 
 To fairc/l/*r/»4, but in nowi(c. 
 
 Till he had done h;s facrificc. 
 
 As iJtA. bau.whcrciohcing liound, 
 
 The Interim pray,you ail confound. 
 
 Ill rethcrd^ricrcncsfaylesarcfild,* 
 
 i^FidwiflicsfiJloutasthc/'r wildi 
 Ar f p^f/«^thc Tcmpicfcc, 
 Our Kmgaidallhiscompanie. 
 That lie can hither come fo foone, 
 Is by your fancies thankfull doome. 
 
 Per<, Ha I !e Dw»,to pcrforme thy iuft commaund, 
 I here confe-re my fclfcthe King ofT/r-f,- 
 Who frigJKcd from my countrey did wed at ?entt^olis\t\\c 
 fairc Thi'.tfA\3X Sea in childbed died fhc,bt.it brought forth a 
 Mayd child C2l\d A/ariM whom.OGoddellc wears^etthy 
 /iJucrliucreyiOieeat Tharfttt was niirft with CUon,- who at 
 fourtccne ycarcs he fought to murder, but her better I'ars 
 
 I I brought 
 
 . . *. ."^.- '-ituink^ui . 
 
 ^■-■^^^X^-lV^ju^A.'^:'^J '.■..■JU<i.,Jl;i.V!jit 
 
 V. i. 260 — V. iii. 9 
 
Pericles Prince s/Tjrc^^ 
 
 brought her to Metehm; gainftwhofc fliorc ryding , her 
 Fortunes brought the niayde aboord vs , w here by her 
 owne moftckerc remembrance , flicc made knowrie her 
 fclfc niy Daughter. 
 
 Th^ V^oycc and fauour, you arCj you are , O royall 
 Pericles, 
 
 /'cr. What mcancs the mum ? flicc die's, heipe Gen- 
 tlemen, 
 
 Ceri. Noule Sir, if you haue toldc Diames Altar 
 trucjthis IS your wife? 
 
 PcT". RcuercntappearernOjI thrcwc her ouer-boor^ 
 with thcfc vcric amies. 
 
 Ce, Vpon this coafl:, I warrant you. 
 
 7'r. T'isajoftcertainc. 
 
 Cer. Locke to the Ladic , O fliec's but oucr-joydej 
 Eariie inblulkring mornc thisLadie was tlirovvne vpon 
 this fliore. 
 
 I op't thecofFn, found there richlcwclis, recouc- 
 rcd her, and plac'ftc her hcerc in Dimaei tefnplc. 
 
 Per. May we fee the tip ? ' 
 
 Crr, Great Sir,thcy (halbe bruughtyou toniyhoufe, 
 whither I inuite you,' lookeT'/^.it'ais rccoucrcd. 
 
 Th. Olctmclooke if hecbenoneof mine^'myfan- 
 ftitie wi!! io my fenic bcndc no hcentiou'J earc , Ivat curbc 
 it fpight of feeing : O my Lord arc you not FerkUsi like 
 hiiTi you fpakc, like him you ar^rj'didyoa not name atem- 
 pcn-,a birth jand death ? 
 
 Ptr. Thevoyccoi QCAdThM^ti. 
 
 Th. Thu Thnfa a(-i\ L, fuppofcd dead and drowfid. ■ 
 
 Pe-r. I,morra!l p/^w.^ ' '' 
 
 Th. Now I knowe you better ; when wee with teares 
 parted Pc::tjpoi.'s , the king my father -gauc you fuch a ring. 
 
 f<-r.This,this,nonx)rc,yougods,yourprefcntkindc- 
 
 r.cs m.^kcs my paft_mifer-ic8 fpofts,- you (liail doc well that 
 
 ' on the touching of lier lips I nfiay melt, andnomorebc 
 
 ftere, 
 
 
 V. iii. lo — 43 
 
Ttritks frhti ifryrt^. * 
 fccnci O comcjbc buried a fccoad t.mc vi ithin dlcfc^rmcB. 
 />/<-« My hcarrkaps to be gone into my mothcrj bo- 
 
 J'er. Locke whokncclfxherc,flcniof thy fleft Th^ifa, 
 thybiiracn at the Sca,andcalld /f/m«4, for flic was yccl- 
 tlctl tner#« 
 
 7/'. Blcft, and mine owne. 
 
 /.V//. Hay]cMadamCjandmyQu_ecne. 
 
 7"^. Iknowcyounor. 
 
 P^ You hauc heard mqc fay.whcn I did flic from 
 Tjyf,! left behind an ancient fubflitute, can you remem- 
 ber w liat I call'd the man;, I hauc nam'dc him off. 
 
 Tk, T'was HilhatKunhcn. 
 
 Per. StiJ] confirmation^ imbracchim d cere 7"/^/?//^. this 
 fs hce, nowdoci long to hearclio\v)ou were found ? how 
 ponibiicprcferued ? and \vhotothankc(bcridcsthe gods) 
 for this great miracle ? 
 
 7/;. Lord Cf?-r»>v«,myLordithis nun through whom 
 the Gods iiaucfliowiic their jJQwcr^riisft can from firll to 
 lallrcfoiueyou. 
 
 Po.Rcuc rent Syr,the gods can hauc no roortali officer, 
 moreiikc a god then you , will you dtliucr how this dead 
 Queencrcliuts? 
 
 Cer. I w ill my Lord,bcfcech you firO„goc with mcc 
 to my houfc, wlitf eiliaU he fi>ownc you ajl was found with 
 her. How.flieecamcpliCjftchecrc in the Temple, no 
 nccdfulll thing omitted. 
 
 Ptr. Pure i?«>; blctretlice forthy v\C\cnyandm\] offer 
 night oblations to thte T"/?:*?!!^*? , this Pruicc,thc (aire betro- 
 thed of your daughter, OiiW tmrnc her nt r ef/tt/polts , and 
 riow this ornaii:rent makes roeclookcdirmallj will I clip to 
 forniCjand what this fourtrene yceres no razer touch' t, to 
 grace thy marridge-day, He bcautific; 
 y. T"/-. Lcrd Ce;-i/wp;» hathlcttcrs of good credit. Sir, 
 
 niy father's dead. , . 
 
 - I^ Ptr,Hci\.Kn 
 
 V. iii. 43 78 
 
Ttr. Hcaucnsni»ke i Scirrc of him, yet there my 
 Qiifcnc, wcc'Jccolcbratc their Nuptial!*, and our fcliics 
 Will in thatkingdomcfpcndourf'ollywingclaics^ourfonnc 
 cindiiughccrlhallin Tjrwraignc. 
 
 Lord Cenmoff wcc docour longing flay, 
 To hcarc the rclt vntoldc , Sir Icad'i the way. 
 
 //N/5. 
 
 Gower. 
 
 In A>iti»chiu and his daughter you haiie heard 
 Ormondrous lu(l,thc dur and iiilT reward :- 
 In Periclci his Qnccncand DiUghtcrfccne, 
 Although alF-tyl'dewith Vortune hcrceand kcenr. 
 Vcrtucp^eferd from fell dcflrLii'^ions blaft, 
 Lead ori by hcaucn, and crown'd withioy at WX. 
 [n HcljcMHi may you well defcrie, 
 A figure of tructh, of faith, of loyaltic : 
 In rcucrcndC(;r;?w#« there well appcarcj. 
 The worth that learned char.'tieaye wcarcs. 
 For wicked CUon and his wife, when Fame 
 Hadfpredhiscurfcd dccde,thehonor'd namd- 
 O^ Pertcics, to rage the Cittie turnc, 
 Thathim andhis they in hisPaliacc burne: 
 The gods for murdericemdefo content. 
 To punilti, although not done, but meant. 
 
 So on your Patience cucrniore attending, 
 ^^ Ncvf ioy wayte on you,hccrc our play has ending, 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 V. iii. 79 — 102