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PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE
by William Shakespeare

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch. PERICLES, prince of Tyre.
HELICANUS, ESCANES, two lords of Tyre. SIMONIDES, kIng of
Pentapolis. CLEON, governor of Tarsus. LYSIMACHUS, governor of
Mytilene. CERIMON, a lord of Ephesus. THALIARD, a lord of
Antioch. PFIILEMON, servant to Cerimon. LEONINE, servant to
Dionyza. Marshal. A Pandar. BOULT, his servant. The Daughter of
Antiochus. DIONYZA, wife to Cleon. THAISA, daughter to Simonides.
MARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. LYCHORIDA, nurse to
Marina. A Bawd. Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates,
Fishermen, and Messengers. DIANA. GOWER, as Chorus.
SCENE: Dispersedly in various countries.
ACT I.
[Enter GOWER.]
[Before the palace of Antioch.]
To sing a song that 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: This king unto him
took a fere, Who died and left a female heir, So buxom, so blithe, 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: But 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 bed-fellow, In
marriage-pleasures play-fellow: 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 now ensues, to the judgement your eye I
give, my cause who lest can justify.
[Exit.]
SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace.
[Enter ANTIOCHUS, PRINCE PERICLES, and followers.]
ANTIOCHUS. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received The
danger of the task you undertake.
PERICLES. I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul Embolden'd with the
glory of her praise, Think death no hazard in this enterprise.
ANTIOCHUS. 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