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nd in the Cambridge Shakespeare, or even to do to the conjectures with which later criticism abounds. not of course given a twentieth part of the valuable al recorded with such minute accuracy in that edition; cept for those who desire a complete collation of the os and Folios, my extracts will, I think, supply all needed.

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ*

ANTIOCHUS, King of Antioch.

PERICLES, Prince of Tyre.

HELICANUS,

ESCANES,

} two Lords of Tyre.

SIMONIDES, King of Pentapolis.

CLEON, Governor of Tarsus.
LYSIMACHUS, Governor of Mitylene.
CERIMON, a Lord of Ephesus.
THALIARD, a Lord of Antioch.

PHILEMON, Servant to Cerimon.
LEONINE, Servant to Dionyza.
Marshal.

A Pandar. BOULT, his Servant.

The Daughter of Antiochus.

DIONYZA, Wife to Cleon.

THAISA, Daughter to Simonides.

MARINA, Daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.

LYCHORIDA, Nurse to Marina.

A Bawd.

Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates,

Fishermen, and Messengers.

DIANA.

GOWER, as Chorus.

SCENE: Dispersedly in various Countries.

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*"No list of Dramatis Personæ is found in any Quarto edition. It is first given after the play in the third Folio and prefixed to it in the fourth. It is called in both The Actors names'. Antiochus is there described as 'a Tyrant of Greece'. Then follows Hesperides, Daughter to Antiochus'. 'Dionyza' is called 'Dionysia,' and 'Mytilene 'Metaline'. Another character is introduced, viz., Philoten, Daughter to Cleon'. The errors and omissions were partly corrected by Rowe and partly by Malone in his supplement to Steevens' edition of 1778, published two years afterwards. He also added the words SCENE dispersedly in various countries'. (The Cambridge Editors.)

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PERICLES

ACT I

Enter GOWER.

Before the Palace of Antioch.

To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come,

Assuming man's infirmities,

To glad your ear, and please your eyes. thath been sung at festivals,

On ember-eves and holy-ales;

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-ales] Steevens; Holydayes Qq 1, 3; Holy dayes Q 2; holy-daies holi-dayes Q 6; holy-dayes Ff 3, 4.

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ting on again the frail body of mortality.

6. ember-eves] The vigils of emberdays, the four periods of fasting and prayer appointed by the Church to be observed respectively in the four seasons of the year. Each of these fasts occupies three days, viz., a Wednesday and the following Friday and Saturday after (1) the First Sunday in Lent, (2) the Feast of Pentecost, (3) 14th September, (4) 13th December. The origin of the element "ember" in this compound is doubtful. See New Eng. Dict.

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6. holy-ales] An ale was a rural festival, where of course much ale was

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