Page 169 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Contend not, sir, for we are gentlemen
Have neither in our hearts nor outward eyes [25]
Envied the great nor shall the low despise.

PERICLES
You are right courteous knights.

SIMONIDES
Sit, sir, sit.

(Aside) By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,
These cates resist me, he but thought upon.

THAISA
(aside)
By Juno, that is queen of marriage, [30]

All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury,
Wishing him my meat. − Sure he’s a gallant gentleman.

SIMONIDES
He’s but a country gentleman.
He has done no more than other knights have done.
He has broken a staff or so. So let it pass. [35]

THAISA
(aside)

To me he seems like diamond to glass.

PERICLES
(aside)
Yon king’s to me like to my father’s picture
Which tells me in what glory once he was;

Had princes sit like stars about his throne,
And he the sun for them to reverence. [40]
None that beheld him but like lesser lights
Did vail their crowns to his supremacy;

Where now his son’s like a glow-worm in the night,
The which hath fire in darkness, none in light;