A certaine house on earth there is,

that roomths hath large and wide:

The house makes noise, the guests makes none,

that therein doth abide;

But house and guest continually,
togither forth doe slide.

Now, if indeed you be a prince, as your men say you are, it behooveth you to be wiser than a simple maiden, and to resolve my probleme. Apollonius answered: Maiden, to the intent you may not thinke you were tolde a lie, hearken now to the resolution.

The house on the earth is the sea or every great water: the fish is the dumbe guest, which followeth the water whither soever it runne. Sir, you have answered truely, said Tharsia; and now I assaile you the second time:

In length forth long I runne, faire daughter of the wood,

Accompanied with many a one,

of foote and force as good,
Though many waies I walke,
but steps appeare none where I stood.

Apollonius answered: If I might be so bold, and opportunitie served thereto, I could declare unto you many things that you doe not knowe, faire maiden; but not interrupting your questions whereunto I have to answere, wherein I much wonder at your yoong yeares, so plentifully fraught with excellent knowledge, but to come to the purpose: The daughter of the wood is the tree whereof is made the long ship, which is accompanied with many companions, and walketh upon the seas many wayes leaving no print, or foot-steppes behinde. You have guessed right, said Tharsia, and therefore nowe I propose my third parable:

There is an house through which the fire
doth passe, and doth no harme:
Therein is heat, which none may moove:
from thence, it is so warme:

A naked house, and in that house

guests naked doe desire

To dwell, from whence if boords you draw, then fall you in the fire.

Apollonius answered: Maiden, this that you meane, were a meet place for men that live in delight and pleasure; and the time hath been, when I have also delighted in the bath and hoat-house, where the heate entreth through the crevises of the boordes and chinkes of the stones, and where by reason of sweating, it behooveth a man to be naked. When he had done speaking, Tharsia wondering at his wisedome, and the rather lamenting his discomfortablenesse, threw her selfe uppon him, and with clasped armes embraced him, saying, O good gentleman, hearken unto the voice of her that beseecheth thee, and have respect to the suite of a virgin, that thinking it a far unworthy thing that so wise a man should languish in griefe, and die with sorrow. But if God of his goodness would restore unto thee thy wife safe, whom thou so much lamented; or if thou shouldst find thy daughter in good case, whom thou supposest to be dead, then wouldest thou desire to live for joy. Then Apollonius fell in a rage, and forgetting all courtesie, his unbridled affection stirring him thereunto, rose up sodainly, and strocke the maiden on the face with his foote, so that shee fell to the ground, and the bloud gushed plentifully out of her cheekes. And like it is that shee was in a

swoone, for so soone as shee came to her selfe, shee beganne to weepe, saying, O immortall God, which madest heaven and earth, looke uppon my afflictions, and take compassion uppon mee! I was borne among the waves and troublesome tempests of the sea. My mother died in pangues and paines of childbed, and buriall was denied her upon the earth, whom my father adorned with jewels, and laid twentie sestercies of gold at her head, and as much in silver at her feete, and inclosed her in a chest, and committed her to the sea. As for mee, infortunate wretch, I was at Tharsus committed to Stranguilio and wicked Dionisiades his wife, whom my father put in trust with me, with mony and princely furniture, and their servants were commanded to slay me. And when I desired time to pray, which was granted me, there came pyrates in the meane while, and carried me away, and brought me unto this wofull city, where I was solde to a most cruell bawd, and with much adoe have preserved my virginitie; and I see nothing ensuing but continuall sorrowe, whereof I feele both nowe and every day some part, and shall doe ever more and more, until it please God to restore me unto my father Apollonius.

Apollonius gave good eare unto her words, and was strangely moved within himselfe, knowing that all these signes and tokens were most certaine that she was his daughter, and hee cried out with a mighty voice and saide: O mercifull God, which beholdest heaven, earth, and hell, and discoverest all the secretes therein, blessed bee thy most holy name for ever! and when he had said those words, he fell upon his daughter Tharsias necke, and kissed her, and for extreame joy wept bitterly, saying: O my most sweete and onely daughter, the halfe part of my life, for the love of thee I lust not nowe to die, for I have found thee for whome I had desire to die onely. And therewithall he cryed out aloude, saying: Come hither my servants and frends, come ye al hither, and see now the end of all my sorrow, for I have found my deare daughter and onelie childe which I had lost. When the servants heard the noise, they came hastily togither, and with them prince Athanagoras; and when they came downe under the hatches, they found Apollonius weeping for joy, and leaning upon his daughters shoulders, and he said unto them: Behold here my daughter, for whom I have mourned; beholde the one halfe of my life, for whose sake I nowe desire to live. And they al rejoyced and wept with him for company, and thanked God for that happy day.

PERICLES.

DRAMATIS PERSONE.

ANTIOCHUS, King of Antioch.

PERICLES, Prince of Tyre.

HELICANUS, two Lords of Tyre.

ESCANES,

SIMONIDES, King of Pentapolis.
CLEON, Governor of Tharsus.
LYSIMACHUS, Governor of Mitylene.

CERIMON, a Lord of Ephesus.

THALIARD, a Lord of Antioch.

PHILEMON, Servant to Cerimon.
LEONINE, Servant to Dionyza.
Marshal.

A Pandar and his Wife.
BOULT, their Servant.
GOWER, as Chorus.

The Daughter of Antiochus.

DIONYZA, Wife to Cleon.

THAISA, Daughter to Simonides.

MARINA, Daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.

LYCHORIDA, Nurse to Marina.

DIANA.

Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen and

Messengers, &c.

SCENE, dispersedly in various Countries.

1) Steevens setzte auf Malone's Vorschlag, of old für that old, weil old sonst nicht adverbial gebraucht wird. Indess bemerkt Malone mit Recht die Licenz des Styls und Verses, mit welcher Sh. oder vielmehr sein unbekannter Vorgänger (der in diesen Anmerkungen von Sh. nicht weiter unterschieden werden kann) Gower's Reden charakterisirt. 2) holy-ales Kirchweihfest, Kirmess, verbesserte Farmer für holy-days der Q. und Fol, Manche Hgg. ändern ohne Noth

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3) in their lives bei Lebzeiten, als sie lebten.

mit Farmer of their lives, was sie von restoratives abhängen lassen.

Gewinn, in altenglischem Sinne, wofür Steevens purpose setzte.

glorious strebend nach Ruhm, nach Auszeichnung.

5) Das lateinische Sprichwort lautet eigentlich Bonum quo communius, eo melius.

6) chiefest seat fand Sh. bei Twine. In dem folgenden I tell you what my authors say bezieht sich Sh. geflissentlich für diese Notiz auf seine Gewährsmänner.