A side-by-side translation of Act 3, Scene 2 of Pericles, Prince of Tyre from the original Shakespeare into modern English.
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Source: Folger Shakespeare Library | |
Enter Lord Cerimon with two Suppliants. CERIMON Philemon, ho! Enter Philemon. PHILEMON Doth my lord call? CERIMON Get fire and meat for these poor men. Philemon exits. FIRST SUPPLIANT CERIMON Enter two Gentlemen. FIRST GENTLEMAN Good morrow. SECOND GENTLEMAN Good morrow to your Lordship. CERIMON FIRST GENTLEMAN Sir, 15 SECOND GENTLEMAN CERIMON O, you say well. FIRST GENTLEMAN CERIMON I hold it ever 30 SECOND GENTLEMAN Enter two or three Servants with a chest. SERVANT CERIMON What’s that? 55 SERVANT Sir, even now CERIMON Set ’t down. Let’s look upon ’t. SECOND GENTLEMAN CERIMON What e’er it be, SECOND GENTLEMAN CERIMON How close ’tis caulked and bitumed! SERVANT CERIMON Wrench it open. 70 SECOND GENTLEMAN A delicate odor. CERIMON | The next thing we know, Thaisa's coffin washes up on the shore of Ephesus. A couple of servants find it and take it to the house of a doctor named Cerimon. |
They open the chest. O, you most potent gods! What’s here? A corse? SECOND GENTLEMAN Most strange! 75 CERIMON | Cerimon cracks open the casket and finds Thaisa's body, along with some yummy smelling spices and a letter asking whoever finds it to give Thaisa a nice funeral. Pericles has thrown in some jewels for good measure. |
SECOND GENTLEMAN CERIMON Nay, certainly tonight, 90 | Cerimon notices that that the body is awfully fresh for a corpse. Then he's all, "Someone fetch my magical potions of medicine and play some music so I can revive this woman ASAP." |
Enter one with boxes, napkins, and fire. Well said, well said! The fire and cloths. FIRST GENTLEMAN The heavens, through you, CERIMON She is alive. Behold her eyelids— She moves. THAISA O dear Diana, 120 SECOND GENTLEMAN Is not this strange? FIRST GENTLEMAN Most rare! CERIMON Hush, my gentle neighbors! They carry her away as they all exit. | Thaisa starts to wake up and is all, "Where the heck am I?" They cart her off to a room so she can recover. It's not exactly clear if Cerimon brought Thaisa back from the dead or if she was just unconscious or something. You'll have to check out this scene and decide for yourself. |