To know for what he comes, and whence he comes, And what he craves. Lord. I go, my lord. [Exit. Cle. Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist; If wars, we are unable to resist. Enter PERICLES with Attendants. (48) Per. Lord governor, for so we hear you are, And we'll pray for you. Per. Rise, I pray you, rise: (50) (18) tears,] "Papa! 'Hearts,' I conclude." Walker's Crit. Exam., &c., vol. iii. p. 334. (49) Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within i.e. Are like the Trojan horse, which was stuff'd, &c.-Steevens reads "Are, like the Trojan horse, war-stuff'd within, (50) Rise, I pray you, rise:] The quarto of 1609 has "Arise, I pray you, rise."-The later old eds. have " Arise, I pray you, arise." (Compare, in p. 15, "Kise, prithee, rise.") Your grace is welcome to our town and us. Per. Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile, Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. [Exeunt. ACT II. Enter GOWER. Gow. Here have you seen a mighty king His child, I wis, to incest bring; A better prince, and benign lord, That will prove awful both in deed and word. Be quiet, then, as men should be, Till he hath pass'd necessity. I'll show you those in troubles reign, And, to remember what he does, Build (62) his statue to make him glorious: But tidings to the contrary Are brought your eyes; what need speak I? DUMB-SHOW. Enter, from one side, PERICLES, talking with CLEON; their Trains with them. Enter, from the other side, a Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES; who shows the letter to CLEON ; the Messenger a reward, and knights him. Exeunt severally PERICLES and CLEON, with their Trains. Good Helicane, that (53) stay'd at home, Not to eat honey like a drone (51) spoken] Mr. Grant White substitutes "speken." then gives (52) Build] "Read 'Gild.' So, in Gower [Confessio Amantis]; 'It was of laton over-gylte.' Again, in Kyng Appolyn of Thyre, 1510; 'in remembraunce they made an ymage or statue of clene gold,' &c." STEEVENS. (53) that] Steevens reads "hath :" but the whole passage is unintelligible. From others' labours; for though (54) he strive And to fulfil his prince' desire, Sends word (55) of all that haps in Tyre: How Thaliard came full bent with sin And that in Tharsus was not best Where when men been, there's seldom ease; Should house him safe is wreck'd and split;(58) By waves from coast to coast is tost: And here he comes. What shall be next, [Exit. (54) for though] Steevens reads "forth;" and Singer substitutes "forthy." (55) Sends word] So Steevens.-The old eds. have "Sau'd one." An instance of the license which our early poets sometimes allowed themselves to take with the rhyme. See note 106 on Troilus and Cressida. (57) He, doing so,] Does this mean, "He, acting on the advice of Helicanus"?-Steevens reads "He, knowing so." No misprint.-See note 56. " (59) escapen] Here the old eds. have "escapend," most probably by the transcriber's or printer's mistake, since our author writes "perishen in the preceding line. SCENE I. Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side. Enter PERICLES, wet. Per. Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man (60) breath Is but a substance that must yield to you; Enter three Fishermen. First Fish. What, ho, Pilch! Sec. Fish. Ho, come (61) and bring away the nets! Third Fish. What say you, master? First Fish. Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll fetch thee with a wanion. Third Fish. Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that were cast away before us even now. First Fish. Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when, wella-day, we could scarce help ourselves. Third Fish. Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus, how he bounced and tumbled? they say they're (60) me] The old eds have "my." (61) First Fish. What, ho, Pilch ! The old eds. have "1. What, to pelch? 2. Ha, come.' ("Pilch," Tyrwhitt's emendation, means a leathern coat; used here as a nickname.) half-fish, half-flesh: a plague on them, they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. First Fish. Why, as men do a-land,-the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they've (62) swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. Per. [aside] A pretty moral. Third Fish. But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have been that day in the belfry. Sec. Fish. Why, man? Third Fish. Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I had been in his belly, I would have kept such a jangling of the bells, that he should never have left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and parish, up again. But if the good King Simonides were of my mind, Per. [aside] Simonides! Third Fish. He (63) would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee of her honey. Per. [aside] How from the finny (6) subject of the sea These fishers tell th' infirmities of men; And from their watery empire recollect All that may men approve or men detect! Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen. Sec. Fish. Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody look after it. Per. May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.(55) (2) they've] The old eds. have "they." (63) Hej The old eds. have “We." (64) finny] The old eds. have "fenny." (65) Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen. Sec. Fish. Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody look after it. Per. May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.] That this is sadly mutilated, admits of no doubt.-"It should seem that |