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- # Pericles Prince of Tyre.
Whose towers bore heads so high they kill the crowds,
And strangers nere beheld, but wondered at,
Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn’de,
Like one another’s glaise to trim them by,
Their tables were flor’de full to glad the sight,
And not so much to seede on as delight,
All pouertie was scor’nde, and pride so great,
The name of helpe grewe odious to repeat.
## Dion. O’tis too true.
*Cle.* But see what heaven can doe by this our change,
These mouths who but of late, earth, sea, and ayre,
Were all too little to content and please,
Although thy gaue their creatures in abundance,
As houses are defil’de for want of vše,
They are now staru’de for want of exercise,
Those pallets who not yet too sauers younger,
Must have inventions to delight the taft,
Would now be glad of bread and beg for it,
Those mothers who to nouzell vp their babes,
Thought nought too curious, are readie now
To eat those little darlings whom they lou’de,
So sharpe are hungers teeth, that man and wife,
Drawe lots who first shall die, to lengthen life.
Heere stands a Lord, and there a Ladie weeping:
Heere manie sincke, yet those which see them fall,
Have scarce strength left to giue them buryall.
## Is not this true?
## Dion. Our checkes and hollow eyes doe witness it.
*Cle.* O let those Cities that of plenties cup,
And her prosperities so largely taste,
With their superfluous riots heare these teares,
The miserie of Thar’ius may be theirs.
## Enter a Lord.
## Lord. Whereas the Lord Gouernour?
*Cle.* Here, speake out thy sorrowes, which thee bring it
I. iv. 24—58
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