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Enter Gower, before the monument of Marina at Tarsus.
Gower: / Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short; / Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't; / Making, to take your imagination, / From bourn to bourn, region to region. / By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime / To use one language in each several clime / Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you / To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you, / The stages of our story. Pericles / Is now again thwarting the wayward seas, / Attended on by many a lord and knight, / To see his daughter, all his life's delight. / Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late / Advanced in time to great and high estate, / Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind, / Old Helicanus goes along behind.