Death may usurp on nature many hours, Enter a Servant, with Boxes, Napkins, and Fire. Well said, well said; the fire and the cloths. The rough and woful music that we have, Cause it to sound, 'beseech you." The vial once more ;-How thou stirr❜st, thou block ?→→ This queen will live nature awakes; a warmth 1 Gent. The heavens, sir, Through you, increase our wonder, and set up Cer. She is alive; behold, Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;" The diamonds of a most praised water Appear, to make the world twice rich. O live, And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature, Rare as you seem to be! Thai. O dear Diana, [She moves. Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this? 2 Gent. Is not this strange? 1 Gent. Most rare. Cer. Hush, gentle neighbours ; Lend me your hands: to the next chamber bear her. For her relapse is mortal. Come, come, come; [Exeunt, carrying THAISA away. [5] Paulina in like manner in The Winter's Tale, when she pretends to bring Her mione to life, orders music to be played, to awake her from her trance. So also, the Physician in King Lear, when the King is about to wake from the sleep he had fallen into, after his frenzy: "Please you draw near ;---Louder the music there?" [6] So, in The Tempest: "The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, MALONE. MALONE SCENE III. Tharsus. A Room in CLEON'S House. Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, LYCHORIDA, and MARINA. Per. Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone; Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods Cle. Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally, Yet glance full wand'ringly on us.” Dion. O your sweet queen! That the strict fates had pleas'd you had brought her hither, To have bless'd mine eyes! Per. We cannot but obey The powers above us. Could I rage and roar As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end Cle. Fear not, my lord: Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, The gods revenge it upon me and mine, Per. I believe you; Your honour and your goodness teach me credit, Without your vows. Till she be married, madam, By bright Diana, whom we honour all, Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain, [7] The sense of the passage should seem to be as follows.---All the malice of forfune is not confined to yourself. Though her arrows strike deeply at you, yet wan dering from their mark, they sometimes glance on us; as at present, when the uscertain state of Tyre deprives us of your company at Tharsus." STEEVENS. Though I show will in't. So I take my leave. Dion. I have one myself, Who shall not be more dear to my respect, Than yours, my lord. Per. Madam, my thanks and prayers. Cle. We'll bring your grace even to the edge o'the shore ; Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune,' and The gentlest winds of heaven. Per. I will embrace Your offer. Come, dear'st madam.-O, no tears, Look to your little mistress, on whose grace SCENE IV. [Exeunt Ephesus. A Room in CERIMON'S House. Enter CERIMON and THAISA. Cer. Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, Lay with you in your coffer: which are now At your command. Know you the character ? Thai. It is my lord's. That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, I cannot rightly say: But since king Pericles, And never more have joy. Cer. Madam, if this you purpose as you speak, Diana's temple is not distant far, Where you may 'bide until your date expire.' [8] "Though I appear wilful and perverse by such conduct." Insidious waves that wear a treacherous smile: "Subdola pellacis ridet clementia ponti." Lucretius. [1] Until you die. So, in Romeo and Juliet:" "The date is out of such prolixity." MALONE. STEEVENS. The expression of the text is again used by our author in The rape of Lucrece : "An expir'd date, cancell'd, ere well begun." Again, in Romeo and Juliet: "----------and expire the term "Of a despised life." MALONE. Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine Thai. My recompense is thanks, that's all; Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. [Exeunt. ACT IV. Enter GOWER. Gow. Imagine Pericles at Tyre, Now to Marina bend your mind, Which makes her both the heart and place 2 That monster envy, oft the wrack One daughter, and a wench full grown, : For certain in our story, she Would ever with Marina be : Be't when she weav'd the sleided silk1 [2] Such an education as rendered her the center and situation of general wonder. We still use the heart of oak for the central part of it, and the heart of the land in much such another sense. Shakespeare in Coriolanus says, that one of his ladies is---" the spire and top of praise." STEEVENS. [3] i. e. the combats of Venus; or night, which needs no explanation, "Those limbs were fashion'd for a softer fight." STEEVENS. [4] Sleided silk is untwisted silk, prepared to be used in the weaver's sley or slay. PERCY By hurting it; or when to the lute With the dove of Paphos might the crow The pregnant instrument of wrath" Prest for this blow. The unborn event I do commend to your content : Only I carry winged time Post on the lame feet of my rhyme, Which never could I so convey, Unless your thoughts went on my way. Dionyza does appear, With Leonine, a murderer. [Exit. [5] To vail is to bow, to do homage. The author seems to mean---When she would compose supplicatory hymns to Diana, or verses expressive of her gratitude to Dionyza. We might indeed read---Hail to her mistress Dian; i. e. salute her in verse. STEEVENS. That Dian, i. e. Diana, is the true reading, may, I think, be inferred from a passage in The Merchant of Venice; which may at the same time perhaps afford the best comment on that before us: "Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn; Agam, in A midsummer-Night's Dream: "To be a barren sister all your life, [6] i. e. highly accomplished, perfect. "Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.” 171 Pregnant is ready. So, in Hamlet: MALONE. "And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,” [8] Prest is ready; pret. Fr. MALONE. MALONE. MALONE. |