Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto)

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 1023At that, would make me glad?
 1024King. Yea Mistris, are you so peremptorie?
 1025I am glad on't with all my heart,
 1026Ile tame you; Ile bring you in subiection.  Aside.
 1027Will you not, hauing my consent,
 1028Bestow your loue and your affections,
 1029Vpon a Stranger? who for ought I know,
 1030May be (nor can I thinke the contrary)  Aside.
 1031As great in blood as I my selfe:
 1032Therefore, heare you Mistris, either frame
 1033Your will to mine: and you sir, heare you;
 1034Either be rul'd by mee, or Ile make you,
 1035Man and wife: nay come, your hands,
 1036And lippes must seale it too: and being ioynd,
 1037Ile thus your hopes destroy, and for further griefe:
 1038God giue you ioy; what are you both pleased?
 1039Tha. Yes, if you loue me sir?
 1040Peri. Euen as my life, my blood that fosters it.
 1041King. What are you both agreed?
 1042Ambo. Yes, if't please your Maiestie.
 1043King. It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed,
 1044And then with what haste you can, get you to bed. Exeunt.
 
 
 1045Enter Gower.
 
 1046Now sleepe yslacked hath the rout,
 1047No din but snores about the house,
 1048Made louder by the orefed breast,
 1049Of this most pompous maryage Feast:
 1050The Catte with eyne of burning cole,
 1051Now coutches from the Mouses hole;
 1052And Cricket sing at the Ouens mouth,
 1053Are the blyther for their drouth:
 1054Hymen hath brought the Bride to bed,
 1055Where by the losse of maydenhead,
 1056A Babe is moulded: be attent,
And

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Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto)