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ANTIOCHUS Young prince
of Tyre, you have at large received
The danger of the task you
undertake.
PERICLES I have,
Antiochus, and, with a soul
Embolden'd with the glory of
her praise,
Think death no hazard in this
enterprise. 5
ANTIOCHUS Bring in our
daughter, clothed like a bride,
For the embracements even of
Jove himself;
At whose conception, till
Lucina reign'd,
Nature this dowry gave, to glad
her presence,
The senate-house of planets all
did sit, 10
To knit in her their best
perfections.
[Music. Enter the Daughter of
ANTIOCHUS]
PERICLES
See where she comes, apparell'd like the
spring,
Graces her subjects, and her
thoughts the king
Of every virtue gives renown to
men!
Her face the book of praises,
where is read 15
Nothing but curious pleasures,
as from thence
Sorrow were ever razed and
testy wrath
Could never be her mild
companion.
You gods that made me man, and
sway in love,
That have inflamed desire in my
breast 20
To taste the fruit of yon
celestial tree,
Or die in the adventure, be my
helps,
As I am son and servant to your
will,
To compass such a boundless
happiness!
ANTIOCHUS Prince
Pericles,-- 25
PERICLES
That would be son to great
Antiochus.
ANTIOCHUS Before thee
stands this fair Hesperides,
With golden fruit, but
dangerous to be touch'd;
For death-like dragons here
affright thee hard:
Her face, like heaven, enticeth
thee to view 30
Her countless glory, which
desert must gain;
And which, without desert,
because thine eye
Presumes to reach, all thy
whole heap must die.
Yon sometimes famous princes,
like thyself,
Drawn by report, adventurous by
desire, 35
Tell thee, with speechless
tongues and semblance pale,
That without covering, save yon
field of stars,
Here they stand martyrs, slain
in Cupid's wars;
And with dead cheeks advise
thee to desist
For going on death's net, whom
none resist. 40
PERICLES
Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath
taught
My frail mortality to know
itself,
And by those fearful objects to
prepare
This body, like to them, to
what I must;
For death remember'd should be
like a mirror, 45
Who tells us life's but breath,
to trust it error.
I'll make my will then, and, as
sick men do
Who know the world, see heaven,
but, feeling woe,
Gripe not at earthly joys as
erst they did;
So I bequeath a happy peace to
you 50
And all good men, as every
prince should do;
My riches to the earth from
whence they came;
But my unspotted fire of love
to you.
[To the Daughter of
ANTIOCHUS]
Thus ready for the way of life
or death,
I wait the sharpest blow,
Antiochus. 55
ANTIOCHUS Scorning
advice, read the conclusion then:
Which read and not expounded,
'tis decreed,
As these before thee thou
thyself shalt bleed.
Daughter Of all say'd
yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!
Of all say'd yet, I wish thee
happiness! 60
PERICLES
Like a bold champion, I assume the
lists,
Nor ask advice of any other
thought
But faithfulness and
courage.
[He reads the
riddle]
I am no viper, yet I
feed
On mother's flesh which did me
breed. 65
I sought a husband, in which
labour
I found that kindness in a
father:
He's father, son, and husband
mild;
I mother, wife, and yet his
child.
How they may be, and yet in
two, 70
As you will live, resolve it
you.
Sharp physic is the last: but,
O you powers
That give heaven countless eyes
to view men's acts,
Why cloud they not their sights
perpetually,
If this be true, which makes me
pale to read it? 75
Fair glass of light, I loved
you, and could still,
[Takes hold of the hand of the
Daughter of ANTIOCHUS]
Were not this glorious casket
stored with ill:
But I must tell you, now my
thoughts revolt
For he's no man on whom
perfections wait
That, knowing sin within, will
touch the gate. 80
You are a fair viol, and your
sense the strings;
Who, finger'd to make man his
lawful music,
Would draw heaven down, and all
the gods, to hearken:
But being play'd upon before
your time,
Hell only danceth at so harsh a
chime. 85
Good sooth, I care not for
you.
ANTIOCHUS Prince
Pericles, touch not, upon thy life.
For that's an article within
our law,
As dangerous as the rest. Your
time's expired:
Either expound now, or receive
your sentence. 90