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The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared.
[Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and Knights, from tilting]
SIMONIDES
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Knights, to | say you're | welcome,| were
sup|erfluous.
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I place | upon | the vol|ume of | your deeds,
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As in | a tit|le page,| your worth | in arms,
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Were more | than you | expect,| or more | than is
fit,
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Since^eve|ry worth | in show | commends | itself:
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Prepare | for mirth,| for mirth | comes at | a
feast.
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You are princ|es, and | my guests.
THAISA
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But you,| my knight | and guest, (tri with
prev)
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To whom | this wreath | of vic|tory | I give,
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And crown | you king | of this | day's
hap/piness.
PERICLES
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'Tis more | by fort|une (la|dy) than | by merit.
SIMONIDES
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Call it | by what | you will,| the day | is
yours,
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And here,| I hope,| is none | that en|vies it:
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In fram|ing an art|ist, art | hath thus |
decreed,
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To make | some good,| but oth|ers to | exceed,
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And you are her labored scholar: come, queen of
the feast, ????
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For (daught|er) so | you are,| here* take | your
place:
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Marshal | the rest,| as they | deserve | their
grace.
KNIGHTS
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We are hon|ored much | by good | Simon|ides.
SIMONIDES
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Your pres|ence glads | our days:| honor | we
love,
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For who | hates^hon|or, hates | the gods | above.
MARSHAL
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Sir, yond|er is your | place.
PERICLES
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Some | other is | more* fit.
FIRST KNIGHT
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Contend | not, sir,| for we | are gent|lemen,
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That neith|er in | our hearts,| nor out|ward
eyes,
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Envy | the great,| nor do | the low | despise.
PERICLES
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You are right | courte|ous knights.
SIMONIDES
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Sit, sir, sit.
PERICLES
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By Jove |(I wond|er) that | is king | of
thoughts,
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These cates | resist | me, she | but thought |
upon.
THAISA
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By Ju|no (that | is queen | of mar|riage)
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All || viands | that I | eat do | seem
un|savory,
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Wishing him | my meat:| Sure he's a | gallant |
gentleman.
SIMONIDES
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He's but a | country | gentleman:| has done | no
more
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Than oth|er knights | have done,| has brok|en a
staff,
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Or so;| so let | it pass.|
THAISA
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To me | he seems | a diam|ond to glass.
(tetra with prev)
PERICLES
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Yon king's | to me,| like to my | father's |
picture,
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Which tells | me in | that glo|ry once | he was,
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Had princ|es sit | like stars about | his throne,
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And he | the sun,| for them | to rev|erence;
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None that | beheld | him, but / like less|er
lights,
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Did vail | their crowns | to his | suprem|acy;
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Where now | his son,| like a glow-worm | in the
night,
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The which | hath fire | in dark|ness none | in
light:
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Whereby | I see | that Time's | the king | of
men,
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For he's | their par|ents, and | he is | their
grave,
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And gives | them what | he will,| not* what |
they crave.
SIMONIDES
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What, are | you mer|ry, knights? \\
KNIGHTS
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Who can be | other | in this | royal | presence?
SIMONIDES
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Here, with | a cup | that's stored | unto | the
brim,
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As you | do love,| fill to | your mist|ress'
lips,
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We drink | this health | to you.
KNIGHTS
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We thank | your grace.
SIMONIDES
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Yet pause | awhile;| yon knight doth sit too
melancholy, ????
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As if | the ent|ertain|ment in | our court,
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Had not | a show | might count|ervail | his
worth:
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Note it not you,| Thaisa; \\
THAISA
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What is it | to me,| my fath|er? \\
SIMONIDES
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O, at|tend, my | daughter, \\
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Princes | in this,| should live | like gods |
above,
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Who freely give to everyone that come to honor
them: ????
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And princes | not* do|ing so,| are like | to
gnats,
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Which make | a sound,| but killed,| are wond|ered
at:
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Therefore | to make | his ent|rance now | more*
sweet,
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Here, say we | drink this | standing | bowl of |
wine to him.
THAISA
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Alas,| my fath|er, it | befits not me,
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Unto | a strang|er knight | to be | so bold,
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He may | my prof|fer take | for^an | offense,
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Since men | take^wom|en's gifts | for imp|udence.
SIMONIDES
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How? Do / as I | bid you,| or you'll move | me
else.
THAISA
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Now by the gods,| he could | not please | me
better.
SIMONIDES
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And furth|ermore | tell him, we de|sire to | know
of him,
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Of whence | he is,| his name | and par|entage.
THAISA
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The king | my fath|er (sir) | has drunk | to you.
PERICLES
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I thank | him. \\
THAISA
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Wishing it | so much blood | unto | your life.
PERICLES
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I thank | both him | and you,| and pledge | him
free||ly.
THAISA
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And furt|her, he | desires | to know | of you,
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Of whence | you are,| your name | and par|entage.
PERICLES
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A gentle|man of | Tyre, my | name Pericles,
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My ed|uca|tion been | in arts | and arms.
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Who look/ing for | advent|ures in | the world,
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Was by | the rough | seas reft of ships | and
men,
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And aft|er ship|wreck, driven upon | this shore.
THAISA
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He thanks | your grace;| names himself Per|icles,
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A gentle|man of Tyre,| who on|ly by misfor|tune
of the seas,
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Bereft | of ships | and men,| cast on | this
shore.
SIMONIDES
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Now by the | gods, I | pity | his mis|fortune,
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And will | awake | him from his | melan|choly.
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Come, gentle/men, we | sit too | long on |
trifles,
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And waste | the time,| which looks | for oth|er
revels.
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Even in | your arm|ors, as | you are | addressed,
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Will ver|y well | become | a sold|ier's dance:
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I will | not have | excuse,| with say|ing this
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Loud mus/ic is | too* harsh | for lad|ies' heads,
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Since^they | love men in arms,| as well | as
beds.
[The Knights dance]
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So, this | was well | asked, 'twas | well
per|formed,
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Come, sir,| here's a | lady | that wants |
breathing || too:
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And I | have heard,| you knights | of Tyre,
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Are ex|cellent | in mak|ing lad|ies trip,
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And that | their meas|ures are | as ex|cellent.
PERICLES
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In those | that prac|tice them,| they are |(my
lord).
SIMONIDES
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Oh that's | as much,| as you | would be | denied
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Of your / fair court|esy:| unclasp,| unclasp.
[The Knights and Ladies dance]
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Thanks, gent/lemen,| to all;| all have |
done^well,
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But you | the best:| Pages | and lights,| to
con||duct
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These knights | unto their | several | lodgings:
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Yours, sir,| we have given | order to | be next |
our own.
PERICLES
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I am | at your | grace's | pleasure.|
SIMONIDES
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Princes,| it is / too late | to talk | of love,
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And that's | the mark | I know | you lev|el at:
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Therefore | each one | betake | him to | his
rest,
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Tomor|row, all | for speed|ing do | their best.
[Exeunt]