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Thai. O, let me look!

If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Will to my sense? bend no licentious ea
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you spo
Like him you are: Did you not name a
A birth, and death?

Per.

The voice of dead Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed de

2 Look to the lady;] When Lady Macbeth p on hearing the account of Duncan's murder mation is used. These words belong, I believ

3 Early, one blust'ring morn,] Old copyThe emendation, which is judicious, was fur lone. Steevens.

4 Found there rich jewels;] The second q and Mr. Rowe, reads-these jewels. Pericle shows that these could not be the poet's word. is found in the first quarto. It should be rem rimon delivered these jewels to Thaisa, (b house) in whose custody they afterwards rem

5 Here in Diana's temple.] The same situa in The Comedy of Errors, where Ægeon lose and finds her at last in a nunnery. Steevens.

6 - they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you.] This circumstance blance to the meeting of Leontes and Hermi Cerimon is not unlike that of Paulina in The

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upposed dead,

own'd.] Supposed dead, and that my death was by

Malone.

, in this instance, does not signify suffocated by waerwhelmed in it. Thus, in Knolles's History: “Galbe drowned in the harbour with the great ordnance, 7 could be rigged." Steevens.

his: no more, you gods! your present kinduess 3 my past miseries sport: So, in King Lear: is a chance that does redeem all sorrows

hat ever I have felt." Malone.

I may

and no more be scen.] This is a sentiment which Shaker fails to introduce on occasions similar to the pren Othello:

- If it were now to die,

Twere now to be most happy, &c.

The Winter's Tale:

I might die within this hour, I have liv'd To die when I desire," Malone.

ad no more be seen,] So, in the 39th Psalm:-“ 0, a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go be no more seen." Steevens.

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Now do I long to hear how you were four
How possibly preserv'd; and whom to tha
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.

Thai. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this mar
Through whom the gods have shown their p
From first to last resolve you.

Per.

Reverend

The gods can have no mortal officer
More like a god than you. Will you deliv
How this dead queen re-lives?

Cer.

I will, m Beseech you, first go with me to my hous Where shall be shown you all was found How she came placed here within the ten No needful thing omitted.

Per.

Pure Diana!

I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer
My night oblations to thee. Thaisa,
This prince, the fair-betrothed of your da
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,

"Tell me, mine own,

"Where hast thou been preserv'd? WI

found

"Thy father's court?" Malone.

4 I bless thee - For the insertion of the pr am responsible. Malone.

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bly affianced. Steevens.

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Shall marry her at Pentapolis.] So, in the 1:

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Winter's Tale, Leontes informs Paulina:
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" Is troth-plight to your daughter." Mal

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he rest untold.-Sir, lead the way. [Exeunt.

And now,

nament that makes me look so dismal,

my lov'd Marina, clip to form;

at this fourteen years no razor touch'd,

ce thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.] So, in Much Ado
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convenable time of age

'sette hir unto mariage." Confessio Amantis.

1 so in the first line, and the words-my lov'd Marina, nd, which both the sense and metre require, I have Malone.

Lor is in this place guilty of a slight inadvertency. It hort time before, when Pericles arrived at Tharsus, of his daughter's death, that he made a vow never to ce or cut his hair. M. Mason.

3, n. 1; where, if my reading be not erroneous, a be found that this vow was made almost immediately irth of Marina; and consequently that Mr. M. Mant remark has no sure foundation.

Steevens.

make a star of him!] So, in Romeo and Juliet : ake him and cut him into little stars " Cymbeline:

for they are fit

inlay heaven with stars." Steevens.

id the way.] Dr. Johnson has justly objected to the mpotent conclusion of The Second Part of King HenCome, will you hence?" The concluding line of The ale furnishes us with one equally as abrupt, and nearng the present:----" Hastily lead away." This pas

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A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalt
In reverend Cerimon there well app
The worth that learned charity aye
For wicked Cleon and his wife, whe
Had spread their cursed deed, and ho
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn;
That him and his they in his palace
The gods for murder seemed so col
To punish them; although not done
So on your patience evermore atten
New joy wait on you! Here our play
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sage will justify the correction of the old copy reads-Sir, leads the way. Malone.

1 In Antioch and his daughter.) The old copic tiochus and his daughter, &c. The correction wa Mr. Steevens. "So, (as he observes,) in Shak plays, France, for the king of France; Morocco, Morocco," &c. Malone.

2 Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at las pies are here, I think, manifestly corrupt. They Virtue preferr'd from fell destruction's blast The gross and numerous errors of even the copy of this play, will, it is hoped, justify the 1 been taken on this and some other occasions.

It would be difficult to produce from the w speare many couplets more spirited and harmoni

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and honour'd name - The first and reads-the honour'd name. The reading of the t pears to me more intelligible, is that of the folio is here used for the collective body of the citizen

4 To punish them; although not done, but meant. tive metre of this line in the old copy, induce that the word them, which I have supplied, was carelessness of the printer. Malone.

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