Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while, Or Deftinies do cut his thread of life. Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be. But should he wrong my liberties in abfence— Hel. We'll mingle bloods together in the earth, From whence we had our being and our birth. Per. Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tharfus Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee; And by whose letters I'll difpofe myself. The care I had and have of fubjects' good, On thee I lay, whose wisdom's strength can bear it. That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince, SCENE III. Tyre. An Ante-chamber in the Palace. Enter THALIARD. Thal. So, this is Tyre, and this is the court. Here must I kill king Pericles; and if I do not, I am fure to be hang'd at home: 'tis dangerous.-Well, I perceive he was a wife fellow, and had good discretion, that being bid to ask what he would of the king, defired he might know none of his fecrets. Now do I fee he had fome reafon for it: for if a king bid a man be a villain, he is bound by the the indenture of his oath to be one.-Huh, here come the lords of Tyre. Enter HELICANUS, ESCANES, and other Lords. Hel. You fhall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, His feal'd commission, left in trust with me, Hel. If further yet you will be satisfied, Why, as it were unlicens'd of your loves, He would depart, I'll give some light unto you. Being at Antioch Thal. What from Antioch? [Afide. [Afide. Hel. Royal Antiochus (on what cause I know not,) Took fome difpleasure at him; at least he judg'd fo : And doubting left that he had err'd or finn'd, To show his forrow, would correct himself; himself unto the fhipman's toil, So puts With whom, each minute threatens life or death. I fhall not be hang'd now, although I would; With meffage unto princely Pericles; [Afide. Yet, ere you fhall depart, this we desire,→ As friends to Antioch, we may feaft in Tyre. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Tharfus. A Room in the Governour's Houfe. Enter CLEON, DIONYZA, and Attendants. Cle. My Dionyza, fhall we reft us here, And by relating tales of others' griefs, See if 'twill teach us to forget our own? Dio. That were to blow at fire, in hope to quench it ; For who digs hills because they do aspire, Throws down one mountain, to cast up a higher. O my diftreffed lord, even fuch our griefs; Here they're but felt, and seen with mistful eyes, Who wanteth food, and will not fay, he wants it, Our tongues and forrows do found deep our woes Cle. This Tharfus, o'er which I have government, (A city, on whom plenty held full hand,) For riches, ftrew'd herself even in the streets; Whose towers bore heads fo high, they kifs'd the clouds, And strangers ne'er beheld, but wonder'd at; Whofe Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd, Cle. But fee what heaven can do! By this our change, These mouths, whom but of late, earth, fea, and air, Were all too little to content and please, Although they gave their creatures in abundance, Those palates, who not yet two summers younger, Dio. Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it. Enter a Lord. Lord. Where's the lord governor ? Cle, Cle. Here. Speak out thy forrows which thou bring`st, in haste, Lord. We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore, A portly fail of fhips make hitherward. Cle. I thought as much. One forrow never comes, but brings an heir, That may fucceed as his inheritor ; And fo in our's: fome neighbouring nation, Hath stuff'd these hollow veffels with their power, Whereas no glory's got to overcome. Lord. That's the least fear; for, by the semblance Cle. Thou fpeak'ft like him's untutor'd to repeat, To know for what he comes, and whence he comes, Lord. I go, my lord. Cle. Welcome is peace, if he on peace confift; If wars, we are unable to refift. Enter PERICLES, with Attendants. Per. Lord governor, for fo we hear you are, [Exit. And |