Aar. O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb? I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers, I do repent it from my very soul. Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence, And give him burial in his father's grave No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds, But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey. [Exeunt. All the editors and critics agree in supposing this play spurious. I see no reason for differing from them; for the colour of the style is wholly different from that of the other plays. JOHNSON. Sinonides, king of Pentapolis. Philemon, servant to Cerimon. Leonine, servant to Dionyza. Marshal. A Pandar, and his Wife. Boult, their servan. Gower, as chorus. The Daughter of Antiochus. Dionyza, wife to Cleor. Thaisa, daughter to Simonik Marina, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa. Diana. Lords, Ladies, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pi rates, Fishermen, and Messengers, &c. Scene, dispersedly in various countries.1 (1) That the reader may know through how many regions the scene of this drama is dispersed, it is necessary to observe, that Antioch was the metropolis of Syria; Tyre a city of Phoenicia, in Asia; Tarsus, the metropolis of Cilicia, a country of Asia Minor; Mitylene, the capitol of Lesbos, an island in the Ægean sea; and Ephesus, the capital of Ionia, a country of the Lesser Asia. PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE. .་" Enter Gower. Before the palace of Antiocn To sing a song of old2 was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come: To glad your ear, and please your eyes (I tell you what mine authors say :) (1) Chorus, in the character of Gower, an ancient English poet, who has related the story of this play in his Confessio Amantis. (2) i. e. That of old. (3) Whitsun-ales &c. (4) Wife, the word signifies a mate or compa. 'on |