Did e'er solicit, or my hand subscribe To any syllable that made love to you? Who takes offence at that, would make me glad? I am glad of it with all my heart. [Aside.] I'll tame you; Will you, not having my consent, bestow r? [Aside. Hear, therefore, mistress; frame your will to mine,And you, sir, hear you.-Either be rul'd by me, Or I will make you-man and wife. Nay, come; your hands and lips must seal it too. Thai. Yes, if you love me, sir. Per. Even as my life, my blood that fosters it. Sim. It pleaseth me so well, I'll see you wed; Then, with what haste you can, get you to bed. [Exeunt. ACT III. Enter GoWER. Gow. Now sleep yslaked hath the rout; [9] So, in Cymbeline: "The crickets sing, and man's o'erlabour'd sense MALONE. And time that is so briefly spent, With your fine fancies quaintly eche;' What's dumb in show, I'll plain with speech. Dumb Show. Enter PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door, with Attendants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and gives PERICLES a letter. PERICLES shows it to SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to the former.2 Then enter THAISA with child, and LYCHORIDA. SIMONIDES shows his Daughter the letter; she rejoices: she and PERICLES take leave of her Father, and depart. Then SIMONIDES, &c. retire. 3 Gow. By many a dearn and painful perch, 3 That horse, and sail, and high expence, Are letters brought, the tenour these: Of Helicanus would set on The crown of Tyre, but he will none : Says to them, if king Pericles Come not, in twice six moons, home, He obedient to their doom, Will take the crown. The sum of this, [1]. So in the Chorus to King Henry V. (first folio): -still be kind, "And eche out our performance with your mind." MALONE. [2] The lords kneel to Pericles, because they are now, for the first time, informed by this letter, that he is king of Tyre. By the death of Antiochus and his daughter, Pericles has also succeeded to the throne of Antioch, in consequence of having rightly interpreted the riddle proposed to him. MALONE. [3] Dearn signifies lonely, solitary. A perch is a measure of five yards and a half. STEEVENS. [4] By the four opposite corner-stones that unite and bind together the great fabric of the world. The word is again used in Macbeth: -No jutty, frieze, "Buttress, or coigne of vantage, but this bird "Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle." In the passage before us, the author seems to have considered the world as a stupendous edifice artificially constructed. To seek a man in every corner of the globe, is still common language. MALONE. 4 VOL. IX. Brought hither to Pentapolis, And every one with claps 'gan sound, Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing? This stage, the ship, upon whose deck SCENE I. Enter PERICLES, on a Ship at Sea. [Exit. Per. Thou God of this great vast, rebuke these surges, Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast Upon the winds command, bind them in brass, Having call'd them from the deep! O still thy deaf'ning, How does my queen ?-Thou storm, thou! venomously Divinest patroness, and midwife, gentle To those that cry by night, convey thy deity Of my queen's travails!-Now, Lychorida Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant. Lyc. Here is a thing Too young for such a place, who if it had Take in your arms this piece of your dead queen. Lyc. Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm." Be manly, and take comfort. Per. O you gods! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, Vie honour with yourselves. "Lyc. Patience, good sir, Even for this charge. Per. Now, mild may be thy life ! For a more blust'rous birth had never babe : Quiet and gentle thy conditions ! For thou'rt the rudeliest welcom'd to this world, As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make, Enter Two Sailors. 1 Sail. What courage, sir? God save you. 1 Sail. Slack the holins there; thou wilt not, wilt thou? Blow, and split thyself. [5] Our author uses the same expression, on the same occasion, in The Tempest: "You mar our labour ;-keep your cabins; you do assist the storm. MALONE. [6] i. e. thou hast already lost more (by the death of thy mother) than thy safe arrival at the port of life can counterbalance, with all to boot that we can give thee. Portage is used for gate or entrance in one of Shakspeare's historical plays. STEEVENS, 2 Sail. But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss the moon, I care not. 1 Sail. Sir, your queen must overboard; the sea works high, the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be cleared of the dead. Per. That's your superstition. 1 Sail. Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it still hath been observed; and we are strong in earnest. Therefore briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight. Per. Be it as you think meet.-Most wretched queen! Lyc. Here she lies, sir. Per. A terrible child-bed hast thou had, my dear ; To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman. [Exit LYCHORIDA. 2 Sail. Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulk'd and bitumed ready. Per. I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this? 2 Sail. We are near Tharsus. Per. Thither, gentle mariner, Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it? 2 Sail. By break of day, if the wind cease. Per. O make for Tharsus. There will I visit Cleon, for the babe Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner; [Exeunt. [7] Instead of a monument erected above thy bones, and perpetual lamps to burn near them, the spouting whale shall oppress thee with his weight, and the mass of waters shall roll with low heavy murmur over thy head. STEEVENS. [8] Change thy coarse, which is now for Tyre, and go to Tharsus. MALONE. |