276 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



djadochus und dionysya 

 echites elydropia 

 epistratis galaritide 

 jaspis und gerachide 

 panterus und obtallius 

 prasius und saffyrus 

 sardonix und sardius 

 topasios und smaragdus, 

 die steine war en diin gesazt 

 alle in piischelin gevazzt " {Apol., 18,416-18,439). 



Collier, in his introduction to Mommsen's edition of Wilkins* 

 novel, attempts to prove two contentions : first, " that the novel 

 before us very much adopts the language of the play ; second, that 

 it not infrequently supplies portions of the play as it was acted in 

 1607 or 1608, which have not come down to us in any of the 

 printed copies oi Pericles. ^^ 



In illustration of the first point, Collier quotes from the novel, 

 ^'A Gentleman of Tyre — his name Pericles — his education been in 

 arts and arms, who, looking for adventures in the world, was, by the 

 rough and unconstant seas, most unfortunately bereft both of ships 

 and men, and after shipwreck thrown upon that shore ; ' ' and cites 

 the parallel passage from the play : 



** A Gentleman of Tyre; my name Pericles; 

 My education beene in Artes and Ai-mes : 

 Who looking for aduentures in the world. 

 Was by the rough Seas reft of Ships and men, 

 And after shipwracke, driuen upon this shore" (II, iii, 81). 



Collier has greater difficulty in discovering in the text of the 

 novel the lost language of Shakespeare. Act iii, Scene i, of the 

 play, as it is printed, relates mainly to the birth of Marina at sea 

 during a storm. In the novel Pericles thus addresses the infant : 

 *■ * Poor inch of nature f . , . . thou art as rudely welcome to the 

 world, as ever princess babe was, and hast as chiding a nativity as 

 fire, air, earth and water can afford thee." In the play as printed 

 no corresponding commencement of the apostrophe, *' Poor inch of 

 nature ! " is to be found, and yet the words must have come from 

 Shakespeare. No mere hackney scribe could have conceived them. 

 Moreover, the words which follow are nearly identical in the play 

 with the sentence from the novel : 



" Thou art the rudelyest welcome to this world, 

 That euer was Princes Child : happy what followes, 

 Thou hast as chiding a natiuitie, 

 As Fire, Ayre, Water, Earth and Heauen can make " (III, i, 30). 



