No mournful bell shall ring her burial;

But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey :
Her life was beastly and devoid of pity,
And, being so, shall have like want of pity.
See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,
By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:
Then, afterwards, to order well the state,
That like events may ne'er it ruinate.

[Exeunt.

PERICLES.

PERICLES.

PERSONS REPRESENTED,

ANTIOCHUS, King of Antioch.

PERICLES, Prince of Tyre.

SIMONIDES, King of Pentapolis.

CLEON, Governor of Tharsus.

LYSIMACHUS, Governor of Mitylene.

CERIMON, a Lord of Ephesus.

THALIARD, Servant to ANTIOCHUS.

LEONINE, servant to DIONYZA.
Marshal.

A pander and his wife.

BOULT, their servant.
GOWER, as chorus.

The daughter of ANTIOCHUS.

DIONYZA, wife to CLEON.

THAISA, daughter to SIMONIDES.

MARINA, daughter to PERICLES and THAISA.

LYCHORIDA, nurse to MARINA.

DIANA.

Lords, Knights, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers.

SCENE.-Dispersedly in various countries.

Enter GOWER.

Before the Palace of Antioch.

To sing a song of old was sung,

From ashes ancient Gower is come;
Assuming man's infirmities,

To glad your ear, and please your eyes.

It hath been sung, at festivals,

On ember-eves, and holy-ales;

And lords and ladies, in their lives,

Have read it for restoratives.

The purchase is to make men glorious;
Et bonum, quo antiquius, eo melius.

If you, born in these latter times,

When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes,
And that to hear 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
Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat;
The fairest in all Syria;

(I tell you what mine authors say :)
The king unto him took a pheere,
Who died and left a female heir,
So buxom, blythe, and full of face,
As Heaven had lent her all his grace:
With whom the father liking took,
And her to incest did provoke;
Bad child, worse father! to entice his own
To evil, should be done by none.
By custom, what they did begin
Was with long use account no sin.
The beauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame,
To seek her as a bedfellow,
In marriage-pleasures playfellow :
Which to prevent, he made a law,
(To keep her still, and men in awe,)
That whoso ask'd her for his wife,
His riddle told not, lost his life:
So for her many a wight, did die,

As yon grim looks do testify.

What ensues, to the judgment of your eye

I give, my cause who best can justify.

SCENE I.-The Palace of Antioch.

[Exit.

Enter ANTIOCHUS, PERICLES, and Attendants. Ant. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large receiv'd

The danger of the task you undertake.

Per. I have, Antiochus, and with a soul Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,

Think death no hazard, in this enterprise. [Music.
Ant. Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,
For the embracements, even of Jove himself;

At whose conception (till Lucina reign'd)
Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence;
The senate-house of planets all did sit,

To knit in her their best perfections.

Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS.

Per. See where she comes, apparel'd like the spring,

Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
Of every virtue gives renown to men!