The Play of
Dombe shew.
Enter at one dore Pericles talking with Cleon, all the trains with them: Enter at an other dore, a Gentleman, with a Letter to Pericles, Pericles shewes the Letter to Cleon; Pericles giues the Messenger a reward, and Knights him: Exit Pericles at one dore, and Cleon at an other.
Good Helicon, that stayde at home,
Not to eate Hony like a Drone,
From others labours; for though he striue
To killen bad, keepe good aliue:
And to fulfill his prince desire,
Sau'd one of all, that haps in Tyre:
How Thaliard came full bent with sinne,
And had intent to murder him;
And that in Tharsis was not best,
Longer for him to make his rest:
He doing so, put foorth to Seas;
Where when men been, there’s seldome ease,
For now the Wind begins to blow,
Thunder aboue, and deepes below,
Makes such vnquiet, that the shippe,
Should house him safe; is wrackt and split,
And he (good Prince) hauing all lost,
By Waues, from coast to coast is tost:
All perishen of man, of pelfe,
Ne aught escapend but himselfe;
Till Fortune tir'd with doing bad,
Threw him a shore, to giue him glad:
And here he comes: what shall be next,
Pardon old Gower, this long's the text.
Not to eate Hony like a Drone,
From others labours; for though he striue
To killen bad, keepe good aliue:
And to fulfill his prince desire,
Sau'd one of all, that haps in Tyre:
How Thaliard came full bent with sinne,
And had intent to murder him;
And that in Tharsis was not best,
Longer for him to make his rest:
He doing so, put foorth to Seas;
Where when men been, there’s seldome ease,
For now the Wind begins to blow,
Thunder aboue, and deepes below,
Makes such vnquiet, that the shippe,
Should house him safe; is wrackt and split,
And he (good Prince) hauing all lost,
By Waues, from coast to coast is tost:
All perishen of man, of pelfe,
Ne aught escapend but himselfe;
Till Fortune tir'd with doing bad,
Threw him a shore, to giue him glad:
And here he comes: what shall be next,
Pardon old Gower, this long's the text.
Enter Pericles wette.
Peri.Yet cease your ire you angry Starres of heauen,
Wind, Raine, and Thunder remember earthly man
Is but a substaunce that must yeeld to you:
And I (as fits my nature) do obey you.
Wind, Raine, and Thunder remember earthly man
Is but a substaunce that must yeeld to you:
And I (as fits my nature) do obey you.
Alasse,
