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Sir, I will use
               My utmost skill in his recovery, provided
               That none but I and my companion maid [75]
               Be suffered to come near him.



              LYSIMACHUS
                               Come, let us leave her,

               And the gods make her prosperous.


                                                      They withdraw.


                                                       Marina sings.



              LYSIMACHUS
          (coming forward)
               Marked he your music?



              MARINA

                               No, nor looked on us.


              LYSIMACHUS

          (withdrawing)
               See, she will speak to him.



              MARINA
               Hal, sir! My lord, lend ear.



              PERICLES
                               Hum, ha! [80]



              MARINA
               I am a maid,
               My lord, that ne’er before invited eyes,

               But have been gazed on like a comet. She speaks,
               My lord, that maybe hath endured a grief
               Might equal yours, if both were justly weighed. [85]

               Though wayward fortune did malign my state,
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