Ser. I never faw fo huge a billow, fir, As tofs'd it upon shore. Cer. Wrench it open; Soft, foft-it fmells moft fweetly in my fenfe. 2 Gent. A delicate odour. Oh Cer. As ever hit my noftril; fo,-up with it. you moft potent gods! what's here? a corfe! 1 Gent. Moft ftrange! Cer. Shrowded in cloth of ftate! Balm'd and entreafur'd with full bags of fpices! In the characters 2! Here I give to understand, (If e'er this coffin drive a-land) Iking Pericles have loft [He reads out of a This queen, worth all our mundane coft3. Who finds her, give her burying, She was the daughter of a king*: Befides this treasure for a fee, The gods requite his charity! If thou liv'ft, Pericles, thou haft a heart fcrowl. That even cracks for woes! This chanc'd to-night. Apollo, perfect me In the characters!] Cerimon, having made phyfick his peculiar ftudy, would naturally, in any emergency, invoke Apollo. On the prefent occafion, however, he addreffes him as the patron of learning. MALONE. 3 mundane coft: i. e. worldly. MALONE. Who finds her, give her burying, She was the daughter of a king:] The author had, perhaps, the facred writings in his thoughts: "Go fee now this curfed woman and bury her; for she is a king's daughter." 2 Kings, ix. 36 MALONE. Even is the reading of the fecond quarto. The first has ever. G3 MALONE. 2 Gent 2 Gent. Most likely, fir. Cer. Nay, certainly to-night; For look how fresh fhe looks!-They were too rough* That threw her in the fea. Make a fire within Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet. Enter a Servant with napkins and fire. Well faid, well faid; the fire and the cloths.— The vial once more; -How thou ftir'ft, thou block? The mufick there.-I pray you give her air ; * Gentle They were too rough] I fufpect the author wrote-They were too rafb― MALONE. 6 nine hours lien dead,] So in the lxviiith Pfalm: though ye have lien among the pots"- STEEVENS. The rough and woeful mufick that we have, Caufe it to found, 'befeech you.] Paulina in like manner in the Winter's Tale, when the pretends to bring Hermione to life, orders mufick to be played, to awake her from her trance. MALONE. The vial once more; - bow thou ftir'ft, thou block?— The mufick there- ] The first quarto reads, -the viol once more, The fecond and the subsequent editions—the vial, If the first be right, Cerimon mult be fuppofed to repeat his orders that they fhould again found their rough and woeful mufick, So in Tawelfth Night a "That firain again!". The word viol has occurred before in this play in the fense of violin. I think, however, the reading of the fecond quarto is right. Cerimon, in order to revive the queen, first commands loud mufick to be played, and then a fecond time adminitters fome cordial to her, which we may fuppofe had been before administered to her when his fervants entered with the napkins, &c. See Conf. Amant. 180; Gentlemen, this queen will live: Nature awakes; 1 Gent. The heavens, Through you, encrease our wonder, and fet up Cer. She is alive; behold, Her eye-lids, cafes to thofe heavenly jewels ' Begin to part their fringes of bright gold"; this worthie kinges wife "Whiche is to few clerkes couthe." Little weight is to be laid on the fpelling of the first quarto.In the quarto edition of K. Richard II. 1615, viol is printed for vial: "Edward's feven fons, whereof thyself art one, Again, in the folio, 1623, ibid: "One viol full of Edward's facred blood." Again, in The tragical Hiftory of Romeus and Juliet, 1562: "She poured forth into the vyoll of the fryer "Water 99 MALONE. › Nature awakes a warmth breath out of her; ] Thus the quarto, 1609. Read: Nature awakes; A warmth breathes out of her. STEEVENS. The fecond quarto and the modern editions read, unintelligibly, Nature awakes a warm breath out of her. MALONE. cafes to thofe heavenly jewels] The fame expreffion occurs in the Winter's Tale: they feem'd almoft, with ftaring on one another, to tear the cafes of their eyes." MALONE. 2 Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;] So in the Tempeft : The The diamonds of a moft praised water O live, Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Rare as you feem to be! Thai. O dear Diana, [She moves. Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this? 2 Gent. Is not this strange? 1 Gent. Moft rare. Cer. Hufh, my gentle neighbours; Lend me your hands: to the next chamber bear her, [Exeunt, carrying her away. Tharfus. A room in Cleon's houfe. Enter Pericles, Cleon, Dionyza, Lychorida, and Marina. Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods Cle. Your fhakes of fortune, though they haunt you mortally, Yet glance full wond'ringly on us. 3 What world is this?] So in the Conf. Amant.: "And whan fhe more of strength caught, "Helde up hir honde and pitouflie "Where is my lorde? What worlde is this? As fhe that wote not howe it is." MALONE. Dion. though they haunt you mortally,] Thus the first quarto. The folios and the modern editions read hate. MALONE. Your Dion. O your fweet queen! That the ftrict fates had pleas'd you had brought her hither, To have bleft mine eves with her! Per. We cannot but Obey the powers above us. Could I rage Your grace, that fed my country with your corn, Your fhakes of fortune, though they haunt you mortally, Yet glance full wandringly, &c. Thus Tully in one of his Familiar Epifles ." omnibus telis fortuna propofita fit vita noftra." Again, Shakspeare in his Othello: The shot of accident or dart of chance —" 66 Again, in Hamlet : "The flings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Again, in the Merry Wives of Windfor: am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced." The fenfe of the paffage should seem to be as follows. All the malice of fortune is not confined to yourfelf. Though her arrows ftrike deeply at you, yet wandering from their mark, they fometimes glance on us; as at prefent, when the uncertain state of Tyre deprives us of your company at Tharfus. STEEVENS. Fear not my lord, but think, Your grace,] Such is the reading of the ancient co pies. I believe, Shakspeare wrote, Fear not, my lord, but that Your grace, &c. However, as the paffage is intelligible, I have made no change. MALONE. Muft |