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Authors: William Shakespeare
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PERICLES
I’ll show the virtue I have learned in arms.
MASTER Why, d‘ye take it, and the gods give thee good on’t!
SECOND FISHERMAN 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 this.
PERICLES Believe’t, I will.
By your furtherance I’m clothed in steel,
And spite of all the rapture of the sea
This jewel holds his building on my arm.
Unto thy value I will mount myself
Upon a courser whose delightsome steps
Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
Only, my friends, I yet am unprovided
Of a pair of bases.
And spite of all the rapture of the sea
This jewel holds his building on my arm.
Unto thy value I will mount myself
Upon a courser whose delightsome steps
Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.
Only, my friends, I yet am unprovided
Of a pair of bases.
SECOND FISHERMAN We’ll sure provide. Thou shalt have my best gown to make thee a pair, and I’ll bring thee to the court myself.
PERICLES
Then honour be but equal to my will,
This day I’ll rise, or else add ill to ill.
This day I’ll rise, or else add ill to ill.
Exeunt with nets and armour
Sc. 6
Sennet.
Enter King Simonides and Thaisa, withLords in attendance,
and sit on two thronesKING SIMONIDES
Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?
FIRST LORD They are, my liege,
And stay your coming to present themselves.
KING SIMONIDES
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.
Exit one
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.
Exit oneTHAISA
It pleaseth you, my father, to express
My commendations great, whose merit’s less.
My commendations great, whose merit’s less.
KING SIMONIDES
It’s fit it should be so, for princes are
A model which heav’n makes like to itself.
As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
So princes their renown, if not respected.
’Tis now your office, daughter, to entertain
The labour of each knight in his device.
A model which heav’n makes like to itself.
As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
So princes their renown, if not respected.
’Tis now your office, daughter, to entertain
The labour of each knight in his device.
THAISA
Which, to preserve mine honour, I’ll perform.
KING SIMONIDES
Who is the first that doth prefer himself?
THAISA
A knight of Sparta, my renowned father,
And the device he bears upon his shield
Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun.
The word, Lux tua vita mihi.
And the device he bears upon his shield
Is a black Ethiop reaching at the sun.
The word, Lux tua vita mihi.
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