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A15355	The painfull aduentures of Pericles prince of Tyre Being the true history of the play of Pericles, as it was lately presented by the worthy and ancient poet Iohn Gower.; Painfull adventures of Pericles prince of Tyre.	Wilkins, George, fl. 1607.	1608 (1608)	STC 25638.5; ESTC S104496	49,056	78

while suffering for the sorow wherwith he knew his Quéene was imburthened he chid the contrary storme as if it had béen sensible of hearing to be so vnmanerly in this vnfitting season and when so good a Quéene was in labor to kéep such a blustering thus while the good Prince remayned reproouing the one and pittying the other vp comes Lycorida the Nurse sent along by good Symonides with his daughter and into his armes deliuers his Sea-borne Babe which he taking to kisse and pittying it with these words Poore inch of Nature quoth he thou arte as rudely welcome to the worlde as euer Princesse Babe was and hast as chiding a natiuitie as fire ayre earth and water can affoord thée when as if he had forgot himselfe he abruptly breaks out but say Licorida how doth my Quéene O sir quoth she she hath now passed all daungers and hath giuen vppe her griefes by ending her life At which wordes no tongue is able to expresse the tide of sorrowe that ouer-bounded Pericles first looking on his Babe and then crying out for the mother pittying the one that had lost her bringer ere shée had scarce saluted the worlde lamenting for himselfe that had béene bereft of so inestimable a Iewell by the losse of his wife in which sorrowe as he would haue procéeded vppe came the Maister to him who for that the storme continued still in his tempestuous height brake off his sorrowe with these sillables Sir the necessitie of the time affoordes no delay and we must intreate you to be contented to haue the dead body of your Quéene throwne ouer-boorde How varlet quoth Pericles interrupting him wouldest thou haue me cast that body into the sea for buriall who being in misery receiued me into fauour We must intreate you to temperance sir quoth the Maister as you respect your owne safety or the prosperitie of that prety Babe in your armes At the naming of which word Babe Pericles looking mournfully vpon it shooke his head and wept But the Maister going on tolde him that by long experience they had tried that a shippe may not abide to carry a dead carcasse nor would the lingering tempest cease while the dead body remayned with them But the Prince séeking againe to perswade them tolde them that it was but the fondnes of their superstition to thinke so Call it by what you shal please sir quoth the Maister but we that by long practise haue tried the proofe of it if not with your graunt then without your consent for your owne safety which wée with all duety tender must so dispose of it So calling for his seruants about him he willed one of them to bring him a chest which he foorthwith caused to be well bitumed and well leaded for her coffin then taking vp the body of his euen in death faire Thaysa he arrayed her in princely apparrell placing a Crowne of golde vppon her head with his owne hands not without store of funerall teares he layed her in that Toombe then placed̄ hée also store of golde at her head and great treasure of siluer at her féete and hauing written this Letter which he layd vpon her breast with fresh water flowing in his eyes as loath to leaue her sight he nayled vp the Chest the Tenor of which writing was in forme as followeth If ere it hap this Chest be driuen On any shoare on coast or hauen I Pericles the Prince of Tyre That loosing her lost all desire Intreate you giue her burying Since she was daughter to a King This golde I giue you as a fee The Gods requite your charitie The Chest then being nayled vp close he commaunded it to be lifted ouer-boorde and then naming his Childe Marina for that she was borne vppon the Sea he directed his Maister to alter the course from Tyre being a shorter cutte to Tharsus and for whose safety he thither intended where with his hoste Cleon and Dionysa his wife he intended to leaue his little infant to be fostered and brought vp The dead body being thus throwne ouerboorde when as if Fortune had bethought her that shée had wrought her vtmost spight to him by bereauing him of so great a comfort euen in the instant the tempest ceaseth where we will leaue Prince Pericles vppon calme waters though not with a calme winde sayling to Tharsus and beholde the next morning by which time the waues had rouled from waue to waue this Chest to land and cast it ashoare on the coast of Ephesus in which Citty liued a Lord called Cerimon who though of noble bloud and great possessions yet was he so addicted to studie in searching out the excellencie of Arts that his felicitie consisted in contemplation wisely fore-knowing so icie is the state of riches that it is thawed to nothing by the least aduersitie that carelesse heires may dispend and riot consume them when one vertue and our deserued fame attendeth immortality this consideration made him so to apply his time in Letters and in searching out the nature of Simples that he grew so excellent in the secret of Physicke as if Apollo himselfe or another Aesculapius had béene his Schoolemaister nor was he of this plentie a niggard to the néedie but so bountifull to the distressed that his house and hand were accompted the hospitalls for the diseased This Lord Cerimon had his residence built so neare the shoare that in his windowes he ouer-looked the Sea and being this morning in conference with some that came to him both for helpe for themselues and reliefe for others and some that were relating the crueltie of the last nights tempest on a sodayne casting his eye from foorth his casement towards the maine he might espie the waters as it were playing with the Chest wherein the dead Quéene was incoffind and which was vpon the sodayne by a more eager billow cast on his bankes when presently thinking it to be the remnant of some shippewracke caused in the last nights storme calling for his seruants hée foorthwith commaunded them to haue it brought vppe to him as forseited vnto him being cast on his ground which accordingly performed hée as presently gaue charge it should be opened when not without much wonder he straitway viewed the dead body of the Quéene so crowned so royally apparelled so intreasured as before and taking vp the writing which he likewise found placed vpon her breast hée read it to the Gentlemen who at that time accompanied him and knowing it thereby to be the dead Quéene to Prince Pericles Now surely quoth Pericles thou hast a bodie euen drowned with woe for the losse of so goodly a creature for Gentlemen sayde he as you may perceiue such was the excellencie of her beauty that grimme Death himselfe hath not power to suffer any deformitie to accompany it Then laying his hand gently vpon her chéeke he bethought him that life had not lost all the workemanshippe that Nature had bestowed vppon her for euen at the opening of the