That I came with no ill intent; for to me A curse upon him, die he like a thief, me. Re-enter BOULT. Boult. I beseech your honour, one piece for Lys. Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper! Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it, 120 Boult. How's this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish chastity, 130 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. We'll have no more gentleCome your ways, I say. Come your ways. men driven away. Re-enter Bawd. Bawd. How now! what's the matter? Boult. Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the Lord Lysimachus. Bawd. O abominable ! Boult. She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of the gods. Bawd. Marry, hang her up for ever! 132. the cope, the vault of heaven. 140 Boult. The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snowball: saying his prayers too. Bawd. Boult, take her away; use her at thy 150 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! Bawd. 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 women-kind? Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays! me. [Exit. Boult. Come, mistress; come your ways with Mar. Whither wilt thou have me? Boult. To take from you the jewel you hold so dear. Mar. Prithee, tell me one thing first. Mar. Neither of these are so bad as thou art, 160. rosemary and bays; commonly used as a garnishing for various dishes at Christmas. 176. Coistrel, base fellow. 160 170 176. Tib, cant term for a low woman. 177. fisting, clutch. Thy ear is liable; thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs. Boult. What would you have me do? go to 180 the wars, would you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one? Mar. Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty If that thy master would gain by me, Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, I doubt not but this populous city will Boult. But can you teach all this you speak of? Boult. Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee, I will. Mar. But amongst honest women. 190 200 Boult. 'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them. But since my master and mistress have bought you, there's no going but by their consent: therefore I will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt not but 210 I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways. [Exeunt. 186. shores, sewers. ACT V Enter GOWER. Gow. Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances Into an honest house, our story says. She sings like one immortal, and she dances As goddess-like to her admired lays; Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her neeld com poses Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, lost; Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense; 8. inkle, a kind of tape. Pericles, once more imagine that you see the sorrowful Pericles. Where what is done in action, more, if might, [Exit. SCENE I. On board Pericles' ship, off Mytilene. A close pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; Pericles within it, reclined on a couch. barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel. A Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS. Tyr. Sail. [To the Sailor of Mytilene] Where is Lord Helicanus? he can resolve you. O, here he is. Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene, Who craves to come aboard. What is your will? Hel. That he have his. Call up some gentle men. Tyr. Sail. Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls. Enter two or three Gentlemen. First Gent. Doth your lordship call? Hel. Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard; I pray ye, greet them fairly. [The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go on board the barge. Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with the Gentlemen and the two Sailors. Tyr. Sail. Sir, 23. more, if might, i.e. the supposed action would be more 10 fully set forth if the conditions of the stage allowed. |