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Pericles Monologue

From Pericles by William Shakespeare

male · dramatic · 1:30 min

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O you gods! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts, And snatch them straight away? We here below Recall not what we give, and therein may Vie honour with you. (LYCHORIDA: Patience, good sir. Even for this charge.) Now, mild may be thy life! For a more blustrous birth had never babe: Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world That ever was prince’s child. Happy what follows! Thou hast as chiding a nativity As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make, To herald thee from the womb. Even at the first thy loss is more than can Thy portage quit, with all thou canst find here, Now, the good gods throw their best eyes upon’t! Enter two Sailors (FIRST SAILOR: What courage, sir? God save you!) Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw; It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love Of this poor infant, this fresh new sea-farer, I would it would be quiet.

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Pericles reflects on the birth of his child, expressing a mix of hope and foreboding as he contemplates the challenges that lie ahead.

30s · hope · fate · birth · identity · family

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