ACT V Sc. I She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been, Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding. O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt, PER. None! The music of the spheres! List, my Marina. PER. Most heavenly music! 220 230 My Lord, I hear. [Music. It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber Lys. A pillow for his head. [sleeps. So, leave him, all. Well, my companion Friends, If this but answer to my just belief, I'll well remember you. [Exeunt all but PERICLES. DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision. DIA. My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither, There, when my maiden priests are met together, Before the people all, Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife: To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call, And give them repetition to the life. Or perform my bidding, or thou liv'st in woe; Awake, and tell thy dream. PER. Celestial Dian, Goddess argentine, 240 [disappears. HEL. Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA. Sir? PER. My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike For other service first: toward Ephesus Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why. 250 [to LYSIMACHUS.] Shall we refresh us, Sir, upon your shore, And give you gold for such provision As our intents will need? Lys. Sir, With all my heart; and, when you come ashore, Enter GOWER, before the Temple of DIANA at Ephesus. This, my last boon, give me (For such kindness must relieve me) That you aptly will suppose What pageantry, what feats, what shows, As Dian bade: whereto being bound, ΤΟ ACT V Sc. I ACT V At Ephesus, the temple see, [exit. SCENE III. The Temple of DIANA at Ephesus; THAISA Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHUS, PER. Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command, At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth THAI. ΤΟ Voice and favour! You are, you are- O royal Pericles! [faints. PER. What means the nun? she dies! help, Gentle I threw her overboard with these very arms. CER. Upon this coast, I warrant you. "Tis most certain. 21 PER. Early in blustering morn this lady was Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and plac'd her Here in Diana's temple. PER. May we see them? CER. Great Sir, they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is Are Will to my sense bend no licentious ear, PER. you The voice of dead Thaisa! 30 [shews a ring. PER. This, this: no more, you Gods! your present kind ness Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well, Melt, and no more be seen. O, come, be buried A second time within these arms. MAR. Leaps to be 40 PER. Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa; Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina, For she was yielded there. THAI. HEL. Hail, Madam, and my Queen! THAI. Blest, and mine own! I know you not. PER. You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute: Can you remember what I call'd the man? I have nam'd him oft. 51 ACT V Sc. III ACT V THAI. Sc. III PER. Still confirmation: 'Twas Helicanus then. Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he. Through whom the Gods have shewn their power; that can From first to last resolve you. PER. Reverend Sir, The Gods can have no mortal officer More like a God than you. Will you deliver How this dead Queen re-lives? CER. I will, my Lord. Beseech you, first go with me to my house, Where shall be shewn you all was found with her; No needful thing omitted. PER. Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I Makes me look dismal, will I clip to form; THAI. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, Sir, PER. Heavens make a Star of him! Queen, 60 70 Yet there, my We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay 80 To hear the rest untold: Sir, lead's the way. [exeunt. Enter GoWER. Gow. In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard |