Mar. Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. Lys. Why, the house you dwell in, proclaims you to be a creature of sale.

you

Mar. Do know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come into it? I hear say, you are of honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.

Lys. Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?

Mar. Who is my principal?

Lys. Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not see thee, or else, look friendly upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place. Come, come.

Mar. If you were born to honour, show it now If put upon you, make the judgment good. That thought you worthy of it.

Lys. How's this? how's this?-Some more ;be sage.3

Mar.
For me,
That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune
Hath plac'd me here within this loathsome stie,
Where, since I came, diseases have been sold'
Dearer than physic,-O, that the good gods
Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i' the purer air!

Lys.
I did not think
Thou could'st have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd
thou could'st.

Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,

;

Thy speech had alter'd it. Hoid, here's gold for

thee: Persever still in that clear4 And the gods strengthen thee! Mar. The gods preserve you! Lys. For me, be you thoughten That I come with no ill intent; for to me The very doors and windows savour vilely. Farewell. Thou art a piece of virtue, and I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.

Hold; here's more gold for thee.-
A curse upon him, die he like a thief,
That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou hear'st
from me,
It shall be for thy good.

[AS LYSIMACHUS is putting up his Purse,
BOULT enters.

Boult. I beseech your honour, one piece for me. Lys. Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper! Your house, But for this virgin that doth prop it up, Would sink, and overwhelm you all. Away! [Exit LYSIMACHUS. Boult. How's this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a spaniel. Come your ways. Mar. Whither would you have me Boult. I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall execute it. Come your way. We'll have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.

6

Re-enter Bawd.

e?

Bawd. How now! what's the matter? Boult. Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the Lord Lysimachus. Bawd. Ó, abominable!

Boult She makes our profession as it were, to stink afore the face of the gods.

Bawd. Marry, hang her up for ever!

like a nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as Boull. The nobleman would have dealt with her a snowball; saying his prayers too.

Bawd. Boult, take her away: use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable."

Boult. An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall be ploughed."

Mar. Hark, hark, you gods!

Baud. She conjures away with her. "Would, she had never come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born to undo us. Will you not go the way of womankind? Marry come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays !? [Erit Bawd. Boult. Come, mistress; come your way with me. Mar. Whither would you have me? Boult. To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.

Mar. Pr'ythee, tell me one thing first. Boult. Come now, your one thing.10 Mar. What canst thou wish thine enemy to be? Boult. Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.

Mar. Neither of these are yet so bad as thou art, Since they do better thee in their command. Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend Of hell would not in reputation change: Thou'rt the damn'd door-keeper to every coystrel,11

here to a fact recorded by Dion Cassius, and by Pliny, b. xxvi. ch. xxvi.; but more circumstantially by Petronius. Var. Edit. p. 189. A skilful workman, who had discovered the art of making glass malleable, carried a specimen of it to Tiberius, who asked him if he alone was in possession of the secret. He replied in the affirmative; on which the tyrant ordered his head to be struck off immediately, lest his invention should have proved injurious to the workers in gold, silver, and other metals. The same story, however, is told in the Gesta Romanorum, c. 44.

8 Thus also in Antony and Cleopatra :-
'She made great Cæsar lay his sword to bed,
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.'

9 Anciently many dishes were served up with this garniture, during the season of Christmas. The Bawd means to call her a piece of ostentatious virtue.

10 So in King Henry IV. Part 11:

'P. Hen. Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins? Poins. Go to, I stand the push of your one thing 11 A coystrel is a low mean person.

Tib was a common name for a strumpet.
They wondred much at Tom, but at Tib more;
Faith (quoth the vicker) 'tis an exlent w-

Nosce Te, by Richard Turner, 1607

Till the disaster, that, one mortal night,2

Drove him to this.

Hail,

Hail, royal sir!

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

1 Lord. Sir, we have a maid in Mitylene, I durst wager,

Would win some words of him."

"Tis well bethought.
Lys.
She, questionless, with her sweet harmony
And other choice attractions, would allure,
And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,*
Which now are midway stopp'd:

She is all happy as the fairest of all,
And, with her fellow maids, is now upon
The leafy shelter that abuts against
The island's side.

[He whispers one of the attendant Lords. Exit Lord, in the Barge of LYSIMACHUS. Hel. Sure all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit That bears recovery's name. But since your kind

ness,

We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you further,

That for our gold we may provision have,
Wherein we are not destitute for want,
But weary for the staleness.

Lys.
O, sir, a courtesy,
Which if we should deny, the most just God
For every graff would send a caterpillar,
And so inflict our province.-Yet once more
Let me entreat to know at large the cause
Of your king's sorrow.

Hel.
Sit, sir, I will recount it ;-
But see,
I am prevented.
Enter, from the Barge," Lord, MARINA, and a
Young Lady.
O, here is

Lys.
The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!
Is't not a goodly presence?

Hel.
A gallant lady.
Lys. She's such, that were I well assur'd she came
Of gentle kind, and noble stock, I'd wish

I Few of the stage-directions, that have been given in this and the preceding acts, are found in the old copy. In the original representation Pericles was probably placed in the back part of the stage, concealed by a curtain, which was here drawn open. The ancient narratives represented him as remaining in the cabin of his ship; but as in such a situation Pericles would not be visible to the audience, a different stage-direction is now given.

2 The old coples read, one mortal wight. The emendation is Malone's. Mortal is here used for deadly, destructive.

3 This circumstance resembles another in All's Well that Ends Well, where Lafeu gives an account of Helena's attractions to the king before she is introduced to attempt his cure.

4 The old copy reads, 'defend parts. Malone made the alteration, which he explains thus: i. e. his ears, which are to be assailed by Marina's melodious voice.' Steevens would read, deafen'd ports,' meaning the oppilated doors of hearing.'

Lys.

Come, let us leave her.

Lys.

[MARINA Sings,10

Mark'd he your music?

Mar. No, nor look'd on us.

Lys.
See, she will speak to him.
Mar. Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear :-
Per. Hum! ha!

Mar.

Per.

I do think so.

I pray you, turn your eyes again upon me.--
You are like something that-What country woman?
Here of these shores?14

Mar.

No, nor of any shores:

Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
No other than I appear.

Per. I am great with wo, and shall deliver

weeping.

This licence

and out of port in their mind's eye only. being once granted to the poet, the lord, in the instance now before us, walked off the stage, and returned again in a few minutes, leading in Marina without any sensible impropriety; and the present drama exhibited before such indulgent spectators was not more incommodious in the representation than any other would have been. See Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage. 8 The quarto of 1609 reads:

Fair on all goodness that consists in beauty,' &c. The present circumstance puts us in mind of what passes between Helena and the King, in All's Well that Ends Well.

9 The old copy has 'artificial fate. The emendation is by Dr. Percy.

10 This song (like most of those that were sung in the old plays) has not been preserved. It may have been formed on the lines in the Gesta Romanorum. The reader desirous of consulting the Latin hexameters, or Twine's translation of them, may consult the Variorum Shakspeare. There was not merit enough in them to warrant their production in this abridged commentary, 11 So in Othello :

I fetch my birth From men of royal siege.'

12 Awkward is adverse. So in King Henry VL., Part II:

"And twice by awkward wind from England's bank Drove back again.'

13 This seems to refer to a part of the story that is made no use of in the present scene. Thus in Twine's trans lation:-"Then Appolonius fell in rage, and forgetting all courtesie, &c. rose up sodainly and stroke the maid en,' &c. Pericles however afterwards says

Did'st thou not say, when I did push thee back, (Which was when I perceiv'd thee,) that thou cam`st From good descending?

14 This passage is strangely corrupt in the old copies:'Per. I do think so, pray you turne your eyes upon

brows;

Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;
As silver-voic'd; her eyes as jewel-like,
And cas'd as richly: in pace another Juno;
Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them
hungry,

The more she gives them speech.-Where do you live?

Mar. Where I am but a stranger: from the deck You may discern the place.

Per.
Where were you bred?
And how achiev'd you these endowments, which
You make more rich to owe ?2
Mar.
Should I tell my history,
"Twould seem like lies disdain'd in the reporting.
Per. Pr'ythee, speak;
Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st
Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace
For the crown'd' truth to dwell in: I'll believe thee;
And make my senses credit thy relation.

To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st
Like one I lov'd indeed. What were thy friends?
Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back,
(Which was when I perceiv'd thee,) that thou cam'st
From good descending?
So indeed I did.

Mar.

rum commones.

And wherefore call'd Marina ? Mar.

For I was born at sea.

Call'd Marina,

Per. At sea? thy mother? Mar. My mother was the daughter of a king; Who died the very minute I was born, As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft Deliver'd weeping.

Per.

O, stop there a little!
This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be.
My daughter's buried. [Aside.] Well-where
were you bred?

I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,
And never interrupt you.

Mar. You'll scarce believe me; 'twere best I did give o'er.

Per. I will believe you by the syllable

Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:How came you in these parts? where were you bred?

Mar. The king, my father, did in Tharsus leave me;

Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,
Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd
A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,
A crew of pirates came and rescued me;
Brought me to Mitylene. But now, good sir,
Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? It
may be,

You think me an impostor; no, good faith;
I am the daughter to king Pericles,
If good king Pericles be.

Per. Ho, Helicanus!

Hel. Calls my gracious lord? Per. Thou art a grave and noble counsellor, Most wise in general: Tell me, if thou canst, What this maid is, or what is like to be, That thus hath made me weep?

Hel.

Here is the regent, sir, of Mitylene, Speaks nobly of her.

I know not; but

Lys.
She would never tell
Her parentage; being demanded that,
She would sit still and weep.

Per. O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir;
Give me a gash, put me to present pain;
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me,
O'erbear the shores of my mortality,

And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,

Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget;
Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tharsus,
And found at sea again! O Helicanus,
Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods, as loud
As thunder threatens us; This is Marina.-
What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,

4 By her beauty and patient meekness disarming Calamity, and preventing her from using her uplifted sword. Extremity (though not personified as here) is in like manner used for the utmost of human suffering in King Lear :

6

another,

To amplify too much, would much more, And top extremity.

'You mend the jewel by wearing of it.'

3 Shakspeare, when he means to represent any quali ty of the mind, &c. as eminently perfect, furnishes the personification with a crown. See the 37th and 144th Sonnets. So in Romeo and Juliet:

Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit;
For 'tis a throne, where honour may be crown'd
Sole monarch of the universal earth.'

'She sat like Patience on a monument
Smiling at Grief."

5 i. e. No puppet dressed up to deceive me. So in The Two Gentlemen of Verona :

'O, excellent motion! O, exceeding puppet!'

6 That is, I will believe every the minutest part of what you say. So in All's Well that Ends Well:'To the utmost syllable of your worthiness.' And in Macbeth :

'To the last syllable of recorded time.'

Per. Most heavenly music:

It nips me unto list'níng, and thick slumber

Hangs on mine eyelids; let me rest.
Lys. A pillow for his head;

[He sleeps.

[The Curtain before the Pavilion of PERICLES
is closed.

So leave him all.-Well, my companion-friends,4
If this but answer to my just belief,
I'll well remember you.

[Exeunt LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MA-
RINA, and attendant Lady.

SCENE II. The same. PERICLES on the Deck asleep; DIANA appearing to him as in a Vision, Dia. My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither,

And do upon mine altar sacrifice.

There, when my maiden priests are met together,
Before the people all,

Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife;
To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call,
And give them repetition to the life.
Perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in wo:

1 i. e. in plain language, though nothing ever happened to awake a scruple or doubt concerning your veracity.

2 This passage is very much corrupted in the old copies in the last line we have, another like. The emendation is founded upon that of Mason. Malone reads:

Per. I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now My drown'd queen's name, (as in the rest you said Thou hast been godlike perfect,) the heir of kingdoms, And a mother like to Pericles thy father.' Mason's emendation is confirmed by what Pericles says in the preceding speech :

O come hither

Thou that beger'st him that did thee beget.' 3 So in the Winter's Tale :

Dear queen, that ended when I but began,
Give me that hand of yours to kiss.'

4 Malone would give these lines to Marina, readingWell, my companion-friend.

Observing that a lady had entered with her, and Marina says, I will use my utmost skill in the recovery of Pericles,

provided

That none but I and my companion-maid Be suffer'd to come near him.'

Do't, and be happy, by my silver bow.
Awake, and tell thy dream. [DIANA disappear.
Per. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,*

I will obey thee!-Helicanus!

Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, and MARINA.
Hel.
Sir.

Per. My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike The inhospitable Cleon; but I am

For other service first: toward Ephesus
Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why.-
[To HELICANUS.
Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
And give you gold for such provision

As our intents will need?

Lys. With all my heart, sir; and when you come ashore,

I have another suit.

Per.

You shall prevail,

Gow. Now our sands are almost run;

More a little, and then done."

This, as my last boon, give me,

(For such kindness must relieve me,)
That you aptly will suppose

What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
The regent made in Mitylin,

To greet the king. So he has thriv'd,
That he is promis'd to be wiv'd
To fair Marina; but in no wise
Till he had done his sacrifice,
As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
The interim, pray you, all confound.i
In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,
And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
At Ephesus, the temple see,
Our king, and ail his company.
That he can hither come so soon
Is by your fancy's thankful boon.
SCENE III. The Temple of DIANA at Ephesus;
THAISA standing near the Altar, as High Priest-
ess; a number of Virgins on each side; CER
MON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending.
Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHUS,
HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady.

[Erit.

Per. Hail Dian! to perform thy just command, I here confess myself the king of Tyre; Who, frighted from my country, did wed The fair Thaisa, at Pentapolis.

At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess, Steevens contends for the text as it stands, remarking that Lysimachus is much in love with Marina, and supposing himself to be near the gratification of his wishes, with a generosity common to noble natures on such occasions, is desirous to make his friends and companions partakers of his happiness."

5 This vision appears to be founded on a passage in Gower.

6 In the old copy we have here like for life again.The passage appears to mean:- Draw such a picture as shall prove itself to have been copied from real, no from pretended calamities; such a one as shall stre the hearers with all the lustre of conspicuous truth."

7 i. e. regent of the silver moon. In the language of alchemy, which was well understood when this play was written, Luna or Diana means silver, as Sol does gold.

S That is, our swollen sails.' So in Antony and Cleopatra :-

A vent upon her arm, and something blown." 9 The old copy reads dum. And in the last line of this chorus doom instead of boon.

10 i. e. Pericles.

11 Confound here signifies to consume.

He did confound the best part of an hour, Exchanging hardiment with great Glendow`r." King Henry F.