Pericles. A TRAGEDY, BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM THE TEXT OF MR. STEEVENS'S LAST EDITION. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Antiochus, king of Antioch. Pericles, prince of Tyre. Helicanus, } two lords of Tyre. Escanes, Simonides, king of Pentapolis. Thaliard, a lord of Antioch. Philemon, servant to Cerimon. Leonine, servant to Dionyza. Marshall. A Pandar, and his wife. Gower, as chorus. Boult, their servant. The daughter of Antiochus. Dionyza, wife to Cleon. Thaisa, daughter to Simonides. Marina, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. Lychorida, nurse to Marina. Diana. Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers, &c. SCENE, dispersedly in various countries. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE. ACT I. Enter Gower. BEFORE THE PALACE OF ANTIOCH. To sing a song of old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; To glad your ear, and please your eyes. And lords and ladies of their lives If you, born in these latter times, B The fairest in all Syria; (I tell you what mine authors say:) What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye I give, my cause who best can justify. [Exit. SCENE I. ANTIOCH. A ROOM IN THE PALACE. Enter Antiochus, Pericles, and Attendants. Ant. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large receiv'd The danger of the task you undertake. [Musick. Ant. Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride, For the embracements even of Jove himself; At whose conception, (till Lucina reign'd,) Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence, The senate-house of planets all did sit, To knit in her their best perfections. Enter the daughter of Antiochus. Per. See, where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king Her face, the book of praises, where is read Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence in love, |