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- # Pericles Prince of Tyre.
Alaffe, the Seas hath caft me on the Rocks,
Waifht me from shore to shore, and left my breath
Nothing to thinke on, but ensuing death:
Let it suffaze the greatneffe of your powers,
To haue bereft a Prince of all his fortunes;
And hauing throwne him from your watry graue,
Heere to haue death in peace, is all hee'le craue.
## Enter three & four-men.
1. What, to pefch?
2. Ha, come and bring away the Nets.
3. What Patch-breech, I say.
4. What say you Mailfer?
5. Looke how thou fhrs'ft now:
Come away, or Ile fetch'th with a wasion.
6. Fayth Mailfer, I am thinking of the poore men,
That were caft away before vs euen now.
7. Alaffe poore foules, it grieved my heart to heare,
What pittifull cryes they made to vs, to helpe them,
When (welladay) we could scarce helpe our selues.
8. Nay Mailfer, sayd not I as much,
When I saw the Porpas how he bounft and tumbled?
They say they're haffe fifth, haffe fifth:
A plague on them, they nere come but I looke to be waifht.
Mailfer. I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea?
9. Why, as Men doe a-land;
The great ones eate vp the little ones:
I can compare our rich Mifers to nothing so fitly,
As to a Whale; a playes and tumbles,
Dryuing the poore Fry before him,
And at laft, deuowre them all at a mouthfull:
Such Whales haue I heard on, a'th land,
Who neuer leaue gaping, till they swallow'd
The whole Parish, Church, Steeple, Belles and all.
## Pers. A prettiemoral.
1. But Mailfer, if I had been the Sexton,
I would haue been that day in the befrie.
2. Why, Man?
C 2.
1. Because
II. i. 5—43
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