my maiden
priests are
met  to-
gether, re-
veal how
thou at sea
didst lose
thy wife.”
Pericles
obeyed . the
goddess and

told his
tale before
her altar.

Hardly had
he made an
end, when
the chief
priestess,
crying out,

«You are— ~

you are—O
royal Peri-
eles!” fell
fainting to
the ground,

gently recovering, she
spoke again to him, “O
my lord, are you not

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and pre-

“The voice of dead
Thaisa!” exclaimed the King in wonder.

“That Thaisa am I,” she said, and looking at her, he saw that she
spoke. the very truth, and he called to her—

“OQ come, be buried a second time in these arms! ”

Thus Pericles and Thaisa, after long and bitter suffering, found