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[Enter GOWER]
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Now the | sleep slaked hath | the rout,
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No din but snores | the house | about,
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Made^loud|er by | the ore-fed breast,
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Of this | most pomp|ous mar|riage-feast:
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The cat,| with eyne | of burn|ing coal,
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Now crouch|es fore | the mouse|'s hole;
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And crick|ets sing | at the ov|en's mouth,
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Ere the | blither | for their | drouth:
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Hymen | hath brought | the bride | to bed,
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Where* by | the loss | of maid|enhead,
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A babe | is mold|ed, by | attent,
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And time | that is | so brief|ly spent,
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With^your fine fan|cies quaint|ly each,
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What's dumb | in show,| I'll plain | with speech.
DUMB SHOW.
Enter PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door with Attendants, a Messenger meets
them, kneels, and gives PERICLES a letter, PERICLES shows it SIMONIDES, the
Lords kneel to him; Then enter THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse,
the KING shows her the letter, she rejoices: she and PERICLES takes leave of
her father, and depart with LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt
SIMONIDES and the rest.
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By many | a dern | and pain|ful perch
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Of Per|icles,| the care|ful search,
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By the | four op|posing | coigns,
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Which the | world to|gether | joins,
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Is made | with^all due dil|igence,
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That horse | and sail,| and high | expense,
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Can stead | the quest.| At last | from Tyre,
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Fame ans/wering the | most^strange | inquire,
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To the court | of King | Simon|ides,
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Are let|ters brought,| the ten|or these:
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Antioch|us and | his daught|er dead,
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The men | of Tyr|us, on | the head
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Of Hel|ican|us would | set^on
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The crown | of Tyre,| but he | will none:
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The mut|iny he | there* hastes | to oppress,
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Says to | them, if King Per|icles
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Come not home | in twice six moons,
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He, o|bedient | to their | dooms,
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Will take | the crown:| the sum | of this
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Brought hither to | Penta|polis,
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Irony | shed the | regions | round,
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And eve|ry one | with claps | can sound,
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Our heir-|appar|ent is | a king:
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Who dreamt?| Who thought | of such | a thing?
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Brief, he | must hence | depart | to Tyre,
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His queen | with child,| makes^her | desire,
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Which^who | shall cross | along | to go,
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Omit | we all | their dole | and woe:
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Lychor|ida | her nurse | she takes,
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And so | to sea;| their ves|sel shakes,
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On Nept|une's bil|low, half | the flood,
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Hath^their | keel cut: but fort|une's mood
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Varies | again,| the gris|ly north
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Disgorg|es such | a temp|est forth,
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That as | a duck | for life | that dives,
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So up | and down | the poor ship drives:
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The la|dy shrieks,| and well-|a-near,
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Does fall | in travail with | her fear:
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And what | ensues | in this fell storm,
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Shall for | itself | itself | perform:
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I nill | relate,| action | may
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Conven|iently | the rest | convey;
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Which might | not*? What | by me | is told,
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In your | imag|ina|tion hold:
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This stage,| the ship,| upon whose deck,
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The sea-tossed Per|icles,| appears | to speak.
[Exit]