is.

Mar. Is it no more to be your daughter, than To fair Marina ; but in no wise, To say, my mother's name was Thaisa ?

Till hes had done his sacrifice, Thaisa was my mother, who did end,

As Dian bade: whereto being bound The minute I began.

The interim, pray you, all confound.6 Per. Now, blessing on thee, rise; thou art my In feather'd brietness sails are tillid, child.

And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus, At Ephesus, the temple see,
(Not dead at Tharsus, as she should have been, Our king, and all his company.
By savage Cleon,) she shall tell thee all;

That he can hither come so soon.
When thou shalt kneel and justify in knowledge, Is by your fancy's thankful boon. [Exit.
She is thy very princess.-Who is this?
Hel. Sir, 'tis the governor of Mitylene,

SCENE III.-The Temple of Diana at Ephesus: Who, hearing of your melancholy state,

THAISA standing near the Altar, (18 HighDid come to see you.

Priestess; a number of Virgins on each side Per. I embrace you, sir.

CERIMON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus atGive me my robes ; I am wild in my beholding. tending. O heavens bless my girl! But hark, what music!- Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHCS, Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him

RELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady. D'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, llow sure you are my daughter.-But what music?

Per. Hail, Dian; to perform thy just command Hel. My lord, I hear none.

I here contess myself the king of Tyre;. Per. None ?

Who, frighted from my country, did wed The music of the spheres : List, my Marina.

The fair Thaisa, at Penta polis. Lys. It is not good to cross him; give him way.

At sea in child-bed died she; but brought forth Per. Rarest sounds!

A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess, Do ye not hear?

Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tharsus Lys. Music? my lord, I hear

Was nurs'd with Cleon; whom at fourteen years Per. Most heavenly music:

He sought to murder: but her better stars It nips me unto list'ning, and thick slumber

Brought her to Mitylene; against whose shore Hangs on mine eye-lids; let me rest. [He sleeps.

Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us, Lys. A pillow for his head;

Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she (The Curtuin before the Pavilion of PERICLES

Made known herself my daughter. is closed.

Thai.

Voice and favor! So leave him all. Well, my companion-friends,

You are-you are royal Pericles! (She faints. If this but answer to my just belief,

Per. What means the woman? she dies! help. I'll well remember you.

gentlemen!
[Exeunt LYSIMACHUS, HelicanUS, MA. If you have told Diana's altar true,

Cer. Noble sir,
RINA, and Attendant Lady.

This is your wile.
SCENE II.-The same. PERICLES on the Deck

Per.

Reverend appearer, no;

I threw her o'erboard with these very arı asleep; DIANA appearing to him as in a Vision.

Cer. Upon this coast, I warrant you. Dia. My terople stands in Ephesus: hie thee Per.

"Dis most certain, thither,

Cer. Look to the lady ;--0, she's but o'erjoy'd. And do upon inine altar sacrifice.

Early, one blust'ring morn, this lady was There, when my maiden priests are met to- Thrown on this shore. Toped the cotlin, and gether,

Found there rich jewels; recover'd her and placed Before the people all,

her Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife: Here in Diana's temple. To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call, Per.

May we see them! And give them repetition to the lite.

Cer. Great sir, they shall be brought you to my Perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in woe:

house, Do't, and be happy, by my silver bow.

Whither I invite you. Look! Thaisa is
Awake, and tell ily dream. (DIANA disappears. Recover'd.
Per. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,3

Thai. 0, let me look!
I will obey thee !-Helicanus !

If he be none of inine, my sanctity

Will to my senses bend no licentious ear, Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANTS, and MARINA.

But curb it spite of seeing. O, my lord, Hel.

Sir.

Are you not Pericles ? Like him you speak, Per. My purpose was for Tharsus, there to Like him you are: Did you not name a tempest, strike

A birth, and death? The inhospitable Cleon; but I am

Per.

The voice of dead Thaisa ! For other service first: toward Ephesus

Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed dead, Turn our blown sails; eftsoonst I'll tell thee why. And drown'd.

[ To HELICANUS. Per. Immortal Dian! Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,

Thai.

Now I know you better.And give you gold for such provision

When we with tears parted Pentapolis, As our intents will need ?

The king, my father, gave you such a ring. Lys. With all my heart, sir; and when you

[Shows a ring. come ashore,

Per. This, this: no more, you gods! your preI have another suit.

sent kindness Per. You shall prevail,

Makes my past miseries sport: You shall do well, Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems

That on the touching of her lips I may You have been noble towards her.

Melt, and no more be seen. O come, be buried Lys.

Sir, lend your arm. A second time within these arms. Per. Come, my Marina. [Exeunt. Mar.

My heart Enter Gower, before the Temple of Diana at Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.

[Kneels to THAISA, Ephesus.

Per. Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy tlesh, Gow. Now our sands are almost run;

Thaisa : More a little, and then done.

Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina, This, as my last boon, give me

For she was yielded there. (For such kindness must relieve me)

Thai.

Bless'd and mine own! That you aptly will suppose

Hel. Hail, madam, and my queen! What pageantry, what feats, what shows,

Thai.

I know you not. What minstrelsy, and pretty din,

Per. You have heard me say, when I did ily The regent made in Mitylen,

from Tyre, To greet the king. So he was thrived,

I left behind an ancient substitute. That he is promis'd lo be wived

si. e. Pericles. & Confound here signifies to consumo sie. Regent of the silver moon.

• Soon. 11. e. Her white robe of iunocence. • sensual passion

SCENE I.- A Room of State in King Lear's Glo. I shall, my liege..
Palace.

[Exeunt GLOSTER and EDMUND. Enter KENT, GLOSTER, and EDMUND.

Lear. Meantime we shall express our darker

purpose. Kent. I thought the king had more affected the Give me the map there.-Know, that we have diduke of Albany, than Cornwall.

vided, Glo. It did always seem so to us; but now, in in three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent the division of the kingdom, it appears not which To shake all cares and business from our age: of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so conferring them on younger strengths, while we weigh'd that curiosity' in neither can make choice Unburden'd crawl toward death. – Our son of of either's moiety.2

Cornwall, Kent. Is this your son, my lord ? Glo. His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge; I We have this hour a constant will to publish

And you, our no less loving son of Albany, have so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now

Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife I am brazed to it. Kent. I cannot conceive you.

May be prevented now. The princes, France and Glo. Sir, this young fellow's mother could: Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,

Burgundy, whereupon she grew round-wombed: and had, in- Long in our court have made their amorous sojour, deed, sir, a son for her cradle, ere she had a hus. And here are to be answer'd.—Tell me, my daughband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?

ters, Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue (Since now we will divest us, both of rûle, of it being so proper.

Interest of territory, cares of state,) Glo. But I have, sir, a son, by order of law, some which of you, shall we say, doth lóve us most? year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my That we our largest bounty may extend account: though this knave came somewhat saucily Where merit doth most challenge it.-Goneril, into the world before he was sent for, yet was his Our eldest-born, speak first. mother fair: there was good sport at his making, Gom.

Sir, I and the whoreson must be acknowledged.-Do you Do love you more than words can wield the matter, know this noble gentleman, Edmund ?

Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty ; Edm. No, my lord.

Beyond what can be valued, rich, or rare; Glo. My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor: as my honorable friend.

As much as child e'er lov’d, or father found. Edm. My services to your lordship.

A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable: Kent. I must love you, and sue to know you Beyond all manner of so much I love you. better.

Čor. What shall Cordelia do? love, and be silent. Edm. Sir, I shall study deserving.

[Asiile. Glo. He hath been out nine years, and away he Lear. Of all these bounds, even from this line to shall again :-The king is coming.

this, [Trumpets sound within. With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd, Enter LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL,

With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads, REGAN, CORDELIA, and Attendants.

We make thee lady: To thine and Albany's issue

Be this perpetual.-What says our second daughter, Lear. Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall ? Speak. Gloster.

Reg. I am made of that self metal as my sister, * Most scrupulous nicety. » Part or division,

• Open plains.

m

Hear me,

And prize me at her worth. In my true heart Kent. Let it fall rather, though the fork invade I tind, she names my very deed of love;

The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly, Only she comes too short.-That I profess

When Lear is mad. What wouldst thou do, old Myself an enemy to all other joys,

man? Which the most precious square of sense possesses ; | Think'st thou, that duty shalt have dread to speak, And find, I am alone felicitateo

When power to flattery bows? To plainness hoIn your dear highness' love.

nor's bound, Cor.

Then poor Cordelia! When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom;

[Aside. And, in thy best consideration, check And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgMore richer than my tongue.

ment, Lear. To thee, and thine, hereditary ever, Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom: Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sound No less in space, validity, and pleasure,

Reverbs2 no hollowness. Than that contirm'd on Goneril.–Now, our joy, Lear.

Kent, on thy life, no more. Although the last, not least; to whose young love Kent. My life I never held but as a pawn The vines of France, and milk of Burgundy, To wage against thine enemies; nor fear to lose it, Strive to be interess'd: what can you say to draw Thy safety being the motive. A third more opulent than your sisters ? Speak. Lear.

Out of my sight! Cor. Nothing, my lord.

Kent. See better, Lear; and let me still remain Lear. Nothing?

The true blank3 of thine eye. Cor. Nothing.

Lear. Now, by Apollo, Lear. Nothing can come of nothing: speak again. Kent.

Now, by A pollo, king, Cor. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

Thou swear'st thy gods in vain. My heart into my mouth: 'I love your majesty Lear.

0, vassal, miscreant! According to my bond; nor more nor less.

(Laying his Hand on his sword. Lear. How, how, Cordelia ? mend your speech a Alb. Corn. Dear sir, forbear. little,

Kent. Do; Lest it may mar your fortunes.

Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Cor.

Good lord, Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift: You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me:

Or whilst I can vent clamor from my throat, Return those duties back as are right fit,

I'll tell thee thou dost evil. Obey you, love you, and most honor you.

Lear.

recreant! Why have my sisters husbands, if they say,

On thine allegiance hear me !They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow, Thailord,whose hand must takemyplight,shallcarry (Which we durst never yet,) and, with strain'd Half my love with him, half my care, and duty:

pride, Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,

To come betwixt our sentence and our power; To love my father all.

(Which nor our nature, nor our place can bear;) Lear. But goes this with thy heart?

Our potency make good, take thy reward. Cor.

Ay,good my lord. Five days we do allot thee, for provision Lear. So young, and so untender?

To shield thee from diseases of the world: Cor. So young, my lord, and true.

And, on the sixth, to turn thy hated back Lear. Let it be so,-Thy truth then be thy dower: Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following, For, by the sacred radiance of the sun;

Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;

The moment is thy death: Away! By Jupiter, By all the operations of the orbs,

This shall not be revok'd. From whom we do exist, and cease to be;

Kent. Fare thee well, king: since thus thou wilt Here I disclaim all my paternal care,

appear, Propinquity, and property of blood,

Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.And as a stranger to my heart and me

The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid, Hold thee, from this forever. The barbarous

[To CORDELJA. Scythian,

That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said !Or he that makes his generation messes

And your large speeches may your deeds approve, To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighbor'd, pitied, and reliev'd,

[ To REGAN and GONERILO As thou, my sometime daughter.

That good effects may spring from words of love.Kent.

Good my liege,

Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu ; Lear. Peace, Kent!

He'll shape his old course in a country new. (Exit. Come not between the dragon and his wrath:

Re-enter GLOSTER; with FRANCE, BURGUNDY, and I lov'd her most, and thought to set my rest

Attendants. On her kind nursery. — - Hence, and avoid my sight!-

[ To CORDELIA. Glo. Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord. So be my grave my peace, as here I give

Lear. My lord of Burgundy, Her father's heart from her!--Call France;-Who We first address towards you, who with this king stirs?

Hath rivali'd for our daughter; What, in the least, Call Burgundy:-Cornwall, and Albany,

Will you require in present dower with her,
With my two daughters' dowers digest this third : Or cease your quest of love?
Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.

Bur.

Most royal majesty, I do invest you jointly with my power,

I crave no more than hath your highness otter'd, Pre-eminence, and all the large effects

Nor will you tender less. That troop with majesty.–Ourself, by monthly

Lear.

Right noble Burgundy,

When she was dear to us, we did hold her so; course, With reservation of an hundred knights,

But now her price is fall’n: Sir, there she stands; By you to be sustain’d, shall our abode

If aught within that little seeming substance, Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced, The name, and all the additions to a king; And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,

She's there, and she is yours. Revenue, execution of the rest,

Bur.

I know no answer. Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,

Lear. Sir,
This coronet part between you. [Giving the crown. Will you, with those infirmities she owes,
Kent.

Royal Lear, Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,
Whom I have ever honor'd as my king,

Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our Lov'd as my father, as my master follow'd,

oath, As my great patron thought on in my prayers, Take her, or leave her ? Lear. The bow is bent and drawn, make from

Pardon me, royal sir; the shaft.

The sway,

a

Lear. Then leave her, sir; for, by the power Cor. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning that made me,

hides; I tell you all her wealth.-For you, great king, Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

[TO FRANCE. Well may you prosper! I would not from your love make such a stray,

France.

Come, my fair Cordelia. To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you

[ Exeunt FRANCE and CORDELIA. To avert your liking a more worthier way,

Gon. Sister, it is not a little I have to say, of Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed what most nearly appertains to us both. I think, Almost to acknowledge hers.

our father will hence to-night. France.

This is most strange! Reg. That's most certain, and with you; next That she, that even but now was your best object, month with us. The argument of your praise, balm of your age, Gon. You see how full of changes his age is: the Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time observation we have made of it hath not been liitle: Commit a thing so monstrous to dismantle

he always lov'd our sister most; and with what So many folds of favor! Sure, her offence

poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too Must be of such unnatural degree,

grossly. That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection Reg: 'Tis the infirmity of his age : yet he hath Fall into taint: which to believe of her,

ever but slenderly known himself. Must be a faith, that reason without miracle

Gon. The best and soundest of his time hath Could never plant in me.

been but rash; then must we look to receive from Cor.

I yet beseech your majesty, his age, not alone the imperfections of long-en(If for: I want that glib and oily art,

grafted condition, but therewithal, the unruly way. To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, wardness that infirm and choleric years bring with I'll do't before I speak.) that you make known them. It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,

Reg. Such unconstant starts are we like to have No unchaste action or dishonor'd step,

from him, as this of Kent's banishment. That hath depriv'd me of your grace and favor: Gon. There is further compliment or leave-taking But even for want of that, for which I am richer ; between France and him. "Pray you, let us hit A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue

together: If our father carry authority with such That I am glad I have not, though not to have it, dispositions as he bears, this last surrender of his Hath lost me in your liking.

will but oflend us. Lear.

Better thou

Reg. We shall further think of it. Hadst not been born, than not to have pleas'd me Gon. We must do something, and i’ the heat. better.

(Exeunt. France. Is it but this? a tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke,

SCENE II.-A Hall in the Earl of Gloster's That it intends to do?-My lord of Burgundy,

Castle.
What say you to the lady! Love is not love,

Enter EDMUND, with a Letter.
When it is mingled with respects, that stand
Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her ?

Edm. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law She is herself a dowry.

My services are bound: Wherefore should I Bur. Royal Lear,

Stand in the plague of custom; and permit Give but that portion which yourself propos’d,

The curiosity of nations to deprive me, And here I take Cordelia by the hand,

For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Duchess of Burgundy.

Lag of a brother? Why bastard ? wherefore base? Lear. Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.

When my dimensions are as well compact Bur. I am sorry then, you have so lost a father,

My mind as generous, and my shape as true, That you must lose a husband.

As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us Cor.

Peace be with Burgundy! / With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? Since that respects of fortune are his love,

Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take I shall not be his wife,

More composition and fierce quality, France. Fairest Cordelia, thou art most rich, Than dotti, within a dull, stale, tired bed,

Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops, Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd!

Got 'tween asleep and wake ?-Well ihen, Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:

Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Be it lawful, I take up what's cast away.

Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund, Gods, gods! 'tis strange, that from their cold'st As to the legitimate: Fine word, -legitimate! neglect

Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, My love should kindle to inflamed respect. --

And my invention thrive, Edmund the base Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France : Now, gods, stand up for bastards! Not all the dukes of wat'rish Burgundy

Enter GLOSTER. Shall buy this unpriz'd precious maid of me.

Glo. Kent banish'd thus! And France in choler Bid them farewell, Cordelia ; though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

parted! Lear. Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; | Contined to exhibition ! All this done

And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power! for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see

Upon the gad !2Edmund! How now? what That face of hers again :Therefore be gone,

news?

Edm. So please your lordship, none.
Without our grace, our love, our benizon.
Come, noble Burgundy.

[Putting up the Letter. (Fwurish. Exeunt LEAR, BURGUNDY, CORNWALL, letter?

Glo. Why so earnestly seek you to put up that ALBANY, GLOSTER, and Attendants.

Elm. I know no news, my lord. France. Bid farewell to your sisters.

Glo. What paper were you reading ? Cor. The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes Edm. Nothing, my lord. Cordelia leaves you; I know you what you are; Glo. No? What needed then that terrible deAnd, like a sister, am most loath to call

spatch of it into your pocket? the quality ofnothing Your faults, as they are named. Use well our father: hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see: Come, To your professed bosoms I commit him:

if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles. But yet, alas! stood I within his grace,

Edm. I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter I would prefer him to a better place.

from my brother, that I have not all o'er read : for So farewell to you both.

so much as I have perused, I find it not fit for your Gon. Prescribe not us our duties.

over-looking. Reg.

Let your study Glo. Give me the letter, sir. Be, to content your lord; who hath receiv'd you Edm. I shall offend, either to detain or give it. At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted, The contents, as in part I understand them, are lo And well are worth the want that you have blame. wanted.

1 Qualities of mind. • The nicety of civil institution. Because

. Blessing. • Yielded, surrendered. 1 Allowance. 3 Suddenly.

being poor;