retended funeral for her, and erected a stately monument; and
shortly after Pericles, accompanied by his loyal minister Helicanus,
made a voyage from Tyre to Tarsus, on purpose to see his daughter,
intending to take her home with him: and he never having beheld her
since he left her an infant in the care of Cleon and his wife, how did
this good prince rejoice at the thought of seeing this dear child of his
buried queen! but when they told him Marina was dead, and showed the
monument they had erected for her, great was the misery this most
wretched father endured, and not being able to bear the sight of that
country where his last hope and only memory of his dear Thaisa was
entombed, he took ship, and hastily departed from Tarsus. From the day
he entered the ship a dull and heavy melancholy seized him. He never
spoke, and seemed totally insensible to everything around him.

Sailing from Tarsus to Tyre, the ship in its course passed by Mitylene,
where Marina dwelt; the governor of which place, Lysimachus, observing
this royal vessel from the shore, and desirous of knowing who was on
board, went in a barge to the side of the ship, to satisfy his
curiosity. Helicanus received him very courteously and told him that the
ship came from Tyre, and that they were conducting thither Pericles,
their prince; "A man, sir," said Helicanus, "who has not spoken to any
one these three months, nor taken any sustenance, but just to prolong
his grief; it would be tedious to repeat the whole ground of his
distemper, but the main springs from the loss of a beloved daughter and
a wife." Lysimachus begged to see this afflicted prince, and when he
beheld Pericles, he saw he had been once a goodly person, and he said to
him, "Sir king, all hail, the gods preserve you, hail, royal sir!" But
in vain Lysimachus spoke to him; Pericles made no answer, nor did he
appear to perceive any stranger approached. And then Lysimachus
bethought him of the peerless maid Marina, that haply with her sweet
tongue she might win some answer from the silent prince: and with the
consent of Helicanus he sent for Marina, and when she entered the ship
in which her own father sat motionless with grief, they welcomed her on
board as if they had known she was their princess; and they cried, "She
is a gallant lady." Lysimachus was well pleased to hear their
commendations, and he said, "She is such a one, that were I well assured
she came of noble birth, I would wish no better