Enter Attendants, with AARON. 1 Rom. You sad Andronici, have done with woes; Give sentence on this execrable wretch, That hath been breeder of these dire events. Luc. Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him ; There let him stand, and rave and cry for food: If any one relieves or pities him, For the offence he dies. This is our doom: Aar. O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers, I should repent the evils I have done; I do repent it from my very soul. Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence, And give him burial in his father's grave: No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey; [Exeunt. PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. ANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch. PERICLES, prince of Tyre. HELICANUS, two lords of Tyre. ESCANES, SIMONIDES, king of Pentapolis. PHILEMON, servant to Cerimon. A Pandar, and his Wife. 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. ACT I. Enter GOWER. Before the palace of Antioch. To sing a song of old was sung, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. On ember-eves, and holy ales; And lords and ladies of their lives If |