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1. Marina thus the brothel scapes, and chances
2. Into an honest house, our story says.
3. She sings like one immortal, and she dances
4. As goddess-like to her admired lays.
5. Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes
6. Nature’s own shape of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
7. That even her art sisters the natural roses;
8. Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry,
9. That pupils lacks she none of noble race,
10. Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain
11. She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place,
12. And to her father turn our thoughts again,
13. Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost,
14. Where, driven before the winds, he is arriv’d
15. Here where his daughter dwells, and on this coast
16. Suppose him now at anchor. The city striv’d
17. God Neptune’s annual feast to keep, from whence
18. Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,
19. His banners sable, trimm’d with rich expense,
20. And to him in his barge with fervor hies.
21. In your supposing once more put your sight:
22. Of heavy Pericles think this his bark;
23. Where what is done in action, more, if might,
24. Shall be discover’d, please you sit and hark.