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PERSONS REPRESENTED.

ANTIOCHUS, King of Antioch.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

PERICLES, Prince of Tyre.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3.

HELICANUS, a lord of Tyre.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 4. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3. ESCANES, a lord of Tyre.

Appears, Act I. sc. 3. Act II. sc. 4.

SIMONIDES, King of Pentapolis.
Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5.

CLEON, Governor of Tharsus.

Appears, Act I. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 4.
LYSIMACHUS, Governor of Mitylene.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 6. Act. V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3.

CERIMON, a lord of Ephesus.

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Appears, Act I. Chorus. Act II. Chorus. Act III. Chorus.
Act IV. Chorus, sc. 4. Act V. Chorus, sc. 2; sc. 3.

The Daughter of Antiochus.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

DIONYZA, wife to Cleon.

Appears, Act I. sc. 4. Act III. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 4.

THAISA, daughter to Simonides.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act III. sc. 2; sc. 4.

Act V. sc. 3.

MARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.
Appears, Act III. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 6.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3.

LYCHORIDA, nurse to Marina.
Appears, Act III. sc. 1; sc. 3.
DIANA.

Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

Lords, Knights, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers.

SCENE,-DISPERSEDLY IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

The first edition of Pericles' appeared in 1609, under the following title:"The late and much admired play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the true relation of the whole historie, adventures, and fortunes of the said prince: As also the no lesse strange and worthy accidents, in the birth and life of his daughter Mariana. As it hath been divers and sundry times acted [by] his Maiesties Seruants at the Globe on the Bankside. By William Shakespeare. Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at the sign of the Sunne in Paternoster-row, &c. 1609." Other quarto editions appeared in 1611, in 1619, in 1630, and in 1635. The variations in these from the text of 1609 are very slight. In 1664 Pericles' first appeared in the folio collection of Shakspere's works, being introduced into the third edition, whose title-page states-" Unto this impression is added seven plays never before printed in folio."

PERICLES.

ACT I.

Enter GOWER.

Before the Palace of Antioch.

To sing a song of 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 purpose 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 pheere,
Who died and left a female heir,
So buxom, blythe, 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.

By custom, what they did begin

Was with long use account'd no sin.
The beauty of this sinful dame
Made many princes thither frame,
To seek her as a bedfellow,

In marriage-pleasures playfellow :
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 ensues, to the judgment of your eye
I give, my cause who best can justify.

SCENE I.-The Palace of Antioch.

Enter ANTIOCHUS, PERICLES, and Attendants.

[Exit.

ANT. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large receiv'd, The danger of the task you undertake.

PER. I have, Antiochus, and with a soul
Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,
Think death no hazard, in this enterprise.

ANT. 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 in her their best perfections.

Enter the Daughter of Antiochus.

[Music

PER. See where she comes, apparel'd like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king

Of every virtue gives renown to men!

Her face the book of praises, where is read
Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence
Sorrow were ever 'ras'd, and testy wrath

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