Tharsus. SCENE III. Enter PERICLES, A Room in CLEON'S House. Per. Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone; Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods Cle. Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally, Yet glance full wand'ringly on us.” Dion. O your sweet queen! That the strict fates had pleas'd you had brought her hither, To have bless'd mine eyes! Per. We cannot but obey The powers above us. Could I rage and roar As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end Cle. Fear not, my lord: Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, The gods revenge it upon me and mine, Per. I believe you; Your honour and your goodness teach me credit, [7] The sense of the passage should seem to be as follows.---All the malice of fortune is not confined to yourself. Though her arrows strike deeply at you, yet wandering from their mark, they sometimes glance on us; as at present, when the uncertain state of Tyre deprives us of your company at Tharsus. STEEVENS. Though I show will in't." So I take my leave. Dion. I have one myself, Who shall not be more dear to my respect, Than yours, my lord. Per. Madam, my thanks and prayers. Cle. We'll bring your grace even to the edge o'the shore ; Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune," and The gentlest winds of heaven. Per. I will embrace Your offer. Come, dear'st madam.-Ọ, no tears, Look to your little mistress, on whose grace You may depend hereafter.-Come, my lord. [Exeunt SCENE IV. Ephesus. A Room in CERIMON's House. Enter CERIMON and THAISA. Cer. Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, I cannot rightly say: But since king Pericles, And never more have joy. Cer. Madam, if this you purpose as you speak, Diana's temple is not distant far, Where you may 'bide until your date expire.' [8] "Though I appear wilful and perverse by such conduct." [9] Insidious waves that wear a treacherous smile: "Subdola pellacis ridet clementia ponti." Lucretius. [1] Until you die. So, in Romeo and Juliet: "The date is out of such prolixity." MALONE. STEEVENS. The expression of the text is again used by our author in The rape of Lucrece: "An expir'd date, cancell'd, ere well begun." Again, in Romeo and Juliet: ------------and expire the term "Of a despised life." MALONE. # Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine Thai. My recompense is thanks, that's all; Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. [Exeunt. ACT IV. Enter GOWER. Gow. Imagine Pericles at Tyre, Now to Marina bend your mind, Whom our fast growing scene must find In music, letters; who hath gain'd Which makes her both the heart and place That monster envy, oft the wrack Of earned praise, Marina's life Would ever with Marina be : Be't when she weav'd the sleided silk⭑ With fingers, long, small, white as milk; Or when she would with sharp neeld wound [2] Such an education as rendered her the center and situation of general wonder. [3] i. e. the combats of Venus; or night, which needs no explanation. "Those limbs were fashion'd for a softer fight." STEEVENS. [4] Sleided silk is untwisted silk, prepared to be used in the weaver's sley or slay, PERCY. By hurting it; or when to the lute With the dove of Paphos might the crow The pregnant instrument of wrath' Prest for this blow. The unborn event I do commend to your content : Only I carry winged time Post on the lame feet of my rhyme, Which never could I so convey, Unless your thoughts went on my way. Dionyza does appear, With Leonine, a murderer. [Exit. [5] To vail is to bow, to do homage. The author seems to mean---When she would compose supplicatory hymns to Diana, or verses expressive of her gratitude to Dionyza. We might indeed read---Hail to her mistress Dian; i. e. salute ber in verse. STEEVENS. That Dian, i. e. Diana, is the true reading, may, I think, be inferred from a passage in The Merchant of Venice; which may at the same time perhaps afford the best comment on that before us: "Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn; Again, in 4 midsummer-Night's Dream: "To be a barren sister all your life, [6] i. e. highly accomplished, perfect. MALONE. "And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,---", [8] Prest is ready; pret. Fr. MALONE. MALONE. SCENE I. Tharsus. An open Place near the Sea-shore. Enter Dio- Dion. Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do it: Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be Leon. I'll do't; but yet she is a goodly creature. Dion. The fitter then the gods should have her. Here Weeping she comes for her old nurse's death. Thou art resolv'd? Leon. I am resolv'd. Enter MARINA, with a Basket of Flowers. Mar. No, no, I will rob Tellus of her weed, Shall, as a chaplet, hang upon thy grave, While summer days do last. Ah me! poor maid, Born in a tempest, when my mother died, This world to me is like a lasting storm, Whirring me from my friends.3 Dion. How now, Marina! why do you keep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not Consume your blood with sorrowing you have [9] So, in King Richard III: "O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous,--- : STEEVENS. [1] By the green, as Lord Charlemont suggests to me, was meant "the green turf with which the grave of Lychorida was covered." Weed in old language meant garment. [2] So, in Cymbeline: 66------------with fairest flowers, MALONE. "While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, "I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack "The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor "The azur'd bare-bell, like thy veins, no, nor "The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander [3] A bird that flies with a quick motion, accompanied with noise, is said to whirr away. Thus, Pope: "Now from the brake the whirring pheasant springs." MALONE. |