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- # Introduction to Pericles
## Overview
This entity is an introduction to the play "Pericles," extracted from a larger text file. It spans lines 16513 to 16588 of its source and is labeled "Introduction."
## Context
This introduction is part of the chapter titled [Pericles](arke:01KG6S4DVCD2PVSZ8Y9W4E8T6A), which is itself contained within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. The text was extracted from the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). It is followed by the section [III. 41-60—III. i. 14](arke:01KG6S5M2R0AG72RB5KAGJMNJB).
## Contents
The introduction sets the scene for the play, describing Pericles' search and the news of Antiochus and his daughter's death. It mentions Holycanus refusing the crown of Tyre and Pericles' eventual agreement to take it if he does not return within "twife fixe Moones." The text then shifts to Pericles' departure to Tyre with his pregnant queen, their journey by sea, and a violent tempest during which the queen goes into labor. The introduction concludes with Pericles' lament on deck, addressing the gods and the storm, and expressing concern for his queen and unborn child. The text includes stage directions such as "Enter Pericle, a Shipboard." and dialogue from Pericles.
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- By many a dearne and painedull pearch
Of Perycles the carefull search,
By the fower oppofing Crignes,
Which the world togeather iognes,
Is made with all due diligence,
That horse and sayle and hie expence,
Can't feed the quest at last from Tyre:
Fame answering the most strange enquire,
To'th Court of King Symonides,
Are Letters brought, the tenour these:
Antiochus and his daughter dead,
The men of Tyrus, on the head
Of Holycanus would set on
The Crowne of Tyre, but he will none:
The mutanie, hee there hastes t'oppresse,
Sayes to'em, if King Pericles
Come not home in twife fixe Moones,
He obedient to their doomes,
Will take the Crowne: the fumme of this,
Brought hither to Penlapolis,
Iranyihed the regions round,
And euery one with claps can found,
Our heyre apparant is a King:
Who dreampt? who thought of such a thing?
Briefe he must hence depart to Tyre,
His Queene with child, makes her defire,
E.
Which
III. 12-40
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# The Play of
Which who shall crofse along to goe,
Omit we all their dole and woe:
*Lubrosa* her Nurfe she takes,
And so to Sea; their vefsell shakes,
On *Nectaw* billow, hafe the flood,
Hath their Keele cut: but fortune mou’d,
Varies againe, the grifled North
Difgorges fuch a tempeft forth,
That as a Ducke for life that diues,
So vp and downe the poore Ship driues:
The Lady shreckes, and wel-a-neare,
Do’s fall in trauayle with her feare:
And what enfues in this fell storme,
Shall for it felfe, it felfe performe:
I nill relate, action may
Conueniently the reft conuay;
Which might not? what by me is told,
In your imagination hold:
This Stage, the Ship, vpon whofe Decke
The feas toft *Pericle* appears to fpeake.
## Enter Pericle, a Shipboard.
**Peri.** The God of this great Vaft, rebuke thefe furges,
Which wash both heaven and hell, and thou that haft
Vpon the Windes con: maund, bind them in Braffe;
Hauing call’d them from the deepe, ô ftill
Thy deafning dreadfull thunders, gently quench
Thy ninible fulphirous flashes: ô How *Lycherida*!
How does my Queene? then storme venomously,
Wilt thou fpeat all thy felfe? the fea-mana Whiffle
Is as a whifper in the eares of death
Vnheard *Lycherida*! *Lucena*, oh!
Diuineft patrionefle, and my wife gentle
To thofe that cry by-night, conuey thy deftie
Aboard our dauncing Boat, make fwift the pangues
Of my Queenes trauayles? now *Lycherida*.
*Enter*
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