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Pericles
[I, 1] |
Antiochus |
159 |
[Aside] Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found
the meaning:
But I will gloze with him.—Young prince of Tyre,
Though by the tenor of our strict edict,
Your exposition misinterpreting,
We might proceed to cancel of your days;
Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:
Forty days longer we do respite you;
If by which time our secret be undone,
This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:
And until then your entertain shall be
As doth befit our honour and your worth.
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2 |
Pericles
[I, 1] |
Antiochus |
197 |
He hath found the meaning, for which we mean
To have his head.
He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,
Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
In such a loathed manner;
And therefore instantly this prince must die:
For by his fall my honour must keep high.
Who attends us there?
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3 |
Pericles
[I, 1] |
Antiochus |
207 |
Thaliard,
You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes
Her private actions to your secrecy;
And for your faithfulness we will advance you.
Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold;
We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:
It fits thee not to ask the reason why,
Because we bid it. Say, is it done?
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4 |
Pericles
[I, 2] |
Helicanus |
359 |
We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,
From whence we had our being and our birth.
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5 |
Pericles
[I, 3] |
Helicanus |
410 |
We have no reason to desire it,
Commended to our master, not to us:
Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,
As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.
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6 |
Pericles
[I, 4] |
Cleon |
417 |
My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,
And by relating tales of others' griefs,
See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?
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7 |
Pericles
[I, 4] |
Lord |
477 |
We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,
A portly sail of ships make hitherward.
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8 |
Pericles
[I, 4] |
Cleon |
491 |
Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
But bring they what they will and what they can,
What need we fear?
The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there.
Go tell their general we attend him here,
To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,
And what he craves.
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9 |
Pericles
[I, 4] |
Cleon |
501 |
Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;
If wars, we are unable to resist.
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10 |
Pericles
[I, 4] |
Pericles |
504 |
Lord governor, for so we hear you are,
Let not our ships and number of our men
Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.
We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,
And seen the desolation of your streets:
Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,
But to relieve them of their heavy load;
And these our ships, you happily may think
Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within
With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,
Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,
And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.
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11 |
Pericles
[I, 4] |
Pericles |
518 |
Arise, I pray you, rise:
We do not look for reverence, but to love,
And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.
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12 |
Pericles
[II, 1] |
First Fisherman |
600 |
Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what
pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,
well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.
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13 |
Pericles
[II, 1] |
Third Fisherman |
627 |
We would purge the land of these drones, that rob
the bee of her honey.
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14 |
Pericles
[II, 1] |
First Fisherman |
644 |
No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our
country Greece gets more with begging than we can do
with working.
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15 |
Pericles
[II, 1] |
Second Fisherman |
727 |
Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up
this garment through the rough seams of the waters:
there are certain condolements, certain vails. I
hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from
whence you had it.
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16 |
Pericles
[II, 2] |
Simonides |
752 |
Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,
In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,
Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat
For men to see, and seeing wonder at.
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17 |
Pericles
[II, 2] |
Simonides |
813 |
Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inward man.
But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw
Into the gallery.
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18 |
Pericles
[II, 3] |
Knights |
841 |
We are honour'd much by good Simonides.
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19 |
Pericles
[II, 3] |
Simonides |
842 |
Your presence glads our days: honour we love;
For who hates honour hates the gods above.
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Pericles
[II, 3] |
First Knight |
846 |
Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen
That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes
Envy the great nor do the low despise.
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