Bawd. Here comes that which grows to the stalk; -never plucked yet, I can assure you. Is she not a fair creature? Lys. 'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea. Well, there's for you;-leave us. Bawd. I beseech your honor, give me leave; a word, and I'll have done presently. Lys. I beseech you, do. Bawd. First, I would have you note, this is an honorable man. [To MARINA, whom she takes aside. Mar. I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him. Bawd. Next, he is the governor of this country, and a man whom I am bound to. Mar. If he govern the country, you are bound to him indeed; but how honorable he is in that, I know not. Bawd. 'Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold. Mar. What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive. Lys. Have you done? Bawd. My lord, she's not paced yet; you must take some pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will leave his honor and her together. [Exeunt Bawd, Pander, and BOULT. Lys. Go thy ways.-Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade? Mar. What trade, sir? Lys. What I cannot name but I shall offend. Mar. I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it. Lys. How long have you been of this profession? Mar. Ever since I can remember. Lys. Did you go to it so young? Were you a gamester at five, or at seven? Mar. Earlier too, sir, if now I be one. Lys. Why, the house you dwell in, proclaims you to be a creature of sale. Mar. Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come into it? I hear say, you are of honorable parts, and are the governor of this place. Lys. Why, hath your principal made known unto you, who I am? Mar. Who is my principal? Lys. Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place. Come, come. • How much? what price? thou couldst. Had I brought hither a corrupted mind, Perséver still in that clear way thou goest, A curse upon him, die he like a thief, It shall be for thy good. [AS LYSIMACHUS is putting up his Purse, BOULT enters. Boult. I beseech your honor, one piece for me. Lys. Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper! Your house, But for this virgin, that doth prop it up, Would sink, and overwhelm you all. Away! [Exit LYSIMACHUS Boult. How's this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish chastity, 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. Come your way. We'll have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say. Re-enter Bawd. Baud. 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 forever! 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 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 woman-kind? Marry come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays! [Exit Bawd. Boult. Come, mistress; come your way with me. Mar. Whither would you have me? Boult. To take from you the jewel you hold so dear. Mar. Pr'ythee, tell me one thing first. Boult. Come now, your one thing? Mar. What canst thou wish thine enemy to be? Boult. Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress. Mar. Neither of these are yet so bad as thou art, Since they do better thee in their command. Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend Of hell would not in reputation change: Thou'rt the damn'd door-keeper to every coystrel That hither comes inquiring for his tib; Paltry fellow. Cope or canopy of heaven. To the choleric fisting of each rogue thy ear As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs. Boult. What would you have me? go to the Enter GOWER. And I will undertake all these to teach. Boult. But can you teach all this you speak of? Boull. Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee, I will. Mar. But amongst honest women? 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 I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways. [Exeunt. ACT V. Gow. Marina thus the brothel'scapes, and chances Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her neeldR com poses Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry; That even her art sisters the natural roses: His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense; [Exit. O, here he is.- men. Tyr. Sail. Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls. Enter two Gentlemen. 1 Gent. Doth your lordship call? Hel. Gentlemen, There is some of worth would come aboard; I pray you To greet them fairly. Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us, Lys. I am governor of this place you lie before. Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king; A man, who for this three months hath not spoken Lys. Upon what ground is his distemperature? You may, indeed, sir, Lys. Yet, let me obtain my wish. Hel. Behold him, sir: [PERICLES discovered.] Till the disaster, that, one mortal night, Lys. Sir, king, all hail! the gods preserve you! Hail, Hail, royal sir! Hel. It is in vain; he will not speak to you. [He whispers one of the attendant Lords.- ness We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you fur- That for our gold we may provision have, O, sir, a courtesy, [The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, And so inflict our province.-Yet once more Enter from thence LYSIMACHUS and Lords; the Sit, sir, I will recount it; Let me entreat to know at large the cause Of gentle kind, and noble stock, I'd wish Sir, I will use Come, let us leave her, And the gods make her prosperous. [MAR. sings. Mark'd he your music? Lys. Mar No, nor looked on us. See, she will speak to him. Mar. I am a maid, My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes, [Aside. Per. My fortunes-parentage-good parentageTo equal mine;-was it not thus what say you? Mar. I said, my lord, if you did know my parent age, You would not do me violence. Mar. No, nor of any shores: Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am Per. I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping. My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows; Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight; hungry, The more she gives them speech.-Where do you live? Mar. Where I am but a stranger: from the deck You may discern the place. Per. Where were you bred? And how achiev'd you these endowments, which You make more rich to owe? Mar. Should I tell my history, 'Twould seem like lies disdain'd in the reporting. Per. Pr'ythee speak; Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou look'st Modest as justice, and thou seem'st a palace For the crown'd truth to dwell in: I'll believe thee, And make my senses credit thy relation, To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st Like one I lov'd indeed. What were thy friends? Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back, (Which was when I perceiv'd thee,) that thou cam'st Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me, The name Marina, How! a king's daughter? And call'd Marina? born? And wherefore call'd Marina? Mar. Where were you Call'd Marina, For I was born at sea. Per. I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story, Mur. You'll scarce believe me; 'twere best I did give o'er. Per. I will believe you by the syllable Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:How came you in these parts? where were you bred? Mar. The king, my father,did in Tharsus leave me; You think me an impostor; no, good faith; Lys. Per. O Helicanus, strike me, honor'd sir; O, come hither, Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget: Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tharsus, And found at sea again! O Helicanus, Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods, as loud As thunder threatens us. This is Marina.What was thy mother's name? tell me but that, For truth can never be confirm'd enough, Though doubts did ever sleep. Mar. What is your title? First, sir, I pray, Per. I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now (As in the rest thou hast been godlike perfect) My drown'd queen's name, thou art the heir of kingdoms, And another life to Pericles thy father. 2 i. e. No puppet dressed up to deceive me. Per. Now, blessing on thee, rise; thou art my Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus, Hel. Sir, 'tis the governor of Mitylene, Per. O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, Per. None? The music of the spheres: List, my Marina. Do ye not hear? Lys. Music? my lord, I hear Per. Most heavenly music: It nips me unto list'ning, and thick slumber Lys. A pillow for his head; [He sleeps. [The Curtain before the Pavilion of PERICLES So leave him all.-Well, my companion-friends, SCENE III-The Temple of DIANA at Ephesus: Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHUS, Per. Hail, Dian; to perform thy just command At sea in child-bed died she; but brought forth [Exeunt LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MA- If you have told Diana's altar true, RINA, and Attendant Lady. SCENE II.-The same. PERICLES on the 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. This is your wife. Per. Reverend appearer, no; There, when my maiden priests are met to- Thrown on this shore. I oped the coffin, and gether, Before the people all, Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife: To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call, Perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in woe: Awake, and tell thy dream. [DIANA disappears. I will obey thee!-Helicanus! Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, and MARINA. Sir. Per. This, this: no more, you gods! your pre- Makes my past miseries sport: You shall do well, Melt, and no more be seen. O come, be buried My heart Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina, Gow. In Antioch,' and his daughter, you have heard Of monstrous lust the due and just reward: A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty: That him and his they in his palace burn. ii. e. The king of Antioch. |