What minstrelsy, and pretty din,
The regent made in Mitylin,

To greet the king. So he has thriv'd,
That he is promis'd to be wiv'd
To fair Marina; but in no wise,
Till he had done his sacrifice,

As Dian bade: whereto being bound,
The interim, pray you, all confound.
In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd
And wishes fall out as they're will'd.
At Ephesus, the temple see,
Our king, and all his company,
That he can hither come so soon,
Is by your fancy's thankful boon.

SCENE III.

[Exit..

The Temple of DIANA at Ephesus; THAISA standing near the Altar, as high Priestess; a number of Virgins of each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending. Enter PERICLES, with his Train; LYSIMACHUS, HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady.

Per. Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,
I here confess myself the king of Tyre;
Who, frighted from my country, did wed
The fair Thaisa, at Pentapolis.

At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
A maid-child, call'd Marina; who, O goddess,
Wears yet thy silver livery.' She at Tharsus
Was nurs❜d with Cleon; whom at fourteen years
He sought to murder: but her better stars
Brought her to Mitylene; against whose shore
Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,
Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she
Made known herself my daughter.

Thai. Voice and favour!—

You are, you are-O royal Pericles !—

[9] Does this accord with Iachimo's description:

"Live, like Diana's priestess, 'twixt cold sheets?"

[She faints.

Diana must have been wofully imposed on, if she received the mother of Marina as a maiden votaress.

STEEVENS.

[1] Her white robe of innocence, as being yet under the protection of the goddess of chastity. PERCY.

[2] The similitude between this scene, and the discovery in the last Act of The Winter's Tale, will, I suppose, strike every reader. MALONE.

Per. What means the woman? she dies! help, gentle

men !

Cer. Noble sir,

If you have told Diana's altar true,

This is your wife.

Per. Reverend appearer, no;

I threw her o'erboard with these very arms.
Cer. Upon this coast, I warrant you.

Per. 'Tis most certain.

Cer. Look to the lady ;-O, she's but o'erjoy'd. Early, one blust'ring morn, this lady was

Thrown on this shore. I op'd the coffin, and

Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and plac'd her Here in Diana's temple.

Per. May we see them?

Cer. Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you.

Recover'd.

Thai. O, let me look !

Look! Thaisa is

If he be none of mine, my sanctity
Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,
But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,
Are you not Pericles? Like him you speak,
Like him you are: Did you not name a tempest,
A birth, and death?

Per. The voice of dead Thaisa!

Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed dead,

And drown'd.

Per. Immortal Dian!

Thai. Now I know you better.

When we with tears parted Pentapolis,

The king, my father, gave you such a ring.

[Shows a Ring.

Per. This, this: no more, you gods! your present

kindness

Makes my past miseries sport: You shall do well,
That on the touching of her lips I may

Melt, and no more be seen.3 O come, be buried

[3] This is a sentiment which Shakespeare never fails to introduce on occasions similiar to the present. So, in Othello:

"If it were now to die

""Twere now to be most happy," &c.

Again, in The Winter's Tale:

"If I might die within this hour, I have liv'd,

"To die when I desire."

MÁLONE.

So, in the 39th Psalm :--- O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."

STEEVENS.

A second time within these arms.

Mar. My heart

Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.

[Kneels to THAISA.

Per. Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thai

sa;

Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina,

For she was yielded there.

Thai. Bless'd and mine own!

Hel. Hail, madam, and my queen!

Thai. I know you not.

Per. You heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre, I left behind an ancient substitute,

Can you remember what I call'd the man?

I have nam'd him oft.

Thai. 'Twas Helicanus then.

Per. Still confirmation :

Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.
Now do I long to hear how you were found;
How possibly preserv'd; and whom to thank,
Besides the gods, for this great miracle.

Thai. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man

Thro' whom the gods have shown their power; that can From first to last resolve you.

Per. Reverend sir,

The gods can have no mortal officer

More like a god than you.

Will you deliver

How this dead queen re-lives?

Cer. I will, my lord.

Beseech you, first go with me to my house,

Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
How she came placed here within the temple ;
No needful thing omitted.

Per. Pure Diana!

I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer

My night oblations to thee. Thaisa,

This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,
This ornament that makes me look so dismal,

Will I, my lov'd Marina, clip to form;

And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,
To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.

Thai. Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit,

Sir, that my father's dead.

Per. Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my

queen,

We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
Will in that kingdom spend our following days;
Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay,
To hear the rest untold.-Sir, lead the way.

Enter GoWER.

[Exeunt..

Gow. In Antioch, and his daughter, you have heard
Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:
In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen
(Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen)
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.*
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,
In Helicanus may you well descry

A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:
In reverend Cerimon there well appears,
The worth that learned charity aye wears.
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn;

That him and his they in his palace burn.
The gods for murder seemed so content

To punish them; although not done, but meant.
So on your patience evermore attending,

New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending

[Exit GoWER.

[4] It would be difficult to produce from the works of Shakespeare many couplets

more spirited and harmonius than this.

MALONE.

ADDENDA.

VOL. I.

SHAKESPEARE'S LIFE.

Page 5. His father, who was a considerable dealer in wool,] It appears that he had been an officer and bailiff of Stratford-upon-Avon; and that he enjoyed some hereditary lands and tenements, the reward of his grandfather's faithful and approved services to King Henry VII. THEOBALD.

The chief Magistrate of the Body Corporate of Stratford, now distinguished by the title of Mayor, was in the early charters called the High Bailiff. This office Mr. John Shakespeare filled in 1569, as appears from the following extracts from the books of the corporation, with which I have been favoured by the Rev. Mr. Davenport, Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon :

“Jan. 10, in the 6th year of the reign of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, John Shakespeare passed his Chamberlain's accounts.

"At the Hall holden the eleventh day of September, in the eleventh year of the reign of our sovereign lady Elizabeth, 1569, were present Mr. John Shakespeare, High Bailiff." [Then follow the names of the Aldermen and Burgesses.]

At the Hall holden Nov. 19th, in the 21st year of the reign of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, it is ordained, that every Alderman shall be taxed to pay weekly 4d. saving John Shakespeare and Robert Bruce, who shall not be taxed to pay any thing; and every burgess to pay 2d."

"At the Hall holden on the 6th of September in the 28th year of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth.

"At this Hall William Smith and Richard Courte are chosen to be Aldermen in the places of John Wheler, and John Shakespeare, for that Mr. Wheler doth desire to be put out of the company, and Mr. Shakespeare doth not come to the halls, when they be warned, nor hath not done of long time."

From these extracts it may be collected, (as is observed by the gentlemen above mentioned, to whose obliging attention to my inquiries I am indebted for many particulars relative to our poet's family,) that Mr. John Shakespeare in the former part of his life was in good circumstances, such persons being generally chosen into the corporation; and from his being excused [in 1579] to pay 4d. weekly, and at a subsequent period (1586) put out of the corporation, that he was then reduced in his circumstances.

It appears from a note to W. Dethick's Grant of Arms to him in 1596, now in the College of Arms Vincent, Vol. 157, p. 24, that he was a justice of the peace, and possessed of lands and tenements to the amount of 5001.

Our poet's mother was the daughter and heir of Robert Arden of Wellingcote, in the county of Warwick, who, in the MS. above referred to, is called "a gentleman of worship." The family of Arden is a very ancient one; Robert Arden of Broomwich, being in the list of the gentry of this county, returned by the commissioners in the twelfth year of King Henry VI. A. D. 1433. Edward Arden was Sheriff to the county in 1568.-The woodland part of this county was anciently called Ardern; afterwards softened to Arden. Hence the name. MALONE.

P. 5. He had bred him it is true, for some time, at a free-school,] The free-school, I presume, founded at Stratford.

THEOBALD.

P. 6. into that way of living which his father proposed to him] I believe that on leaving school Shakespeare was placed in the office of some country attorney or the seneschal of some manor court. MALONE.

P. 6. he thought fit to marry while he was yet very young] It is certain he did so; for by the monument in Stratford church erected to the memory of his daughter, Susannah, the wife of John Hall, gentleman. it appears that she was born in 1583, when her father could not be full 19 years old. THEOBALD.