the proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see her to-morrow. Bawd. Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease hither: here he does but repair it. I know 120 he will come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the sun. Boult. Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we should lodge them with this sign. Bawd. [To Mar.] Pray you, come hither awhile. You have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must seem to do that fearfully which you commit willingly, despise profit where you have most gain. To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your lovers: seldom but that 130 pity begets you a good opinion, and that opinion a mere profit. Mar. I understand you not. Boult. O, take her home, mistress, take her home these blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practice. Bawd. Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go with warrant. But, 140 Boult. 'Faith, some do, and some do not. mistress, if I have bargained for the joint,Bawd. Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit. Boult. I may so. Bawd. Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the manner of your garments well. Boult. Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet. Bawd. Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom. When nature framed this 150 132. mere, pure, unalloyed. 149. you'll lose nothing by custom, you will profit by the customers you procure. piece, she meant thee a good turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou hast the harvest out of thine own report. Boult. I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night. Bawd. Come your ways; follow me. Mar. If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, Untied I still my virgin knot will keep. Diana, aid my purpose! Bawd. What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us? [Exeunt. SCENE III. Tarsus. A room in Cleon's house. Enter CLEON and DIONYZA. Dion. Why, are you foolish? Can it be un done? Cle. O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon! Dion. You'll turn a child again. I think Cle. Were I chief lord of all this spacious world, I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady, Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess To equal any single crown o' the earth I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine! If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness 12. fact, crime. 160 ΤΟ When noble Pericles shall demand his child? To foster it, nor ever to preserve. Who can cross it? She died at night; I'll say so. Cle. O, go to. Well, well, Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods Do like this worst. Dion. Be one of those that think Cle. To such proceeding Who ever but his approbation added, Though not his prime consent, he did not flow Dion. Be it so, then : Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead, Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. She did distain my child, and stood between Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin And though you call my course unnatural, 18. for an honest attribute, to gain the title of an honourable man. 34. blurted at, cried 'pish' at; derided. 20 30 34. a malkin not worth the time of day, a common wench not worth greeting. Perform'd to your sole daughter. Cle. Dion. And as for Pericles, Heavens forgive it! 40 What should he say? We wept after her hearse, Cle. Thou art like the harpy, Dion. You are like one that superstitiously Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies: But yet I know you'll do as I advise. [Exeunt. 50 SCENE IV. Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA Gow. Thus time we waste, and longest leagues Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for 't; From bourn to bourn, region to region. By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime To use one language in each several clime Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you To learn of me, who stand i̇' the gaps to teach you, The stages of our story. Pericles Is now again thwarting the wayward seas, 2. have an wish but for't, have a wish merely by wishing. VOL. IV 81 G Attended on by many a lord and knight, Is left to govern it, you bear in mind, Advanced in time to great and high estate. This king to Tarsus,-think his pilot thought; on, To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone. DUMB SHOW. Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train; See how belief may suffer by foul show! With sighs shot through, and biggest tears o'er shower'd, Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs: 13-16. These lines were radically rearranged by Steevens, whom most modern edd. have followed. Daniel's punctuation, though not convincing, gives a fair sense to the original order. 20 18. think his pilot thought, suppose thought his pilot; then your own thoughts will keep pace with the thought-like swiftness of his voyage. 19. steerage, steering. |