Complete Plays, The (444 page)
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Authors: William Shakespeare
Thaisa
Voice and favour!
You are, you are — O royal Pericles!
Faints
Pericles
What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!
Cerimon
Noble sir,
If you have told Diana’s altar true,
This is your wife.
Pericles
Reverend appearer, no;
I threw her overboard with these very arms.
Cerimon
Upon this coast, I warrant you.
Pericles
’Tis most certain.
Cerimon
Look to the lady; O, she’s but o’erjoy’d.
Early in blustering morn this lady was
Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,
Found there rich jewels; recover’d her, and placed her
Here in Diana’s temple.
Pericles
May we see them?
Cerimon
Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,
Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered.
Thaisa
O, let me look!
If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,
Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,
A birth, and death?
Pericles
The voice of dead Thaisa!
Thaisa
That Thaisa am I, supposed dead
And drown’d.
Pericles
Immortal Dian!
Thaisa
Now I know you better.
When we with tears parted Pentapolis,
The king my father gave you such a ring.
Shows a ring
Pericles
This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness
Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,
That on the touching of her lips I may
Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried
A second time within these arms.
Marina
My heart
Leaps to be gone into my mother’s bosom.
Kneels to Thaisa
Pericles
Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;
Thy burden at the sea, and call’d Marina
For she was yielded there.
Thaisa
Blest, and mine own!
Helicanus
Hail, madam, and my queen!
Thaisa
I know you not.
Pericles
You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,
I left behind an ancient substitute:
Can you remember what I call’d the man?
I have named him oft.
Thaisa
’Twas Helicanus then.
Pericles
Still confirmation:
Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.
Now do I long to hear how you were found;
How possibly preserved; and who to thank,
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.
Thaisa
Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,
Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can
From first to last resolve you.
Pericles
Reverend sir,
The gods can have no mortal officer
More like a god than you. Will you deliver
How this dead queen re-lives?
Cerimon
I will, my lord.
Beseech you, first go with me to my house,
Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
How she came placed here in the temple;
No needful thing omitted.
Pericles
Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I
Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,
This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,
This ornament
Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;
And what this fourteen years no razor touch’d,
To grace thy marriage-day, I’ll beautify.
Thaisa
Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
My father’s dead.
Pericles
Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
We’ll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
Will in that kingdom spend our following days:
Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
To hear the rest untold: sir, lead’s the way.
Exeunt
Enter Gower
Gower
In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard
Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,
Although assail’d with fortune fierce and keen,
Virtue preserved from fell destruction’s blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown’d with joy at last:
In Helicanus may you well descry
A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
In reverend Cerimon there well appears
The worth that learned charity aye wears:
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Had spread their cursed deed, and honour’d name
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,
That him and his they in his palace burn;
The gods for murder seemed so content
To punish them; although not done, but meant.
So, on your patience evermore attending,
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.
Exit
Cymbeline
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OF
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CAMP
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RITISH
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CAMPS
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III. A
NOTHER
PART
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THE
FIELD
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C
HARACTERS
OF
THE
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LAY
Cymbeline
, king of Britain.
Cloten
, son to the Queen by a former husband.
Posthumus Leonatus
, a gentleman, husband to Imogen.
Belarius
, a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan.
Guiderius
,
Arviragus
, sons to Cymbeline, disguised under the names of Polydote and Cadwal, supposed sons to Morgan.
Philario
, friend to Posthumus, and
Iachimo
, friend to Philario, Italians.
Caius Lucius
, general of the Roman forces.
Pisanio
, servant to Posthumus.
Cornelius
, a physician.
A Roman
Captain
. Two British Captains.
A
Frenchman
, friend to Philario.
Two Lords of Cymbeline's court.
Two Gentlemen of the same.
Two Gaolers.
Queen
, wife to Cymbeline.
Imogen
, daughter to Cymbeline by a former queen.
Helen, a lady attending on Imogen.
Lords, Ladies, Roman Senators, Tribunes, a
Soothsayer
, a Dutchman, a Spaniard, Musicians, Officers, Captains, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.
Apparitions.
Scene: Britain; Rome.
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GARDEN
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YMBELINE
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Enter two Gentlemen
First Gentleman
