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Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto)
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590And when I had been in his belly,
591I would haue kept such a iangling of the Belles,
592That he should neuer haue left,
594But if the good King Simonides were of my minde.
597That robbe the Bee of her Hony.
600And from their watry empire recollect,
601All that may men approue, or men detect.
604Search out of the Kalender, and no body looke after it?
6062. What a drunken Knaue was the Sea,
607To cast thee in our way?
608Per. A man whom both the Waters and the Winde,
609In that vast Tennis-court, hath made the Ball
610For them to play vpon, intreates you pittie him:
611Hee askes of you, that neuer vs'd to begge.
6121. No friend, cannot you begge?
613Heer's them in our countrey of Greece,
614Gets more with begging, then we can doe with working.
619Per. What I haue been, I haue forgot to know;
620But what I am, want teaches me to thinke on:
621A man throng'd vp with cold, my Veines are chill,
623To giue my tongue that heat to aske your helpe:
625For that I am a man, pray you see me buried.
1. Die