Where is Lord Helicanus? He can resolve you. [Seeing Helicanus]

5.1.21992Oh, here he is. [To Helicanus]

5.1.3Sir, there is a barge put off from Metalin,

5.1.4And 1993in it is Lysimachus, the governor,

5.1.5Who craves to come a1994board. What is your will?

That he have his.

That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.

Ho, gentlemen! My lord calls!

Doth your lordship call?

Gentlemen, there is some of worth would come 2000aboard.

5.1.10I pray you, greet him fairly.

[To Lysimachus] Sir,

5.1.12This is the man that can in aught you would

5.1.132003Resolve you.

[To Helicanus] Hail, reverend sir; the gods preserve you.

And you to outlive the age I am,

5.1.16And die as I 2006would do.

And die as I would do. You wish me well.

5.1.17Being on shore, honoring of 2008Neptune's triumphs,

5.1.18Seeing this goodly vessel ride before 2009us,

5.1.19I made to it, to know of whence you are.

First, what is your place?

I am the governor of this place you lie before.

Sir, our vessel is of Tyre; in it the king,

5.1.23A man 2013who for this three months hath not spoken

5.1.24To any one, 2014nor taken sustenance

5.1.25But to prorogue his grief.

Upon what ground is his distemperature?

'Twould be too tedious to repeat,

5.1.28But the main 2017grief springs from the loss

5.1.29Of a beloved daughter and a wife.

May we not see him?

You may,

5.1.32But bootless is your sight: he will not 2020speak

5.1.33To any.

To any. Yet let me obtain my wish.

Behold him. This was a goodly person.

5.1.352022Till the disaster that, one mortal night,

5.1.36Drove him 2023to this.

Sir king, all hail. The gods preserve you.

5.1.38Hail, 2025royal sir.

It is in vain. He will not speak to you.

[To Lysimachus] Sir,

5.1.41We have a maid in Metalin, I durst wager,

5.1.42Would 2028win some words of him.

Would win some words of him. 'Tis well bethought.

5.1.43She, questionless, with her sweet 2030harmony

5.1.44And other chosen attractions, would allure,

5.1.45And 2031make a battery through his deafened ports

5.1.46Which now are 2032midway stopped.

5.1.47She is all happy as the fair'st of all,

5.1.48And with her 2033fellow maid is now upon

5.1.49The leavy shelter that abuts a2034gainst

5.1.50The island's side.

Sure, all effectless. Yet nothing we'll omit

5.1.52That 2036bears recovery's name. But since your kindness

5.1.53We have 2037stretched thus far, let us beseech you,

5.1.54That for our gold 2038we may provision have,

5.1.55Wherein we are not destitute for 2039want,

5.1.56But weary for the staleness.

But weary for the staleness. Oh, sir, a courtesy,

5.1.57Which if we should deny, the most 2041just god

5.1.58For every graft would send a caterpillar,

5.1.59And so 2042inflict our province. Yet once more

5.1.60Let me entreat to 2043know at large the cause

5.1.61Of your king's sorrow.

Sit sir, I will recount it to you. But see,

5.1.63I am pre2045vented.

Oh, here's the lady that I sent for.

5.1.652047[To Marina] Welcome, fair one. [To Helicanus] Is't not a goodly presence?

She's a gallant lady.

She's such a one that, were I well assured

5.1.682050Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,

5.1.69I'd wish 2051no better choice, and think me rarely wed.

5.1.702052Fair one, all goodness that consists in beauty:

5.1.712053Expect even here, where is a kingly patient --

5.1.722054If that thy prosperous and artificial feat

5.1.732055Can draw him but to answer thee in aught --

5.1.742056Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay

5.1.752057As thy desires can wish.

As thy desires can wish. Sir, I will use

5.1.76My utmost skill in his recovery, pro2059vided

5.1.77That none but I and my companion maid

5.1.78Be suffered 2060to come near him.

[To the others] Come, let us leave her,

5.1.80And the gods make her pro2062sperous.

[Coming forward, to Marina] Marked he your music?

[Coming forward, to Marina] Marked he your music? No, nor looked on us.

[Falling back, to the others] See, she will speak to him.

[To Pericles] Hail, sir. My lord, lend ear.

Hum, ha![He pushes her away violently.]

I am a maid,

5.1.86My lord, that ne'er before invited 2069eyes,

5.1.87But have been gazed on like a comet. She speaks,

5.1.882070My lord, that maybe hath endured a grief

5.1.89Might equal 2071yours, if both were justly weighed.

5.1.90Though wayward fortune 2072did malign my state,

5.1.91My derivation was from ancestors

5.1.922073Who stood equivalent with mighty kings.

5.1.93But time hath 2074rooted out my parentage,

5.1.94And to the world and awkward 2075casualties

5.1.95Bound me in servitude. [Aside] I will desist,

5.1.96But there is 2076something glows upon my cheek

5.1.97And whispers in mine 2077ear, "Go not till he speak."

My fortunes -- parentage -- good parentage --

5.1.99To equal 2079mine. Was it not thus? What say you?

I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,

5.1.1012081You would not do me violence.

I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me,

5.1.1032083You're like something that -- what countrywoman?

5.1.104Here of 2084these shores?

Here of these shores? No, nor of any shores,

5.1.105Yet I was mortally brought 2086forth, and am

5.1.106No other than I appear.

I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping:

5.1.108My 2088dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one

5.1.109My daugh2089ter might have been. My queen's square brows,

5.1.110Her 2090stature to an inch, as wandlike-straight,

5.1.111As silver-voiced, 2091her eyes as jewel-like,

5.1.112And cased as richly, in pace ano2092ther Juno,

5.1.113Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes 2093them hungry,

5.1.114The more she gives them speech. Where do 2094you live?

Where I am but a stranger. From the deck

5.1.116You 2096may discern the place.

You may discern the place. Where were you bred?

5.1.117And how achieved you these 2098endowments which

5.1.118You make more rich to owe?

You make more rich to owe? If I should tell

5.1.119My history, it would seem like 2100lies

5.1.120Disdained in the reporting.

Disdained in the reporting. Prithee, speak.

5.1.121Falseness cannot come from thee, 2102for thou

5.1.122Lookest modest as Justice, and thou seemest

5.1.123A palace 2103for the crownèd Truth to dwell in.

5.1.124I will believe thee,

5.1.125And make my 2104senses credit thy relation

5.1.126To points that seem impossible, 2105for thou look'st

5.1.127Like one I loved indeed: what were thy 2106friends?

5.1.128Didst thou not say when I did push thee back,

5.1.1292107Which was when I perceived thee, that thou cam'st

5.1.130From 2108good descending?

From good descending? So indeed I did.

Report thy parentage. I think thou saidst

5.1.132Thou hadst 2110been tossed from wrong to injury,

5.1.133And that thou thought'st 2111thy griefs might equal mine,

5.1.134If both were opened.

If both were opened. Some such thing I said,

5.1.135And said no more but what 2113my thoughts

5.1.136Did warrant me was likely.

Did warrant me was likely. Tell thy story.

5.1.137If thine considered prove the thou2115sand part

5.1.138Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I

5.1.139Have 2116suffered like a girl, yet thou dost look

5.1.140Like Patience 2117gazing on kings' graves and smiling

5.1.141Extremity out of 2118act. What were thy friends?

5.1.142How lost thou them? Thy name, 2119my most kind virgin?

5.1.143Recount I do beseech thee. Come, 2120sit by me.

My name is Marina.

My name is Marina. Oh, I am mocked;

5.1.145And thou by some incensèd God 2123sent hither

5.1.146To make the world to laugh at me.

To make the world to laugh at me. Patience, good sir:

5.1.147Or here I'll cease.

Or here I'll cease. Nay, I'll be patient:

5.1.148Thou little know'st how thou 2126dost startle me

5.1.149To call thyself Marina.

To call thyself Marina. The name

5.1.151Was given me by one that had some 2128power:

My father, and a king.

My father, and a king. How? A king's daughter,

5.1.153And called Marina?

And called Marina? You said you would believe me;

5.1.154But not to be a 2131troubler of your peace,

5.1.155I will end here.

I will end here. But are you flesh and blood?

5.1.1562133Have you a working pulse? And are no fairy?

5.1.1572134No motion? Well, speak on. Where were you born?

5.1.1582135And wherefore called Marina?

And wherefore called Marina? Called Marina

5.1.159For I was born at sea.

For I was born at sea. At sea? What mother?

My mother was the daughter of a king,

5.1.161Who died 2139the minute I was born,

5.1.162As my good nurse Lychorida hath 2140oft

5.1.163Delivered weeping.

Delivered weeping. Oh, stop there a little.

5.1.164[Aside] This is the rarest dream 2142that e'er dulled sleep

5.1.165Did mock sad fools withal. 2143This cannot be

5.1.166My daughter, buried. [To Marina] Well, where were you 2144bred?

5.1.167I'll hear you more -- to th'bottom of your story,

5.1.1682145And never interrupt you.

You scorn. Believe me; 'twere best I did give o'er.

I will believe you by the syllable

5.1.171Of what you shall 2148deliver. Yet give me leave:

5.1.172How came you in these parts? 2149Where were you bred?

The king my father did in Tharsus leave me,

5.1.1742151'Til cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,

5.1.1752152Did seek to murder me and wooed a villain

5.1.1762153To attempt it, who having drawn to do't,

5.1.1772154A crew of pirates came and rescued me,

5.1.1782155Brought me to Metalin -- 2156But, good sir,

5.1.179Whither will you have me? Why do you weep? 2157It may be

5.1.180You think me an impostor. No, good faith!

5.1.181I 2158am the daughter to King Pericles,

5.1.182If good King Pericles be.

If good King Pericles be. [Calling out] Ho, Helicanus!

[Coming forward] Calls my lord?

Thou art a grave and noble counselor,

5.1.1852162Most wise in general. Tell me if thou canst

5.1.186What this maid 2163is, or what is like to be,

5.1.187That thus hath made me 2164weep.

That thus hath made me weep. I know not.

5.1.188But here's the regent, sir, of Metalin,

5.1.1892166Speaks nobly of her.

Speaks nobly of her. [Coming forward] She never would tell

5.1.190Her parentage. 2168Being demanded that,

5.1.191She would sit still and weep.

O Helicanus, strike me, honored sir.

5.1.193Give me a 2170gash, put me to present pain,

5.1.194Lest this great sea of joys ru2171shing upon me,

5.1.195O'er-bear the shores of my mortality,

5.1.196And 2172drown me with their sweetness. [To Marina] O come hither,

5.1.1972173Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget,

5.1.1982174Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tharsus,

5.1.1992175And found at sea again. O Helicanus,

5.1.2002176Down on thy knees; thank the holy gods as loud

5.1.2012177As thunder threatens us: this is Marina!

5.1.2022178What was thy mother's name? Tell me but that,

5.1.2032179For truth can never be confirmed enough,

5.1.2042180Though doubts did ever sleep.

First sir, I pray, what is your title?

I am Pericles of Tyre! But tell me now

5.1.207My 2183drowned queen's name, as in the rest you said

5.1.2082184Thou hast been god-like perfect, the heir of kingdoms,

5.1.2092185And another life to Pericles, thy father.

[Kneeling] Is it no more to be your daughter than

5.1.211To say my 2187mother's name was Thaisa?

5.1.212Thaisa was my mother, who did 2188end

5.1.213The minute I began.

Now blessing on thee! Rise, thou art my child.

5.1.2152190Give me fresh garments. [Helicanus rises.] Mine own, Helicanus! She is

5.1.216Not 2191dead at Tharsus, as she should have been

5.1.217By savage Cleon. 2192She shall tell thee all,

5.1.218When thou shalt kneel, and justify in 2193knowledge,

5.1.219She is thy very princess. Who is this?

Sir, 'tis the governor of Metalin,

5.1.221Who, hearing of 2195your melancholy state,

5.1.222Did come to see you.

Did come to see you. [Greeting Lysimachus] I embrace you.

5.1.224Give me my robes. 2197I am wild in my beholding.

5.1.225O heavens, bless my girl! 2198[Music begins.] But hark! What music?

5.1.226Tell Helicanus, my Marina, 2199tell him

5.1.227O'er point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,

5.1.2282200How sure you are my daughter. But what music?

My lord, I hear none.

None?

5.1.231The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.

[To the others] It is not good to cross him. Give him way.

Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?

Music, my lord? I hear --

Music, my lord? I hear -- Most heavenly music.

5.1.2352207It nips me unto list'ning, and thick slumber

5.1.2362208Hangs upon mine eyes. Let me rest.

A pillow for his head. [Attendants provide a pillow.] So, leave him all.

5.1.2382210[As they withdraw] Well, my companion friends,

5.1.239If this but answer to my just 2211belief,

5.1.240I'll well remember you.

My temple stands in Ephesus.2214Hie thee thither,

5.1.242And do upon mine altar sacrifice;

5.1.2432215There when my maiden priests are met together

5.1.2442215.1[At large discourse thy fortunes in this wise:

5.1.245With a full voice] before the 2216people all

5.1.246Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife,

5.1.247To 2217mourn thy crosses with thy daughter's, call

5.1.248And give them 2218repetition to the life.

5.1.249Perform my bidding, or thou li2219v'st in woe;

5.1.250Do't, and happy, by my silver bow.

5.1.251Awake and 2220tell thy dream. [Diana ascends.]

Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,

5.1.2532222I will obey thee. [Calling] Helicanus!

I will obey thee. [Calling] Helicanus! Sir?

My purpose was for Tharsus, there to strike

5.1.2552224The inhospitable Cleon, but I am

5.1.256For other service first. 2225Toward Ephesus

5.1.257Turn our blown sails; 2226eftsoons I'll tell thee why.

5.1.258[To Lysimachus] Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your 2227shore,

5.1.259And give you gold for such provision

5.1.260As our in2228tents will need.

Sir,

5.1.262With all my heart. And when you come ashore,

5.1.2632230I have another suit.

I have another suit. You shall prevail,

5.1.264Were it to woo my daughter, for 2232it seems

5.1.265You have been noble towards her.

Sir, lend me your arm.

Sir, lend me your arm. Come, my Marina.