Who either by public war, or private treason, Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while, Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life: Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be. PER. I do not doubt thy faith; But should he wrong my liberties in my absence- SCENE III. Enter THALIARD. [Exeunt. THAL. So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I kill king Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to be hanged at home: 't is dangerous.—Well, I perceive, he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that, being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired he might know none of his secrets. Now do I see he had some reason for it: for if a king bid a man be a villain, he is bound by the indenture of his oath to be one. Hush, here come the lords of Tyre. Enter HELICANUS, ESCANES, and other Lords of Tyre. HEL. You shall not need, my fellow-peers of Tyre, THAL. HOW! the king gone! 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. a Convince, in the sense of overcome. [Aside. THAL. What from Antioch? HEL. Royal Antiochus (on what cause I know not) To show his sorrow, he 'd correct himself; With whom each minute threatens life or death. I shall not be hang'd now, although I would; With message unto princely Pericles; But since my landing I have understood, Your lord hath betook himself to unknown travels; HEL. We have no reason to desire it, Commended to our master, not to us: SCENE IV.-Tharsus. Enter CLEON, DIONYZA, and others. [Aside. [Exeunt. CLE. My Dionyza, shall we rest us here, And, by relating tales of others' griefs, See if 't will teach us to forget our own? DIO. That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it; Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher. my distressed lord, ev'n such our griefs are; Here they 're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes, Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it, a The original copies have "But since he's gone, the king's seas must please." We adopt the principle of Steevens's alteration, who reads "But since he's gone, the king it sure must please." And seen. Thus in the original copies. Malone proposed unseen; but Dionyza means to say that here their griefs are but felt and seen with mischief's eyes-eyes of discontent and suffering; but if topp'd with other tales-that is, cut down by the comparison-like groves they will rise higher, be more unbearable. Or can conceal his hunger, till he famish? CLE. This Tharsus, over which I have the government, For riches strew'd herself even in the streets; Whose towers bore heads so high, they kiss'd the clouds, And strangers ne'er beheld, but wonder'd at; Dio. Oh, 't is too true. CLE. But see what heaven can do! By this our change, Although they gave their creatures in abundance, They are now starv'd for want of exercise; DIO. Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it. CLE. O let those cities that of Plenty's cup a Tongues, in all the early editions. Steevens changed the word to lungs, which is the received reading. Helpers, in the original. The modern reading is helps. "Those pallats, who, not yet too savers younger." is the PERICLES. Speak out thy sorrows, which thou bring'st in haste, LORD. We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore, CLE. I thought as much. One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, And so in ours: some neighbouring nation, Hatha stuff'd these hollow vessels with their میں power, LORD. That's the least fear; for, by the semblance Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace, Who makes the fairest show, means most deceit. The ground 's the lowest, and we are half way there: To know for what he comes, and whence he comes, LORD. I go, my lord. CLE. Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist; Enter PERICLES with Attendants. PER. Lord governor, for so we hear you are, Hath. The original copies, that. TRAGEDIES-VOL. II. Consist-stands on. 633 Are, like the Trojan horse, war-stuff'd within, Are stor'd with corn to make your needy bread, And give them life, whom hunger starv'd half dead. OMNES. The gods of Greece protect you! And we will pray for you. PER. Arise, I pray you, rise; Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought, PER. Which welcome we 'll accept ; feast here a while, a War-stuff"d. This is Steevens's ingenious emendation of was stuff”d. [Exeunt. |