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- # Pericles Prince of Tyre.
You Gods that made me man, and sway in love;
That haue enflamde defire in my breast,
To talle the fruite of yon celelthall tree,
(Or die in th’adventure) be my helpes,
As I am fonne and feruant to your will,
To compaffe such a bondlesse happinesse.
**Ant. Prince Persius.**
**Tert.** That would be fonne to great **Antiochus.**
**Ant.** Before thee flandes this faire **Hesperides,**
With golden fruite, but dangerous to be toucht:
For Death like Dragons heere affright thee hard:
Her face like Heaven, inticeth thee to view
Her countlesse glory; which desert must gaine:
And which without desert, because thine eye
Prefumes to reach, all the whole heape must die:
Yon sometimes famous Princes, like thy felse,
Drawne by report, adventrous by defire,
Tell thee with speachlesse tongues, and semblance pale,
That without covering, faue yon field of Starres,
Heere they stand Martyrs flaine in **Cupids** Warres;
And with dead cheekes, aduise thee to defist,
For going on deaths not, whom none resist.
**Terr. Antiochus,** I thanke thee, who hath taught,
My frayle mortalitie to know it felse;
And by those fearefull obiectes, to prepare
This body, like to them, to what I must:
For Death remembered should be like a myrrour,
Who tels vs, life’s but breath, to trust it errour:
He make my Will then, and as fickemen doe,
Who know the World, fec Heaven, but feeling woe,
Gripe not at earthly loyes as earft they did;
So I bequeath a happy peace to you,
And all good men, as every Prince should doe,
My ritches to the earth, from whence they came:
But my vnpotted fire of Love, to you:
Thus ready for the way of life or death,
I way te the sharpest blow (**Antiochus**)
A 3. Scorning
I. i. 19—55
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