Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears, Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, dead. All. The gods of Greece protect you! And we'll pray for you. Per. The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils! seen, Your grace is welcome to our town and us. Per. Which welcome we'll accept ; feast here awhile, Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. 90 IOC ACT II. [Exeunt. Enter GoWER. Gow. Here have you seen a mighty king His child, I wis, to incest bring; A better prince and benign lord, VOL. IV 92. happily, haply. 33 D That will prove awful both in deed and word. Till he hath pass'd necessity. I'll show you those in troubles reign, Is still at Tarsus, where each man Are brought your eyes; what need speak I? DUMB SHOW. Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON; all the train with them. Enter at another door a Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES; PERICLES shows the letter to CLEON; gives the Messenger a reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one door, and CLEON at another. Good Helicane, that stay'd at home, Not to eat honey like a drone From others' labours; for though he strive To killen bad, keep good alive; And to fulfil his prince' desire, Sends word of all that haps in Tyre: ΤΟ 20 Malone's correction (confirmed by the novel) of Qq Ff saved one. And that in Tarsus was not best Where when men been, there's seldom ease; Should house him safe is wreck'd and split; Ne aught escapen but himself; [Exit. 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 Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks, Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath Nothing to think on but ensuing death: 27. doing so, i.e. following Helicanus' counsel. 36. escapen; Qq escapen'd. 40. this longs the text, this 30 40 belongs to the play, not to the 'Chorus.' Malone's cor 6. me breath. Let it suffice the greatness of your powers Enter three Fishermen. First Fish. What, ho, Pilch! Sec. Fish. Ha, come and bring away the nets! Third Fish. What say you, master? First Fish. 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. 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. First Fish. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones 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. 12. What, ho, Pilch! So Tyrwhitt and Malone for Qq Ff What, to pelch? ΤΟ 20 30 17. with a wanion, with a vengeance.' Per. [Aside] A pretty moral. Third Fish. But, master, if I had been the 40 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! 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 ; And from their watery empire recollect Sec. Fish. Honest! good fellow, what's that? It it be a day fits you, steal 't out of the calendar, and nobody look after it. Per. May see the sea hath cast me 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 In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball 58. steal't. Hudson's reading for the unintelligible search of Qq and Ff. Malone, Steevens, and Singer substituted scratch. 50 60 see the sea hath cast upon your coast. Ff Y' may see the sea hath cast me, etc. The line is probably corrupt, but no satisfactory emendation has been 60. May see, etc. Qq May proposed. |