ACT III Nature should be so conversant with pain, Being thereto not compell❜d. CER. I held it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater May the two latter darken and expend; And I can speak of the disturbances 30 That Nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, Or tie my pleasure up in silken bags, To please the Fool and Death. 1 40 SEC. GENT. Your Honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth Your charity; and hundreds call themselves Your creatures, who by you have been restor❜d; And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even Enter two or three Servants with a chest. FIRST SERV. So; lift there. "Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight: If the Sea's stomach be o'ercharg'd with gold, "Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us. SEC. GENT. 'Tis so, my Lord. CER. How close 'tis caulk'd and bitum'd! ACT III Did the Sea cast it up? FIRST SERV. I never saw so huge a billow, Sir, As toss'd it upon shore. CER. Wrench it open; 60 Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense. SEC. GENT. A delicate odour. CER. As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it. O you most potent Gods! what's here? a corse! FIRST GENT. Most strange! CER. Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasur'd With full bags of spices! A passport too! Apollo, perfect me i' the characters! Here I give to understand [reads from a scroll. (If e'er this coffin drive a-land) I, King Pericles, have lost This Queen, worth all our mundane cost. If thou liv'st, Pericles, thou hast a heart This chanc'd to-night. Nay, certainly to-night; For look how fresh she looks! Death 80 [Exit a Servant. may usurp on nature many hours, And yet the fire of life kindle again The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian Who was by good appliance recovered. Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire. Well said, well said; the fire and cloths. The rough and woeful music that we have, Sc. II ACT III Cause it to sound, beseech This Queen will live: Nature awakes a warm FIRST GENT. The Heavens, Through you, increase our wonder, and set up CER. She is alive! behold, Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels Begin to part their fringes of bright gold; The diamonds of a most praised water Do appear, to make the World twice rich. Live, [She moves. Where am I? Where's my Lord? What World is Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her. Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to, For her relapse is mortal. Come, come; Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with PER. Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone: CLE. Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you ACT III mortally, Sc. III O your sweet Queen! Yet glance full wanderingly on us. DION. That the strict Fates had pleas'd you had brought her hither, To have bless'd mine eyes with her! PER. ΤΟ We cannot but obey To give her princely training, that she may be CLE. By you reliev'd, would force me to my duty: But if to that my nature need a spur, The Gods revenge it upon me and mine, I believe you; To the end of generation! PER. Your honour and your goodness teach me to 't, By bright Diana, whom we honour, all DION. I have one myself, Who shall not be more dear to my respect Than your's, my Lord. PER. 20 30 CLE. We'll bring your Grace e'en to the edge o' the shore, Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and 40 Look to your little mistress, on whose grace SCENE IV. Ephesus. A Room in CERIMON's House. CER. Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, At your command. Know you the character? That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, I cannot rightly say. But, since King Pericles, A vestal livery will I take me to, And never more have joy. CER. Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak, Where you may abide till your date expire. Shall there attend you. THAI. My recompense is thanks, that's all; Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. ΤΟ Gow. ACT IV Enter GoWER. Imagine Pericles arriv'd at Tyre, Welcom'd and settled to his own desire. Unto Diana there a votaress. Now to Marina bend your mind, [exeunt. |