Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Quarto)

Pericles Prince of Tyre.
 1441borne in a tempest, when my mother dide, this world to me
 1442is a lasting storme, whirring me from my friends.
 1443Dion. How now Marina, why doe yow keep alone?
 1444How chaunce my daughter is not with you?
 1445Doe not consume your bloud with sorrowing,
 1446Haue you a nurse of me? Lord how your fauours
 1447Changd with this vnprofitable woe:
 1448Come giue me your flowers, ere the sea marre it,
 1449Walke with Leonine, the ayre is quicke there,
 1450And it perces and sharpens the stomacke,
 1451Come Leonine take her by the arme, walke with her.
 1452Mari. No I pray you, Ile not bereaue you of your seruañt .
 1453Dion. Come, come, I loue the king your father, and your
 1454selfe, with more then forraine heart, wee euery day expect
 1455him here, when he shall come and find our Paragon to all
 1456reports thus blasted,
 1457He will repent the breadth of his great voyage, blame both
 1458my Lord and me, that we haue taken no care to your best
 1459courses, go I pray you, walke and be chearfull once againe,
 1460reserue that excellent complexion, which did steale the
 1461eyes of yong and old. Care not for me, I can goe home a-
 1462lone.
 1463Mari. Well, I will goe, but yet I haue no desire too it.
 1464Dion. Come, come, I know tis good for you, walke halfe
 1465an houre Leonine, at the least, remember what I haue sed.
 1466Leon. I warrant you Madam.
 1467Dion. Ile leaue you my sweete Ladie, for a while, pray
 1468walke softly, doe not heate your bloud, what, I must haue
 1469care of you.
 1470Mari. My thanks sweete Madame, Is this wind Westerlie
 1471that blowes?
 1472Leon. Southwest.
 1473Mari.When I was borne the wind was North.
 1474LeonWast so?
 1475Mari. My father, as nurse ses, did neuer feare, but cryed
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