PERICLES. 87

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sea, and the waves taking it, by and by
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named Cerimon. He at once ordered it ==> 7 4B A
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held, and how lovely Thaisa looked, he = Ail éf i
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immediate steps to restore her. Then a great wonder | | I
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sea as dead, came back to life. But feeling sure
that she would never see her husband again, Thaisa
retired from the world, and became a priestess of the goddess
Diana.

While these things were happening, Pericles went on to Tarsus with
his little daughter, whom he called Marina, because she had been born at.
sea. Leaving her in the hands of his old friend, the Governor of Tarsus,
the King sailed for his own dominions, where his people received him
with hearty welcome.

Now Dionyza, the wife of the Governor of Tarsus, was a jealous and
wicked woman, and finding that the young Princess grew up a more
accomplished and charming girl than her own daughter, she determined
to take Marina’s life. So when Marina was fourteen, Dionyza ordered
one of her servants to take her away and kill her. This villain would
have done so, but that he was interrupted by some pirates who came in
and carried Marina off to sea with them, and took her to Mitylene, where
they sold her as a slave. Yet such were her goodness, her grace, and her
beauty, that she soon became honoured there, and Lysimachus, the young
Governor, fell deep in love with her, and would have married her, but