Lys. Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a creature of sale.

MAR. Do you know this house to be a place of such resort, and will come into it? I hear say, you are of honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.

Lys. Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?

MAR. Who is my principal?

Lys. Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my authority shall not see thee, or else, look friendly upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place. Come, come.

MAR. If you were born to honour, show it now;

If put upon you, make the judgment good

That thought you worthy of it.

Lys. How's this? how 's this ?-Some more ;-be sage.
MAR. For me, that am a maid, though most ungentle

Fortune hath plac'd me in this loathsome sty,
Where since I came, diseases have been sold
Dearer than physic,-O that the good gods
Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i' the purer air!

Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst.
Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,

Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here 's gold for thee:
Persever in that clear way thou goest,

And the gods strengthen thee!

MAR. The good gods preserve you!
Lys.

For me, be you thoughten

That I came with no ill intent; for to me

The very doors and windows savour vilely.
Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue,

And I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.
Hold;
here's more gold for thee.

A curse upon him, die he like a thief,

That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou hear'st from me

It shall be for thy good.

[As LYSIMACHUS is putting up his purse, BOULT enters. BOULT. I beseech your honour, one piece for me.

Lys. Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!

Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,
Would sink and overwhelm you. Away.

[Earit.

BOULT. How's this? We must take another course with you. If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope, shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like a spaniel. Come your ways.

MAR. Whither would you have me?

BOULT. I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common hangman shall execute it. Come your way. We'll have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I

say.

Re-enter Bawd.

BAWD. How now! what's the matter?

BOULT. Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy words to the lord Lysimachus.

BAWD. O abominable !

BOULT. She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of the gods.

BAWD. Marry, hang her up for ever!

BOULT. The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snow-ball; saying his prayers too.

BAWD. Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable. BOULT. An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall be ploughed.

MAR. Hark, hark, ye gods!

She 's

BAWD. She conjures: away with her. Would she had never come within my doors! Marry hang you! born to undo us. Will you not go the way of womankind? Marry come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays! [Exit Bawd. BOULT. Come, mistress; come your way with me. MAR. Whither would you have me?

BOULT. To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.
MAR. Prithee, tell me one thing first.

BOULT. Come now, your one thing?

MAR. What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?

BOULT. Why, I could wish him to be my master, or, ra

ther, my mistress.

MAR. Neither of these are yet so bad as thou art,

Since they do better thee in their command.

Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend
Of hell would not in reputation change:

Thou art the damn'd door-keeper to every coyst'rel
That comes inquiring for his tib;

To the choleric fisting of every rogue thy ear
Is liable; thy food is such

As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

BOULT. What would you have me do? go to the wars, would you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to buy him a wooden one?

MAR. Do anything but this thou doest. Empty
Old receptacles, or common sewers of filth;
Serve by indenture to the common hangman;
Any of these ways are better yet than this:
For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
Would own a name too dear. That the gods would safely
Deliver me from this place! Here, here 's gold for thee.
If that thy master would gain aught by me,
Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast;
And I will undertake all these to teach.

I doubt not but this populous city will
Yield many scholars.

BOULT. But can you teach all this you speak of?
MAR. Prove that I cannot, take me home again,
And prostitute me to the basest groom

That doth frequent your house.

BOULT. Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I car place thee, I will.

MAR. But amongst honest women?

BOULT. 'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.

But since my master and mistress have bought you, there's no going but by their consent: therefore I will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough. Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways.

[Exeunt.

ACT V.

Enter GOWER.

Gow. Marina thus the brothel scapes, and chances Into an honest house, our story says.

She sings like one immortal, and she dances

As goddess-like to her admired lays :

Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her neeld composes
Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry;
That even her art sisters the natural roses;
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry :
That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain
She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place,
And to her father turn our thoughts again,
Where we left him on the sea. We there him lost:
Where driven before the winds he is arriv'd
Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast
Suppose him now at anchor. The city striv'd
God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence
Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,

His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense;
And to him in his barge with fervour hies.
In your supposing once more put your sight:
Of heavy Pericles think this the bark :
Where, what is done in action, more, if might,
Shall be discover'd; please you sit, and hark.

[Exit.

SCENE I.-On board PERICLES' ship off Mitylene. A close Pavilion on deck, with a Curtain before it; PERICLES within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel.

Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS.

TYR. SAIL. Where is the lord Helicanus? He can resolve you. [To the Sailor of Mitylene.] O, here he is. Sir, there is a barge put off from Mitylene, and in it is Lysimachus the governor, who craves to come aboard. What is your will?

HEL. That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.
TYR. SAIL. Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.

Enter two Gentlemen.

1 GENT. Doth your lordship call?

HEL. Gentlemen, there is some one of worth would come aboard; I pray, greet him fairly.

[The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go on board the barge.

Enter from thence LYSIMACHUS, attended; the Tyrian Gentlemen, and the two Sailors.

TYR. SAIL. Sir, this is the man that can, in aught you would, resolve you.

Lys. Hail, reverend sir!

The gods preserve you!

HEL. And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,

And die as I would do.

Lys. You wish me well.

Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,
Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,

I made to it, to know of whence you are.

HEL. First, what is your place?

Lys. I am the governor of this place you lie before.
HEL. Sir, our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;

A man, who for this three months hath not spoken
To any one, nor taken sustenance,

But to prorogue his grief.