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A12024	The late, and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre With the true relation of the whole historie, aduentures, and fortunes of the said prince: as also, the no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, in the birth and life, of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on the Banck-side. By William Shakespeare.; Pericles	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.	1609 (1609)	STC 22334; ESTC S111190	38,622	72

THE LATE And much admired Play Called Pericles Prince of Tyre With the true Relation of the whole Historie aduentures and fortunes of the said Prince As also The no lesse strange and worthy accidents in the Birth and Life of his Daughter MARIANA As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by his Maiesties Seruants at the Globe on the Banck-side By William Shakespeare Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson and are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pater-noster row c. 1609. The Play of Pericles Prince o● Tyre c. Enter Gower TO sing a Song that old was sung From ashes auntient Gower is come Assuming mans infirmities To glad your eare and please your eyes It hath been sung at Feastiuals On Ember eues and Holydayes And Lords and Ladyes in their liues Haue red it for restoratiues The purchase is to make men glorious Et bonum quo Antiquius ●o melius If you borne in those latter times When Witts more ripe accept my rimes And that to heare an old man sing May to your Wishes pleasure bring I life would wish and that I might Waste it for you like Taper light This Antioch then Antiochus the great Buylt vp this Citie for his chiefest Seat The fayrest in all Syria I tell you what mine Authors saye This King vnto him tooke a Peere Who dyed and left a female heyre So bucksome blith and full of face As heauen had lent her all his grace With whom the Father liking tooke And her to Incest did prouoke Bad child worse father to intice his owne To euill should be done by none But custome what they did begi● Was with long vse account'd no sinne The beautie of this sinfull Dame Made many Princes thither frame To seeke her as a bedfellow In maryage pleasures playfellow Which to preuent he made a Law To keepe her still and men in awe That who so askt her for his wife His Riddle tould not lost his life So for her many of wight did die As yon grimme lookes do testifie What now ensues to the iudgement of your eye I giue my cause who best can iu●tifie Exi● Enter Antiochus Princ● Pericl●s and f●llowers Ant● Young Prince of Tyre you haue at large receiued The danger of the taske you vndertake Peri. I haue Antiochus and with a soule emboldned With the glory of her prayse thinke death no hazard In this enterprise Ant. Musicke bring in our daughter clothed like a bride For embracements euen of ●oue himselfe At whose conception till Lucina rained Nature this dowry gaue to glad her presence The Seanate house of Planets all did sit To knit in her their best perfections Enter Antiochus daughter Per. See where she comes appareled like the ●pring Graces her subiects and her thoughts the King Of euery Vertue giues renowne to men Her face the booke of pra●ses where is read Nothing but curious pleasures as from thence Sorrow were euer racte and teastie wrath Could neuer be her milde companion You Gods that made me man and sway in loue That haue enflamde desire in my breast To taste the fruite of yon celestiall tree Or die in th' aduenture be my helpes As I am sonne and seruant to your will To compasse such a bondlesse happinesse Anti. Prince Pericles Per● That would be sonne to great Antiochus Ant. Before thee standes this faire Hesperides With golden fruite but dangerous to be toucht For Death like Dragons heere affright thee hard Her face like Heauen inticeth thee to view Her countlesse glory which desert must gaine And which without desert because thine eye Presumes to reach all the whole heape must die Yo● sometimes famous Princes like thy selfe Drawne by report aduentrous by desire Tell thee with speachlesse tongues and semblance pale That without couering saue yon field of Starres Heere they stand Martyrs slaine in Cupids Warres And with dead cheekes aduise thee to desist For going on deaths net whom none resist Per. Antiochus I thanke thee who hath taught My frayle mortalitie to know it selfe And by those fearefull obiectes to prepare This body like to them to what I must For Death remembered should be like a myrrour Who tels vs life 's but breath to trust it errour I le make my Will then and as sicke men doe Who know the World see Heauen but feeling woe Gripe not at earthly ioyes as ●arst they did So I bequeath a happy peace to you And all good men as eu●ry Prince should doe My ritches to the earth from whence they came But my vnspotted fire of Loue to you Thus ready for the way of li●e or death I wayte the sharpest blow Antiochus Scorning aduice read the conclusion then Which read and not expounded t is decreed As these before thee thou thy selfe shalt bleed D●ugh Of all sayd yet mayst thou prooue prospero●● Of all sayd yet I wish thee happinesse Peri. Like a bold Champion I assume the Listes Nor aske aduise of any other thought But faythfulnesse and courage The Riddle I am no Viper yet I feed On mothers flesh which did me breed I sought a Husband in which labour I found that kindness● in a Father Hee 's Father Sonne and Husband mild● I Mother Wife and yet his Child How they may be and yet in two As you will liue resolue it you Sharpe Phisicke is the last But ô you powers That giues heauen countlesse eyes to view mens actes Why cloude they not their sights perpetually If this be true which makes me pale to read it Faire Glasse of light I lou'd you and could still Were not this glorious Casket stor'd with ill But I must tell you now my thoughts reuolt For hee 's no man on whom perfections waite That knowing sinne within will touch the gate You are a faire Violl and your sense the stringes Who finger'd to make man his lawfull musicke Would draw Heauen downe and all the Gods to ha●ken But being playd vpon before your time Hell onely daunceth at so harsh a chime Good sooth I care not for you Ant. Prince Pericl●s touch not vpon thy life For that 's an Article within our Law As dangerous as the rest your time 's expir'd Either expound now or receiue your senten●e Peri. Great King Few loue to heare the sinnes they loue to act T'wo●ld brayde your selfe too neare for me to tell it Who has a booke of all that Monarches doe Hee 's more secure to keepe it shut then showne For Vice repeated is like the wandring Wind Blowes dust in others eyes to spread it selfe And yet the end of all is bought thus deare The breath is gone and the sore eyes see cleare To stop the Ayre would hurt them the blind Mole cast●● Copt hilles towards heauen to tell the earth is throng'd By mans oppression and the poore Worme doth die for 't Kinges are earths Gods in vice their law 's their will And if ●oue stray who dares say ●oue doth ●ll It is enough you know and it is fit What

being more knowne growes worse to smother it All loue the Wombe that their first beeing bred Then giue my tongue like leaue to loue my head Ant. Heauen that I had thy head he ha's found the meaning But I will gloze with him Young Prince of Tyre Though by the tenour of your strict edict Your exposition misinterpreting We might proceed to counsell of your dayes Yet hope succeeding from so faire a tree As your faire selfe doth tune vs otherwise Fourtie dayes longer we doe respite you If by which time ou●●●cret be vndone This mercy shewes wee●le ioy in such a Sonne And vntill then your entertaine shall bee As doth befit our honour and your worth Manet Pericles solus Peri. How courtesie would seeme to couer sinne When what is done is like an hipocrite The which is good in nothing but in sight If it be true that I interpret false Then were it certaine you were not so bad As with foule Incest to abuse your soule Where now you both a Father and a Sonne By your vntimely claspings with your Child Which pleasures fittes a husband not a father And shee an eater of her Mothers flesh By the defiling of her Parents bed And both like Serpents are who though they feed On sweetest Flowers yet they Poyson breed Antioch farewell for Wisedome sees those men Blush not in actions blacker then the night Will shew no course to keepe them from the light One sinne I know another doth prouoke Murther 's as neere to Lust as Flame to Smoake Poyson and Treason are the hands of Sinne I and the targets to put off the shame Then least my life be cropt to keepe you cleare By flight I le shun the danger which I feare Exit Enter Antiochus Anti. He hath found the meaning For which we meane to haue his head He must not liue to trumpet foorth my infan●e Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sinne In such a loathed manner And therefore instantly this Prince must die For by his fall my honour must keepe hie Who attends vs there Enter Thaliard Thali Doth your highnes call Antio Thaliar● you are of our Chamber Thali●rd And our minde pertakes her priuat actions To your secrecie and for your faythfulnes We will aduaunce you Th●liard Behold heere 's Poyson and heere 's Gold Wee hate the Prince of Tyre and thou must kill him It fittes thee not to aske the reason why Because we bid it say is it done Th●●i My Lord t is done Enter a Messenger Anti. Enough Let your breath coole your selfe telling your haste Mess. My Lord Prince Pericles is fled Antin As thou wilt liue flie after and like an arrow shot from a well experienst Archer hits the marke his eye doth leuell at so thou neuer returne vnlesse thou say Prince Pericles is dead Thal. My Lord if I can get him within my Pistols length I le make him sure enough so farewell to your highnesse Thaliard adieu till Pericles be dead My heart can lend no succour to my head Enter Pericles with his Lords Pe. Let none disturb vs why shold this chāge of thoughts The sad companion dull eyde melancholie By me so vsde a guest as not an houre In the dayes glorious walke or peacefull night The tombe where griefe stould sleepe can breed me quiet Here pleasures court mine eies and mine eies shun them And daunger which I fearde is at Antioch Whose arme seemes farre too short to hit me here Yet neither pleasures Art can ioy my spirits Nor yet the others distance comfort me Then it is thus the passions of the mind That haue their first conception by misdread Haue after nourishment and life by care And what was first but feare what might be done Growes elder now and cares it be not done And so with me the great Antiochus Gainst whom I am too little to contend Since hee 's so great can make his will his act Will thinke me speaking though I sweare to silence Nor bootes it me to say I honour If he susp●ct I may dishonour him And what may make him blush in being knowne Hee le stop the course by which it might be knowne With hostile forces heele ore-spread the land And with the stint of warre will looke so huge Amazement shall driue courage from the state Our men be vanquisht ere they doe resist And subiects punisht that nere thought offence Which care of them not pittie of my selfe Who once no more but as the tops of trees Which fence the rootes they grow by and defend them Makes both my bodie pine and soule to languish And punish that before that he would punish Enter all the Lords to Pericles 1. Lord. Ioy and all comfort in your sacred brest 2. Lord. And keepe your mind till you returne to vs peacefull and comfortable Hel. Peace peace and giue experience tongue They doe abuse the King that flatter him For flatterie is the bellowes blowes vp sinne The thing the which is flattered but a sparke To which that sparke giues heate and stronger Glowing whereas reproofe obedient and in order Fits kings as they are men for they may erre When signior sooth here does proclaime peace He flatters you makes warre vpon your life Prince paadon me or strike me if you please I cannot be much lower then my knees Per. All leaue vs else but let your cares ore-looke What shipping and what ladings in our hauen And then returne to vs Hellicans thou hast Mooude vs what ●eest thou in our lookes Hel. An angrie brow dread Lord. Per. If there be such a dart in Princes frownes How durst thy tongue moue anger to our face Hel. How dares the plants looke vp to heauen From whence they haue their nourishment Per. Thou knowest I haue power to take thy life from thee Hel. I haue ground the Axe my selfe Doe but you strike th● blowe Per. Rise prethee rise sit downe thou art no flatterer I thanke thee for t and heaue forbid That kings should let their ●ares heare their faults hid Fit Counsellor and seruant for a Prince Who by thy wisdome makes a Prince thy seruant What wouldst thou haue me doe Hel. To beare with patience such griefes as you your selfe doe lay vpon your selfe Per. Thou speakst like a Physition Hellicanus That ministers a potion vnto me That thou wouldst tremble to receiue thy selfe Attend me then I went to Antioch Whereas thou knowst against the face of death I sought the purchase of a glorious beautie From whence an issue I might propogate Are armes to Princes and bring ioies to subiects Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder The rest harke in thine eare as blacke as incest Which by my knowledge found the sinful father Seemde not to strike but smooth but thou knowst this T is time to feare when tyrants seemes to kisse Which feare so grew in me I hither fled Vnder the couering of a carefull night Who seemd my good protector and being here Bethought what was past what might