Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,-
As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV. Tharsus. A Room in the Governor's
House. Enter CLEON, DIONYZA, and Attendants.
Cle. My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,
And by relating tales of others' griefs,
See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?

Dio. That were to blow at fire, in hope to quench it;
For who digs hills because they do aspire,
'Throws down one mountain, to cast up a higher.
O, my distressed lord, even such our griefs;
Here they're but felt, and seen with mistful eyes,
But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.
Cle. O, Dionyza,

Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,
Or can conceal his hunger, till he famish?
Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep our woes
Into the air; our eyes do weep, till lungs
Fetch breath that may proclaim them londer; that,
If the gods slumber,2 while their creatures want,
They may awake their helps to comfort them.
I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,
And wanting breath to speak, help me with tears.
Dio. I'll do my best, sir.

Cle. This Tharsus, o'er which I have government,
A city, on whom plenty held full hand

(For riches strew'd herself even in the streets ;)
Whose towers bore heads so high, they kiss'd the
clouds,

And strangers ne'er beheld, but wonder'd at;
Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,
Like one another's glass to trim them by :4
Their tables were stor'd full, to glad the sight,
And not so much to feed on, as delight;
All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,
The name of help grew odious to repeat.
Dio. O, 'tis too true.

Cle. But see what heaven can do! By this our

change,

These mouths, whom but of late, earth, sea, and air,
Were all too little to content and please,
Although they gave their creatures in abundance,
As houses are defil'd for want of use,
They are now starv'd for want of exercise:
Those palates, who not yet two summers younger,"
Must have inventions to delight the taste,
Would now be glad of bread and beg for it;
Those mothers who, to nousle
their babes,
Thought nought too curious, are ready now,
To eat those little darlings whom they lov'd.
So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife
Draw lots, who first shall die to lengthen life:

1 The old copy reads:

6

up

Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;
Here many sink, yet those which see them fall,
Have scarce strength left to give them burial.
Is not this true?

Dio. Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.
Cle. O, let those cities, that of Plenty's cup
And her prosperities so largely taste,

With their superfluous riots, hear these tears'
The misery of Tharsus may be theirs.
Enter a Lord.

Lord. Where's the lord governor ?

Cle. Here.

Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st, in haste,
For comfort is too far for us to expect.

Lord. We have descried, upon our neighbouring
shore,

A portly sail of ships make hitherward.
Cle. I thought as much.

That may succeed as his inheritor;
One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir,

And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,

Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,'
To beat us down, the which are down already;
Whereas no glory's got to overcome.
And make a conquest of unhappy me,"

Lord. That's the least fear: for, by the semblance
And come to us as favourers, not as foes.
Of their white flags Jisplay'd, they bring us peace,

Cle. Thou speak'st like him untutor'd to repeat,
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
But bring they what they will, what need we fear?
The ground's the low'st, and we are half way there."1
Go tell their general, we attend him here,

To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,
And what he craves.

Lord. I go, my lord.

If wars, we are unable to resist.

Cle. Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist:12 [Exit.

Enter PERICLES, with Attendants.

Per. Lord governor, for so we hear you are,
Let not our ships, and number of our men,
Be, like a beacon fir'd, to amaze your eyes.
We have heard your miseries as far as
And see the desolation of your streets!
Tyre,
Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,
But to relieve them of their heavy load;
And these our ships you happily may think
Are like the Trojan horse, war-stuff'd within,

ters to show that the text is right. Thus in New Cus. tom; Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. i. p. 294 :

Borne to all wickedness, and nusled in all evil.'

So Spenser, Faerie Queene, i. vi. 23 :

Whom, till to ryper years he gan aspyre,
He nousled up in life and maners wilde.'

and seen with mischiefs eye,' The alteration was made by Steevens, who thus explains the passage:- Withdrawn as we now are from the scene we describe, our sorrows are simply felt, and It were a more vauntage and profit by a great dele that appear indistinct, as through a mist. Malone reads:-than nossel them in suche errour.'-Horman's Vul. yonge children's wyttes were otherwyse sette a warke,

unseen with mischief's eyes.'

i. e. 'unseen by those who would feel a malignant pleasure in our misfortunes, and add to them by their triumph

2 The old copy reads, "If heaven slumber,' &c. This was probably an alteration of the licencer of the press. Sense and grammar require that we should read, "If the gods,' &c.

3 To jet is to strut. to walk proudly.

4 Thus in the Second Part of King Henry IV.:He was indeed the glass,

Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.' Again in Cymbeline :

A sample to the youngest, to the more mature A glass that feated them.'

5 The old copy has:

who not yet too sarers younger.' The emendation was proposed by Mason. Steevens remarks that Shakspeare computes time by the same number of summers in Romeo and Juliet:-'Let tino more summers wither in their pride,' &c. Malone reads :-

who not used to hunger's savour.' 6 Steevens thought that this word should be nursle, but the examples are numerous enough in our old wri

garia, 1519, fo. 85.

honest trade of living.'-Udal's Apopthegmes, fo. 75.
'Nousl ed in virtuous disposition, and framed to an
lone :-
So in The Death of King Arthur, 1601, cited by Ma.
'Being nuzzled in effeminate delights.'

7 Hollow, applied to ships, is a Homeric epithet. See Iliad, v. 26. By potter is meant forces.

8 A letter has been probably dropped at press: we may read, of unhappy men.

9 It has been already observed that whereas was sometimes used for where; as well as the converse, where for whercas.

10 The quarto of 1609 reads:

Thou speak'st like himnes untutor'd to repeat.' 'Like him untutor'd,' for like him who is untutored.' 'Deluded by the pacific appearance of this navy, you talk like one who has never learned the common adage, -that the fairest outsides are most to be suspected.' 11 The quarto of 1619 reads:-

'But bring they what they will, and what they can, What need we fear?

The ground's the low'st, and we are halfway there.' 12 i. e. if he rest or stand on peace.

With bloody views, expecting overthrow,
Are stor'd with corn, to make your needy bread,
And give them life, who are hunger-starv'd, half
dead.

All. The gods of Greece protect you!
And we'll pray for you.

Per.

Rise, I pray you, rise;
We do not look for reverence, but for love;
And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.
Cle. The which when any shall not gratify,
Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,
Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,
The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!
Till when (the which, I hope, shall ne'er be seen,)
Your
is welcome to our town and us.
grace

Per. Which welcome we'll accept ; feast here
a while,

Until our stars that frown, lend us a smile.

ACT II.

Enter Gower.

Gow. Here have you seen a mighty king
His child, I wis, to incest bring;
A better prince, and benign lord,
Prove awful both in deed and word.2
Be quiet, then, as men should be,
Till he hath pass'd necessity.

I'll show you those in trouble's reign,
Losing a mite, a mountain gain.
The good in conversation,
(To whom I give my benizon,)
Is still at Tharsus, where each man3
Thinks all is writ he spoken can :4
And, to remember what he does,
Gild his statue to make it glorious:
But tidings to the contrary

[Exeunt.

Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?
Dumb Show.

Enter at one Door PERICLES, talking with CLEON;
all the Train with them. Enter at another Door,
a Gentleman with a Letter to PERICLES; PERI-
CLES shows the Letter to CLEON; then gives the
Messenger a reward, and knights him. Exeunt
PERICLES, CLEON, &c. severally.

Gow. Good Helicane, that staid at home, (Not to eat honey, like a drone,

From others' labours; for though he strive
To killen bad, keep good alive;

And, to fulfil his prince' desire,)

Sends word of all that haps in Tyre;"
How Thaliard came full bent with sin,
And hid intent, to murder him;
And that in Tharsus was not best
Longer for him to make his rest:

1 The old copy reads:

And these our ships you happily may think Are like the Trojan horse, was stuff'd within With bloody reines,' &c.

The emendation is Steevens's. Mr. Boswell says that the old reading may mean, elliptically, which was stuffed.'

2 i. e. you have seen a better prince, &c. that will prove awful, i, e. reverent. The verb in the first line is carried on to the third.

3

The good in conversation

(To whom I give my benizon,)
Is still at Tharsus, where"-

Gower means to say, 'The good prince (on whom I
bestow my best wishes) is still engaged at Tharsus,
where every man,' &c. Conversation is conduct, be
haviour. See the Second Epistle of St. Peter, iii. 11.
4 Pays as much respect to whatever Pericles says,
as if it were Holy Writ."

5 This circumstance, as well as the foregoing, is found in the Confessio Amantis :-

That thei for ever in remembrance
Made a figure in resemblance
Of hym, and in a common place
Thei set it up; so that his face
Might every maner man beholde,
It was of laton over gylte,' &c.

He knowing so, put forth to seas,
Where when men been, there's seldom ease;
For now the wind begins to blow;
Thunder above, and deeps below,
Make such unquiet, that the ship

Should house him safe, is wreck'd and split;
And he, good prince, having all lost,
By waves from coast to coast is tost:
All perishen of man, of pelf,

Ne aught escapen but himself;
Till fortune, tir'd with doing bad,
Threw him ashore, to give him glad :
And here he comes: what shall be next,-
Pardon old Gower; this 'longs the text.

[Erit SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open Place by the Sea Side. Enter PERICLES, wet.

Per. Yet cease your ire, ye angry stars of heaven!
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man
Is but a substance that must yield to you;
And I, as fits my nature, do obey you;
Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,
Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath
Nothing to think on, but ensuing death:
Let it suffice the greatness of your powers,
To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;
And having thrown him from your watery grave,
Here to have death in peace, is all he'll crave.
Enter Three Fishermen.

1 Fish. What, ho, Pilche!"

2 Fish. Ho! come, and bring away the nets. 1 Fish. What, Patch-breech, I say!

3 Fish. What say you, master?

1 Fish. Look how thou stirrest now! come away,

or I'll fetch thee with a wannion.10

3 Fish. 'Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that were cast away before us, even now.

1 Fish. Alas, poor souls, it griev'd my heart to hear what pitiful cries they made to us, to he'p them, when, well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.

3 Fish. Nay, master, said not I as much, when I saw the porpus, how he bounced and tumbled ?1* they say, they are half fish, half flesh: a plague on them, they ne'er come, but I look to be wash'd. Master, I'marvel how the fishes live in the sea.

1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, 12 and at Such whales last devours them all at a mouthful. have I heard on a' the land, who never leave gaping till they've swallow'd the whole parish, church, steeple, bells and all.

Per. A pretty moral.

3 Fish. But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have been that day in the belfry.

2 Fish. Why, man?

3 Fish. Because he should have swallow'd me and when I had been in his belly, I would

too:

have kept such a jangling of the bells, that he
should never have left, till he cast bells, steeple,
church, and parish, up again. But if the good king
Simonides were of my mind-
Per. Simonides?

3 Fish. We would purge the land of these drones, that roh the bee of her honey.

Per. How from the finny subject of the sea
These fishers tell the infirmities of men;
And from their watery empire recollect
All that may men approve, or men detect!
Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.

2 Fish. Honest! good fellow, what's that? if it be a day fits you, scratch it out of the calendar, and no body will look after it.'

Per. Nay, see, the sea hath cast upon your

coast

2 Fish. What a drunken knave was the sea; to cast thee in our way!

Per. A man whom both the waters and the wind,
In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball
For them to play upon, entreats you pity him;
He asks of you, that never us'd to beg.

1 Fish. No, friend, cannot you beg? here's them in our country of Greece, gets more with begging, than we can do with working.

2 Fish. Canst thou catch any fishes then? Per. I never practis'd it.

for

2 Fish. Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure: here's nothing to be got now-a-days, unless thou

canst fish for't.

Per. What I have been, I have forgot to know;
But what I am, want teaches me to think on:
A man shrunk up with cold: my veins are chill,
And have no more of life, than may suffice
To give my tongue that heat, to ask your help;
Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
For that I am a man, pray see me buried.

1 Fish. Die, quoth-a? Now, gods forbid ! have
a gown here; come, put it on; keep thee warm.
Now, afore me, a handsome fellow! Come, thou
shalt go home, and we'll have flesh for holidays,
fish for fasting-days, and, moreover, puddings and
flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome.
Per. I thank you, sir.

1 Fish. Ay, sir; and he deserves to be so call'd, for his peaceable reign, and good government. Per. He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects the name of good, by his government. How far is his court distant from this shore?

1 Fish. Marry, sir, half a day's journey; and I'll tell you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her birth-day; and there are princes and knights come from all parts of the world, to just and tourney for her love.

Per. Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish to make one there.

1 Fish. O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man cannot get, he may lawfully deal forhis wife's soul.4

Re-enter the Two Fishermen, drawing up a Net. 2 Fish. Help, master, help; here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill Ha! bots on't," 'tis come at hardly come out. last, and 'tis turned to a rusty armour. Per. An armour, friends! I pray you, let me

see it.

Thanks, fortune, yet, that after all my crosses,
And, though it was mine own, part of mine he-
Thou giv'st me somewhat to repair myself;

ritage,

Which my dead father did bequeath to me,
With this strict charge, (even as he left his life,)
Keep it, my Pericles, it hath been a shield
'Twixt me and death (and pointed to this brace:
For that it sav'd me, keep it: in like necessity,
The which the gods protect thee from! it may defend

thee.

It kept where I kept, I so dearly lov'd it;
Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,
Took it in rage, though calm'd, have given it again,
I thank thee for't; my shipwreck's now no ill,
Since I have here my father's gift in his will.
1 Fish. What mean you, sir?

Per. To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of
For it was sometime target to a king;
worth,

I know it by this mark. He lov'd me dearly,
And for his sake, I wish the having of it;

2 Fish. Hark, you, my friend, you said you could And that you'd guide me to your sovereign's court, not beg.

Per. I did but crave.

2 Fish. But crave? Then I'll turn craver, too, and so I shall 'scape whipping.

Per. Why, are all your beggars whipped, then? 2 Fish. O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office, than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the net. [Exeunt two of the Fishermen. Per. How well this honest mirth becomes their

labour !

1 Fish. Hark you, sir! do you know where you are?

'Per. Peace be at your labour, honest fisherman; The day is rough, and thwarts your occupation." The following speech of Pericles is equally abrupt and inconsistent :

'Y' may see the sea hath cast me upon your coast.' The emendation is by Steevens.

Dr. Farmer thinks that there may be an allusion to the dies honestissimus of Cicero. The lucky and unlucky days are put down in the old calendars.

2 Thus in Sidney's Arcadia, book v. :-'In such a shadow, &c. mankind lives, that neither they know how to foresce, nor what to fear, and are, like tenis bals, tossed by the racket of the higher powers.'

3 Flapjacks are pancakes. Thus in Taylor's Jack a Lent: Until at last, by the skill of the cooke, it is

Where with't I may appear a gentleman;
And if that ever my low fortunes better,
I'll pay your bounties; till then, rest your debtor.
1 Fish. Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?
Per. I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms.
1 Fish. Why, do ye take it, and the gods give
thee good on't!

2 Fish. Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up this garment through the rough seams of the waters: there are certain condolements, cer

tain vails. I hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from whence you had it.

Per. Believe't, I will.

Now, by your furtherance, I am cloth'd in steel;
This jewel holds his biding on my arm;
And spite of all the rupture of the sea,
transformed into the form of a flap jack, which in our
translation, is cald a pancake.

4 Things must be' (says the speaker,) as they are appointed to be; and what a man is not sure to compass, he has yet a just right to attempt.' The Fisherman may then be supposed to begin a new sentence-His wife's soul;' but here he is interrupted by his comrades; and it would be vain to conjecture the conclusion of his speech.

5 This comic execration was formerly used in the The bots is a disease in room of one less descent. horses produced by worms. 6 i. e. and I thank you, though it was mine own. 7 The brace is the armour for the arm. So in Troilus and Cressida :

'I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, And in my vant brace put this wither'd brawn.' 8 The rupture of the sea may mean the breaking of the sea, as Malone suggests; but I would rather read rapture, which is often used in old writers for violent seizure, or the act of carrying away forcibly. As in the example excited by Malone.

9 The old copy reads, 'his building; but biding

Unto thy value will I mount myself
Upon a courser, whose delightful steps
Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.-
Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided
Of a pair of bases.i

2 Fish. We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself.

Per. Then honour be but a goal to my will; This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The same. A public Way, or Platform, leading to the Lists. A Pavilion by the side of it, for the reception of the King, Princess, Lord's, &c. Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants.

Sim. Are the knights ready to begin the triumph? 1 Lord. They are, my liege;

And stay your coming to present themselves.

Sim. Which shows that beauty hath his power
and will,

Which can as well inflame, as it can kill.
(The fifth Knight passes.
Thai. The fifth, an hand environed with clouds;
Holding out gold, that's by the touchstone tried:
The motto thus, Sic spectanda fides.
[The sixth Knight passes.
Sim. And what's the sixth and last, which the
knight himself

With such a graceful courtesy deliver❜d?
Thai. He seems to be a stranger; but his present is
A wither'd branch, that's only green at top;
The motto, In hac spe vivo."

Sim. A pretty moral;

From the dejected state wherein he is,
He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.
1 Lord. He had need mean better than his out-
ward show

Sim. Return them,2 we are ready; and our Can any way speak in his just commend:
For, by his rusty outside, he appears

daughter,

In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat
For men to see, and seeing wonder at.

[Exit a Lord. Thai. It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express My commendations great, whose merit's less.

Sim. 'Tis fit it should be so; for princes are
A model, which heaven makes like to itself:
As jewels lose their glory, if neglected,
So princes their renown, if not respected.
'Tis now your honour,3 daughter, to explain
The labour of each knight, in his device.

Thai. Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll per-
form.

Enter a Knight: he passes over the Stage, and his

Squire presents his Shield to the Princess.
Sim. Who is the first that doth prefer himself?
Thai. A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;
And the device he bears upon his shield
Is a black Ethiop, reaching at the sun;
The word, Lux tua vita mihi.
Sim. He loves you well, that holds his life of you.
[The second Knight passes.
Who is the second, that presents himself?

Thai. A prince of Macedon, my royal father;
And the device he bears upon his shield
Is an arm'd knight, that's conquer'd by a lady:
The motto thus, in Spanish, Piu per dulcura que
per fuerca.
[The third Knight passes.
Sim. And what's the third?
Thai.
The third, of Antioch;
And his device, a wreath of chivalry:
The word, Me pompa proverit apex.

[The fourth Knight passes.

Sim. What is the fourth?
Thai. A burning torch, that's turned upside down;
The word, Quod me alit, me extinguit.

was probably the poet's word. A similar expression
occurs in Othello:-

Jook, I have a weapon,

A better never did sustain itself
Upon a soldier's thigh.'

Any ornament of enchased gold was anciently styled a
jewel.

To have practis'd more the whipstock, than the

lance.

2 Lord. He well may be a stranger, for he comes To an honor'd triumph, strangely furnished.

3 Lord. And on set purpose let his armour rust Until this day, to scour it in the dust."

Sim. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inward man.10
But stay, the knights are coming; we'll withdraw
Into the gallery.
[Exeunt.
[Great shouts, and all cry, The mean knight.
SCENE III. The same. A Hall of State.
Banquet prepared. Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA,
Lords, Knights, and Attendants.

Sim. Knights,

To say you are welcome, were superfluous.
To place upon the volume of your deeds,
As in a title-page, your worth in arms,
Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,
Since every worth in show commends itself.
Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast :
You are princes, and my guests.

A

Thai.
But you, my knight and guest;
To whom this wreath of victory I give,
And crown you king of this day's happiness.
Per. 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than my merit.
Sim. Call it by what you will, the day is yours;
And here, I hope, is none that envies it.
In framing artists, art hath thus decreed,
To make some good, but others to exceed ;
And you're her labour'd scholar. Come, queen of

the feast

5 i. e. more by sweetness than by force. It should be Mas per daleura,' &c. Piu is Italian not Spanish. 6 The work which appears to have furnished the author of the play with this and the two subsequent devices of the knights, has the following title: The heroical Devices of M. Claudius Paracin, canon of Bean1 Bases were a sort of petticoat that hung down to gen; whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symer1%, the knees, and were suggested by the Roman military and others. Translated out of Latin ito English, by dress, in which they seem to have been separate paral-P. S. 1591, 24mo. Mr. Douce has given copies of lel slips of cloth or leather. In Rider's Latin Diction- some of them in his Illustrations, vol. ii. p. 126. ary, bases are rendered palliolum curtum. The High- 7 This device and motto may have been taken from Janders wear a kind of bases at this day. In Massin-Daniel's translation of Paulus Jovius, 1585; in which it ger's Picture, Sophia, speaking of Hilario's disguise, says to Corisca :

You, minion,

Had a hand in it too, as it appears

Your petticoat serves for bases to this warrior."

2 i. e. return them notice that we are ready, &c.

will be found at sig. H 7. b.

8 i. e. the carter's whip. It was sometimes used as a term of contempt; as in Albumazar, 1615:

out Carter, Hence, dirty hipstock.

9 The idea of this ill-appointed knight appears to

3 The sense would be clearer were we to substitute have been taken from the first book of Sidney's Arcaboth in this and in the following instance office for ho-dia :- His armour of as old a fashion, beside the nour. Honour may however mean her situation as rustic poornesse, &c. so that all that looked on measured queen of the feast, as she is afterwards called. The his length on the earth already,' &c. idea of this scene may have been derived from the third book of the Iliad, where Helen describes the Grecian leaders to her father-in-law Priam.

10 i. e. that makes as scan the inward man by the outward habit. Such inversions are not uncommon in old writers.

SCENE IV. Tyre. A Room in the Governor's
House. Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES.

Here say, we drink this standing-bowl of wine to Antiochus from incest liv'd not free;

Hel No, no, my Escanes; know this of me,

5. When kings, like insects, lie dead before us, our admiration is excited by contemplating how in both instances the powers of creating bustle were superior to those which either object should seem to have promised. The worthless monarch, and the idle gnat, have only lived to make an empty bluster; and when both alike are dead, we wonder how it happened that they made so much, or that we permitted them to make it: a natural reflection on the death of an unserviceable prince, who having dispensed no blessings, can hope for no better character.-Steerens.

6 By his entrance appears to be meant his present trance, the reverie in which he is sitting.

7 As you are accontred, prepared for combat.' So in King Henry V.

To-morrow for the march are we address'd.' Si. e. which ador'd them.