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Your creatures, who by you have been restored : And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even

Your purse, still open, hath built lord Cerimon Such strong renown as time shall never

Enter two Servants with a chest.

Ser. So, lift there.

Cer. What is that?

Ser. Sir,

Even now did the sea toss up upon our shore

This chest; 'tis of some wreck.

Cer. Set it down, let's look upon it.

2 Gent. 'Tis like a coffin, sir.
Cer.

Whate'er it be,

It is wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight;
If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,
It is a good constraint of Fortune it belches

upon us.

2 Gent. It is so, my lord.

Cer.

How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!

Did the sea cast it up?

Ser. I never saw so huge a billow, sir,

As toss'd it upon shore.

Cer. Wrench it open;

Soft-it smells most sweetly in my sense.

2 Gent. A delicate odour.

Cer. As ever hit my nostril; so,-up with it. Oh you most potent gods! what's here? a

corse !

1 Gent. Most strange !

Cer.

Shrouded in cloth of state!

Balm'd and entreasured with full bags of

spices!

A passport too! Apollo, perfect me

In the characters !

[Reads out of a scroll.]

Here I give to understand

(If e'er this coffin drive a-land),
I, king Pericles, have lost

This queen, worth all our mundane cost.
Who finds her, give her burying,
She was the daughter of a king:
Besides this treasure for a fee,
The gods requite his charity!

If thou liv'st, Pericles, thou hast a heart
That even cracks for woe! This chanced to-night.
2 Gent. Most likely, sir.

Cer. Nay, certainly to-night;

For look how fresh she looks!-They were too

rough

That threw her in the sea.

Make a fire within;

Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.

[Exit Servant.

Death may usurp on nature many hours,
And yet the fire of life kindle again

The o'erpressed spirits. I have heard of an
Egyptian

That had nine hours lien dead,

Who was by good appliance recovered.

Re-enter Servant with boxes, napkins, and fire.

Well said, well said; the fire and the cloths.——— The rough and woeful music that we have, Cause it to sound, 'beseech you.

The viol once more;-how thou stirr'st, thou block !

The music there.-I pray you, give her air ;—
Gentlemen, this queen will live :

Nature awakes; a warmth breathes out of her;
She hath not been entranced above five hours.
See how she 'gins to blow into life's flower
again!

I Gent. The heavens, through you, increase

our wonder,

And set up your fame for ever.

Cer. She is alive; behold,

Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels
Which Pericles hath lost,

Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;
The diamonds of a most praised water

Do appear, to make the world twice rich. O

live,

And make us weep to hear your fate, fair crea

ture,

Rare as you seem to be!

Thai.

[She moves.

O dear Diana,

Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is

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Lend me your hands: to the next chamber bear

her.

Get linen; now this matter must be look'd to,
For her relapse is mortal. Come, come,

And Esculapius guide us!

[Exeunt, carrying her away.

SCENE III.-Tharsus. A Room in Cleon's

House.

Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, LYCHORIDA, with MARINA in her arms.

Per. Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be

gone;

My twelve months are

In a litigious peace.

expired, and Tyrus stands You and your lady

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Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods Make up the rest upon you!

Cle. Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt

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To have bless'd mine eyes with her!

Per.

We cannot but obey The powers above us. Could I rage and roar As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end

Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe, Marina, (Whom, for she was born at sea, I have named so,)

Here I charge your charity withal,

Leaving her the infant of your care, beseeching

you

To give her princely training, that she may be
Manner'd as she is born.

Cle.

Fear not, my lord; but think, Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, (For which the people's prayers still fall upon

you,)

Must in your child be thought on. If neglection Should therein make me vile, the common body,

By you relieved, would force me to my duty:

But if to that my nature need a spur,

The gods revenge it upon me and mine,

To the end of generation!

Per.

I believe you;

Your honour and your goodness teach me to it, Without your vows. Till she be married, madam, By bright Diana, whom we honour all, Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain, Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave:

Good madam, make me blessed in your care
In bringing up my child.

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. Your offer.

I will embrace

Come, dearest madam.-O, no tears, Lychorida, 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,

Lay with you in your coffer; which are now
At your command.

Know you the character?

Thai. It is my lord's. That I was shipp'd at

sea

I well remember, even on my yearning time;
But whether there delivered or no,

By the holy gods, I cannot rightly say;
But since king Pericles, my wedded lord,
I ne'er shall see again, a vestal livery
Will I take me to, and never more have joy.
Cer. Madam, if this you purpose as you
speak,

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