Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (ca. 1607 – 1608) is a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and is included in modern editions of his collected plays.
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Act I
[edit]- An arrow shot
From a well-experienc’d archer hits the mark
His eye doth level at.- Antiochus, scene i.
Act II
[edit]- 3 Fisherman: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1 Fisherman: Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.- Scene i.
- Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen,
That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes,
Envy the great, nor do the low despise.- 1 Knight, scene iii.
- Compare Torquato Tasso: L'alte non temo, e l'umili non sdegno "The proud I fear not, nor the meek disdain", Gerusalemme Liberata (1581), Canto II, Stanza 46.
- 1 Knight, scene iii.
- I see that Time's the king of men,
For he's their parent, and he is their grave,
And gives them what he will, not what they crave.- Pericles, scene iii.
Act IV
[edit]- I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly.
- Marina, scene i
