Pericles, Prince of Tyre: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V [Prologue] SCENE I. On board PERICLES' ship, off Mytilene. A close pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying beside the Tyrian vessel. SCENE II SCENE III. The temple of Diana at Ephesus; THAISA standing near the altar, as high priestess; a number of Virgins on each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants of Ephesus attending. About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: [Prologue] 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 admired lays; 5     Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes       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, 10    Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain       She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place;       And to her father turn our thoughts again,       Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;       Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived 15    Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast       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, trimm'd with rich expense; 20    And to him in his barge with fervor hies.       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 discover'd; please you, sit and hark. Exit Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene