Pericles, Prince of Tyre

'Bold text' 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. Act I An arrow shot From a well-experienced archer hits the markHis eye doth level at. Antiochus, scene i. Act II 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. 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 I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly. Marina, scene i External links Category:Shakespearean comedies