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