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,

1057And Time that is so briefly spent,

1058With your fine fancies quaintly each,

1059What's dumbe in shew, I'le plaine with speach.

1066By many a dearne and painefull pearch

1067Of Perycles the carefull search,

1068By the fower opposing Crignes,

1069Which the world togeather ioynes,

1070Is made with all due diligence,

1071That horse and sayle and hie expence,

1072Can steed the quest at last from Tyre:

1073Fame answering the most strange enquire,

1074To'th Court of King Symonides,

1075Are Letters brought, the tenour these:

1076Antiochus and his daughter dead,

1077The men of Tyrus, on the head

1078Of Helycanus would set on

1079The Crowne of Tyre, but he will none:

1080The mutanie, hee there hastes t'oppresse,

1081Sayes to'em, if King Pericles

1082Come not home in twise sixe Moones,

1083He obedient to their doomes,

1084Will take the Crowne: the summe of this,

1085Brought hither to Penlapolis,

1086Iranyshed the regions round,

1087And euery one with claps can sound,

1088Our heyre apparant is a King:

1089Who dreampt? who thought of such a thing?

1090Briefe he must hence depart to Tyre,

1091His Queene with child, makes her desire,

1092Which who shall crosse along to goe,

1093Omit we all their dole and woe:

1094Lichorida her Nurse she takes,

1095And so to Sea; their vessell shakes,

1096On Neptunes billow, halfe the flood,

1097Hath their Keele cut: but fortune mou'd,

1098Varies againe, the grisled North

1099Disgorges such a tempest forth,

1100That as a Ducke for life that diues,

1101So vp and downe the poore Ship driues:

1102The Lady shreekes, and wel-a-neare,

1103Do's fall in trauayle with her feare:

1104And what ensues in this fell storme,

1105Shall for it selfe, it selfe performe:

1106I nill relate, action may

1107Conueniently the rest conuay;

1108Which might not? what by me is told,

1109In your imagination hold:

1110This Stage, the Ship, vpon whose Decke

1111The seas tost Pericles appeares to speake.