Of marriage, all the viands that I eat Do seem unsavoury, wishing him my meat! Sim. He's but a country gentleman: He has done no more than other knights have done, Thai. To me he seems like diamond to glass. I Knight. Who can be other, in this royal presence? Sim. Here, with a cup that's stor❜d unto the brim, (As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips) We drink this health to you. Knights. Sim. Yet pause a while; We thank your grace. Yond' knight doth sit too melancholy, As if the entertainment in our court Had not a show might countervail his worth. Thai. To me, my father? Sim. What is it O! attend, my daughter: Princes, in this, should live like gods above, Who freely give to every one that comes Which tells ME-] The quarto, 1609, omits "me," found in all later copies. In the last line but one of this speech, the quarto, 1609, alone reads, "He's both their parent." To honour them; and princes, not doing so, Are like to gnats, which make a sound, but kill'd To make his entrance more sweet, here say, Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else. Thai. [Aside.] Now, by the gods, he could not please me better. Sim. And farther tell him, we desire to know, Thai. The king my father, sir, has drunk to you. Thai. Wishing it so much blood unto your life. Thai. And, farther, he desires to know of you, Who looking for adventures in the world, And after shipwreck driven upon this shore. Thai. He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles, A gentleman of Tyre, Who only by misfortune of the seas Bereft of ships and men, cast on the shore. My education BEEN in arts and arms,] i. e. My education haring been in arts and arms. Malone altered "been" of all the old editions to being; but that "been" is the right word we have the evidence of the novel founded upon "Pericles," where we meet with the very same words-" his education been in arts and arms." 5 - cast on the shore.] This speech is perfectly intelligible: we print it in the words of all the old copies, which we prefer to patching up a text, as Sim. Now by the gods, I pity his misfortune, And waste the time which looks for other revels. Will very well become a soldier's dance. Here is a lady that wants breathing too: And that their measures are as excellent. Per. In those that practise them, they are, my lord. Sim. O! that's as much, as you would be denied [The Knights and Ladies dance. Of your fair courtesy.-Unclasp, unclasp; Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well, But you the best. [To PERICLES.] Pages and lights, to conduct These knights unto their several lodgings!-Yours, sir, Sim. Princes, it is too late to talk of love", [Exeunt. modern editors seem to have done, under the supposition that they could restore the versification. 6 Princes, it is too late to talk of love,] In the quarto, 1609, this speech is made part of what is said by Pericles; but the obvious error is corrected, in a hand-writing of the time, in the copy belonging to the Duke of Devonshire. SCENE IV. Tyre. A Room in the Governor's House. Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES. Hel. No, Escanes; know this of me, For which the most high gods, not minding longer Even in the height and pride of all his glory, A fire from heaven came, and shrivell'd up Hel. And yet but just; for though Enter Three Lords. 1 Lord. See! not a man, in private conference Or council, has respect with him but he. 2 Lord. It shall no longer grieve without reproof. 3 Lord. And curs'd be he that will not second it. 1 Lord. Follow me, then.-Lord Helicane, a word. Hel. With me? and welcome.- Happy day, my lords. 1 Lord. Know, that our griefs are risen to the top, And now at length they overflow their banks. Hel. Your griefs! for what? wrong not the prince you love. 1 Lord. Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane; But if the prince do live, let us salute him, Or know what ground's made happy by his breath. Or dead, gives cause to mourn his funeral, 2 Lord. Whose death's, indeed, the strongest in our censure: And knowing this kingdom is without a head, Soon fall to ruin, your noble self, That best know'st how to rule, and how to reign, We thus submit unto, our sovereign. All. Live, noble Helicane! Hel. Try honour's cause; forbear your suffrages: Take I your wish, I leap into the seas, Go search like nobles, like noble subjects, You shall like diamonds sit about his crown. 1 Lord. To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield: And since lord Helicane enjoineth us, We with our travels will endeavour. Hel. Then, you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands: When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands. VOL. VIII. [Exeunt. X |