This king to Tharsus, (think his
So with his steerage shall your the
To fetch his daughter home, wh

The wayward &c. is the reading of the sec first has-thy. In the next line but one, the all his lives delight. Matone.

1 Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late &c.] 1 these lines are strangely misplaced:

"Old Helicanus goes along behind
"Is left to governe it, you beare in mi
"Old Escanes whom Helicanus late
"Advancde in time to great and hie es
"Well sailing ships and bounteous win
"This king to Tharsus," &c.

The transposition suggested by Mr. Steev whole passage perfectly clear. Malone.

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(think his pilot thought;

So with his steerage shall your thoughts gr
To fetch his daughter home, who first is &

pies read:

- think this pilot thought,

So with his steerage shall your thoughts g but they are surely corrupt. I read-think suppose that your imagination is his pilot. So 'Tis your thoughts, that now mu "Carry them here and there; jumping c

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Again, ibidem :

“Heave him away upon your winged th "Athwart the seas."

In the next line the versification is defectiv ing printed instead of two. By reading grow o the sense and metre are both restored. So, Night's Dream (fol. 1623): - and so groo Vol. II, p. 255, n. 3. We might read-go ot, pears to be more likely to have been the auth

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I cannot approve of Malone's amendment, old copies, with this difference only, that thought and pilot with a hyphen, and read: think this pilot-thought; That is, "Keep this leading circumstance in

mb of MARINA; whereat PERICLES makes laion, puts on Sackcloth, and in a mighty passion 1. Then Cleon and Dionyza retire.

Gow. See how belief may suffer by foul show! his borrow'd passion stands for true old woe ; nd Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,

ith sighs shot through, and biggest tears o'er

show'r'd, eaves Tharsus, and again embarks. He swears ever to wash his face, nor cut his hairs; e puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,5 nd yet he rides it out. Now please you wit he epitaph is for Marina writ

as a pilot to you, and guide you through the rest of in such a manner, that your imagination will keep the king's progress." M. Mason.

ner meaning seems to be-Think that his pilot had y of thought, so shall your thought keep pace with Lons. Steevens.

first is gone.] Who has left Tharsus before her faval there.

Malone.

notes and shadows see them move awhile ;] So, in Mac

ome like shadows, so depart." Steevens.

or true old woe ;] So, in King Henry V:

Sit and see,

Tinding true things by what their mockeries be."

Malone.

true old woe;] i. e. for such tears as were shed when being in its infancy, dissimulation was unknown. All riters are willing to persuade themselves that sinced with the first ages. Perhaps, however, we ought Lue told woe. Steevens.

pest which his mortal vessel tears,] So, in King Rich

, then began the tempest to my soul!"
ere called his mortal vessel, (i. e. his body) is styled
ra her mortal house. Steevens.

Vow please your wit-] Now be pleased to know. So,

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NYZA retire.

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embarks. He cut his hairs: sea. He beas vessel tears

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earth:

"In whiche the lorde hath to him writt "That he would understonde and witte The editor of the second quarto (which ha all the other editions) probably not understand altered it thus:

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Now take we our way

"To the epitaph for Marina writ by D sweet'st, and best, Sweet'st is here syllable. So, highest, in The Tempest : “ Highes &c. Malone.

and

We might more elegantly read, omitting t

The fairest, sweetest, best, lies here -.

8 Marina was she call'd; &c.] It might ha that this epitaph, which sets out in four-foot v confined itself to that measure; but instead of uniformity, throughout the last six lines it devia which, perhaps, were never meant by its autho a few syllables, and try whether any thing is le

sion:

"Marina call'd; and at her birth "Proud Thetis swallow'd part o' the e "The earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd, "Hath Thetis' birth on heaven bestow' "Wherefore she swears she 'll never s "Make battery upon shores of flint." The image suggested by-" Thetis swallowed of Brabantio's speech to the senate, in the firs my particular grief "Is of so foodgate and o'erbearing natur "That it engluts and swallows other sor

9 Thetis, being proud swallow'd some part o' modern editions by a strange blunder, read, proud, &c.

I formerly thought that by the words some was meant Thaisa, the mother of Marina. Sc beloved Juliet, when he supposes her dead, th the earth. But I am now convinced that I was n

nd bear his courses to be ordered
y lady fortune; while our scenes display2
is daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day,

cription alludes to the violent storm which accompa.
irth of Marina, at which time the sea, proudly o'er-
Es bounds, swallowed, as is usual in such hurricanes,
of the earth. The poet ascribes the swelling of the
pride which Thetis felt at the birth of Marina in her
and supposes that the earth, being afraid to be over-
stowed this birth-child of Thetis on the heavens; and
s, in revenge, makes raging battery against the shores.
Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd, proves be-
t that the words, some part of the earth, in the line
cannot mean the body of Thaisa, but a portion of the
M. Mason.

t has many allusions in his works to the depredations
The sea on the land. So, in his 64th Sonnet:

When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
dvantage on the kingdom of the shore,
and the firm soil win of the watry main,
ncreasing store with loss, and loss with store; -." &c.
I think, a similar description in King Lear and King

and swears she'll never stint)) She'll never cease.

reo and Juliet:

stinted, and said, ay." Malone.

while our scenes display - The old copies have- while our steare must play.

read-our stage-or rather, our scene (which was

pelt sceane). So, in As You Like It :

This wide and universal theatre,

Fresents more woful pageants than the scene

Vherein we play."

The Winter's Tale:

as if

The scene you play, were mine."

1 be remembered, that scene was formerly spelt sceane; only a change of two letters, which in the writing of art of the last century were easily confounded. Malone, s in the text. So, in King Henry VIII:

and display'd the effects

of disposition gentle." Steevens.

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Gent. No, nor never shall do in such

she being once gone.

1 Gent. But to have divinity preached ever dream of such a thing?

2 Gent. No, no. Come, I am for no m ses: Shall we go hear the vestals sing? 1 Gent. I 'll do any thing now that is am out of the road of rutting, for ever.

Enter PANDAR, Bawd, and Bo Pand. Well, I had rather than twice th she had ne'er come here.

Bawd. Fy, fy upon her; she is able to Priapus, and undo a whole generation. V get her ravished, or be rid of her. Wh do for clients her fitment, and do me the l profession, she has me her quirks, her rea ter-reasons, her prayers, her knees; that s a puritan of the devil, if he should cheape Boult. 'Faith. I must ravish her, or sh us of all our cavaliers, and make all our st Pand. Now, the pox upon her green-si Bawd. 'Faith, there's no way to be ri the way to the pox. Here comes the lor disguised.4

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Priapus,] The present mention of th haps suggested by the following passage in Tw "Then the bawde brought her into a certaine stoode the idoll of Priapus made of gold," &c.

* Here comes the lord Lysimachus, disguis'd.] S prose romance already quoted :-" Than anon prynce of the cyte it wyste, went and he disguywent to the bordell whereas Tarcye was" &c.