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• Pericles Prince of Tyre: Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: Antioch. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene II.—: Tyre. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene III.—: The Same. an Antechamber In the Palace.
• Scene IV.—: Tarsus. a Room In the Governor’s House.
• Act II.
• Dumb Show.
• Scene I.—: Pentapolis. an Open Place By the Sea-side.
• Scene II.—: The Same. a Public Way. Platform Leading to the Lists. a Pavilion Near It, For the Reception of Theking, Princess, Ladies, Lords, &c.
• Scene III.—: The Same. a Hall of State. a Banquet Prepared.
• Scene IV.—: Tyre. a Room In the Governor’s House.
• Scene V.—: Pentapolis. a Room In the Palace.
• Act III.
• Dumb Show.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.—: Ephesus. a Room Incerimon’shouse.
• Scene III.—: Tarsus. a Room Incleon’shouse.
• Scene IV.—: Ephesus. a Room Incerimon’shouse.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: Tarsus. an Open Place Near the Sea-shore.
• Scene II.—: Mitylene. a Room In a Brothel.
• Scene III.—: Tarsus. a Room Incleon’shouse.
• Scene IV.—: Before the Monument Ofmarinaat Tarsus.
• Dumb Show.
• Scene V.—: Mitylene. a Street Before the Brothel.
• Scene VI.—: The Same. a Room In the Brothel.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: On Boardpericles’ Ship, Off Mitylene. a Pavilion On Deck, With a Curtain Before It;pericleswithin It, Reclined On a Couch. a Barge Lying Beside the Tyrian Vessel.
• Scene II.—: Before the Temple Ofdianaat Ephesus.
• Scene III.—: The Temple Ofdianaat Ephesus;thaisastanding Near the Altar, As High Priestess; a Number of Virgins On Each Side;cerimonand Other Inhabitants of Ephesus Attending.

Dumb Show.

Enter, from one side,Pericles,talking withCleon;all their Train with them. Enter, at another door, a Gentleman, with a letter toPericles;who shows the letter toCleon;then gives the Messenger a reward, and knights him. ExeuntPericles, Cleon,&c., severally.

• Good Helicane hath stay’d at home,
• Not to eat honey like a drone
• From others’ labours; for though he strive
• To killen bad, keep good alive,
• And to fulfil his prince’ desire,
• Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:
• How Thaliard came full bent with sin
• And had intent to murder him;
• And that in Tarsus was not best
• Longer for him to make his rest.
• He, doing so, put forth to seas,
• Where when men been, there’s seldom ease;
• For now the wind begins to blow;
• Thunder above and deeps below
• Make such unquiet, that the ship
• Should house him safe is wrack’d and split;
• And he, good prince, having all lost,
• By waves from coast to coast is tost.
• All perishen of man, of pelf,
• Ne aught escapen but himself;
• Till Fortune, tir’d with doing bad,
• Threw him ashore, to give him glad;
• And here he comes. What shall be next,
• Pardon old Gower, this longs the text.

[Exit.