Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto) :: Internet Shakespeare Editions

¶heere, come put it on, keepe thee warme: now afore mee a

¶handsome fellow : Come, thou shalt goe home, and wee'le

¶haue Flesh for all day, Fish for fasting-dayes and more; or

630Puddinges and Flap-iackes, and thou shalt be welcome.

¶Per. I thanke you sir.

¶2. Harke you my friend: You sayd you could not beg?

¶Per. I did but craue.

¶2. But craue?

635Then Ile turne Crauer too, and so I shall scape whipping.

¶Per. Why, are you Beggers whipt then?

¶2. Oh not all, my friend, not all: for if all your Beggers

¶were whipt, I would wish no better office, then to be Beadle:

¶But Maister, Ile goe draw vp the Net.

640Per. How well this honest mirth becomes their labour?

¶1. Harke you sir; doe you know vvhere yee are?

¶Per. Not well.

¶1. Why Ile tell you, this I cald Pantapoles,

¶And our King, the good Symonides.

645Per. The good Symonides, doe you call him?

¶1. I sir, and he deserues so to be cal'd,

¶For his peaceable raigne, and good gouernement.

¶Per. He is a happy King, since he gaines from

¶His subiects the name of good, by his gouernment.

650How farre is his Court distant from this shore?

¶1. Mary sir, halfe a dayes iourney: And Ile tell you,

¶He hath a faire Daughter, and to morrow is her birth-day,

¶And there are Princes and Knights come from all partes of

¶the World, to Iust and Turney for her loue.

655Per. Were my fortunes equall to my desires,

¶I could wish to make one there.

¶1. O sir, things must be as they may: and what a man can

¶not get, he may lawfully deale for his Wiues soule.

Enter the two Fisher-men, drawing vp a Net.

6602. Helpe Maister helpe; heere's a Fish hanges in the Net,

¶Like a poore mans right in the law: t'will hardly come out.

¶Ha bots on't, tis come at last; & tis turnd to a rusty Armour.

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