Pericles: Act V, Scene i

Pericles.         Act 5, Scene 1.      Pericles and Marina

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PERICLES
112  Pray you turn your eyes upon me.
113  ⌜You’re⌝ like something that—What ⌜countrywoman?⌝
114  Here of these ⌜shores?⌝

MARINA
115                                                No, nor of any ⌜shores.⌝
116 Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am
117  No other than I appear.

PERICLES
118  I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.
119  My dearest wife was like this maid, and such
120 A one my daughter might have been: my queen’s
121  Square brows, her stature to an inch;
122  As wandlike straight, as silver-voiced; her eyes
123  As jewel-like, and cased as richly; in pace
124  Another Juno; who starves the ears she feeds
125  And makes them hungry the more she gives them speech.—
126  Where do you live?

MARINA
127  Where I am but a stranger.
128  From the deck you may discern the place.

PERICLES
129  Where were you bred? And how achieved you these
130  Endowments which you make more rich to owe?

MARINA
131  If I should tell my history, it would seem
132  Like lies disdained in the reporting.