vpon them and disdained now to giue them buriall Nay such is heauens hate to these and such like sinnes and such his indignation to his present euill that twixt his stroke and death hée lent not so much mercy to their liues wherein they had time to crie out Iustice be mercifull for we repent vs. They thus dead thus contemned and instéede of kingly monument for their bodies left to be intoombed in the bowâ—lâ—es of rauenous fowles if fowles would eate on them The strangenesse of their deaths were soone rumored ouer that part of the world and as soone brought to the eares of Helycanus who was a carefull watchman to haue knowledge of whatsoeuer hapned in Antioch and by his knowledge to preuent what daunger might succeede eyther to his Prince or to his subiectes in his absence of which tragedy he hauing notice presently he imparted the news thereof to his graue and familiar friend Lord Eschines and now told him what till now hée had concealed namely of their incest together and that onely for the displeasure which princely Pericles feared Antiochus bore towardes him and might extend to his people by his knowledge thereof hée thus long by his counsell had discontinued from his kingdome Now it hapned that these tydings arriued to his eares iust at the instant when his graue counsell could no longer alay the head-strong multitude from their vnciuil and giddy muteny and the reason of them who most commonly are vnreasonable in their actions to drawe themselues to this faction was that they supposed their prince was dead and that being dead the kingdome was left without a successefull inheritor that they had bin onelie by Helicanus with vaine hope of Pericles returne deluded and that euen now the power being by his death in their hands they would create to themselues a new soueraigne and Helycanus should be the man Many reasons hée vsed to perswade them many Arguments to withstand them nothing but this onely preuailed with them that since he only knew their Prince was gone to trauell and that that trauell was vndertaken for their good they would abstaine but for thrée months longer from bestowing that dignity which they calld their loue though it was his dislike vpon him and if by that time which they with him should still hope for the gods were not pleased for their perpetuall good to restore vnto them their absent Prince hée then with all willingnesse would accept of their suffrages This then though with much trouble was at last by the whole multitude accepted and for that time they were all pacified when Helicanus assembling all the péeres vnto him by the aduise of all chose some from the rest and after his best instructions or rather by perswasions and graue counsell giuen hée sent them to inquire of their Prince who lately left at Pentapolis was highly honoured by good Symonides The sixt Chapter How Prince Pericles is married to Thaysa king Symonides daughter and how after he hath heard newes of Antiochus death hee with his wife departeth toward his owne Country of Tyre PRince Pericles hauing had as before is mentioned his lodging directed next adioyning to the kings bed-chamber whereas all the other Princes vppon their comming to their lodgings betooke themselues to their pillowes and to the nourishment of a quiet sléepe he of the Gentlemen that attended him for it is to be noted that vpon the grace that the king had bestowed on him there was of his Officers toward him no attendance wanting hée desired that hée might be left priuate onely that for his instant solace they would pleasure him with some delightfull Instrument with which and his former practise hée intended to passe away the tediousnesse of the night insteade of more fitting slumbers His wil was presently obeyed in all things since their master had commaunded he should be disobeyed in nothing the Instrument is brought him and as hée had formerly wished the Chamber is disfurnished of any other company but himselfe where presently hée beganne to compell such heauenly voyces from the sencelesse workemanship as if Apollo himselfe had now béene fingering on it and as if the whole Sinode of the gods had placed their deities round about him of purpose to haue beene delighted with his skill and to haue giuen prayses to the excellencie of his art nor was this sound only the rauisher of al hearers but from his owne cléere breast hée sent such chéerefull notes which by him were made vp so answerable to the others sound that they séemed one onely consort of musike and had so much delicacie and out of discordes making vp so excellent a coniunction that they had had power to haue drawne backe an eare halfe way within the graue to haue listned vnto it for thus much by our story we are certaine of that the good Symonides being by the height of night and the former dayes exercise in the ripenesse of his contentfull sléepe hée reioyced to be awakend by it and not accompting it a disease that troubled him in the hearing but a pleasure wherewith hée still wished to be delighted In briefe hée was so satisfied to heare him thus expresse his excellence that hée accompted his Court happy to entertaine so worthy a guest and himselfe more happy in his acquaintance But day that hath still that soueraigntie to drawe backe the empire of the night though a while shée in darkenesse vsurpe brought the morning on and while the king was studying with what aunswerable present wherewith to gratifie this noble Prince for his last nights musicke a Gentlewoman whose seruice was thither commaunded by his Daughter brought him a Letter whose in-side had a sute to him to this purpose The Lady Thaysaes Letter to the King her Father MY most noble Father what my blushing modesty forbids me to speake let your fatherly loue excuse that I write I am subdude by loue yet not inthralld through the licentiousnes of a loose desire but made prisoner in that noble battell twixt Affection and Zeale I haue no life but in this liberty neither any liberty but in this thraldome nor shall your tender selfe weighing my affections truely in the Scale of your Iudgement haue cause to contradict me since him I loue hath as much merite in him to challenge the title of a Sonne as I blood of yours to inherite the name of a daughter then if you shall refuse to giue him me in marriage deny not I pray you to make ready for my funerall T is the stranger Pericles Which request of hers when the king her father had thus vnderstood of hée beganne first to examine with him selfe what vertue was in this choice that should bind her thoughts to this liking and what succéeding comfort hée might expect the expectation of which might inuite him to his consent First hée beganne to remember himselfe that he came vnto his Court but poore and for pouerty quoth the good king t is a woorkemanship that Nature makes
place The first a prince of Macedon and the Deuice hée bore vpon his shield was a blacke Ethiope reaching at the Sunne the word Lux tua vita mihi which being by the knights Page deliuered to the Lady and from her presented to the King her father hée made playne to her the meaning of each imprese and for this first it was that the Macedonian Prince loued her so well hée helde his life of her The second a Prince of Corinth and the Deuice hée bare vpon his shield was a wreathe of Chiualry the word Me pompae prouexet apex the desire of renowne drew him to this enterprise The third of Antioch and his Deuice was an armed Knight being conquered by a Lady the word Pue pâ—r dolcera qui per sforsa more by lenitie than by force The fourth of Sparta and the Deuice he bare was a mans arme enuironed with a cloude holding out golde that 's by the touchstone tride the word Sic spectanda fides so faith is to be looked into The fift of Athens and his Deuice was a flaming Torch turned downeward the word Qui me alit me extinguit that which giues me life giues me death The fixt and last was Pericles Prince of Tyre who hauing neither Page to deliuer his shield nor shield to deliuer making his Deuice according to his fortunes which was a withered Braunch being onely gréene at the top which prooued the abating of his body decayed not the noblenesse of his minde his word In hac spe viuo In that hope I liue Himselfe with a most gracefull curtesie presented it vnto her which shée as curteously receiued whilest the Péeres attending on the King forbare not to scoffe both at his presence and the present hée brought being himselfe in a rusty Armour the Caparison of his horse of plaine country russet and his owne Bases but the skirtes of a poore Fishermans coate which the King mildely reproouing them for hée tolde them that as Uertue was not to be approoued by wordes but by actions so the outward habite was the least table of the inward minde and counselling them not to condemne ere they had cause to accuse They went forward to the triumph in which noble exercise they came almost all as short of Pericles perfections as a body dying of a life flourishing To be short both of Court and Commons the praises of none were spoken of but of the meane Knights for by any other name he was yet vnknowne to any But the Triumphes being ended Pericles as chiefe for in this dayes honour hée was Champion with all the other Princes were by the Kings Marshall conducted into the Presence where Symonides and his daughter Thaysa with a most stately banquet stayed to giue them a thankefull intertainment At whose entraunce the Lady first saluting Pericles gaue him a wreathe of Chiualry welcommed him as her knight and guest and crowned him King of that dayes noble enterprise In the end all being seated by the Marshall at a table placed directly ouer-against where the king and his daughter sate as it were by some diuine operation both King and daughter at one instant were so strucke in loue with the noblenesse of his woorth that they could not spare so much time to satisfie themselues with the delicacie of their viands for talking of his prayses while Pericles on the other side obseruing the dignity wherein the King sate that so many Princes came to honour him so many Péeres stoode ready to attend him hée was strucke with present sorrow by remembring the losse of his owne Which the good Symonides taking note of and accusing himselfe before there was cause that Pericles spirites were dumpt into their melancholy through some dislike of the slackenesse hée found in his entertainement or neglect of his woorth calling for a boule of wine hée dranke to him and so much further honoured him that he made his daughter rise from her seate to beare it to him and withall willing her to demaund of him his name Countrey and fortunes a message gentle Lady shée was as ready to obey vnto as her Father was to commaund reioycing that shée had any occasion offered her whereby shée might speake vnto him Pericles by this time hath pledged the King and by his daughter according to his request thus returneth what hée is that hée was a Gentleman of Tyre his name Pericles his education béene in Artes and Armes who looking for aduentures in the world was by the rough and vnconstant Seas most vnfortunately bereft both of shippes and men and after shipwrecke throwen vpon that shoare Which mis-haps of his the king vnderstanding of hée was strucke with present pitty to him and rising from his state he came foorth with and imbraced him bade him be chéered and tolde him that whatsoeuer misfortune had impayred him of Fortune by his helpe could repayre to him for both himselfe and Countrey should be his friendes and presently calling for a goodly milke white Stéede and a payre of golden spurres them first hée bestowed vppon him telling him they were the prises due to his merite and ordained for that dayes enterprise which kingly curtesie Pericles as thankefully accepting Much time béeing spent in dauncing and other reuells the night béeing growne olde the King commaunded the Knights shoulde be conducted to their lodgings giuing order that Pericles Chamber should be next his owne where wée will leaue them to take quiet rest and returne backe to Tyre The fift Chapter How Helicanus heard newes of Antiochus and his daughters deaths and of his sending of other Lords in search of their Prince Pericles ANtiochus who as before is discoursed hauing committed with his owne daughter so foule a sinne shamed not in the same foulenesse to remaine in it with her neither had shée that touch of grace by repentaunce to constraine him to abstinence or by perswasion to deny his continuance long like those miserable serpents did their greatnesse flourish who vse fairest shewes for fowlest euills till one day himselfe seated with her in a Charriot made of the purest golde attended by his péeres and gased on by his people both apparrelled all in Iewells to out face suspition and beget wonder as if that glorious outsides were a wall could kéepe heauens eye from knowing our intents in great magnificence rode they through Antioch But sée the Iustice of the Highest though sinne flatter and man perseuere yet surely Heauen at length dooth punish For as thus they rode gazing to be gazed vpon and prowd to be accompted so Uengeance with a deadly arrow drawne from foorth the quiuer of his wrath prepared by lightning and shot on by thunder hitte and strucke dead these prowd incestuous creatures where they sate leauing their faces blasted and their bodies such a contemptfull obiect on the earth that all those eyes but now with reuerence looked vpon them all hands that serued them and all knées adored them scorned now to touch them loathd now to looke
THE Painfull Aduentures of Pericles Prince of Tyre Being The true History of the Play of Pericles as it was lately presented by the worthy and ancient Poet Iohn Gower AT LONDON Printed by T. P. for Nat Butter 1608. The Argument of the whole Historie ANtiochus the Great who was the first founder of Antioch the most famous Citty in all Syria hauing one onelie daughter in the prime and glory of her youth fell in most vnnaturall loue with her and what by the power of his perswasions and feare of his tyranny he so preuailed with her yeelding heart that he became maister of his desires which to continue to himself his daughter being for her beauty desired in marriage of many great princes he made this law That whoso presumed to desire her in marriage and could not vnfold the meaning of his questions for that attempt should loose his life Fearelesse of this Lawe many Princes aduentured and in their rashnesse perished amongst the number PERICLES the Prince of Tyre and neighbour to this tyrant King Antiochus was the last who vndertooke to resolue this Riddle which he accordingly through his great wisedome performed and finding both the subtiltie and sinne of the Tyrant for his owne safetie fled secretly from Antioch backe to Tyre and there acquainted Helycanus a graue Counsell our of his with the proceedings as also with his present feare what might succeed from whose counsell he tooke aduise for a space to leaue his kingdome and betake himselfe to trauell to which yeelding Pericles puts to sea ariues at Tharsus which he finds thorow the dearth of corne in much distresse he there relieues Cleon and Dyonysa with their distressed City with the prouision which he brought of purpose but by his good Counsellour Helycanus hearing newes of Antiochus death he intends for Tyre puts againe to Sea suffers shipwracke his shippes and men all lost till as it were Fortune tyred with his mis-happes he is throwne vpon the shoare releeued by certaine poore Fishermen and by an Armour of his which they by chaunce dragged vp in their nettes his mis-fortunes being a little repaired Pericles arriues at the Court of good Symonides King of Pentapolis where through his noblenesse both in Armes and Arts he winnes the loue of faire Thaysa the kings daughter and by her fathers consent marries her In this absence of his and for which absence the Tyrians his subiects muteny would elect Helycanus whome Pericles ordained his substitute in his absence their King which passion of theirs Helycanus by his graue perswasions subdewed and wonne them to goe in quest of their lost Prince Pericles In this search he is found and with his wife Thaysa who is now with childe and Lycorida her Nurse hauing taken leaue of his kingly Father puts againe for Tyre but with the terrour of a tempest at Sea his Queene falles in trauell is deliuered of a daughter whome hee names Marina in which childe-birth his Queene dies she is throwne ouer boorde at departure of whome Pericles altereth his course from Tyre being a shorter cut to his hoste Cleon in Tharsus hee there leaues his yoong daughter to be fostered vp vowing to himselfe a solitary pensiue life for the losse of his Queene Thaysa thus supposed dead and in the seas buried is the next morning on the shore taken vp at Ephesus by Cerimon a most skilfull Physition who by his Arte practised vpon this Queene so preuailed that after fiue houres intraunced she is by his skill brought to able health againe and by her owne request by him placed to liue a Votary in Dianaes Temple at Ephesus Marina Pericles sea-borne daughter is by this growen to discreete yeares she is enuied of Dyonysa Cleons wife her foster mother for that Marinaes perfection exceedeth a daughter of hers Marina by this enuy of hers should haue beene murthered but being rescued by certaine Pyrates is as it were reserued to a greater mishap for by them she is caried to Metelyne sold to the deuils broker a bawd to haue bin trained vp in that infection shee is courted of many and how wonderfully she preserues her chastitie Pericles returnes from Tyre toward Tharsus to visite the hospitable Cleon Dyonysa and his yoong daughter Marina where by Dyonysaes dissembling teares and a Toombe that was erected for her Pericles is brought to beleeue that his Marina lies there buryed and that shee died of her naturall death for whose losse hee teares his haire throwes off his garments forsweares the societie of men or any other comfort In which passion for many moneths continuing hee at last arriues at Metelyne when being seene and pittied by Lysimachus the Gouernour his daughter though of him vnknowen so is by the Gouernour sent for who by her excellent skill in Song and pleasantnesse in discourse with relating the story of her owne mishap shee so winnes againe her fathers lost sences that hee knowes her for his childe shee him for her father in which ouer-ioy as if his sences were nowe all confounded Pericles falles asleepe where in a dreame is by Diana warned to goe to Ephesus and there to make his sacrifice Pericles obayes and there comes to the knowledge of Thaysa his wife with their seuerall Ioyes that they three so strangely diuided are as strangely mette Lysimachus the Gouernour marrieth Marina and Pericles leauing his mourning causeth the bawde to be burned Of his reuenge to Cleon and Dyonysa his rewarding of the Fishermen that releeued him his iustice toward the Pyrats that made sale of his daughter his returne backe to his kingdome and of him and his wifes deaths Onely intreating the Reader to receiue this Historie in the same maner as it was vnder the habite of ancient Gower the famous English Poet by the Kings Maiesties Players excellently presented The names of the Personages mentioned in this Historie Iohn Gower the Presenter Antiochus that built Antioch His daughter Pericles Prince of Tyre Thalyart a villaine Twoo graue Counsellors Helycanus Eschines Cleon Gouernor of Tharsus Dyonysa his wife Two or three Fishermen Symonides king of Pentapolis Thaysa his daughter Fiue Princes Lycorida a Nurse Cerimon a Phisition Marina Pericles daughter A Murtherer Pirates A Bawde A Leno A Pander Lysimachus Gouernour of Meteline Diana Goddesse of chastitie THE Painfull Aduentures of PERICLES Prince of Tyre The first Chapter WHerein Gower describes how Antiochus surnamed the Great committed incest with his daughter and beheaded such as sued to her for marriage if they could not resolue his question placing their heades vpon the top of his Castle gate whereby to astonish all others that came to attempt the like THe great and mighty king Antiochus who was as cruell in tyranny as hée was powerfull in possessions séeking more to enrich himselfe by she wes than to renown his name by vertue caused to be built the goodly Cittie of Antioch in Syria and called it after his owne name as the chiefest seate of all his Dominions and principall place
of all Egypt while his yoong daughter Marina grew vp to more able discretion and when she was fully attaind to 5. yéers of age being to her selfe knowne no other but to be frée borne she was set to Schoole with other frée children alwayes ioyntly accompanied with one onely daughter that Dionysa had being of the same time that she was of where growing vp aswel in learning as in number of yéeres vntill she came to the reckoning of fouretéene one day when she returned from Schoole she found Lycorida her Nurse sodainely fallen sicke and sitting beside her vpon the bed she as in care of her demaunded the cause and manner of her sickenesse when the Nurse finding her disease to haue no hope of recouery but a harbinger that came before to prepare a lodging for death answered her to this purpose For my sickenesse queth she it matters not deare childe since it is as necessary to be sicke as it is néedefull to die onely I intreate of you to hearken vnto a dying womans wordes that loueth you and laying them vppe in your heart perswade yeur selfe that in these heures no sinner should or can be so wretched to spare a minute to finde time to lie Knowe then that you are not the daughter of Cleon and Dyonysa as you till this haue supposed but hearken vnto me and I will declare vnto thée the beginning of thy birth that thou mayest knowe how to guide thy selfe after my death Pericles the Prince of Tyre is thy father and Thaysa king Symonides daughter was thy mother which father and mother departed from thy grandsir at Pentapolis toward their kingdom of Tyre thy mother being at Sea fell in trauell with thée died after thou wert borne when thy Father Pericles inclosed her body in a Chest with princely ornaments laying twenty talents of golde at her head and as much at her féete in siluer with a Scedule written containing the dignitie of her birth maner of her death then caused he the Chest to be thrown ouer-boorde into the Sea thorow a superstitious opinion which the mariners beléeued leauing her body so inriched to the intent that whither soeuer it were driuen they that found it in regarde of the riches would bury her according to her estate Thus Lady were you borne vppon the waters and your fathers Ship with much wrestling of contrary windes and with his vnspeakeable griefe of minde arriued at this shoare and brought thée in thy swadling clowtes vnto this Citty where he with great care deliuered thée vnto this thine hoste Cleon and Dyonysa his wife diligently to be fosterad vp and left me héere also to attend vppon thée swearing this oath to kéepe inuiolate his haire should be vncisserd his face vntrimmed himselfe in all things vncomely continually to mourne for mother your dead mother vntill your ripe yeares gaue him occasion to marry you to some prince worthy your birth and beauty wherefore I now admonish you that if after my death thine hoste or hostesse whom thou calst thy parents shall happly offer thée any iniury or discurteously taking aduantage of thy absent father as vnbefitting thine estate intertain thée haste thée into the market place where thou shalt finde a Statue erected to thy father standing take hold of it and crie aloude You cittizens of Tharsus I am his daughter whose Image this is who being mindefull of thy fathers benefits will doubtlesse reuenge thy iniurie When Marina thanking Lycorida for making that known to her which till then was vnknowne and happly either thorow Time or Death might haue béene buried in her ignorance and vowing if euer néede should so require of which as yet she had no cause to doubt her counsell should be followed And so Lycorida through sickenesse growing more weake and Marina for this knowledge and aduise still tending on her in her armes at last shée gaue vp the Ghost The ninth Chapter How after the death of Lycorida the Nnurse Dyonysa enuying at the beauty of Marina hired a seruant of hers to haue murderd her and how she was rescued by certaine Pyrates and by them carried to the Cittie of Meteline where among other bondslaues shee was solde to a common Bawde MArina hauing thus by Lycoridaes meanes had knowledge of her parentes and Lycorida hauing béene in her life her most carefull Nurse shée not without iust cause lamented her death and caused her body to be solempnely interred in a field without the walles of the Cittie raising a monument in remembrance of her vowing to her selfe a yeares solemne sadnesse and that her eies also for so long a time should daily pay their dewy offerings as lamenting the losse of so good a friend But this decrée of hers being accomplished and all the rites thereof faithfully fulfilled she dismissed her bodie of her mourning attire and againe apparrelled her selfe as before in her most costly habilliments frequenting the Schooles and diligently endeuouring the studies of the Liberall Sciences wherein she so out-went in perfection the labours of all that were studious with her that shée was rather vsed amongst them as their Schoolemistris to instruct than their fellow Scholler to learne onely for her recreation betwixt the houres of study dauncing singing sowing or what experience soeuer for in no action was she vnexpert as also euery morning and at noone before she made her meale she forgotte not to reuisite her Nurses sepulchre and entring into the monument vpon her knées she there offered her funerall teares for the losse of her mother and desiring the gods in their holy Synode to protect the safety of her father accusing her selfe as an vnfortunate childe whose béeing caused the death of her mother so good a Quéene and the sorrow of her father so curteous a Prince and in very déede the whole course of her life was so affable and curteous that she wonne the loue of all and euery man accompting his tongue the father of spéech a trewant which was not liberall in her prayses so that it fortuned as she passed along the stréete with Dyonysa her daughter who was her companion and Schoole-fellow and who till then she supposed had béene her sister The people as at other times came running out of their doores with gréedy desire to looke vpon her and beholding the beauty and comelinesse of Marina so farre to out-shine Dyonysaes daughter who went side by side with her could not containe themselues from crying out Happy is that father who hath Marina to his daughter but her Companion that goeth with her is fowle and ill-fauoured Which when Dyonysa heard her enuy of those prayes bred in her a contempt and that contempt soone transformed it selfe into wrath all which shée for the instant dissembling yet at her comming home withdrawing her selfe into a priuate walke she in this maner with her selfe beganne to discourse It is now quoth she fouretéene yéers since Pericles this out-shining gerles father departed this our Citty in all which time we
lies heere Who wythred in her spring of yeere In Natures garden though by growth a Bud Shee was the chiefest flower she was good So with this flattery which is like a Skréene before the grauest Iudgements deceiuing the Cittizens and all doone vnsuspected she returned home when Cleon who not at all consented to this treason but so soone as he heard therof being strucke into amazement he apparelled himselfe in mourning garments lamenting the vntimely ruine of so goodly a Lady saying to himselfe Alas now what mischiefe am I wrapped in what might I do or say héerein The Father of that Uirgine deliuered this Citty from the perill of death for this Citties sake hée suffered ship wracke lost his goodes and endured penury and now he is requited with euill for good his daughter which hée committed by my care to be brought vp is now deuoured by the cruelty of my wife so that I am depriued as it were of mine owne eyes and forced to bewaile the death of that Innocent she in whose presence as in the fortune ef mine own posterity I should haue had delight And then demaunding of Dyonysa how she could giue prince Pericles accompt of his childe hauing robbed him of his childe how she could appease the fury of his wrath if her acte were knowne to him or how alay the displeasure of the gods from whome nothing can be hid For Pericles quoth she if such a pious innocent as your selfe do not reueale it vnto him how should he come to the knowledge thereof since that the whole Citty is satisfied by the monument I caused to be erected and by our dissembling outside that she died naturally and for the gods let them that list be of the minde to thinke they can make stones speake and raise them vp in euidence for my parte I haue my wish I haue my safety and feare no daunger till it fall vpon me But Cleon rather cursing then commending this obduracy in her he continued mourning vnfainedly but she according to her sinful condition By this time the pirats who before rescued Marina when she should haue béene slaine by trecherous Leonine are now ariued at Meteline and in the Market place of the Cittie according to the custome amongst other bondslaues offered her to be solde whither all sorts of people comming to supply their purposes Marina was net without much commendations gazed vpon of the buyers some commending her beauty others her sober countenaunce all pittying her mishap and praysing her perfections which prayses of her were so spread through the Citty that from all parts they came crowding to sée her amongst the number of which was a Leno or â—awde yet one who had not set vp shop and kept trade for himselfe but was yet but iourney-man to the deuill This Leon amongst others staring vpon her and knowing her face to be a fit faire signe for his maisters house and with which signe he made no doubt but to lodge vnder their roofe all th' intemperate euen from youth to age thorow the whole Citty hée foorth with demaunded the price intending to buy her at what rate soeuer and in the end went thorow and bargained to haue her paying a hundred Sestercies of golde and so presently hauing giuen earnest he takes Marina and the rest of the Pirates home with him to his Maisters house Marina was there to be taught how to giue her body vppe a prostitute to sinne and the Pirates for their new stuffe to receiue their money The tenth Chapter How Marina being thus solde to a Bawde preserued her virginitie and how shee conuerted all that euer came to make hire of her beauty from the loosenesse of their desires MArina was no sooner thus concluded for by the hée Bawde but the Pyrates were as soone brought home to his masters house and receiued their payment when after their departure she giuing commaund to the Pander her man that he should goe backe into the Market place and there with open crie proclaime what a picture of Nature they had at home for euery lasciuious eie to gaze vpon The she Bawd beganne to instruct her with what complement she should entertaine her customers she first asked her if she were a virgine When Marina replyed she thanked the Gods shée neuer knew what it was to be otherwise In so being quoth the she bawde you haue béene well but now in plaine tearmes I must teach you how to be worse It is not goodnesse in you quoth Marina to teach me to be so for goodnes answerd the bawd it is a Lecture such as we vse seldome our consciences neuer reade one to another therefore attend vnto me you must now be like a stake for euery man to shoote at you must be like a foord that must receiue all waters you must haue the benefite of all nations and séeme to take delight in all men I thanke my starres answered Marina I am displeased with none for by this answere it appeared such was the puritie of her minde that she vnderstoode not what this deuills sollicitor pleaded vnto her but she quickely taking her off told in more immodest phrase that shée had payde for her and that she and all her body was hers that will ye nill ye she must now be what she her selfe had béene and there is seldome any bawde but before time hath béene a whoore that to conclude shée had bought her like a beast and shée meant to hire her out When she vnderstanding vnwillingly what all these wordes tended vnto she fell prostrate at her féete and with teares showred downe in aboundaunce she intreated her not to make hire of her bodie to so diseasefull a vse which shée hoped the gods had ordained to a more happy purpose When the bawde answered her Come come these droppes auaile thée not thou arte now mine and I will make my best of thée and I must now learne you to know we whom the worlde calles Bawdes but more properly are to be stiled Factors for men are in this like the hangman neither to regard prayers nor teares but our owne profite So calling for her slaue which was gouernour ouer her she-houshold this was her appoyntment vnto him Goe quoth shée and take this Mayden as shée is thus decked in costly apparrel for it is to be remembred that the former Pirates had no way dispoyled her of her ornaments with purpose to prise her at the higher rate and leading her along this be the crie thorow the whole Citty That whosoeuer desireth the purchase of so wondrous a beauty shall for his first enioying her pay tenne péeces of golde and that afterward shée shall be common vnto the people for one péece at a time Which will of hers Marina being no way able to resist but with her sorrowe onely desiring of the good gods to be protectors of her chastitie She with this her slaue was hurried along and who with the tenour of his priapine proclamation had so awaked the
pitty then to attempt to robbe me of mine honour which in spite of them and thée the Gods who I hope will protect it still haue till this breathing protected to leprous my chast thoghts with remembrance of so foule a déede which thou then shalt haue doone to damne thine owne soule by vndooing of mine At which word the Uillaine being strucke into some remorce and standing in a pawse Marina went forward and tolde him If thou wantest golde there is some for thée part of that she had reserued which before was giuen hir from the bawdes knowledge or if thou wantest maintenaunce prouide mée but some residence in an honest house and I haue experience in many things which shall labour for thee as namely I am skilfull in the seauen Liberall Sciences well exercised in all studies and dare approoue this that my skill in singing and playing on Instruments excéeds any in the citty therefore quoth she as thou before didst proclame my beuty in the market to the open world whereby to haue made me a common prostitute so now agayne proclame my vertues vnto them and I doubt not but this honorable citty will affoord schollers sufficient the instructing of whome will returne profite enough both to repay the Maister what hée payed out for me prouide an honester course for thée then this thou liuest in and giue a quiet content vnto my selfe Sooth quoth the Uillaine being now mooued vnto much more compassion of her If you haue as you say these qualities I will labour with my Master and doe my best for your release If not answered Marina I giue thée frée leaue to bring me backe againe and prostitute me to that course which was first pretended for me In briefe the Uillaine so laboured with the bawde his maister that though hée woulde not giue her leaue to depart his house yet in hope of the profit which would come in by her other qualities she should stay in his house and none with her former gréeuances disturbe her and withall charged the Pander to set vp a Bill in the Market place of her excellencie in speaking and in singing At the report of which there crowded as many to the bawdes great profite to be delighted with her woorth as there came before to haue made spoyle of her vertue and not any man but gaue her money largely and departed contented onely aboue the rest the Lorde Lysimachus had euermore an especiall regarde in the preseruation of her safety no otherwise than if she had béene descendaed from himselfe and rewarded the villaine very liberally for the diligent care hée had ouer her The elouenth Chapter How Pericles after foureteene yeeres absence arriued at Tharsus and not finding his daughter lamented her supposed death and how taking ship againe he was by crosse windes driuen to Meteline where his daughter Marina was and how by the meanes of Prince Lysimachus comming aboorde his shippe to comforte him he came to the knowledge of his lost daughter and also of his wife Thaysa HAuing thus preserued Marina our Story giues vs now leaue to returne againe to Prince Pericles who after fouretéene yeares absence arriued at Tharsus and was receiued into the house of Cleon and Dyonysa with whome hée had left his yoong daughter Marina to be fostered vp At the newes of whose comming Cleon and Dyonysa againe apparrelled themselues in mournfull habites went out to méete him who when Pericles beheld in so sad an out-side My trusty friends what cause inforceth you to giue so sad a welcome to my entertainement O my good Lord answered Dyonysa would any tongue but ours might be the herald of your mis-hap but sorrowes pipes will burst haue they not vent and you of force must knowe Marina is dead Which when Pericles heard the very word Death séemed like an edge that cut his heart his flesh trembled and his strength failed yet in that agony a long time standing amased with his eyes intentiuely fixed on the ground and at length recouering himselfe and taking breath hée first cast his eyes vppe to heauen saying O you Gods extreamity of passion dooth make mée almost ready to accuse you of iniustice And then throwing his eyes gréedily vpon her But woman quoth hée If as thou sayest my most déere Marina be dead is the money and the treasure which I also left with you for her perished with her When she aunswered Some is and some yet remaineth And as for your daughter my Lord lest you shoulde anie way suspect vs we haue sufficient witnesse for our Citizens being mindefull of your benefites bestowed vppon them haue erected vnto her a monument of brasse fast by yours And when she had so said she brought foorth such money iewells and apparrell as it pleased her to say were remayning of Marinaes store Wherevppon Pericles giuing credite to this report of her death he commaunded his seruants to take vp what she had brought and beare them to his shippes while he himselfe would goe visite his daughters monument Which when he beheld and had read the Epitaph as before written his affection brake out into his eies and he expressed more actuall sorrow for the losse of her then Inditement can expresse first tumbling himselfe vppon her monument he then fell into a swownd as if since he might not leaue all his life with her yet he would leaue halfe at least from which trance being at the length recouered hée apparrelles himselfe in sacke-cloth running hastily vnto his shippes desireth the Sea to take him into their wombe since neither land nor water was fortunate vnto him for the one had bereft him of a daughter the other of a wife But as befitted theÌ„ being most careful of his safty they vsed their best perswasions to asswage this tempest of his sorrow presently as much as might be in such a case they preuayled and partly by time which is a curer of all caâ—es continually mittigated some part of the griefe When hée perceiuing the winde to stand fitte for their departure hee hoysed vppe sailes and gaue farewelâ— to the shoare nor had they long sailed in their course but the winde came about into a contrary quarter and blew so fiercely that it troubled both sea and shippes the raine fell fiercely from aboue and the sea wrought woonderously vnderneath so that the tempest being terrible for the time it was in that extreamitie thought fittest to strike sayle to let the Helme goe and to suffer the shippe to driue with the tide whither it would please the gods to direct it But as Ioy euermore succéedeth Heauinesse so was this sharpe storme occasion of a ioyful méeting betwixt this sorrowful father and his lost daughter for while Prince Pericles shippe is thus gouerned at randon by fortune it striketh vppon the shoare of the Cittie Meteline where now Marina remained of whose death he as before being fully perswaded in whose life he had hope his decayed comfortes should againe haue had new growth And being
power ouer all shuld contemne none whither art thou fled then wéeping a while And O you Gods creators both of heauen and earth looke vppon my afflictions and take compassion vppon me that am vnfortunate in all things I haue bin tossed from wrong to iniurie I was borne amongest the waues and troublesome tempests of the Sea my mother died in paines and pangs of child-birth and buriall was denyed her on the earth whome my father adorned with Iewelles layd golde at her head and siluer at her féete and inclosing her in a Chest committed her to the Sea As for me vnfortunate wretch my father who with princely furniture put me in trust to Cleon and Dyonysa who commanded a seruant of theirs to murder me from whose cruelty by Pirates I was rescewed brought by them to this Citty and sold to haue béene hackneyd by a common Bawde though I thanke the heauens I haue preserued my chastity and now after al these crosses for my curtesies to be strucke thus to bléeding O cruell fate By which tale of hers Pericles being mooued since by all the circumstances he ghessed she was his childe and yet not knowing whether he might beléeue himselfe to be awake or in a dreame he beganne agayne to capitulate with her of her former relation as namely where she was borne who were her parents and what her name was To the which she answered My name is Marina and so called because I was borne vpon the sea O my Marina cryed out Pericies bring strucke into such an extaste of ioy that hée was not able to containe himselfe willing her agayne to discourse vnto him the storie of her misfortunes for hée could not heare too much Which she obeying him in and he knowing her to be his childe séeing that the supposed dead was risen again he falls on hir necke and kisses her calles vpon Helycanus to come vnto him shâ—wes him his daughter biddes him to knéele to her thanketh Lysimachus that so fortunately had brought her to begette life in the father who begot her so one while wéeping at others ioying and his senses being masterd by a gentle conquerour in that extreamitie of passion he fell into a slumber in which swéet sléepe of his hée was by Diana warned to hie to Ephesus and there vpon the Altare of that Goddesse to offer vppe his sacrifice before the Priests and there to discourse the whole progresse of his life which he remembring being awake he accordingly shipped himselfe with Lysimachus Marina and his owne subiects to perfourme Who landing at Ephesus and giuing notice of the purpose for which he was come he was by all the Priests and Uotaries attended to the Temple and being brought to the Altare this was the substance of his sacrifice I Pericles borne Prince of Tyre who hauing in youth attained to all kinde of knowledge resolued the Riddle of Antiochus to the intent to haue married his daughter whome he most shamefully defiled To preserue my selfe from whose anger I fled to sea suffered shipwracke was curteously entertained by good Symonides king of Pentapolis and after espoused his faire daughter Thaysa At the naming of whome she her selfe being by could not choose but starte for in this Temple was she placed to be a Nunne by Lord Cerimon who preserued her life But Pericles going on when Antiochus and his daughter quoth he were by lightning strucke dead from heauen I conducted my Queene with me from her fathers Court with purpose to receiue againe my kingdome where vpon the sea shée was deliuered of this my daughter in that trauell she died whom I inclosed in a Chest and threw it into the Sea When Thaysa standing by and no longer being able to temper her affections being assured he was her Lord shée ranne hastily vnto him imbraced him in her armes and would haue kissed him Which when Pericles sawe hée was mooued with disdaine and thrust her from him accusing her for lightnes whose modesty and good grace hée at his first entrance did commend when she falling at his féete and powring foorth her teares aboundantly gladnesse compelled her to crie out O my Lord Pericles deale not vngently with me I am your wife daughter vnto Symonides my name is Thaysa you were my Schoolemaister and instructed me in musicke you are that Prince whome I loued not for concupiscence but desire of wisedome I am she which was deliuered and died at the sea and by your owne hands was buryed in the déepes which wordes of hers Lord Cerimon standing by he was ready to auerre but it néeded not for Pericles though at the first astonished ioy had now so reuiued his spirites that hée knew her to be herselfe but throwing his head into her bosome hauing nothing but this to vtter he cried aloude O you heauens my misfortunes were now againe blessings since wée are agayne contracted so giuing his daughter to her armes to embrace her as a child and Lysimachus to enfolde her as a wife and giuing order the solemnity of marriage should strait be prouided for he then caused the bawd to be burnt who with so much labor had sought to violate her princely chastitie whilest Marina rewarded the pandar who had béene so faithfull to hir and then after he had seene hir mariage with Lisimachus he leaueth Ephesus and intendes for Tyre taking Pentapolis in his way whome by the death of good Symonides as lawful heire he was made soueraigne He also highly rewarded the poore Fisher-men who had relieued him From thence he arriued at Tharsus where hée reuenged himselfe of Cleon and Dyonysa by stoning them to death From thence to Tyre where peaceably he was receiued into his kingdome and giuen also possession of all the territories of Antiochus where by his wife though in the declining of both their yéeres it pleased the Gods to blesse him with a sonne who growing to the lusty strength of youth and the father declining to his graue age being no longer able to be sustained by the benefite of nature fell into certayne colde and dry diseases in which case the knowledge of his Physitions could stand him in little steade eyther by their cunning or experience so as no remedie being to be found against death being in perfect memorie he departed this life in the armes of his beloued Thaysa and in the middest of his friendes nobles alies and children in great honour his kingdome of Tyrus be gaue by will to Lysimachus and his daughter Marina and to their heires after them for euer who liued long together and had much comfort by their issue Unto his Quéene Thaysa he gaue the two kingdomes of Antioch and Pentapolis for tearme of her life and at her death to descend to her yong sonne Symonides But Thaysa who could not then be yong since Pericles died olde continued not long in her widows estate butpining much with sorrow and wearing with age forsooke the present worlde leauing her two kingdomes according to her fathers will to her yoong sonne Symonides FINIS