Pericles, Prince of Tyre

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-experienc’d archer hits the mark His 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