Pericles -- 1968

Act VI, Scene One

Note: I did not include the first part of this scene in the Audio Clip because Marina's
voice is very faint and hard to hear. See below for where the Audio Clip begins

Enter Marina with a basket of flowers.

MARINA: No: I will rob Tellus of her weed to strew thy green with flowers, the yellows, blues, the purple violets, and marigolds, shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave, while summer days doth last: A ye me poor maid, born in a tempest, when my mother died, this world to me is as a lasting storm, whirring me from my friends.

DIONIZA: How now Marina, why do you keep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you?l Do not consume your blood with sorrowing, Have you a nurse for me? Lord how your favour's Chang'd with this unprofitable woe: Come give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it, walk with Leonine, the air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach, Come Leonine take her by the arm, walk with her .

MARINA: No I pray you, I'll not bereave you of your servant.

DIONIZA: Come, come, I love the king your father, and yourself, with more than foreign heart, we every day expect him here. When he shall come and find our Paragon to all reports thus blasted, he will repent the breadth of his great voyage, blame both my Lord and me, that we have taken no care to your best courses, go I pray you, walk and be cheerful once again, reserve that excellent complexion, which did steal the eyes of young and old. Care not for me, I can go home alone.

MARINA: Well, I will go, but yet I have no desire to it.

DIONIZA: Come, come, I know 'tis good for you, walk half an hour Leonine, at the least. Remember what I have said.

LEONINE: I warrant you Madam.

DIONIZA: I'll leave you my sweet Lady, for a while. Pray walk softly, do not heat your blood, what, I must have care of you.

Exit Dioniza.

* - This is where the Audio Clip begins

MARINA: My thanks sweet Madam: * Is this wind westerly that blows

LEONINE: Southwest.

MARINA: When I was born the wind was north.

LEONINE: Was't so?

MARINA: My father, as nurse says, did never fear, but cried good seamen to the sailors, galling his kingly hands haling ropes, and clasping to the mast, endured a sea that almost burst the deck.

LEONINE: When was this?

MARINA: When I was born. Never was waves nor wind more violent, and from the ladder tackle, washes off a canvas climber: ha says one, wolt out ? and with a dropping industry they skip from stem to stern, the Boatswain whistles, and the Master calls and trebles their confusion.

LEONINE: Come say your prayers.

MARINA: What mean you?

LEONINE: If you require a little space for prayer, I grant it : pray, but be not tedious, for the Gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn to do my work with haste.

MARINA: Why will you kill me?

LEONINE: To satisfy my Lady.

MARINA: Why would she have me kill'd? Now, as I can remember by my troth, I never did her hurt in all my life, I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn to any living creature: Believe me law, I never kill' d a mouse, nor hurt a fly: ay, trode upon a worm against my will, but I wept for't. How have I offended, wherein my death might yield her any profit, or my life imply her any danger?

LEONINE: My commission is not to reason of the deed, but do't.

MARINA: You will not do't for all the world I hope: you are well favoured, and your looks foreshow you have a gentle heart, I saw you lately when you caught hurt in parting two that fought: good sooth it show'd well in you, do so now, your Lady seeks my life. Come you
between, and save poor me the weaker.

LEONINE: I am sworn and will dispatch.

Enter Pirates.

1 PIRATE: Hold villain.

Exit Leonine.

2 PIRATE: A prize, a prize.

3 PIRATE: Half part mates, half part. Come let's have her aboard suddenly.

Exeunt with Marina.

Enter Leonine.

LEONINE: These roguing thieves serve the great Pirate Valdes, and they have seized Marina. Let her go, there's no hope she will return, I'll swear she's dead, and thrown into the sea. But I'll see further: perhaps they will but please themselves upon her, not carry her aboard: if she remain
Whom they have ravish'd, must by me be slain.

Exit.