{"product_id":"2940012995148","title":"PERICLES PRINCE OF TYRE","description":"DRAMATIS PERSONAE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANTIOCHUS, king of Antioch.\u003cbr\u003ePERICLES, prince of Tyre.\u003cbr\u003eHELICANUS, ESCANES,  two lords of Tyre.\u003cbr\u003eSIMONIDES, kIng of Pentapolis.\u003cbr\u003eCLEON, governor of Tarsus.\u003cbr\u003eLYSIMACHUS, governor of Mytilene.\u003cbr\u003eCERIMON, a lord of Ephesus.\u003cbr\u003eTHALIARD, a lord of Antioch.\u003cbr\u003ePFIILEMON, servant to Cerimon.\u003cbr\u003eLEONINE, servant to Dionyza.\u003cbr\u003eMarshal.\u003cbr\u003eA Pandar.\u003cbr\u003eBOULT, his servant.\u003cbr\u003eThe Daughter of Antiochus.\u003cbr\u003eDIONYZA, wife to Cleon.\u003cbr\u003eTHAISA, daughter to Simonides.\u003cbr\u003eMARINA, daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.\u003cbr\u003eLYCHORIDA, nurse to Marina.\u003cbr\u003eA Bawd.\u003cbr\u003eLords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and\u003cbr\u003eMessengers.\u003cbr\u003eDIANA.\u003cbr\u003eGOWER, as Chorus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCENE:  Dispersedly in various countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Enter GOWER.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Before the palace of Antioch.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo sing a song that old was sung,\u003cbr\u003eFrom ashes ancient Gower is come;\u003cbr\u003eAssuming man's infirmities,\u003cbr\u003eTo glad your ear, and please your eyes.\u003cbr\u003eIt hath been sung at festivals,\u003cbr\u003eOn ember-eves and holy-ales;\u003cbr\u003eAnd lords and ladies in their lives\u003cbr\u003eHave read it for restoratives:\u003cbr\u003eThe purchase is to make men glorious;\u003cbr\u003eEt bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.\u003cbr\u003eIf you, born in these latter times,\u003cbr\u003eWhen wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes,\u003cbr\u003eAnd that to hear an old man sing\u003cbr\u003eMay to your wishes pleasure bring,\u003cbr\u003eI life would wish, and that I might\u003cbr\u003eWaste it for you, like taper-light.\u003cbr\u003eThis Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great\u003cbr\u003eBuilt up, this city, for his chiefest seat;\u003cbr\u003eThe fairest in all Syria,\u003cbr\u003eI tell you what mine authors say:\u003cbr\u003eThis king unto him took a fere,\u003cbr\u003eWho died and left a female heir,\u003cbr\u003eSo buxom, so blithe, and full of face,\u003cbr\u003eAs heaven had lent her all his grace;\u003cbr\u003eWith whom the father liking took,\u003cbr\u003eAnd her to incest did provoke:\u003cbr\u003eBad child; worse father! to entice his own\u003cbr\u003eTo evil should be done by none:\u003cbr\u003eBut custom what they did begin\u003cbr\u003eWas with long use account no sin.\u003cbr\u003eThe beauty of this sinful dame\u003cbr\u003eMade many princes thither frame,\u003cbr\u003eTo seek her as a bed-fellow,\u003cbr\u003eIn marriage-pleasures play-fellow:\u003cbr\u003eWhich to prevent he made a law,\u003cbr\u003eTo keep her still, and men in awe,\u003cbr\u003eThat whoso ask'd her for his wife,\u003cbr\u003eHis riddle told not, lost his life:\u003cbr\u003eSo for her many a wight did die,\u003cbr\u003eAs yon grim looks do testify.\u003cbr\u003eWhat now ensues, to the judgement your eye\u003cbr\u003eI give, my cause who lest can justify.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Exit.]","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079081607408,"sku":"2940012995148","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012995148_p0.jpg?v=1763575519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012995148","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}