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 ; 9 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, Look to your little mistress, on whose grace You may depend hereafter.-Come, my lord. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Ephesus. A Room in CERIMON's House. and THAISA. Enter CERIMON 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.” MALONE. [9] Insidious waves that wear a treacherous smile : "Subdola pellacis ridet clementia ponti." Lucretius. STEEV. 13 Until you die. So, in Romeo and Juliet: "The date is out of such prolixity." 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 Of a despised life." MALONE. Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine Thai. My recompense is thanks, that's all ; [Exeunt. ACT IV. Enter Gower. Gow. Imagine Pericles at Tyre, Now to Marina bend your mind, In music, letters; who hath gain'd Of education all the grace, 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 4 [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. Shakspeare 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. "Let heroes in the dusty field delight, "Those limbs were fashion'd for a softer fight." [4] Sleided silk is untwisted silk, prepared to be used in the weaver's sley or slay. PERCY. She sung, and made the night-bird mute, With the dove of Paphos might the crow The pregnant instrument of wrathi Prest for this blow.8 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. Diony za 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; "With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, Again, in A Midsummer-Night's Dream: "To be a barren sister all your life, "Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon." MALONE, [6] i. e. highly accomplished, perfect. MALONE. [7] Pregnant is ready. So, in Hamlet: "And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,-". MALONE. [8] Prest is ready ; pret. Fr. MALONE. SCENE I. Tharsus. An open Place near the Sea-shore. Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE. 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. Leon. I am resolv'd. Enter MARINA, with a Basket of Flowers. Mar. No, no, I will rob Tellus of her weed, To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues, The purple violets, and marigolds, 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, Whirring me from my friends.3 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,- 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, "While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, MALONE. "I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack MALONE. [3] A bird that flies with a quick motion, accompanied with noise, is said to whirr away. Thus, Pope : 5* Now from the brake the whirring pheasant springs." MAL VOL. IX. A nurse of me. Lord! how your favour's chang'd Give me your wreath of flowers, ere the sea mar it.4 Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her. I'll not bereave you of your servant. Dion. Come, come; I love the king your father, and yourself, 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 : What! I must have a care of you. 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 Shakspeare was not likely to reflect that there is little or no tide in the Mediterranean. CHARLEMONT. MALONE. [5] With the same warmth of affection as if I was his countrywoman. [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. |