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?

I will, my lord.

Cer.

Beseech you, first go with me to my house,
Where shall be shown you all was found with her;
How she came placed here in the temple;

No needful thing omitted.

Per. Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I

Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,
This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,
Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,

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This ornament

Makes me look dismal will I 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,
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, leads the way.

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[Exeunt.

Enter Gower.

Gow. In Antiochus 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,
Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by heaven and crown'd with joy at last:
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

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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, although not done, but meant.

So, on your patience evermore attending,
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.

[Exit.

Glossary.

Absolute, faultless, perfect; Prol. IV. | Beacon; I. iv. 87. The subjoined cut Can=gan, (an old auxiliary form) | Countless, infinite; I. i. 31.

=did; Prol. III. 36.
Cates, delicacies; II. iii. 29.
Censure, opinion; II. iv. 34.
Chance, chances it; IV. i. 23.
Character, handwriting; III. iv. 3.
Cheapen, bid for; IV. vi. 10.

Chequin, an Italian gold coin (Quarto
1, "Checkins"; Quartos 2, 3,
"Chickins"; Quartos 4, 5, 6,
Folio 3, "Chickeens"; Folio 4,
"Chickens"); IV. ii. 28. (Cp.
illustration.)

Cunning, knowledge, skill; III. ii. 27.
Curious, elegant, nice; I. iv. 43.

Darks, darkens, obscures; Prol. IV. 35.

Date, appointed term of life; III. iv.
14.

Death-like, deadly; I. i. 29.
Deliver, tell, relate; V. iii. 63.
Deliver'd, told, related; V. i. 162.
Dern, secret, dreary; Prol. III. 15.
Desire (trisyllabic); I. i. 20.
Diana's temple; III. iv. 13. (This
famous buildingiswell represented
in the large brass medallion of An-
toninus Pius, here facsimiled.)

From a Venetian specimen of
Shakespeare's era.

Chiding, noisy; III. i. 32.
City, inhabitants of the city, citizens;
V. iii. 97.

Clear, virtuous; IV. vi. 113.
Clerks, scholars; Prol. V. 5.
Cockles, mussel-shells; IV. iv. 2.
Coigns, corners (Quartos, Folios 3,
4, "Crignes"); Prol. III. 17.
Commend, commendation; II. ii. 49.
Companion; " her mild c.," "the com-

Distain, stain (Steevens conj.; Quartos and Folios 3, 4, “disdaine"); IV. iii. 31.

Ember-eves, evenings preceding the
ember-days, days of fasting at
four seasons of the year; Prol. 1. 6.
Entertain, entertainment; I. 1. 119.
Entrance (trisyllabic); II. iii. 64.
Erst, erewhile, formerly; I. i. 49.
Escapen, escape; Prol. II. 36.
Exposition, expounding, interpreta-

tion; I. i. 112.
Extremity, the extremity of suffering;
V. i. 140.

Eyne, eyes; Prol. III. 5.

Griefs, grievances; II. iv. 23.
Grieve, grieve us; II. iv. 19.
Gripe at, grasp at, catch at; I. i. 49

"with

Haling, dragging (Malone, hauling of the"); IV. i. 55. Happily, haply, perhaps; I. iv. 92. Hatched, closed with a half door; IV. ii. 35. Having, possession; II. i. 143. Heap, mass, body (Jackson conj. "head"; Collier (ed. 2), "head"; Bailey conj. "shape"); I. i. 33. Hie thee, hasten; III. i. 69. Hies, hastens; Prol. V. 20. Hight, is called; Prol. IV. 18. Holy-ales, rural festivals on saints' days; (?) church-ales, or wakes (Steevens' emendation; Quartos and Folios, holy-dayes"); Prol. I. 6. (The annexed cut is "Peer");

Fact, deed, (?) crime (Quartos, Folios 3, 4, "face"; Mason conj. "feat");

IV. iii. 12.

Fault, misfortune; IV. ii. 75.
Favour, face, appearance; IV. i. 25;
V. iii. 1 3.

Fere, companion, spouse (Quartos,
"Peere"; Folios 3, 4,
Prol. I. 21.

Fits, befits; I. i. 157.
Flap-jacks, pancakes; II. i. 87.
Flaw, stormy wind; III. i. 39.
For, fit for; I. i. 7.

-, for fear of; I. i. 40.

-, in place of, instead of; III.i.62.
-, because; III. iii. 13; V. i.
158; V. iii. 48.

Forbear, bear with; II. iv. 46.
'Fore, before (Quartos, Folios 3, 4,
"from"); Prol. III. 6.
For that, because; II. i. 81.
Frame, go, resort; Prol. I. 32.
-, shape, mould; II. v. 81.
Furtherance, help; II. i. 158.

Gat, begat; II. ii. 6.

'Gins, begins; III. ii. 95.
Give him glad, make him glad; Prol.

II. 38.

Give's, give us; II. iv. 32.
Glad, gladden; I. iv. 28.

Gloze, make empty words, use deceit;
1. i. 110.

Gone through, bid high; IV. ii. 47.
Graff, graft; V. i. 60.

Greets, gratifies; IV. iii. 38.

a

unique representation of one of these ancient popular festivals.)

Honour, honourable office; II ii. 14.
Husbandry, economy of time; (?)