# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."

Line Shows where the line falls within the work.

The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.

Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.

1

Pericles
[I, 1]

(stage directions)

172

[Exeunt all but PERICLES]

2

Pericles
[I, 2]

Pericles

285

All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook
What shipping and what lading's in our haven,
And then return to us.
[Exeunt Lords]
Helicanus, thou
Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?

3

Pericles
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

371

[Exeunt]

4

Pericles
[I, 3]

(stage directions)

414

[Exeunt]

5

Pericles
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

529

[Exeunt]

6

Pericles
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

745

[Exeunt]

7

Pericles
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

817

[Exeunt]

8

Pericles
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

949

[Exeunt]

9

Pericles
[II, 4]

(stage directions)

1011

[Exeunt]

10

Pericles
[II, 5]

(stage directions)

1027

[Exeunt Knights]

11

Pericles
[II, 5]

(stage directions)

1117

[Exeunt]

12

Pericles
[III, 0]

Gower

1119

Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout;
No din but snores the house about,
Made louder by the o'er-fed breast
Of this most pompous marriage-feast.
The cat, with eyne of burning coal,
Now crouches fore the mouse's hole;
And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,
E'er the blither for their drouth.
Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.
Where, by the loss of maidenhead,
A babe is moulded. Be attent,
And time that is so briefly spent
With your fine fancies quaintly eche:
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]
By many a dern and painful perch
Of Pericles the careful search,
By the four opposing coigns
Which the world together joins,
Is made with all due diligence
That horse and sail and high expense
Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,
Fame answering the most strange inquire,
To the court of King Simonides
Are letters brought, the tenor these:
Antiochus and his daughter dead;
The men of Tyrus on the head
Of Helicanus would set on
The crown of Tyre, but he will none:
The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress;
Says to 'em, if King Pericles
Come not home in twice six moons,
He, obedient to their dooms,
Will take the crown. The sum of this,
Brought hither to Pentapolis,
Y-ravished the regions round,
And every one with claps can sound,
'Our heir-apparent is a king!
Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'
Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:
His queen with child makes her desire—
Which who shall cross?—along to go:
Omit we all their dole and woe:
Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,
And so to sea. Their vessel shakes
On Neptune's billow; half the flood
Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood
Varies again; the grisly north
Disgorges such a tempest forth,
That, as a duck for life that dives,
So up and down the poor ship drives:
The lady shrieks, and well-a-near
Does fall in travail with her fear:
And what ensues in this fell storm
Shall for itself itself perform.
I nill relate, action may
Conveniently the rest convey;
Which might not what by me is told.
In your imagination hold
This stage the ship, upon whose deck
The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.

13

Pericles
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1280

[Exeunt]

14

Pericles
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

1296

[Exeunt all but CERIMON]

15

Pericles
[III, 2]

(stage directions)

1420

[Exeunt, carrying her away]

16

Pericles
[III, 3]

(stage directions)

1471

[Exeunt]

17

Pericles
[III, 4]

(stage directions)

1491

[Exeunt]

18

Pericles
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1656

[Exeunt Pirates with MARINA]

19

Pericles
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1721

[Exeunt Pandar and Pirates]

20

Pericles
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1813

[Exeunt]