Read the full text of Pericles Act 2 Scene 4 with a side-by-side translation HERE.
- Back in Tyre, Helicanus and a dude named Escanes gossip about King Antiochus, the guy who's been sleeping with his daughter and trying to have Pericles killed.
- Apparently, the dirty daddy-daughter duo was out joyriding in their chariot when they got hit by abolt of fire from heaven.
- The bodies were burnt to a crisp and are now so stinky that nobody wants to bury them.
- Helicanus is all, "That's what they get."
- Now a bunch of lords come in and complain that Pericles has been gone too long. They're worried that he's dead.
- They want Helicanus to be their official leader because they feel vulnerable without one.
- Helicanus convinces the lords to wait twelve more months for Pericles before making any hasty decisions.