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<wk> <au>Shakespeare, William</au> <ti>Pericles</ti> <dt>1607-1608</dt> <doc>ShaPerQ</doc> <ed>1609 quarto</ed> <ser>Shakespeare Quartos in Collotype Facsimile</ser> <pub>London: The Shakespeare Association, 1940</pub> <loc><locdoc>ShaPerQA2</locdoc><P><Pn>A2</Pn> <sd><i>Enter Gower.</i></sd>To sing a Song that old was sung, From ashes, auntient <i>Gower</i> is come, Assuming mans infirmities, To glad your eare, and please your eyes: And Lords and Ladyes in their liues, Haue red it for restoratiues: The purchase is to make men glorious, <sp><i>Et bonum quo Antiquius eo melius</i></sp>: If you, borne in those latter times, When Witts more ripe, accept my rimes; And that to heare an old man sing, May to your Wishes pleasure bring: I life would wish, and that I might Waste it for you, like Taper light. This <i>Antioch</i>, then <i>Antiochus</i> the great, Buylt vp this Citie, for his chiefest Seat; The fayrest in all <i>Syria.</i>This King vnto hi . . .
