Would I were dead, so you did live again!- Enter Attendants, with Aaron. 1 Rom. You sad Andronici, have done with woes; Give sentence on this execrable wretch, That hath been breeder of these dire events. Luc. Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him; For the offence he dies. This is our doom: Aar. O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers, I should repent the evils I have done; Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence Be closed in our household's monument. No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey: [Exeunt. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Antiochus, king of Antioch. Helicanus, two lords of Tyre. Escanes, Simonides, king of Pentapolis. A Pander, ana his Wife. 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. PERICLES. mm ACT I Enter Gower. Before the Palace of Antioch To sing a song of old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; To glad your ear, and please your eyes. On ember-eves, and holy ales; And lords and ladies of their lives (I tell you what mine authors say :). |