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Tyre. A room in the palace.
[Enter PERICLES]
PERICLES
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Let none | disturb us:
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Why should | this change | of thoughts,
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The sad companion dull-eyed melancholy,
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By me | so used,| a guest | as not | an hour,
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In the / day's glor|ious walk | or peace|ful
night,
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The tomb | where grief | should sleep,| can breed
| me quiet,
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Here pleas|ures court | mine^eyes,| and mine eyes
| shun them,
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And dang|er which | I feared,| is at Antioch,
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Whose aim | seems* far | too* short | to hit | me
here,
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Yet neith|er pleas|ure's art | can joy | my
spirits,
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Nor yet | the oth|er's dist|ance com|fort me:
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Then it | is thus,| the pas|sions of | the mind,
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That have | their first | concep|tion by /
mis-dread,
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Have aft|er-nour|ishment | and life | by care;
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And what | was first | but fear,| what might | be
done,
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Grows^eld|er now,| and cares | it be | not^done.
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And so |'tis with | me, the | great Ant|iochus,
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'Gainst^whom | I am | too lit|tle to | contend,
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Since^he's | so great,| can make | his will | his
act,
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Will think | me speak|ing, though | I swear | to
sil||ence,
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Nor | boots it | me to | say I | honor,
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If he | suspect | I may | dishon|or him.
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And what | may make | him blush | in be|ing
known,
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He'll stop | the course | by which | it might |
be known,
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With host|ile for|ces he'll / orespread | the
land,
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And with | the ost|ent of war | will look | so
huge,
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Amaze|ment shall / drive cour|age from | the
state:
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Our men | be vanq|uished, ere | they do | resist,
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And sub|jects^pun|ished, that / nere thought |
offense,
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Which care of them,| not pit|y of | myself,
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Who am | no more | but as | the tops | of trees,
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Which^fence the roots | they grow | by, and
de|fend them,
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Makes both my bod|y pine,| and soul | to
lang|uish,
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And pun|ish that | before | that he | would
pun|ish.
[Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords]
FIRST LORD
Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast.
SECOND LORD
And keep your mind till you return to us peaceful and comfortable.
HELICANUS
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Peace,| peace,| and give | exper|ience tongue:
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They do | abuse | the king | that flat|ter him,
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For flat|tery is | the bel|lows blows | up sin;
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The thing | the which | is flat|tered, but | a
spark,
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To which that blast gives heart and stronger
glowing;
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Whereas | reproof | obed|ient and in | order,
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Fits kings / as they | are men,| for they | may
err,
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When Sign|ior Sooth | here doth | proclaim |
peace,
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He flat|ters you,| makes war upon | your life.
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Prince, pard/on me,| or strike | me if | you
please,
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I can|not be | much low|er than | my knees.
PERICLES
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All leave | us else:| but let | your cares |
orelook
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What ship|ping, and | what lad|ing's in | our
haven,
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And then | return | to us: Hel|ican|us thou ||
hast
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Moved | us: what | seest thou / in our | looks:
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An ang|ry brow,| dread | lord.|
PERICLES
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If there | be such | a dart | in princ|es'
frowns,
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How durst | thy tongue | move^ang|er to | our
face?
HELICANUS
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How dare | the plants | look^up | to heav|en,
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From whence | they have | their nour|ishment?
PERICLES
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Thou knowst | I have power | to take | thy life |
from thee.
HELICANUS
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I have ground | the axe | myself,
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Do you | but strike | the blow. (tri with
prev)
PERICLES
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Rise,| prithee | rise, sit^|down, thou | art no
|| flatterer,
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I thank | thee for it,| and heaven | forbid,
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That kings | should let | their ears | hear*
their / faults hid.
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Fit couns|ellor,| and serv|ant for | a prince,
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Who by | thy wis|dom makest | a prince | thy
serv||ant,
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What | wouldst thou | have me | do:
HELICANUS
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To bear | with pat|ience such | griefs,
(tetra with prev)
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As you | yourself | do lay | upon | yourself.
PERICLES
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Thou speakst | like a phy|sician,| Heli|canus,
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That min|isterst | a po|tion un|to me,
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That thou | wouldst trem|ble to | receive |
thyself.
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Attend | me then;| I went | to Ant|ioch,
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Where^as | thou knowst |(against | the face | of
death)
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I sought | the purch|ase of a | glorious |
beauty,
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From whence | an is|sue I | might prop|agate,
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Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects,
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Her face | was to mine^|eye be|yond all*| wonder,
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The rest |(hark in thine | ear) as | black as
incest,
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Which by my | knowledge | found, the | sinful |
father,
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Seemed not | to strike,| but smooth:| but thou |
knowst this,
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'Tis time | to fear,| when ty|rants seem | to
kiss.
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Which fear | so grew | in me,| I hith|er fled,
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Under | the cove|ring of | a care|ful night,
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Who seemed | my good | protec|tor: and / being
here,
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Bethought | me what | was past,| what might |
succeed;
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I knew | him tyr|annous,| and ty|rants' fears
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Decrease | not, but | grow fast/er than | the
years:
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And should | he think,| as no doubt | he doth,
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That I | should op|en to | the liste|ning air,
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How ma|ny worth|y princ|es' bloods | were shed,
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To keep | his bed | of black|ness un|laid^ope,
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To lop | that doubt,| he'll fill | this land |
with arms,
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And make | pretense | of wrong | that I | have
done him,
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When all | for mine,| if I | may call | offense,
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Must feel war's blow, who spares not^innocence:
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Which love | to all,| of which | thyself | art
one,
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Who now | reprovedst | me for | it.
HELICANUS
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A/las, sir.
PERICLES
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Drew sleep out | of mine eyes,| blood from | my
cheeks,
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Musings | into | my mind,| with thous|and doubts
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How I | might stop | this temp|est ere | it came,
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And find|ing lit|tle comf|ort to re/lieve them,
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I thought it | princely | charity*| to grieve ||
them.
HELICANUS
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Well,| my lord,| since you | have given | me
leave | to speak,
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Freely | will I speak.| Anti|ochus you | fear,
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And || justly | too I | think you | fear the |
tyrant,
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Who either | by pub|lic war | or priv|ate
treason,
Will take away your life: therefore, my lord, go travel for a while, till
that his rage and anger be forgot; or till the Destinies do cut the thread
of his life: your rule direct to any, if unto me, day serves not light more
faithful than I'll be.
PERICLES
I do not doubt thy faith,
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But should | he wrong | my lib|erties | in my
abs||ence?
HELICANUS
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We'll mingle | our bloods | togeth|er in | the
earth,
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From whence | we had | our be|ing, and | our
birth.
PERICLES
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Tyre, I | now look^|from thee | then, and to |
Tarsus
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Intend | my trav|el; where | I'll hear | from
thee;
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And by whose let|ters I'll | dispose | myself,
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The care | I had | and have | of subjects' good,
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On thee | I lay,| whose wis|dom's strength | can
bear it,
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I'll take | thy word | for faith,| not^ask |
thine^oath,
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Who shuns | not to break one,| will sure crack
both:
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But in | our orbs | we'll live | so round | and
safe,
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That time | of both | this truth | shall nere |
convince,
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Thou show|est a sub|ject's^shine,| I a true
prince.
[Exeunt]