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Tyre. A room in the Governor's house.
[Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES]
HELICANUS
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No, Es|canes,| know this of me,
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Antioch|us from in|cest^lived | not free:
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For which, the most | high gods not | minding
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Longer | to withhold | the venge|ance that
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They had | in store,| due to this | heinous
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Capital | offense;| even in | the height | and
pride
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Of all | his glo|ry, when | he was seat|ed in
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A chariot of an inestimable value, and his
daughter ????
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With him;| a fire | from heaven | came and |
shriveled
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Up their bodies, even to loathing, for they so
stunk, ????
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That all | those eyes | adored | them, ere |
their fall,
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Scorn^now | their hand | should give | them
bur|ial.
ESCANES
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'Twas ve|ry strange. \\
HELICANUS
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And yet | but justice;| for though | this king |
were great,
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His great|ness was no | guard to | bar heaven's
shaft.
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By sin | had his | reward.
ESCANES
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'Tis ve|ry true.
[Enter two or three Lords]
FIRST LORD
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See, not | a man | in priv|ate conf|erence,
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Or coun|cil, has | respect | with him | but he.
SECOND LORD
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It shall | no long|er grieve | without | reproof.
THIRD LORD
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And cursed | be he | that will | not sec|ond it.
FIRST LORD
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Follow me | then: Lord Hel|icane,| a word.
HELICANUS
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With me?| And wel|come, hap|py day,| my lords.
FIRST LORD
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Know that | our griefs | are ris|en to | the top,
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And now | at length | they ov|erflow | their
banks.
HELICANUS
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Your griefs,| for what?
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Wrong^not | your prince | you love.
FIRST LORD
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Wrong^not | yourself | then, nob|le Hel|icane,
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But if | the prince | do live,| let us sal|ute
him,
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Or know | what ground's | made hap/py by | his
breath:
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If in | the world | he live,| we'll seek | him
out:
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If in | his grave | he rest,| we'll find | him
there,
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And be | resolved,| he lives | to gov|ern us:
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Or dead,| give us | cause to | mourn his |
funeral,
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And leave | us to | our free | elec|tion.
SECOND LORD
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Whose death indeed,| the strong|est in our /
censure,
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And know|ing this king|dom is | without | a head,
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Like good|ly build|ings left | without | a roof,
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Soon | fall to | ruin:| your nob|le self,
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That best | know how to rule,| and how | to
reign,
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We thus | submit | unto | our sov|ereign.
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Live, noble Hel|icane. \\
HELICANUS
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Try hon|or's cause;| forbear | your suf|frages:
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If that you | love Prince Per|icles,| forbear,
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(Take^I | your wish,| I leap | into | the seas,
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Where's^hour|ly troub|le, for | a min|ute's ease)
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A twelvemonth long|er, let | me en|treat you
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To for|bear the | absence | of your | king;
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If in | which^time | expired,| he not | return,
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I shall | with age|d pat|ience bear | your yoke.
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But if | I can|not win | you to | this love,
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Go search | like* nob|les, like | noble subjects,
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And in | your search,| spend your | advent|urous
worth,
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Whom if | you find,| and win | unto | return,
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You shall like dia|monds sit | about | his crown.
FIRST LORD
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To wis|dom, he's | a fool | that will | not
yield,
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And since | Lord^Hel|icane | enjoin|eth us,
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We with | our trav|els will | endea|vor.
HELICANUS
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Then || you love us,| we^you,| and we'll clasp
hands,
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When peers | thus knit,| a king|dom ev|er stands.
[Exeunt]