Make such unquiet that the ship Should house him safe is wreck'd and split ; By waves from coast to coast is tost: All perishen of man, of pelf, Ne aught escapen but himself; Till fortune, tired with doing bad, 35 Threw him ashore, to give him glad : SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side. Enter PERICLES, wet. Per. Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man Is but a substance that must yield to you; Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks, Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath 5 1 you] your Q4Q5. ye Malone (1780). stars] stores Steevens conj. (withdrawn). 1, 2 heaven!...thunder,] Pointed as by Malone. heaven,......thunder, Q1. heaven,...thunder: The rest. 5 sea hath] Rowe (ed. 2). Seas hath QqFF4. seas have Anon. conj. 6 me breath] Malone. my breath Qq F3F4. my breast Steevens conj. (withdrawn). Nothing to think on but ensuing death: 10 Ha, come and bring away the nets ! Third Fish. What say you, master? First Fish. 15 Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll fetch thee with a wanion. Third Fish. Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that were cast away before us even now. 19 First Fish. Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when, well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves. Third Fish. Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus, how he bounced and tumbled? they say they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them, they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 27 First Fish. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones 12, &c. First Fish.] 1. QqF3F4. 12 What, ho, Pilch!] What, ho, Pilche! 15, &c. Third Fish.] 3. QqF,F4 17 or] om. Rowe (ed. 2). fetch thee] fetch'th Q1 Q2 Q3 wanion] Q1Q2Q3. wannion The rest. 22 scarce] Q1Q2Q3. scarsely Q4Q5. scarcely Q6F3F4. 23 master,] om. Rowe (ed. 2). eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. Per. [Aside] A pretty moral. 35 Third Fish. But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have been that day in the belfry. Sec. Fish. Why, man? Third Fish. Because he should have swallowed me too and when I had been in his belly, I would have kept such a jangling of the bells, that he should never have left till he cast bells, steeple, church, and parish, up again. But if the good King Simonides were of my mind, Per. [Aside] Simonides! 45 Third Fish. We would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee of her honey. Per. [Aside] How from the finny subject of the sea These fishers tell the infirmities of men; 30 a'] a Q1QqQ3. he Q4Q5F3F4. om. Q6 31 devours] F4. deuoure Q1. deuoure Q2 Q3 Q4Q6 devoure Qe. devour F3. 32 o' the] Dyce. a'th QqF,F4. a'th' Rowe (ed. 2). a' the Malone. the Collier. 33 they've] Malone. they QqF,F4 they ha' Edd. conj. 35, 45, 48 [Aside] Dyce. 41 jangling] gangling Q2Q3. 50 44 mind,-] mind, Q4QF3F4. minde. The rest. mind- Malone. 46 We] He Dyce (ed. 2). 48 finny] Malone (Steevens), and Wilkins' Novel. fenny QqF3F4. subject] subjects Staunton (from Wilkins). 52-55 Peace...it.] See note (VII). VOL. IX. 3 Sec. Fish. Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody look after it. 55 Per. May see the sea hath cast upon your coast. Sec. Fish. What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our way ! Per. A man whom both the waters and the wind, In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball 60 For them to play upon, entreats you pity him; He asks of you, that never used to beg. First Fish. No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our country of Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working. Sec. Fish. Canst thou catch any fishes then? 65 Sec. Fish. Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for 't. Per. What I have been I have forgot to know; 53-55 Honest!...it.] Prose first in Ma- 55 look] will look Malone, 1790 (Stee- my veins are chill, 70 You may see the sea hath cast me on 57, 58 What...way!] Prose first in Ma- And have no more of life than may suffice 75 First Fish. Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid 't! And I have a gown here; come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou shalt be welcome. Per. I thank you, sir. Sec. Fish. Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg. Per. I did but crave. 86 Sec. Fish. But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I shall 'scape whipping. Per. Why, are all your beggars whipped then? 90 Sec. Fish. O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the net. [Exit with Third Fisherman. Per. [Aside] How well this honest mirth becomes their labour ! 94 First Fish. Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are? Per. Not well. 77 that] om. Steevens. pray] pray you Q1 Q2 Q3 78 quoth-a?] Malone. ke-tha; Q1Q2Q3• ke-tha, The rest. ko-tha, Rowe. forbid 't] Q1Q2Q3 forbid The rest. And] Q1QQ3. The rest omit. 81 holidays] holydays Malone. all day 88, 89 But...whipping.] Prose first in Malone. Two lines, the first ending crave? in Q1Q2Q3. Two, the first ending too, in the rest. 90 all your] you Q1Q293 91 0,1 0, no, Hudson, 1881 (S. Walker conj.). 93 up] Q1Q2Q3. The rest omit. [Exit...] Dyce. Exeunt two of the Fishermen. Malone. om. QqF3F4. 95 ye] you Malone. |