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Pentapolis. A room in the palace.
[Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door: the Knights meet him]
FIRST KNIGHT
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Good mor|row to | the good | Simon|ides.
SIMONIDES
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Knights, from | my daught|er this | I let | you
know,
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That for this | twelvemonth, she'll | not
und|ertake
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A married life: her reason to herself is only
known, ????
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Which yet | from her | by no | means can | I get.
SECOND KNIGHT
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May we | not get | access | to her |(my lord)?
SIMONIDES
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Faith, by no | means, she | has so | strictly
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Tied her / to her | chamber,| that 'tis |
impos|sible:
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One twelve moons | more she'll | wear Di|ana's |
livery: (hex with prev)
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This by | the eye | of Cynth|ia hath | she vowed,
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And on | her virg|in hon|or will | not break.
THIRD KNIGHT
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Loath to | bid farewell,| we take | our leaves.
[Exeunt Knights]
SIMONIDES
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So, they | are well | dispatched, \\
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Now to my | daughter's | letter;| she tells | me
here,
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She'll wed | the strang|er knight, \\
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Or nev|er more | to view | nor day | nor light.
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'Tis well,| mistress,| your choice | agrees |
with mine,
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I like that well: nay, how absolute she is in it,
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Not mind|ing wheth|er I | dislike | or no.
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Well, I | do commend | her choice,| and will | no
long||er
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Have | it be | delayed:| soft, here | he comes,
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I must | dissem|ble it. \\
[Enter PERICLES]
PERICLES
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All fort|une to | the good | Simon|ides.
SIMONIDES
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To you | as much:| sir, I / am be|holding || to
you,
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For your | sweet mus|ic this | last^night:
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I do protest, my ears were never better fed
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With such | delight|ful pleas|ing har|mony.
PERICLES
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It is | your grace|'s pleas|ure to | commend,
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Not my | desert.
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Sir, you are | music's | master.
PERICLES
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The worst | of all | her schol|ars (my / good
lord).
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Let me | ask you | one | thing.|
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What do | you think | of my daught|er, sir?|
PERICLES
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A most | virtu|ous prin|cess. \\
SIMONIDES
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And she's / fair too,| is she | not?|
PERICLES
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As a / fair day | in sum|mer: wond|rous fair.
SIMONIDES
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Sir, my | daughter | thinks ve|ry well | of you,
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Aye, so well,| that you | must be her | master,
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And she | will be your | scholar;| therefore |
look to it.
PERICLES
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I am un|worthy | to be | her school|master.
SIMONIDES
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She thinks | not so, peruse | this writ|ing else.
PERICLES
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What's^here,| a letter,| that she loves | the
knight | of Tyre!
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'Tis the / king's sub|tlety | to have | my life:
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Oh seek | not to | entrap | me, grac|ious lord,
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A strang|er and | distress|ed gent|leman,
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That never | aimed so | high to | love your |
daughter,
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But bent | all of|fices | to hon|or her.
SIMONIDES
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Thou hast | bewitched | my daught|er, \\
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And thou | art a | villain. \\
PERICLES
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By the | gods I | have not;| never | did thought
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Of mine | levy of|fense; nor | never did my |
actions ??
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Yet com|mence, a | deed might gain | her love
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Or your | displeas|ure.
SIMONIDES
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Trait|or, thou | liest.
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Traitor! \\
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Aye,| traitor. \\
PERICLES
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Even in | his throat,| unless | it be | the king,
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That calls | me trait|or, I | return | the lie.
SIMONIDES
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Now by the | gods I | do ap|plaud his | courage.
PERICLES
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My act|ions are | as nob|le as | my thoughts,
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That nev|er rel|ished of | a base | descent:
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I came | unto | your court | for hon|or's cause,
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And not | to be | a reb|el to | her state:
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And he | that oth|erwise | accounts | of me,
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This sword | shall prove,| he's hon|or's en|emy.
SIMONIDES
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No? Here | comes my | daughter,| she can |
witness it.
[Enter THAISA]
PERICLES
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Then as | you are | as virt|uous,| as fair,
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Resolve | your ang|ry fath|er, if | my tongue
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Did ere | solic|it, or | my hand | subscribe
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To an|y syl|lable | that made | love to you?
THAISA
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Why, sir, if | you had,| who takes | offense,
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At that | would make | me glad? \\
SIMONIDES
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Yea, mis/tress, are | you so | peremp|tory?
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I am | glad on / it with | all my heart,
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I'll tame | you, I'll | bring you / in
sub|jection.
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Will you, not | having | my con|sent,
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Bestow | your love | and your | affec|tions,
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Upon | a strang|er? Who,| for aught | I know,
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May be |(nor can I | think the con|trary)
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As great | in blood | as I | myself.|
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Therefore | hear you,| mistress;| either | frame
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Your will | to mine;| and you,| sir, hear you,
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Either | be ruled | by me,| or I | will make ||
you--
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Man | and wife;| nay,| come | your hands
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And lips | must seal | it too:| and be|ing
joined,
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I'll thus | your hopes | destroy;| and for | a
furth|er grief,
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God give you | joy;| what,| are you / both
pleased? (hex with prev)
THAISA
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Yes, if | you love | me, sir. \\
PERICLES
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Even as | my life,| or blood | that fost|ers it.
SIMONIDES
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What, are | you both | agreed? \\
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Yes, if | it please | your maj|esty.|
SIMONIDES
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It please|th me | so well,| that I | will see |
you wed,
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And then | with what haste | you can,| get you |
to bed.
[Exeunt]