Per. It is your grace's pleasure to commend ; Not my desert. Sim. Sir, you are music's master. Per. The worst of all her scholars, my good lord. Sim. Let me ask you one thing. What do you think Of my daughter, sir? Per. A most virtuous princess. Sim. And she is fair too, is she not? Per. As a fair day in summer-wondrous fair. And she will be your scholar; therefore look to it. Sim. She thinks not so; peruse this writing else. A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre? 'Tis the king's subtilty to have my life. Oh, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord, A stranger and distressed gentleman, That never aim'd so high to love your daughter, But bent all offices to honour her. Sim. Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art A villain. Per. By the gods I have not; Never did thought of mine levy offence; A deed might gain her love, or your displeasure. Sim. Traitor, thou liest. Per. Sim. Traitor! Ay, traitor. Per. Even in his throat-unless it be the king That calls me traitor, I return the lie. Sim. [Aside.] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage. That never relish'd of a base descent. I came unto your court, for honour's cause, And not to be a rebel to her state; And he that otherwise accounts of me, Here comes my daughter, she can witness it. Enter THAISA. Per. Then, as you are as virtuous as fair, Thai. Why, sir, say if you had, who takes offence Sim. Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory? I am glad of it with all my heart. [Aside. I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection. Will you, not having my consent, Bestow your love and your affections Upon a stranger ?—[Aside]—who, for aught I know, Therefore, hear you, mistress; either frame Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too: Thai. Yes, if you love me, sir. Per. Even as my life, or blood that fosters it. Sim. What, are you both agreed? Both. Yes, if it please your majesty. Sim. It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed. [Exeunt. Gow. Now sleep yslaked hath the rout; Dumb show. Enter from one side, PERICLES and SIMONIDES, with Attendants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and gives PERICLES a letter: he shews it to SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to PERICLES. Then enter THAISA with her child, and LYCHORIDA, a nurse. SIMON IDES shews his daughter the letter; she rejoices: she and PERICLES take leave of her father, and depart with LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt SIMONIDES and the rest. Gow. By many a dern and painful perch, That horse and sail, and high expense, Are letters brought; the tenor these : The crown of Tyre, but he will none; Says to them, if King Pericles Come not home in twice six moons, He, obedient to their dooms, Brought hither to Pentapolis, Y-ravished the regions round, And every one with claps 'gan 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 Varies again: the grizzled north Which might not what by me is told.- This stage, the ship, upon whose deck SCENE I. Enter PERICLES on shipboard. [Exit. Per. Thou God of this great vast, rebuke these surges, Divinest patroness, and midwife, gentle Enter LYCHORIDA with an Infant. Now, Lychorida! Lyc. Here is a thing too young for such a place, |