What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,
For truth can never be confirm'd enough,
Though doubts did ever sleep.

MAR. First, sir, I pray, what is your title?

PER. I am Pericles of Tyre; but tell me now
My drown'd queen's name: as in the rest you said,
Thou hast been god-like perfect, the heir of kingdoms,
And another like to Pericles thy father.

MAR. Is it no more to be your daughter, than
To say, my mother's name was Thaisa?

Thaisa was my mother, who did end

The minute I began.

PER. Now, blessing on thee, rise; thou art my child.
Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus, she is ;
Not dead at Tharsus, as she should have been,
By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;
When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge,
She is thy very princess.-Who is this?

HEL. Sir, 't is the governor of Mitylene,
Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
Did come to see you.

PER. I embrace you.

Give me my robes; I am wild in my beholding.
O heavens bless my girl! But hark, what music's this
Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him

O'er point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
How sure you are my daughter.-But what music?
HEL. My lord, I hear none.

PER. None?

The music of the spheres: list, my Marina.

Lys. It is not good to cross him; give him way.

PER. Rarest sounds do ye not hear?

Lys. Music? My lord, I hear—

PER.

Most heavenly music:

It nips me unto list'ning, and thick slumber
Hangs on mine eyes; let me rest.
Lys. A pillow for his head.

So leave him all. Well, my companion-friends,
If this but answer to my just belief,

[He sleeps

I'll well remember you.

[Exeunt LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and attendant Lady.

SCENE II.-The Same.

PERICLES on deck asleep; DIANA appearing to him as
in a vision.

DIA. My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither,
And do upon mine altar sacrifice.

There, when my maiden priests are met together,

Before the people all

Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:

To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call,
And give them repetition to the like.

Perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in woe:
Do 't, and be happy: by my silver bow
Awake, and tell thy dream.

PER. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,

I will obey thee !-Helicanus !

[DIANA disappears.

Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, and MARINA.

My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike
Th' inhospitable Cleon; but I am

For other service first: toward Ephesus

Turn our blown sails: eftsoons I 'll tell thee why.

Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,
And give you gold for such provision

As our intents will need?

Lys. Sir,

[TO HELICANUS.

With all my heart; and when you come ashore,

I have another suit.

PER. You shall prevail,

Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems

You have been noble towards her.

Lys. Sir, lend me your arm.

PER. Come, my Marina.

[Exeunt

Enter GoWER, before the Temple of DIANA at Ephesus. Gow. Now our sands are almost run;

More a little, and then dumb.

This, as my last boon, give me,

(For such kindness must relieve me,)

That you aptly will suppose

What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
What minstrelsy, what pretty din,
The regent made in Mitylin,

To greet the king. So he has thriv'd,
That he is promis'd to be wiv'd
To fair Marina; but in no wise,
Till he had done his sacrifice,
As Dian bade: whereto being bound
The interim, pray you, all confound.
In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,
And wishes fall out as they 're will'd,
At Ephesus, the temple see,
Our king, and all his company.
That he can hither come so soon,
Is by your fancy's thankful doom.

[Exit.

SCENE III.—The Temple of DIANA at Ephesus; THAISA standing near the altar, as high priestess; a number of Virgins on each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending.

Enter PERICLES with his Train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady.

PER. Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,

I here confess myself the king of Tyre;

Who, frighted from my country, did wed
The fair Thaisa, at Pentapolis.

At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
A maid-child called Marina; who, O goddess,
Wears yet thy silver livery. She, at Tharsus,
Was nurs'd with Cleon; whom at fourteen years
He sought to murther: but her better stars
Brought her to Mitylene; against whose shore

Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Made known herself my daughter.

THAI.

Voice and favour!

You are, you are-O royal Pericles !

[She faints.

PER. What means the woman? she dies! help, gentle

men!

CER. Noble sir,

If you have told Diana's altar true,

This is your wife.

PER.

Reverend appearer, no;

I threw her o'erboard with these very arms.
CER. Upon this coast, I warrant you.

PER.

"T is most certain.

CER. Look to the lady ;-O, she 's but o'erjoy'd. Early in blust'ring morn this lady was

Thrown upon this shore. I op'd the coffin, and

Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and plac'd her
Here in Diana's temple.

PER.

CER. Great sir, they Whither I invite you.

Recovered.

THAI. O, let me look

May we see them?

shall be brought you to my house, Look, Thaisa is

If he be none of mine, my sanctity

Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you speak,
Like him you are: Did you not name a tempest,
A birth, and death?

PER. The voice of dead Thaisa!

THAI. That Thaisa am I, supposed drown'd

And dead.

PER. Immortal Dian!

THAI.

Now I know you better.

When we with tears parted Pentapolis,

The king, my father, gave you such a ring.

[Shows a ring.

PER. This, this; no more, you gods! your present kind

ness

Makes my past miseries sports: You shall do well,

That on the touching of her lips I may

Melt, and no more be seen. O come, be buried
A second time within these arms.

MAR.

My heart

Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.

[Kneels to THAISA, PER. Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa; Thy burthen at the sea, and call'd Marina,

PER. You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute.

Can you remember what I call'd the man?

I have nam'd him oft.

THAI.

'T was Helicanus then.

PER. Still confirmation :

Embrace him, dear Thaisa: this is he.

Now do I long to hear how you were found;
How possibly preserv'd; and whom to thank,
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.

THAI. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man, through whom
The gods have shown their power; that can from first
To last resolve you.

PER.

Reverend sir, the gods

Can have no mortal officer more like

A god than you. Will you deliver how
This dead queen re-lives?

CER.

I will, my lord.

Beseech you, first go with me to my house,

Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
How she came placed here within the temple;

No needful thing omitted.

I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer
Night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,

This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,

This ornament that makes me look so dismal,