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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for the receiuing of him the Lords and Peeres in their richest ornaments to intertaine him The people with their gréedy and vnsatisfied eyes to gaze vpon him for in that part of the world there was in those dayes no Prince so noble in Armes or excellent in Artes and had so generall and deserued a report by fame as Pericles Prince of Tyre Which drew both Péere and People with a ioyfull and frée desire to allow him their imbracements and to wish him happy successe requiring no other but such a happy Soueraigne to hope in for so cunningly had Antiochus dealt in this incest with his daughter that it was yet vnsuspected of the néerest that attended him With which solemnity and suffrages being brought into the presence of the tyrant and by him demaunded the cause of his arriuall at Antioch and being by the Prince answered that it was in loue to his daughter and in hope to enioy her by resoluing of his question Antiochus then first beganne to perswade him from the enterprise and to discourage him from his procéedings by shewing him the frightfull heads of the former Princes placed vpon his Castle wall and like to whome he must exspect himselfe to be if like them as it was most like hée failed in his attempt But Pericles armed with these noble armours Faithfulnesse and Courage and making himselfe fitte for Death if Death prooued fitte for him replyed That he was come now to méete Death willingly if so were his misfortune or to be made euer fortunate by enioying so glorious a beauty as was inthrond in his princely daughter and was there now placed before him which the tyrant receiuing with an angry brow threw downe the Riddle bidding him since perswasions could not alter him to reade and die being in himselfe confident the mysterie thereof was not to be vnfolded which the Prince taking vp read aloude the purpose of which was in these wordes I am no viper yet I feede On mothers flesh that did me breede I sought a husband in which labour I found that kindnesse from a father Hee 's Father Sonne and Husband milde I Mother Wife and yet his Childe How this may be and yet in two As you will liue resolue it you Which secret whilest Prince Pericles was reading Antiochus daughter whether it were that shée now lothed that vnnecessary custome in which shee had so long continued or that her owne affection taught her to be in loue with his perfections our storie leaues vnmentioned but this for certaine all the time that the Prince was studying with what trueth to vnfolde this darke Enigma Desire flew in a robe of glowing blushes into her chéekes and loue inforced her to deliuer thus much from hir owne tongue that he was sole soueraigne of all her wishes and he the gentleman of all her eies had euer yet behelde to whome shée wished a thriuing happinesse By which time the Prince hauing fully considered vpon what he had read and found the meaning both of the secret and their abhominable sinnes Antiochus rising vp demanded the solution of his Question or to attend the sentence of his death But the gentle Prince wisely foreknowing that it is as dangerous to play with tyrants euills as the Flie to sport with the Candles flame rather séemed to dissemble what he knew than to discouer his insight to Antiochus knowledge yet so circumspectly that Antiochus suspected or at least his owne knowen guilf made him so suspect that hée had found the meaning of his foule desire and their more foule actions and séeming as it were then to pitty him whom now in soule he hated and that he rather required his future happinesse than any blemish to his present fortunes he tolde him that for the honour of his name the noblenesse of his woorth nay his owne déere and present loue to him were it not against the dignity and state of his owne loue in his tender and princely disposition he could from the whole world select him as a choice husband for his daughter since hée found him so farre wide from reuealing of the secret yet thus farre hée should perceiue his loue should extend towardes him which before time had not béene séene to stretch it selfe to any of those decaied princes of whose falls his eies were carefull witnesses that for forty dayes he gaue him onely longer respite if by which time and with all the indeuours counsell and aduise hée could vse he can finde out what was yet concealed from him it should be euident how gladly he would reioyce to ioy in such a sonne rather than haue cause of sorrow by his vntimely ruine And in the meane time in his owne Court by the royaltie of his entertainment hée should perceiue his welcom With which and other such like gratulations their presences being diuided Antiochus betooke himselfe to his Chamber and princely Pericles to diligent consultations of his present estate where when hée had a while considered with himselfe that what he had foūnd was true and this substantially was the true meaning of his Riddle hée was become both father sonne and husband by his vncomely and abhorred actions with his owne child and shée a deuourer of her mothers flesh by the vnlawful couplings with her owne father and the defiling of her mothers bed and that this curtesie of Antiochus toward him was but his hypocrisie to haue his sinne concealed till he found fit occasion to take fit reuenge by the instrumēts of tyrants poyson treason or by any meanes he resolued himselfe with all expedition the next darknesse being his best conductor to flie backe to Tyre which he effecting and Antiochus being now priuate in his loeging and ruminating with himselfe that Pericles had found out the secret of his euill which hée in more secret had committed and knowing that he had no power to rip him open to the world and make his name so odious that as now heauen did so at the knowledge thereof all good men would contemne him And in this study not knowing how otherwise to helpe himselfe from this reproofe he hastily calleth for one Thalyart who was Steward of his housholde and in many things before had receiued the imbracement of his minde this Thalyart as Pericles fore-thought hée presently bribde with gold and furthered with poyson to be this harmles gentlemans executioner To which purpose as hée was about to receiue his othe there came hastily a Messenger that brought him newes the Tyrian shippes were that night departed his harbor and that by intelligence hée had learned the Prince also was fled for Tyre at whose escape Antiochus storming but not desisting from his former practise hée commaunded his murthering minister Thalyart to dispatch his best performance after him sometime perswading him at others threatning him in Tyre to sée him in Tyre to kil him or back to Antioch neuer to returne which villainous mind of his as ready to yéeld as the tyrant was to commaund Thahart in