{"id":"01KG6S5M2RS29R6FMZENQNNC9F","cid":"bafkreifgsv5ztj4habhixy2dx4ucvq6siciw7e4dpr4sguvzk2iyzx6t4i","type":"intro","properties":{"description":"# Introduction to Pericles\n\n## Overview\nThis entity is an introduction to the play \"Pericles,\" extracted from a larger text file. It spans lines 16513 to 16588 of its source and is labeled \"Introduction.\"\n\n## Context\nThis introduction is part of the chapter titled [Pericles](arke:01KG6S4DVCD2PVSZ8Y9W4E8T6A), which is itself contained within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y) collection. The text was extracted from the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). It is followed by the section [III. 41-60—III. i. 14](arke:01KG6S5M2R0AG72RB5KAGJMNJB).\n\n## Contents\nThe introduction sets the scene for the play, describing Pericles' search and the news of Antiochus and his daughter's death. It mentions Holycanus refusing the crown of Tyre and Pericles' eventual agreement to take it if he does not return within \"twife fixe Moones.\" The text then shifts to Pericles' departure to Tyre with his pregnant queen, their journey by sea, and a violent tempest during which the queen goes into labor. The introduction concludes with Pericles' lament on deck, addressing the gods and the storm, and expressing concern for his queen and unborn child. The text includes stage directions such as \"Enter Pericle, a Shipboard.\" and dialogue from Pericles.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T06:26:42.586Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Introduction to Pericles","end_line":16588,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:08.808Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Introduction","source_file":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","start_line":16513,"text":"By many a dearne and painedull pearch\nOf Perycles the carefull search,\nBy the fower oppofing Crignes,\nWhich the world togeather iognes,\nIs made with all due diligence,\nThat horse and sayle and hie expence,\nCan't feed the quest at last from Tyre:\nFame answering the most strange enquire,\nTo'th Court of King Symonides,\nAre Letters brought, the tenour these:\nAntiochus and his daughter dead,\nThe men of Tyrus, on the head\nOf Holycanus would set on\nThe Crowne of Tyre, but he will none:\nThe mutanie, hee there hastes t'oppresse,\nSayes to'em, if King Pericles\nCome not home in twife fixe Moones,\nHe obedient to their doomes,\nWill take the Crowne: the fumme of this,\nBrought hither to Penlapolis,\nIranyihed the regions round,\nAnd euery one with claps can found,\nOur heyre apparant is a King:\nWho dreampt? who thought of such a thing?\nBriefe he must hence depart to Tyre,\nHis Queene with child, makes her defire,\n\nE.\n\nWhich\n\nIII. 12-40\n\n<!-- [Page 653](arke:01KG6QMY3HZ5Q35WPVWTTDFCFQ) -->\n# The Play of\n\nWhich who shall crofse along to goe,\nOmit we all their dole and woe:\n*Lubrosa* her Nurfe she takes,\nAnd so to Sea; their vefsell shakes,\nOn *Nectaw* billow, hafe the flood,\nHath their Keele cut: but fortune mou’d,\nVaries againe, the grifled North\nDifgorges fuch a tempeft forth,\nThat as a Ducke for life that diues,\nSo vp and downe the poore Ship driues:\nThe Lady shreckes, and wel-a-neare,\nDo’s fall in trauayle with her feare:\nAnd what enfues in this fell storme,\nShall for it felfe, it felfe performe:\nI nill relate, action may\nConueniently the reft conuay;\nWhich might not? what by me is told,\nIn your imagination hold:\nThis Stage, the Ship, vpon whofe Decke\nThe feas toft *Pericle* appears to fpeake.\n\n## Enter Pericle, a Shipboard.\n\n**Peri.** The God of this great Vaft, rebuke thefe furges,\nWhich wash both heaven and hell, and thou that haft\nVpon the Windes con: maund, bind them in Braffe;\nHauing call’d them from the deepe, ô ftill\nThy deafning dreadfull thunders, gently quench\nThy ninible fulphirous flashes: ô How *Lycherida*!\nHow does my Queene? then storme venomously,\nWilt thou fpeat all thy felfe? the fea-mana Whiffle\nIs as a whifper in the eares of death\nVnheard *Lycherida*! *Lucena*, oh!\nDiuineft patrionefle, and my wife gentle\nTo thofe that cry by-night, conuey thy deftie\nAboard our dauncing Boat, make fwift the pangues\nOf my Queenes trauayles? now *Lycherida*.\n\n*Enter*\n","title":"Introduction"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6S4DVCD2PVSZ8Y9W4E8T6A","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6S5M2R0AG72RB5KAGJMNJB","peer_type":"section","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T06:24:11.352Z","ts":"2026-01-30T06:26:42.771Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}