With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast;

And I will undertake all these to teach.

I doubt not but this populous city will

Yield many scholars.

Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can place thee, I will.-Per., iv. 6. Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances

Into an honest house, our story says.

Here we her place ;

And to her father turn our thoughts again,

Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;
Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived

Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast
Suppose him now at anchor. The city striv'd

God Neptune's annual feast to keep from whence
Lysimachus, our Tyrian ship espies,

His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense;

And to him in his barge with fervour hies.—Ibid., v. (Chorus).

Sir, there's a barge put off from Mitylene,

And in it is Lysimachus, the governor,

Who craves to come aboard. What is your will ?
That he have his.-

I am the governor of this place you lie before.-
Sir, our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king.-..
Sir, we have a maid in Mitylene, I durst wager,
Would win some words of him.-

Oh, here is

The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one !—.

My utmost skill in his recovery,
Provided

Sir, I will use

That none but I and my companion maid

Be suffer'd to come near him.

Come, let us leave her;

And the gods make her prosperous

Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.-Ibid., v. I.
My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither,

And do upon mine altar sacrifice.-Ibid., v. 2.

Now our sands are almost run;

More a little, and then dumb.

This, as my last boon, give me—

For such kindness must relieve me

That you aptly will suppose

What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
The regent made in Mitylin,
To greet the king. So he thriv'd,
That he is promis'd to be wiv'd
To fair Marina; but in no wise
Till he had done his sacrifice,

As Dian bade; whereto being bound,
The interim, pray you, all confound.
In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,
And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
At Ephesus, the temple see,

Our king, and all his company.

That he can hither come so soon,

Is by your fancy's thankful boon.-Ibid., v. 2 (Chorus).

Hail Dian! to perform thy just command,

I here confess myself the king of Tyre.- . .

Noble sir,

This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter
Shall marry her at Pentapolis.-Per., v. 3.

And the passages denoting Long Time are the following:

Not an hour,

In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night

(The tomb where grief should sleep), can breed me quiet.
Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them;
And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,

Whose arm seems far too short to hit me here:
Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,
Nor yet the other's distance comfort me.-
Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,
Till that his rage and anger be forgot,

Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.-
Tyre, I now look from thee, then, and to Tharsus
Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;

And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.—Ibid., i. 2.

He's gone to travel.

Your lord hath betook himself to unknown travels.-Ibid., i. 3.

Good Helicane hath stay'd at home,

Not to eat honey like a drone

From others' labours; for though he strive

To killen bad, keep good alive;

And, to fulfil his prince' desire,

Sends word of all that haps in Tyre.—Ibid., ii. (Chorus).

A gentleman of Tyre

Who, looking for adventures in the world,

Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men.—Ibid., ii. 3.

A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you

To forbear the absence of your king;

If in which time expir'd, he not return,

I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.—Ibid.,

By many a dearn and painful perch
Of Pericles the careful search,

By the four opposing coigns,
Which the world together joins,

Is made with all due diligence

That horse, and sail, and high expense,
Can stead the guest.-Ibid., iii. (Chorus).
My twelve months are expir'd and Tyrus stands
In a litigious peace.—Ibid., iii. 3.

Till she be married, madam,

By bright Diana, whom we honour, all

ii. 4.

Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain.-Ibid., iii. 3.

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.

Diana's temple is not distant far,

Where you may 'bide until your date expire.-Per., iii. 4.

At Tharsus, and by Cleon train'd

In music, letters;

When you caught hurt in parting two that fought.—Ibid., iv. I.

Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:

He puts on sackcloth, and to sea.—Ibid., iv. 4 (Chorus).

Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;

A man, who for this three months hath not spoken

To any one, nor taken sustenance,

But to prorogue his grief.- Ibid., v. 1.

My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither.— . . .

My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike

The inhospitable Cleon: but I am

For other service first; toward Ephesus

Turn our blown sails.-Ibid., v. 2.

What pageantry, what feats, what shows,
What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
The regent made in Mitylin,

To greet the king.—Ibid., v. 2 (Chorus).

Shakespeare occasionally has passages of what may be called Blended Time; that is to say, passages where effects of Long and Short Time

are so interfusedly given that he conveys a blended impression of both in the same sentence:

My purpose was not to have seen you here;

But meeting with Solanio by the way,

He did entreat me, past all saying nay,

To come with him along.-Mer. of V., iii. 2.

I have despatch'd in post

To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,

Cleomenes and Dion.-W. T., ii. 1.

Whose loss of his most precious queen and children, are even now to be afresh

lamented.-Ibid., iv. 1.

How far is it, my lord, to Berkley now?—
Believe me, noble lord,

I am a stranger here in Glo'stershire

These high, wild hills, and rough uneven ways,
Draw out our miles, and make them wearisome;
And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,
Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
But I bethink me, what a weary way
From Ravenspurg to Cotswold will be found
In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,
Which, I protest, hath very much beguil'd

...

-1 H. IV., iii. 1.

The tediousness and process of my travel.-R. II., ii. 3.
Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:
And in my conduct shall your ladies come;
From whom you now must steal, and take no leave.—
How now, good Blunt! thy looks are full of speed.—
So hath the business that I come to speak of.
Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word,
That Douglas and the English rebels met,
The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury.—
The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;
With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;
For this advertisement is five days old;

On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;
On Thursday we ourselves will march:

Our meeting is at Bridgnorth: and, Harry, you

Shall march through Glo'stershire; by which account,
Our business valued, some twelve days hence

Our general forces at Bridgnorth shall meet.
Our hands are full of business: let's away;

Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.-Ibid., iii. 2.
Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
That may give fartherance to our expedition;
For we have now no thought in us but France,
Save those to God, that run before our business.
Therefore, let our proportions for these wars
Be soon collected, and all things thought upon,
That may with reasonable swiftness add
More feathers to our wings; for, God before,
We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.
Therefore, let every man now task his thought,

That this fair action may on foot be brought.-H. V., i. 2.

Thursday is near.-R. & Jul., iii. 5.

On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.-Ibid., iv. 1.
Sir, March is wasted fourteen days.—Jul. C., ii. 1.
Some holy angel

Fly to the court of England, and unfold
His message ere he come; that a swift blessing
May soon return to this our suffering country
Under a hand accurs'd!-Macb., iii. 6.

We here despatch

You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,

For bearers of this greeting to old Norway.-Hamlet, i. 2.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!

That it should come to this!

But two months dead; nay, not so much, not two:
and yet, within a month

...

A little month; or ere those shoes were old
With which she follow'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she-

O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn'd longer-married with mine uncle,
within a month;

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,

She married. O, most wicked speed, to post

With such dexterity to incestuous sheets !—Ibid., i. 2.

He shall with speed to England.—Ibid., iii. 1.

Therefore, prepare you;

I your commission will forthwith despatch,

And he to England shall along with you.-Ibid., iii. 3.

It must be shortly known to him from England,

What is the issue of the business there.-Ibid., v. 2.
The exile of her minion is too new;

She hath not yet forgot him: some more time
Must wear the print of his remembrance out,
And then she's yours.-Cym., ii. 3.

Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor
How it goes there. It fits us, therefore, ripely

Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness:

The powers that he already hath in Gallia

Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves
His war for Britain.—Ibid., iii. 5.

DUMB SHOWS.

Into his own plays Shakespeare has sparingly introduced this kind of dramatic resource; for by a passage in one of his tragedies he has testified how poorly he thought of it as a mere attraction to the illiterate portion of the audience, who were incapable of appreciating good dialogue, and therefore preferred something that appealed merely to the eye:

The groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise.-Hamlet, iii. 2.

Thus called because they occupied the 'ground' or 'pit' of the theatre.