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Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Start: Yea, mistress, are you so perempt...

Overview

Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2, Scene 5
Time & Place
The grand, public audience chamber of the palace in Pentapolis, surrounded by watching courtiers.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

Context

Text

Start: Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?

Aside

I am glad on't with all my heart.--

I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection.

Will you, not having my consent,

Bestow your love and your affections.

Upon a stranger?

Aside

who, for aught I know,

May be, nor can I think the contrary,

As great in blood as I myself.--

Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame

Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,

Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--

Man and wife:

Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:

And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;

And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--

What, are you both pleased?

Shakespeare, William, Pericles, The Riverside Shakespeare, 1974, p. 1495.

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