Pericles, Prince Of Tyre
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creator: Shakespeare, William
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subject: marina
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subject: prince
subject: tyre
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subject: gower
subject: palace
subject: antioch
subject: sing
subject: song
subject: sung
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subject: william
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full text: PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE DRAMATIS PERSONAE ANTIOCHUS king of Antioch. PERICLES prince of Tyre. HELICANUS | | two lords of Tyre. ESCANES | SIMONIDES king of Pentapolis. CLEON governor of Tarsus. LYSIMACHUS governor of Mytilene. CERIMON a lord of Ephesus. THALIARD a lord of Antioch. PHILEMON servant to Cerimon. LEONINE servant to Dionyza. Marshal. (Marshal:) A Pandar. (Pandar:) BOULT his servant. The Daughter of Antiochus. (Daughter:) DIONYZA wife to Cleon. THAISA daughter to Simonides. MARINA daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. LYCHORIDA nurse to Marina. A Bawd. (Bawd:) Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers. (Lord:) (First Lord:) (Second Lord:) (Third Lord:) (First Knight:) (Second Knight:) (Third Knight:) (First Gentleman:) (Second Gentleman:) (First Sailor:) (Second Sailor:) (First Pirate:) (Second Pirate:) (Third Pirate:) (First Fisherman:) (Second Fisherman:) (Third Fisherman:) (Messenger:) DIANA: GOWER as Chorus. SCENE Dispersedly in various countries. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE ACT I [Enter GOWER] [Before the palace of Antioch] To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man's infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung at festivals, On ember-eves and holy-ales; And lords and ladies in their lives Have read it for restoratives: The purchase is to make men glorious; Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius. If you, born in these latter times, When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes. And that to hear an old man sing May to your wishes pleasure bring I life would wish, and that I might Waste it for you, like taper-light. This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat: The fairest in all Syria, I tell you what mine authors say: This king unto him took a fere, Who died and left a female heir, So buxom, blithe, and full of face, As heaven had lent her all his grace; With whom the father liking took, And her to incest did provoke: Bad child; worse father…