Enter Gower. + 

Gower + 

Marina thus the brothel ’scapes, and chances + 

Into an honest house, our story says. + 

She sings like one immortal, and she dances + 

As goddess-like to her admired lays; + 

Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes + 

Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, + 

That even her art sisters the natural roses; + 

Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry: + 

That pupils lacks she none of noble race, + 

Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain + 

She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place; + 

And to her father turn our thoughts again, + 

Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost; + 

Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived + 

Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast + 

Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived + 

God Neptune’s annual feast to keep: from whence + 

Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies, + 

His banners sable, trimm’d with rich expense; + 

And to him in his barge with fervour hies. + 

In your supposing once more put your sight + 

Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark: + 

Where what is done in action, more, if might, + 

Shall be discover’d; please you, sit and hark. Exit. + 