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Enter
CLEON and
DIONYZA.
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Enter
CLEON and
DIONYZA.
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DIONYZA
Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
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DIONYZA
Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
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CLEON
O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter The sun and moon ne’er looked upon!
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CLEON
O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter The sun and moon ne’er looked upon!
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DIONYZA
I think you’ll turn a child again.
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DIONYZA
I think you’ll turn a child again.
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CLEON
5
Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,I’d give it to undo the deed. A lady Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess To equal any single crown o’ th’ Earth I’ the justice of compare. O villain Leonine, 10
Whom thou hast poisoned too!If thou hadst drunk to him, ’t had been a kindness Becoming well thy face. What canst thou say When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
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CLEON
5
Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,I’d give it to undo the deed. A lady Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess To equal any single crown o’ th’ Earth I’ the justice of compare. O villain Leonine, 10
Whom thou hast poisoned too!If thou hadst drunk to him, ’t had been a kindness Becoming well thy face. What canst thou say When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
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DIONYZA
That she is dead. Nurses are not the Fates. 15
To foster is not ever to preserve.She died at night; I’ll say so. Who can cross it Unless you play the impious innocent And, for an honest attribute, cry out “She died by foul play!”
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DIONYZA
That she is dead. Nurses are not the Fates. 15
To foster is not ever to preserve.She died at night; I’ll say so. Who can cross it Unless you play the impious innocent And, for an honest attribute, cry out “She died by foul play!”
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CLEON
20
O, go to. Well, well,Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods Do like this worst.
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CLEON
20
O, go to. Well, well,Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods Do like this worst.
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DIONYZA
Be one of those that thinks The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence 25
And open this to Pericles. I do shameTo think of what a noble strain you are, And of how coward a spirit.
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DIONYZA
Be one of those that thinks The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence 25
And open this to Pericles. I do shameTo think of what a noble strain you are, And of how coward a spirit.
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CLEON
To such proceeding Whoever but his approbation added, 30
Though not his prime consent, he did not flowFrom honorable courses.
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CLEON
To such proceeding Whoever but his approbation added, 30
Though not his prime consent, he did not flowFrom honorable courses.
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DIONYZA
Be it so, then. Yet none does know but you how she came dead, Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. 35
She did distain my child and stood betweenHer and her fortunes. None would look on her, But cast their gazes on Marina’s face, Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through, 40
And though you call my course unnatural,You not your child well loving, yet I find It greets me as an enterprise of kindness Performed to your sole daughter.
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DIONYZA
Be it so, then. Yet none does know but you how she came dead, Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. 35
She did distain my child and stood betweenHer and her fortunes. None would look on her, But cast their gazes on Marina’s face, Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through, 40
And though you call my course unnatural,You not your child well loving, yet I find It greets me as an enterprise of kindness Performed to your sole daughter.
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CLEON
Heavens forgive it.
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CLEON
Heavens forgive it.
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DIONYZA
45
And as for Pericles,What should he say? We wept after her hearse, And yet we mourn. Her monument is Almost finished, and her epitaphs In glitt’ring golden characters express 50
A general praise to her, and care in usAt whose expense ’tis done.
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DIONYZA
45
And as for Pericles,What should he say? We wept after her hearse, And yet we mourn. Her monument is Almost finished, and her epitaphs In glitt’ring golden characters express 50
A general praise to her, and care in usAt whose expense ’tis done.
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CLEON
Thou art like the Harpy, Which, to betray, dost with thine angel’s face Seize with thine eagle’s talons.
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CLEON
Thou art like the Harpy, Which, to betray, dost with thine angel’s face Seize with thine eagle’s talons.
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DIONYZA
55
You’re like one that superstitiouslyDo swear to the gods that winter kills the flies. But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.
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DIONYZA
55
You’re like one that superstitiouslyDo swear to the gods that winter kills the flies. But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.
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They exit.
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They exit.
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
Enter
CLEON and
DIONYZA.
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Enter
CLEON and
DIONYZA.
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DIONYZA
Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
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DIONYZA
Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?
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CLEON
O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter The sun and moon ne’er looked upon!
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CLEON
O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter The sun and moon ne’er looked upon!
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DIONYZA
I think you’ll turn a child again.
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DIONYZA
I think you’ll turn a child again.
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CLEON
5
Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,I’d give it to undo the deed. A lady Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess To equal any single crown o’ th’ Earth I’ the justice of compare. O villain Leonine, 10
Whom thou hast poisoned too!If thou hadst drunk to him, ’t had been a kindness Becoming well thy face. What canst thou say When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
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CLEON
5
Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,I’d give it to undo the deed. A lady Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess To equal any single crown o’ th’ Earth I’ the justice of compare. O villain Leonine, 10
Whom thou hast poisoned too!If thou hadst drunk to him, ’t had been a kindness Becoming well thy face. What canst thou say When noble Pericles shall demand his child?
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DIONYZA
That she is dead. Nurses are not the Fates. 15
To foster is not ever to preserve.She died at night; I’ll say so. Who can cross it Unless you play the impious innocent And, for an honest attribute, cry out “She died by foul play!”
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DIONYZA
That she is dead. Nurses are not the Fates. 15
To foster is not ever to preserve.She died at night; I’ll say so. Who can cross it Unless you play the impious innocent And, for an honest attribute, cry out “She died by foul play!”
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CLEON
20
O, go to. Well, well,Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods Do like this worst.
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CLEON
20
O, go to. Well, well,Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods Do like this worst.
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DIONYZA
Be one of those that thinks The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence 25
And open this to Pericles. I do shameTo think of what a noble strain you are, And of how coward a spirit.
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DIONYZA
Be one of those that thinks The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence 25
And open this to Pericles. I do shameTo think of what a noble strain you are, And of how coward a spirit.
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CLEON
To such proceeding Whoever but his approbation added, 30
Though not his prime consent, he did not flowFrom honorable courses.
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CLEON
To such proceeding Whoever but his approbation added, 30
Though not his prime consent, he did not flowFrom honorable courses.
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DIONYZA
Be it so, then. Yet none does know but you how she came dead, Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. 35
She did distain my child and stood betweenHer and her fortunes. None would look on her, But cast their gazes on Marina’s face, Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through, 40
And though you call my course unnatural,You not your child well loving, yet I find It greets me as an enterprise of kindness Performed to your sole daughter.
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DIONYZA
Be it so, then. Yet none does know but you how she came dead, Nor none can know, Leonine being gone. 35
She did distain my child and stood betweenHer and her fortunes. None would look on her, But cast their gazes on Marina’s face, Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through, 40
And though you call my course unnatural,You not your child well loving, yet I find It greets me as an enterprise of kindness Performed to your sole daughter.
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CLEON
Heavens forgive it.
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CLEON
Heavens forgive it.
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DIONYZA
45
And as for Pericles,What should he say? We wept after her hearse, And yet we mourn. Her monument is Almost finished, and her epitaphs In glitt’ring golden characters express 50
A general praise to her, and care in usAt whose expense ’tis done.
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DIONYZA
45
And as for Pericles,What should he say? We wept after her hearse, And yet we mourn. Her monument is Almost finished, and her epitaphs In glitt’ring golden characters express 50
A general praise to her, and care in usAt whose expense ’tis done.
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CLEON
Thou art like the Harpy, Which, to betray, dost with thine angel’s face Seize with thine eagle’s talons.
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CLEON
Thou art like the Harpy, Which, to betray, dost with thine angel’s face Seize with thine eagle’s talons.
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DIONYZA
55
You’re like one that superstitiouslyDo swear to the gods that winter kills the flies. But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.
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DIONYZA
55
You’re like one that superstitiouslyDo swear to the gods that winter kills the flies. But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.
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They exit.
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They exit.
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