Though I show will in't. So I take my leave. Dion. I have one myself, Who shall not be more dear to my respect, Than yours, my lord. Per. Madam, my thanks and prayers. Cle. We'll bring your grace even to the edge o'the shore; Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune,' and The gentlest winds of heaven. Per. I will embrace Your offer. Come, dear'st madam.-O, no tears, Lychorida, no tears: Look to your little mistress, on whose grace SCENE IV. [Exeunt Ephesus. A Room in CERIMON's House. Enter CERIMON Lay with and THAISA. Cer. Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember, I cannot rightly say: But since king Pericles, And never more have joy. Cer. Madam, if this you purpose as you speak, Diana's temple is not distant far, Where you may 'bide until your date expire.' [8] "Though I appear wilful and perverse by such conduct." [9] Insidious waves that wear a treacherous smile: "Subdola pellacis ridet clementia ponti." Lucretius. [1] Until you die. So, in Romeo and Juliet:" "The date is out of such prolixity." MALONE. STEEVENS. The expression of the text is again used by our author in The rape of Lucrece : "An expir'd date, cancell'd, ere well begun." Again, in Romeo and Juliet: ❝----------and expire the term MALONE. Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine Thai. My recompense is thanks, that's all; Yet my good will is great, though the gift small. [Exeunt. ACT IV. Enter Gower. Gow. Imagine Pericles at Tyre, Now to Marina bend your mind, Which makes her both the heart and place That monster envy, oft the wrack For certain in our story, she Would ever with Marina be: Be't when she weav'd the sleided silk' With fingers, long, small, white as milk; Or when she would with sharp neeld wound [2] Such an education as rendered her the center and situation of general wonder. We still use the heart of oak for the central part of it, and the heart of the land in much such another sense. Shakespeare in Coriolanus says, that one of his ladies is---" the spire and top of praise." STEEVENS. [3] i. e. the combats of Venus; or night, which needs no explanation. "Those limbs were fashion'd for a softer fight." STEEVENS. [4] Sleided silk is untwisted silk, prepared to be used in the weaver's sley or slay. PERCY. By hurting it; or when to the lute With the dove of Paphos might the crow The pregnant instrument of wrath" Prest for this blow. The unborn event I do commend to your content : Only I carry winged time Post on the lame feet of my rhyme, Which never could I so convey, Unless your thoughts went on my way. Dionyza does appear, With Leonine, a murderer. [Exit. [5] To vail is to bow, to do homage. The author seems to mean---When she would compose supplicatory hymns to Diana, or verses expressive of her gratitude to Dionyza. We might indeed read---Hail to her mistress Dian; i. e. salute her in verse. STEEVENS. That Dian, i. e. Diana, is the true reading, may, I think, be inferred from a passage in The Merchant of Venice; which may at the same time perhaps afford the best comment on that before us: "Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn; Again, in A midsummer-Night's Dream: "Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon." MALONE. "To be a barren sister all your life, [6] i. e. highly accomplished, perfect. [8] Prest is ready; pret. Fr. [7] Pregnant is ready. So, in Hamlet: "And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,---". MALONE. MALONE. MALONE. Tharsus. An open SCENE I. Place near the Sea-shore. Enter Dio- Dion. Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do it: Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be Leon. I'll do't; but yet she is a goodly creature. Dion. The fitter then the gods should have her." Here Weeping she comes for her old nurse's death. Thou art resolv'd? Leon. I am resolv'd. Enter MARINA, with a Basket of Flowers. Mar. No, no, I will rob Tellus of her weed, Shall, as a chaplet, hang upon thy grave, While summer days do last.2 Ah me! poor maid, This world to me is like a lasting storm, Dion. How now, Marina! why do you keep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not Consume your blood with sorrowing you have [9] So, in King Richard III: "O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous,-- "The fitter for the King of Heaven." STEEVENS. [1] By the green, as Lord Charlemont suggests to me, was meant "the green turf with which the grave of Lychorida was covered." Weed in old language meant garment. [2] So, in Cymbeline: ---with fairest flowers, MALONE. "While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, "I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack "The azur'd bare-bell, like thy veins, no, nor "The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander MALONE. [3] A bird that flies with a quick motion, accompanied with noise, is said to whirr away. Thus, Pope: "Now from the brake the whirring pheasant springs." MALONE. A nurse of me. Lord! how your favour's chang'd Give me your wreath of flowers, ere the sea mar it.1 Mar. No, I pray you ; I'll not bereave you of your servant. Dion. Come, come; I love the king your father, and yourself, 6 He will repent the breadth of his great voyage; The eyes of young and old. Care not for me I can go home alone. Mar. Well, I will go ; But yet I have no desire to it. Dion. Come, come, I know 'tis good for you. Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least; Remember what I have said. Leon. I warrant you, madam. Dion. I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while; Pray you, walk softly, do not heat your blood : Mar. Thanks, sweet madam. Is this wind westerly that blows? [Exit DIONYZA. Mar. When I was born, the wind was north. Mar. My father, as nurse said, did never fear, [4] i. e. ere the sea mar your walk upon the shore by the coming in of the tide, walk there with Leonine. We see plainly by the circumstance of the pirates, that Marina, when seized upon, was walking on the sea-shore; and Shakespeare was not likely to reflect that there is little or no tide in the Mediterranean. CHARLEMONT. [5] With the same warmth of affection as if I was his countrywoman. MALONE. [6] Our fair charge, whose beauty was once equal to all that fame said of it. So, in Othello: "He hath achiev'd a maid, "That paragons description and wild fame." MALONE. |