GOWER

Now sleepy-slaked hath the rout.

No din but snores the house about.

The cat with eyes of burning coal,

Crouches at the mouse’s hole.

Now the bride is brought to bed,

Where, by the loss of maidenhead,

A babe is begin, now be attent

For our time here is briefly spent.

THAISA / PERICLES

I life would wish, that I might

Waste it for you, like candlelight.

GOWER

Now, from Tyre’s kingless perch,

For Pericles a careful search is made

With all due diligence

By horse, by sail - sparing no expense

So at last from Tyre to Pentapolis

Are letter brought, the tenor this:

GOWER / HELICANUS

Antiochus and his daughter are dead

The men of Tyre would, upon my head,

Set the crown of Tyre, but I will none.

Yt still, a mutiny hath here begun

Which, t’oppress, I tell the mass:

If twice six moons do pass

And Pericles comes not home,

I’ll take the crown.

HELICANUS

Post script

GOWER / HELICANUS

So come home.

If still you roam,

O,

Pericles, come home.

GOWER

Now, Pericles must hence to Tyre.

His queen, with child, makes her desire

Apparent, she along will go,

And being deaf to the answer ‘No,’

Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,

And so to sea

Where their vessel shakes

With Neptune’s billow

Now the vicious, grizly North

Disgorges such a tempest forth

That, as a duck for life will dive,

So up and down the poor ship drives

The lady shrieks, and well-a-near,

She falls in labor with her fear

Enough of what by me is told.

Now you, in your imagination hold

This stage the ship, upon whose beak

The sea-tossed Pericles - speak

ANCIENT ASHES

THE RIDDLE

TARSUS

FORTUNE

THE KNIGHTS’ DANCE

THE BEAUTY OF MY MIND

SEA-TOSSED

THE PASSPORT

LIFE’S BUT BREATH

MARINA

ENTER PIRATES

THE WASTING OF OUR TIME

GOOD, GOOD LUCK

CANDLELIGHT

THE DREAM

WISHES

A NEW JOY