and then they told him they heard the music; and he
now complaining of a drowsy slumber coming over him, Lysimachus
persuaded him to rest on a couch, and placing a pillow under his head,
he, quite overpowered with excess of joy, sank into a sound sleep, and
Marina watched in silence by the couch of her sleeping parent.

While he slept, Pericles dreamed a dream which made him resolve to go to
Ephesus. His dream was, that Diana, the goddess of the Ephesians,
appeared to him, and commanded him to go to her temple at Ephesus, and
there before her altar to declare the story of his life and misfortunes;
and by her silver bow she swore, that if he performed her injunction, he
should meet with some rare felicity. When he awoke, being miraculously
refreshed, he told his dream, and that his resolution was to obey the
bidding of the goddess.

Then Lysimachus invited Pericles to come on shore, and refresh himself
with such entertainment as he should find at Mitylene, which courteous
offer Pericles accepting, agreed to tarry with him for the space of a
day or two. During which time we may well suppose what feastings, what
rejoicings, what costly shows and entertainments the governor made in
Mitylene, to greet the royal father of his dear Marina, whom in her
obscure fortunes he had so respected. Nor did Pericles frown upon
Lysimachus's suit, when he understood how he had honoured his child in
the days of her low estate, and that Marina showed herself not averse to
his proposals; only he made it a condition, before he gave his consent,
that they should visit with him the shrine of the Ephesian Diana: to
whose temple they shortly after all three undertook a voyage; and, the
goddess herself filling their sails with prosperous winds, after a few
weeks they arrived in safety at Ephesus.

There was standing near the altar of the goddess, when Pericles with his
train entered the temple, the good Cerimon (now grown very aged) who had
restored Thaisa, the wife of Pericles, to life; and Thaisa, now a
priestess of the temple, was standing before the altar; and though the
many years he had passed in sorrow for her loss had much altered
Pericles, Thaisa thought she knew her husband's features, and when he
approached the altar and began to speak, she remembered his voice, and
listened to his words with wonder and a joyful amazement. And these were
the words that Pericles spoke before the altar: "Hail, Diana! to perform
thy just commands, I here