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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Act IV, Prologue

[Enter GOWER]
 
GOWER
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      Ima|gine Per|icles | arrived | at Tyre,
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      Welcomed | and set|tled to | his own | desire;
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      His woe|ful queen | we leave | at Eph|esus,
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      Unto | Dian|a, there | a vot|aress.
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      Now* to | Marin|a bend | your mind,
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      Whom our | fast-growing scene | must find
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      At Tars|us, and | by Cle|on trained
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      In mus|ic let|ters, who | hath gained
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      Of ed|uca|tion all | the grace,
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      Which makes | her both | the heart | and place
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      Of gene|ral wond|er: But | alack
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      That monst|er en|vy oft | the wrack
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      Of earn|ed praise,| Marin|a's life
        T    .   T   T         ,          ,
      Seeks to take off | by treas|on's knife,
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      And in | this kind,| hath our | Cleon
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      One daught|er and | a full grown wench,
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      Even ripe | for mar|riage rite:| this maid
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      Hight Phi|loten:| and it | is said
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      For cert|ain in | our stor|y, she
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      Would ev|er with | Marin|a be,
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      Be it when | she weaved | the slei|ded silk,
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      With fing|ers long,| small, white as milk,
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      Or when | she would | with^sharp needle wound
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      The camb|ric, which | she made more sound
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      By hurt|ing it,| or when | to the lute
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      She sung,| and made | the night-bird mute,
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      That still | records with|in one,| or when  ??
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      She would | with rich | and const|ant pen,
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      Vail to | her mist|ress Di|an still,
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      This Phil|oten | contends | in skill
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      With abs|olute | Mari|na: so
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      The dove | of Paph|os might | with the crow
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      Vie* feath|ers white.| Marin|a gets
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      All prais|es, which | are paid | as debts,
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      And not | as giv|en, this | so darks
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      In Phil|oten | all* grace|ful marks,
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      That Cle|on's wife | with en|vy rare,
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      A pres|ent murde|rer does | prepare
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      For good | Mari|na, that | her daughter
        T     T     T        ,              x
      Might stand peer|less by | this slaughter.
             x      T    T      T           ,
      The sooner | her vile thoughts | to stead,
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      Lychor|ida | our nurse | is dead,
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      And curs|ed Di|ony|za hath
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      The preg|nant inst|rument | of wrath
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      Pressed for | this blow,| the unborn | event,
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      I do | commend | to your | content,
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      Only | I car|ry wing|ed time,
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      Post on | the lame feet of | my rhyme,
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      Which nev|er could | I so | convey,
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      Unless | your thoughts | went on | my way.
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      Dio|nyza | does ap|pear,
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      With Le|onine | a murd|erer.
 
[Exit]

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