Page 231 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

MARINA

Where I am but a stranger. From the deck
You may discern the place.

PERICLES
Where were you bred?
And how achieved you these endowments which

You make more rich to owe? [115]

MARINA
If I should tell my history, it would seem
Like lies disdained in the reporting.

PERICLES
Prithee speak.
Falseness cannot come from thee, for thou lookest

Modest as Justice, and thou seemest a Pallas
For the crowned Truth to dwell in. I will believe thee, [120]
And make my senses credit thy relation
To points that seem impossible, for thou lookest

Like one I Ioved indeed. What were thy friends?
Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back −
Which was when I perceived thee − that thou camest [125]
From good descending?

MARINA
So indeed I did.

PERICLES

Report thy parentage. I think thou saidst
Thou hadst been tossed from wrong to injury,
And that thou thought’st thy griefs might equal mine,
If both were opened.

MARINA

Some such thing I said, [130]
And said no more but what my thougths