Mar. First, sir, I pray,

What is your title?

Per. I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now (As in the rest thou hast been godlike perfect,)

My drown'd queen's name, thou art the heir of kingdoms, And another life to Pericles thy father.

Mar.. Is it no more to be your daughter, than

To say, my mother's name was Thaisa?

Thaisa was my mother, who did end,

The minute I began. ›

Per. Now, blessing on thee, rise; thou art my child.
Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus,
(Not dead at Tharsus, as she should have been,
By savage Cleon,) she shall tell thee all;

When thou shalt kneel and justify in knowledge,
She is thy very princess.-Who is this?

Hel. Sir, 'tis the governor of Mitylene,
Who, hearing of your melancholy state,
Did come to see you.

Per. I embrace you, sir.

Give me my robes; I am wild in my beholding.
O heavens bless my girl! But hark, what music
Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him

O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,
How sure you are my daughter.-But what music?
Hel. My lord, I hear none,

Per. None?

The music of the spheres: list, my Marina.

Lys. It is not good to cross him; give him way.
Per. Rarest sounds!

Do ye not hear?

Lys. Music? My lord, I hear

Per. Most heavenly music :

It nips me unto list'ning, and thick slumber

Hangs on mine eye-lids; let me rest.

Lys. A pillow for his head;

[He sleeps.

[The Curtain before the Pavilion of PERICLES is
closed.

So leave him all.-Well, my companion-friends,
If this but answer to my just belief,

I'll well remember you.

[Exeunt LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and attendant Lady.

The same.

SCENE II.

PERICLES on the Deck asleep; DIANA appear

ing to him as in a vision.

Dia. My temple stands in Ephesus; hie thee thither, And do upon mine altar sacrifice.

There, when my maiden priests are met together,

Before the people all,

Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife :

To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's call,
And give them repetition to the life.

Perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in woe:
Do't, and be happy, by my silver bow.
Awake, and tell thy dream.

[DIANA disappears.

Per. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,*

I will obey thee !-Helicanus!

Enter LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, and MARINA. Hel. Sir.

Per. My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike The inhospitable Cleon; but I am

For other service first toward Ephesus

Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why.—

Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,

And give you gold for such provision

As our intents will need?

[TO HELICANUS.

Lys. With all my heart, sir; and when you come ashore,

I have another suit.

Per. You shall prevail,

Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems

You have been noble towards her.

Lys. Sir, lend your arm.

Per. Come, my Marina.

[Exeunt.

Enter GowER, before the Temple of DIANA at Ephesus.

Gow. Now our sands are almost run;

More a little, and then done.

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 has 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.

SCENE III.

[Exit.

The Temple of DIANA at Ephesus; THAISA standing near the Altar, as high Priestess; a number of Virgins of each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending. Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady.

Per. Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
I here confess myself the king of Tyre;
Who, frighted from my country, did wed
The fair Thaisa, at Pentapolis.

At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
A maid-child, call'd Marina; who, O goddess,
Wears yet thy silver livery.' She at Tharsus
Was nurs'd with Cleon; whom at fourteen years
He sought to murder: but her better stars
Brought her to Mitylene; against whose shore
Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Made known herself my daughter.

Thai. Voice and favour!—

You are, you are-O royal Pericles !?—

[9] Does this accord with Iachimo's description:

"Live, like Diana's priestess, 'twixt cold sheets?"

[She faints.

Diana must have been wofully imposed on, if she received the mother of Marina as a maiden votaress.

STEEVENS.

[1] Her white robe of innocence, as being yet under the protection of the goddess of chastity.

PERCY.

[2] The similitude between this scene, and the discovery in the last Act of The Winter's Tale, will, I suppose, strike every reader. MALONE.

If

Per. What means the woman? she dies! help, gentle

This is

your wife.

Per. Reverend appearer, no ;

I threw her o'erboard with these very arms.
Cer. Upon this coast, I warrant you.

Per. 'Tis most certain.

Cer. Look to the lady ;-O, she's but o'erjoy'd.

Early, one blust'ring morn, this lady was
Thrown on this shore. I op'd the coffin, and

Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and plac'd her
Here in Diana's temple.

Per. May we see them?

Cer. Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you.

Recover'd.

Thai. O, let me look!

Look! Thaisa is

If he be none of mine, my sanctity

Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you speak,
Like him you are: Did you not name a tempest,
A birth, and death?

Per. The voice of dead Thaisa!

Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed dead,

And drown'd.

Per. Immortal Dian!

Thai. Now I know you better.

When we with tears parted Pentapolis,

The king, my father, gave you such a ring.

[Shows a Ring.

Per. This, this: no more, you gods! your present

kindness

Makes my past miseries sport: You shall do well,

That on the touching of her lips I may

Melt, and no more be seen. O come, be buried

[S] This is a sentiment which Shakespeare never fails to introduce on occasions. similiar to the present. So, in Othello:

66-If it were now to die

"Twere now to be most happy," &c.

Again, in The Winter's Tale:

"If I might die within this hour, I have liv'd,

"To die when I desire."

MALONE.

So, in the 39th Psalm :---"O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."

STEEVENS.

A second time within these arms.

Mar. My heart

Leaps to be

gone into my mother's bosom.

[Kneels to THAISA.

Per. Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thai

sa;

Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina,

For she was yielded there.

Thai. Bless'd and mine own!

Hel. Hail, madam, and my queen!

Thai. I know you not.

Per. You heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,

I left behind an ancient substitute,

Can you remember what I call'd the man?

I have nam'd him oft.

Thai. 'Twas Helicanus then.

Per. Still confirmation :

Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.
Now do I long to hear how you were found;
How possibly preserv'd; and whom to thank,
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.

Thai. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man

Thro' whom the gods have shown their power; that can From first to last resolve you.

Per. Reverend sir,

The gods can have no mortal officer

More like a god than you. Will you deliver

How this dead queen re-lives?

Cer. I will, my lord.

Beseech you, first go with me to my house,

Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
How she came placed here within the temple;
No needful thing omitted.

Per. Pure Diana!

I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer

My night oblations to thee. Thaisa,

This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,

Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,

This ornament that makes me look so dismal,

Will I, my lov'd Marina, clip to form;

And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,
To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.

Thai. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit,