Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and
My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,
Bid me farewell, and smile.”
So beautifully and so variously does the great dramatist carry out that one thought of making trial of men’s hearts and characters to learn the metal of which they are made.
To finish our notices and illustrations of the Triumph Scene in Pericles, there remain to be considered the device and the motto of the sixth—the stranger knight—who “with such a graceful courtesy delivered,”—
“A wither’d branch, that’s only green at top,[[105]]
The motto, In hac spe vivo;”
(Act ii. sc. 2, lines 43, 44;)
and on which the remark is made by Simonides,—
“A pretty moral: