READ STUDY GUIDE: Act I, Scenes ii-iii |
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Act I, Scene iii
| [Enter Thaliard.] |
| THALIARD.: |
| So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I Kill King |
| Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to be hanged at home: |
| 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive he was a wise fellow, and |
| had good discretion, that, being bid to ask what he would of |
| the king, desired he might know none of his secrets: now do I |
| see he had some reason for 't; for if a king bid a man be a |
| villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to be one. |
| Hush! here come the lords of Tyre. |
| [Enter Helicanus and Escanes, with other Lords of Tyre.] |
| HELICANUS.: |
| You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, |
| Further to question me of your king's departure: |
| His seal'd commission, left in trust with me, |
| Doth speak sufficiently he 's gone to travel. |
| THALIARD.[Aside.] |
| How! the king gone! |
| HELICANUS.: |
| If further yet you will be satisfied, |
| Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves, |
| He would depart, I 'II give some light unto you. |
| Being at Antioch— |
| THALIARD.[Aside.] |
| What from Antioch? |
| HELICANUS.: |
| Royal Antiochus—on what cause I know not |
| Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so: |
| And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd, |
| To show his sorrow, he 'ld correct himself; |
| So puts himself unto the shipman's toil, |
| With whom each minute threatens life or death. |
| THALIARD.[Aside.] |
| Well, I perceive |
| I shall not be hang'd now, although I would; |
| But since he 's gone, the king's seas must please |
| He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea. |
| I 'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre! |
| HELICANUS.: |
| Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome. |
| THALIARD.: |
| From him I come |
| With message unto princely Pericles; |
| But since my landing I have understood |
| Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels, |
| My message must return from whence it came. |
| HELICANUS.: |
| We have no reason to desire it, |
| Commended to our master, not to us: |
| Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire, |
| As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre. |
| [Exeunt.] |
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