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Enter
GOWER.
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Enter
GOWER.
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GOWER
Now sleep yslackèd hath the rout; No din but snores about the house, Made louder by the o’erfed breast Of this most pompous marriage feast. 5
The cat with eyne of burning coalNow couches from the mouse’s hole, And crickets sing at the oven’s mouth Are the blither for their drouth. Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, 10
Where, by the loss of maidenhead,A babe is molded. Be attent, 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
SIMONIDES. The
LORDS kneel to him; then enter
THAISA with child, with
LYCHORIDA, a nurse.
THE KING shows her the letter. She rejoices. She and
PERICLES take leave of her father, and depart with
LYCHORIDA and their
ATTENDANTS. Then
SIMONIDES and the
OTHERS exit.
15
By many a dern and painful perchOf Pericles the careful search, By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence 20
That horse and sail and high expenseCan stead the quest. At last from Tyre, Fame answering the most strange enquire, To th’ court of King Simonides Are letters brought, the tenor these: 25
Antiochus and his daughter dead,The men of Tyrus on the head Of Helicanus would set on The crown of Tyre, but he will none. The mutiny he there hastes t’ oppress, 30
Says to ’em, if King PericlesCome not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Will take the crown. The sum of this, Brought hither to Pentapolis, 35
Y-ravishèd the regions round, And everyone with claps can sound, “Our heir apparent is a king! Who dreamt, who thought of such a thing?” Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre. 40
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, And so to sea. Their vessel shakes 45
On Neptune’s billow. Half the floodHath their keel cut. But Fortune, moved, Varies again. The grizzled North Disgorges such a tempest forth That, as a duck for life that dives, 50
So up and down the poor ship drives.The lady shrieks and, well-anear, Does fall in travail with her fear. And what ensues in this fell storm Shall for itself itself perform. 55
I nill relate; action mayConveniently the rest convey, Which might not what by me is told. In your imagination hold This stage the ship upon whose deck 60
The sea-tossed Pericles appears to speak. |
GOWER
Now sleep yslackèd hath the rout; No din but snores about the house, Made louder by the o’erfed breast Of this most pompous marriage feast. 5
The cat with eyne of burning coalNow couches from the mouse’s hole, And crickets sing at the oven’s mouth Are the blither for their drouth. Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, 10
Where, by the loss of maidenhead,A babe is molded. Be attent, 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
SIMONIDES. The
LORDS kneel to him; then enter
THAISA with child, with
LYCHORIDA, a nurse.
THE KING shows her the letter. She rejoices. She and
PERICLES take leave of her father, and depart with
LYCHORIDA and their
ATTENDANTS. Then
SIMONIDES and the
OTHERS exit.
15
By many a dern and painful perchOf Pericles the careful search, By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence 20
That horse and sail and high expenseCan stead the quest. At last from Tyre, Fame answering the most strange enquire, To th’ court of King Simonides Are letters brought, the tenor these: 25
Antiochus and his daughter dead,The men of Tyrus on the head Of Helicanus would set on The crown of Tyre, but he will none. The mutiny he there hastes t’ oppress, 30
Says to ’em, if King PericlesCome not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Will take the crown. The sum of this, Brought hither to Pentapolis, 35
Y-ravishèd the regions round, And everyone with claps can sound, “Our heir apparent is a king! Who dreamt, who thought of such a thing?” Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre. 40
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, And so to sea. Their vessel shakes 45
On Neptune’s billow. Half the floodHath their keel cut. But Fortune, moved, Varies again. The grizzled North Disgorges such a tempest forth That, as a duck for life that dives, 50
So up and down the poor ship drives.The lady shrieks and, well-anear, Does fall in travail with her fear. And what ensues in this fell storm Shall for itself itself perform. 55
I nill relate; action mayConveniently the rest convey, Which might not what by me is told. In your imagination hold This stage the ship upon whose deck 60
The sea-tossed Pericles appears to speak. |
He exits.
|
He exits.
|
Original Text |
Modern Text |
Enter
GOWER.
|
Enter
GOWER.
|
GOWER
Now sleep yslackèd hath the rout; No din but snores about the house, Made louder by the o’erfed breast Of this most pompous marriage feast. 5
The cat with eyne of burning coalNow couches from the mouse’s hole, And crickets sing at the oven’s mouth Are the blither for their drouth. Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, 10
Where, by the loss of maidenhead,A babe is molded. Be attent, 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
SIMONIDES. The
LORDS kneel to him; then enter
THAISA with child, with
LYCHORIDA, a nurse.
THE KING shows her the letter. She rejoices. She and
PERICLES take leave of her father, and depart with
LYCHORIDA and their
ATTENDANTS. Then
SIMONIDES and the
OTHERS exit.
15
By many a dern and painful perchOf Pericles the careful search, By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence 20
That horse and sail and high expenseCan stead the quest. At last from Tyre, Fame answering the most strange enquire, To th’ court of King Simonides Are letters brought, the tenor these: 25
Antiochus and his daughter dead,The men of Tyrus on the head Of Helicanus would set on The crown of Tyre, but he will none. The mutiny he there hastes t’ oppress, 30
Says to ’em, if King PericlesCome not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Will take the crown. The sum of this, Brought hither to Pentapolis, 35
Y-ravishèd the regions round, And everyone with claps can sound, “Our heir apparent is a king! Who dreamt, who thought of such a thing?” Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre. 40
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, And so to sea. Their vessel shakes 45
On Neptune’s billow. Half the floodHath their keel cut. But Fortune, moved, Varies again. The grizzled North Disgorges such a tempest forth That, as a duck for life that dives, 50
So up and down the poor ship drives.The lady shrieks and, well-anear, Does fall in travail with her fear. And what ensues in this fell storm Shall for itself itself perform. 55
I nill relate; action mayConveniently the rest convey, Which might not what by me is told. In your imagination hold This stage the ship upon whose deck 60
The sea-tossed Pericles appears to speak. |
GOWER
Now sleep yslackèd hath the rout; No din but snores about the house, Made louder by the o’erfed breast Of this most pompous marriage feast. 5
The cat with eyne of burning coalNow couches from the mouse’s hole, And crickets sing at the oven’s mouth Are the blither for their drouth. Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, 10
Where, by the loss of maidenhead,A babe is molded. Be attent, 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
SIMONIDES. The
LORDS kneel to him; then enter
THAISA with child, with
LYCHORIDA, a nurse.
THE KING shows her the letter. She rejoices. She and
PERICLES take leave of her father, and depart with
LYCHORIDA and their
ATTENDANTS. Then
SIMONIDES and the
OTHERS exit.
15
By many a dern and painful perchOf Pericles the careful search, By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence 20
That horse and sail and high expenseCan stead the quest. At last from Tyre, Fame answering the most strange enquire, To th’ court of King Simonides Are letters brought, the tenor these: 25
Antiochus and his daughter dead,The men of Tyrus on the head Of Helicanus would set on The crown of Tyre, but he will none. The mutiny he there hastes t’ oppress, 30
Says to ’em, if King PericlesCome not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Will take the crown. The sum of this, Brought hither to Pentapolis, 35
Y-ravishèd the regions round, And everyone with claps can sound, “Our heir apparent is a king! Who dreamt, who thought of such a thing?” Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre. 40
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, And so to sea. Their vessel shakes 45
On Neptune’s billow. Half the floodHath their keel cut. But Fortune, moved, Varies again. The grizzled North Disgorges such a tempest forth That, as a duck for life that dives, 50
So up and down the poor ship drives.The lady shrieks and, well-anear, Does fall in travail with her fear. And what ensues in this fell storm Shall for itself itself perform. 55
I nill relate; action mayConveniently the rest convey, Which might not what by me is told. In your imagination hold This stage the ship upon whose deck 60
The sea-tossed Pericles appears to speak. |
He exits.
|
He exits.
|