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Mar. No nor of any shewes," &c.
For the ingenious emeudation,

shores, instead

of shewes (which is so clearly right, that I have not hesitated to insert it in the text) as well as the happy regulation of the whole passage, I am indebted to the patron of every literary undertaking, my friend, the Earl of Charlemont. MALONE. P. 78, 1. 12. Per. I am great with woe,

and

shall deliver weeping.]/ It is observable that some of the leading incidents in this play strongly remind us of the Rudens. There Arcturus, like Gower, noоloyığsı. In the Latin comedy, fishermen, as in Pericles, are brought on the stage, ene of whom drags on shore in his net the wallet which principally produces the catastrophe; and the heroines of Plautus and Marina fall alike into the hands of a procurer. A circunstance on which much of the plot in both these dramatick pieces depends. HOLT WHITE.

P. 78, 1. 27. 28. And how achiev'd you these endowments, which

You make more rich to owe?] To owe iu ancient language is to possess. The meaning of the compliment is: These endowments, however valuable in themselves, are heighten'd by being in your possession. They acquire additional grace from their owner. STEEVENS.

P. 78, 1. 33. 34. thou seem'st a palace

For the crown'd truth to dwell in:] It is observable that our poet, when he means to represent any quality of the mind as eminently perfect, furnishes the imaginary being whom he personifies, with a crown. MALONE.

1. 79, 1. 17-19.

thou dost look

Like Patience, gazing on Kings' graves, and

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By her beauty and and prevent

Extremity out of act patient meekness disarming. ing her from using her up lifted sword. Extremily (though not personified as here), is in like manuer used in King Lear, for the utmost of human suffering. MALONE.

P. 79, 1. 20-22.

How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin? Recount, &c.] All the old copies read How lost thou thy name, my most kind virgin, recount, &c. But Marina had not said any thing about her name. She had indeed told the King, that “Time had rooted out her parentage, and to the world and aukward casualties bound her in servitude:” — Pericles, therefore, naturally asks her, by what accident she had lost her friends; and at the same time desires to, know her name. Marina answers his last question first, and then proceeds to tell her history. The insertion of the word them, which I suppose to have been omitted by the negligence of the compositor, renders the whole clear. The metre of the line, which was before defective, and Marina's answer, both support the conjectural reading of the text. MALONE.

P. 80, 1, 5. 6.

Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy? No motion? No puppet, dress'd up to de

ceive me. STEEVENS.

This passage should be pointed thus:

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“Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy-motion That is, "Have you really life in you, or are you merely a puppet formed by enchantment? the work

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right,

of fairies. The present reading cannot beings.

for fairies were supposed to be animated

and.

and to have working pulses as well as men. *-*, sas 1506204 M. MASON.

If Mr. M. Mason's punctuation were followed, the line would be too long by a foot. Pericles sug gests three images in his question 1. Have you a working palse? i, e. are you any thing human and really alive? 2. Are you a fairy? 3. Or are you a puppet? STEEVENS.

P. 80, 1. 12. 13. My mother was the daughter of a King:

Who died the very minute I was born,] Thus the old copy. Either the construction is My mother, who died the very minute I was boru, was the daughter of a King, or we ought to

read:

She died the very minute, &c.. otherwise it is the King, not the Queen, that died at the instant of Marina's birth. In the old copies these lines are given in prose. STEEVENS.

The word very I have inserted to complete the metre. MALONE.

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P. 80, 1. 17-19. The words, This is the ra→ rest dream, &c. are not addressed to Marina, but spoken aside. MALONE,

P. 80, 1. 23. 24. You'll scarce believe me; 'twere best I did give o'er.] All the old copies read You scorn, believe me, &c. The reply of Pericles induces me to think? the author wrote:

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You'll scarce believe me;twere best, &c. Pericles had expressed no scorn in the preceding speech, but on the contrary, great compla+T cency and attention. The false prints in this play are so numerous, that the greatest latitude must be allowed to conjecture, MALONE,A19

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P. 80, 1. 25. 26. I will believe you by the

syllable

Of what you shall delivers] I will believe every word you say. STEEVEns.

·P. 80, 1. 31. 32. and having woo'd

A villain to attempt it, who having drawn,] When the former edition of this play was printed, I imagined the original copy printed in 1609, read + who having drawn to do't, not observing the mark of abbreviation over the letter o (who) which shews the word intended, was whom. MALONE LOU

I have now two copies of this quarto 160g before me, and neither of them exhibits the mark on which Mr. Malone's supposition is founded. I conclude therefore that this token of abbreviation was an accidental blot in the copy which that gentleman consulted. STEEVENS."

P.81, 1. 29. Though doubts did ever sleep. ] i. e. in plain language, though nothing ever happened to awake a scruple or doubt concerning your veracity. STEEvens.

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P. 81, 1. 32-56. but tell me now

As in the rest thou hast been godlike per

fect,)

My drown'd Queen's name, thou art the heir of kingdoms, And another life to Pericles thy father.] Mr. Malone reads:

And a mother like to Pericles, &c.
STEEVENS.

The old copy has

And another like to Pericles thy father. There can be no doubt that there is here a gross corruption. The correction which I have made, affords an easy sense. The mother of Marina was

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the heir of kingdoms, and in that respect resembled Pericles.

I think that a slight alteration will restore the passage, and read it thus:

My drown'd Queen's name (as in the rest you said

Thou hast been godlike-perfect) thou'rt heir of kingdoms,

And another life to Pericles thy father. That is, "Do but tell me my drowned Queen's name, and thou wilt prove the heir of kingdoms, and another life to your father Pericles." This last amendment is confirmed by what he says in the speech preceding, where he expresses the same thought:

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STEEVENS. Well, my

companion-friends,

If this but answer to my just belief,

I'll well remember you. These lines clearly

belong to Marina. She has been for some time

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