1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 263 



reverse the order of the two, and Mr. Round agrees with them 

 (see introduction to Q. 2, p. x). 



The title-page is the same for all the quartos : 



''The Late, | And much admired Play, | Called | Pericles, Prince 

 I of Tyre | with the true Relation of the whole Historic, | Adven- 

 tures, and fortunes of the said Prince : | As also, | The no lesse 

 strange, and worthy accidents, | in the Birth and Life, of his Daugh- 

 ter I Mariana. | As it hath been divers and sundry times acted by 

 I his Maiesties seruants, at the Globe on | the Banck-side | By 

 William Shakespeare | Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson 

 and are j to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in | Pater-noster row 

 &c I 1609." 



It will be observed that the publishers call Pericles ''a late and 

 much admired play." The only hesitation in believing the play to 

 be of 1608 arises from the allusion in Edward AUeyn's Memoirs 

 to the use of " spangled hose in Pericles ^^' which may refer to an 

 earlier play of the same title. 



Dryden in the Prologue to Davenant's Circe 1684, excused 

 the blemishes in Pericles on the ground of its being the first heir 

 of Shakespeare's invention : 



" Shakespeare's own muse her Pericles first bore, 

 The prince of Tyre was elder than the Moored 



There is a discussion of the date and authorship of the play in 

 the Jahrbuch d. dent. Shak.-Gesellschaft, Vol. iii, in an article by 

 Delius.^ 



Prior to 1890 the British Museum copy (imperfect) of the third 

 quarto- (161 1) was believed to be unique. A perfect copy owned 

 by Morris Jonas was described in Notes and Queries, August 2, 

 1890. I have collated this copy with Q. i, and find very few im- 



1 A. H. Bullen ( The Atheiiceiun, Sept. 21, 1878) directed attention to an early 

 reference to a passage of Pericles found in Law Tricks a play by John Day : 



Joculo : But, Madam, do you remember what a multitude of fishes we saw at 

 sea? And I do wonder how they can all live by one another. 



Emilia : Why, foole, as men do on the land, the great ones eate up the little 

 ones (Sig. B3, recto). 



Cf. the fisherman's colloquy in Pericles^ ii, I : 



3 Fish. : Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 



1 Fish. : Why, as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones. 

 Law Tricks appeared in 1608. 



2 The British Museum copy lacks leaves D2 and D3 (27-30) of the facsimile 

 of Qi. 



