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ACT V IT

Enter Gower.

GOWER
Marina thus the brothel ’scapes, and chances

Into an honest house, our story says.
She sings like one immortal, and she dances
As goddess-like to her admirèd lays.

Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes [5]
Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
That even her art sisters the natural roses;
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry;
That pupils lacks she none of noble race,

Who pour their bounty on her, and her gain [10]
She gives the cursèd bawd. Here we her place,
And, to her father turn our thoughts again,

Where we left him on the sea. We there him lost,
Where, driven before the winds, he is arrived
Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast [15]
Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived
God Neptune’s annual feast to keep; from whence

Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense;
And to him in his barge with fervour hies. [20]

In your supposing once more put your sight;
Of heavy Pericles, think this his bark;
Where what is done in action, more if might,
Shall be discovered. Please you sit and hark.
Exit.

Scene I IT

Enter Helicanus. To him, two Sailors, one of Tyre and one of Mytilene.