I can but say, ‘’Tis Mariette,’
Nor more than name her.
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And what have I, whom men forget
To offer to her?
A woman’s passion, Mariette,
There is no truer.”
Dora Read Goodale, Mariette (1878).
Mari´na, daughter of Per´iclês, prince of Tyre, born at sea, where her mother, Thais´a, as it was supposed, died in giving her birth. Prince Periclês entrusted the infant to Cleon (governor of Tarsus) and his wife, Dionys´ia, who brought her up excellently well, and she became most highly accomplished; but when grown to budding womanhood, Dionysia, out of jealousy, employed Le´onine (3 syl.) to murder her. Leonine took Marina to the coast with this intent, but the outcast was seized by pirates, and sold at Metali´nê as a slave. Here Periclês landed on his voyage from Tarsus to Tyre, and Marina was introduced to him to chase away his melancholy. She told him the story of her life, and he perceived at once that she was his daughter. Marina was now betrothed to Lysimachus, governor of Metalinê; but, before the espousals, went to visit the shrine of Diana of Ephesus, to return thanks to the goddess, and the priestess was discovered to be Thaisa, the mother of Marina.—Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608).
Marina, wife of Jacopo Fos´cari, the doge’s son.—Byron, The Two Foscari (1820).