Pericles, Prince of Tyre How courtesy would seem to cover sin! ACT I, SCENE I Pericles, Prince of Tyre, has the spirit of a knight errant, and goes on one adventure after another. In the first he accepts the challenge of the King of Antioch to read a certain riddle. Success is to be rewarded with the hand of the King's beautiful daughter, failure punished with death. Pericles discovers the ...