Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto)
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Pericles Prince of Tyre.
¶Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.
385must returne from whence it came.
Exit.
¶
Enter Cleon the Gouernour of Tharsus, with
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his wife and others.
¶And by relating tales of others griefes,
¶See if t'will teach vs to forget our owne?
¶Dion. That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it,
¶Throwes downe one mountaine to cast vp a higher:
¶But like to Groues, being topt, they higher rise.
¶Who wanteth food, and will not say hee wants it,
¶Or can conceale his hunger till hee famish?
¶Our woes into the aire, our eyes to weepe.
405Till toungs fetch breath that may proclaime
¶Them louder, that if heauen slumber, while
¶Their creatures want, they may awake
¶Their helpers, to comfort them.
410And wanting breath to speake, helpe mee with teares.
¶A Cittie on whom plentie held full hand:
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