I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in 't, And will no longer have it be delay'd. Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it. Enter PERICLES. Per. All fortune to the good Simonides! Sim. To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you For your sweet music this last night: I do Protest my ears were never better fed With such delightful pleasing harmony. Per. It is your grace's pleasure to commend, Not my desert. Sim. Sir, you are music's master. Per. The worst of all her scholars, my good lord. Sim. Let me ask you one thing. What do you think of my daughter, sir? Per. A most virtuous princess. Sim. And she is fair too, is she not? Per. As a fair day in summer; wondrous fair. Sim. My daughter, sir, thinks very well of you; Ay, so well, sir, that you must be her master, And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it. Per. I am unworthy for her schoolmaster. Sim. She thinks not so; peruse this writing else. Per. Aside. What 's here? A letter that she loves the knight of Tyre! 'Tis the king's subtilty to have my life. A stranger and distressed gentleman, That never aim'd so high to love your daughter, But bent all offices to honour her. Sim. Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art A villain. Never did thought of mine levy offence; Per. Sim. Traitor ! Ay, traitor. Per. Even in his throat, unless it be the king, That calls me traitor, I return the lie. Sim. Aside. Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage. Per. My actions are as noble as my thoughts, That never relish'd of a base descent. I came unto your court for honour's cause, And he that otherwise accounts of me, Here comes my daughter, she can witness it. Enter THAISA. Per. Then, as you are as virtuous as fair, Who takes offence at that would make me glad? Aside. I am glad on 't with all my heart. Bestow your love and your affections Upon a stranger? Aside who, for aught I know, As great in blood as I myself. Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame Your will to mine; and you, sir, hear you, Either be rul'd by me, or I will make you— Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too; Thai. Yes, if you love me, sir. Per. Even as my life, or blood that fosters it. Sim. What are you both agreed? Thai. Per. Yes, if it please your majesty. Sim. It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed ; Then with what haste you can get you to bed. ACT III Exeunt. Enter Gower. Now sleep yslaked hath the rout; 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 Then gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES shows it to SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to PERICLES. enter THAISA with child, and LYCHORIDA: SIMONIDES shows his daughter the letter; she rejoices: she and PERICLES take leave of her father, and all depart. By many a dern and painful perch The crown of Tyre, but he will none: Says to 'em, if King Pericles Come not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Will take the crown. The sum of this, Brought hither to Pentapolis, Yravished the regions round, And every one with claps can sound, 'Our heir-apparent is a king! Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?' Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre: His queen, with child, makes her desire, Which who shall cross? along to go; Omit we all their dole and woe: Lychorida, her nurse, she takes, On Neptune's billow; half the flood Disgorges such a tempest forth, I nill relate, action may This stage the ship, upon whose deck Exit. SCENE I. Enter PERICLES, on shipboard. 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 deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench |