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- # Pericles Prince of Tyre.
**Peri.** Great King,
Few loue to heare the finnes they loue to ačt,
T’would brayde your felfe too neare for me to tell it:
Who has a booke of all that Monarches doe,
Hee’s more fecure to keepe it fhut, then fhowne.
For Vice repeated, is like the wandring Wind,
Blowes duft in others eyes to fpread it felfe;
And yet the end of all is bought thus deare,
The breath is gone, and the fore eyes fee cleare:
To ftop the Ayre would hurt them, the blind Mole caftes
Copt hilles towards heauen, to tell the earth is throng’d
By mans opprefsion, and the poore Worme doth die for’t:
Kinges are earths Gods in vice, their law’s their will:
And if loue ftray, who dares fay, loue doth ill:
It is enough you know, and it is fit;
What being more knowne, growes worfe, to finother it.
All loue the Wombe that their firft beeing bred,
Then giue my tongue like leaue, to loue my head. (ning:
**Ant.** Heauen, that I had thy head; he ha’s found the mea-
But I will gloze with him. Young Prince of Tyre,
Though by the tenour of your ftričt edičt,
Your exposition mifinterpreting,
We might proceed to counfell of your dayes;
Yet hope, fucceeding from fo faire a tree
As your faire felfe, doth tune vs otherwise;
Fourtie dayes longer we doe refpite you,
If by which time, our fecret be vndone,
This mercy fhewes, wee’le ioy in fuch a Sonne:
And vntill then, your entertaine fhall bee
As doth befit our honour and your worth.
**Manes Pericles folus.**
**Peri.** How courtefe would feeme to couer finne,
When what is done, is like an hipocrite,
The which is good in nothing but in fight.
If it be true that I interpret falfe,
Then were it certaine you were not fo bad,
As with foule Inceft to abufe your foule:
Where
I. i. 91—126
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