he to himselfe Thou hast resolued his probleme and yet not receiued his daughter and God hath therefore brought thee away that thou shouldest not die Then brake hee off in the midst of these cogitations and immediatly commanded his ships to be prepared and to be laden with an hundred thousand bushels of wheate and with great plentie of gold siluer and rich apparrell and taking vnto him a few of his most trustiest seruants about midnight imbarked himself and hoysing vp his sails committed himselfe to the wide sea The day following his subiects the citizens came vnto the pallace to haue seene their Prince but when they found him not there the whole citie was forthwith surprised with wonderfull sorrowe euerie man lamenting that so worthy a Prince so sodainly gone out of sight and knowledge no man knew whether Great was the griefe and wofull was the wayling which they made euery man lamenting his owne priuate estate and the common-wealths in generall as it alwaies hapneth at the death or losse of a good Prince which the inhabitants of Tirus tooke then so heauily in respect of their great affection that a long time after no barbers shops were opened the common shews and plaies surceased baines and hoat houses were shut vp tauerns were not frequented and no man repaired vnto the Churches al thing was full of sorrw and heauinesse what shall I say there was nothing but heauinesse CHAP. III. How Taliarchús not finding Apollonius at Tirus departeth ioyfully and Apollonius arriuing at Tharsus relieueth the citie with vittell IN the middes of this sorrowfull season Taliarchus commeth to Tirus to execute the cruell commandement of Antiochus where finding al-thing shut vp and a generall shew of mourning meeting with a boy in the stréete tell me said he or I will slay thee for what cause is al this citie thus drowned in heauines To whom the child answered My friend doest thou not know the cause that thou askest it of me This citie mourneth because the Prince therof Apollonius returning back from king Antiochus can no where be found or heard of Now so soone as Taliarchus heard these tidings he returned ioyfully vnto his ships and tooke his iourny backe to Antiochia and being landed he hastened vnto the king and fell downe on his knees before him saying All haile most mightie Prince reioyce and be glad for Apollonius being in feare of your grace is departed no man knoweth whether Then answered the king He may well flie away from mee but he shall neuer escape my handes And immediatly he made proclamation that whosoeuer could take that contemner of the king Apollonius prince of Tirus and bring him aliue into the kinges presence shoulde haue an hundred talents of golde for his labour and whosoeuer coulde bring his head shoulde haue fiftie talentes Which proclamation beeing published not onely Apollonius ennemies but also his friendes made all haste possible to seeke him out allured thereto with couetousnesse of the money Thus was that poore Prince 〈◊〉 for about by sea and by land through woodes 〈◊〉 wilde deserts but could not be found Then the king commanded a great Nauie of ships to be prepared to scoure the seas abroad if haply they might méet with him but for that euery thing requireth a time ere it can be done in the meane season Apollonius arriueth at Tharsus where walking along by the sea side he was espied by one of his owne seruauntes named Elinatus who landed there not long before and ouertooke him as he was going and comming neere vnto him with dutifull obeisance said vnto him God saue you prince Apollonius But he being saluted did euen so as noble men and princes vse to doe set light by him But Elinatus taking that behauiour vnkindly saluted him againe saying God saue you prince Apollonius salute me againe and despise not pouertie beautified with honestie And if you knewe that which I know you would take good heed to your self Then answered Apollonius If you thinke good I I pray you tell me Elinatus answered you are by proclamation commanded to be slaine And who said Apollonius dares commaund by proclamation the prince of a countrey to be slaine Antiochus said Elinatus Antiochus For what cause demanded Apollonius For that said Elinatus thou wouldst be vnto his daughter which he himselfe is Then demanded Apollonius for what summe of mony is my life sold by that proclamation Elinatus answered whosoeuer can bring you aliue vnto the king shall haue an hundred talents of gold in recompence but who so bringeth your head shall haue fiftie talents of gold for his labour and therefore I aduise you my lord to flie vnto some place for your defence and when he had so said he tooke his leaue and departed But Apollonius called him againe and said that hee would giue him an hundred talents of gold for said he receiue thus much now of my pouertie where nothing is now left vnto me but flight and pining misery Thou hast deserued the reward wherefore draw out thy sword and cut off my head present it to the king as the most ioyful sight in the world Thus mayst thou win an hundred talents of gold and remaine without all blame or note of ingratitude since I my selfe haue hyred thée in the kinges behalfe to gratefie him with so acceptable a present Then answered Elinatus God forbid my lord that by anie such sinister means I should deserue a reward In all my life I neuer consented to any such matter in my heart And my lord if the déed were good the loue of vertue were sufficient force to allure any man thereunto But since it respecteth your life to whome in consideration of the cause no man may doe violence without villanie I commit both you and your matter vnto God who no doubt will be your defender And when he had thus said he departed But Apollonius walked forth along vpon the shoare where he had not gone farre but he descried a man a farre off comming towardes him with heauie chéere and a sorrowfull countenance and his name was Stranguilio a Tharsian borne and of good reputation in the citie To whom saide Apollonius God saue you Stranguilio and he likewise resaluted him saying and you likewise my good lord Apollonius I pray you tel me what is the cause that you walk in this place thus troubled within your minde Apollonius answered because being promised to haue king Antiochus daughter to my wife if I told him the true meaning of his question nowe that I haue so done I am notwithstanding restrained from her Wherefore I request you it may so be that I may liue secretly in your citie for why I stand moreouer in some doubt of the kinges farther displeasure Stranguilio answered My lord Apollonius our citie at this present is verie poore and not able to sustaine the greatnesse of your dignitie and euen now we suffer great penurie and want of vittell insomuch that there remaineth small hope of
him into his house and feasted him with such fare as he presently had and the more amplie to expresse his great affection towardes him he disrobed himselfe of his poore and simple cloke and diuiding it into two parts gaue the one halfe thereof vnto Apollonius saying Take here at my handes such poore entertainment and furniture as I haue and goe into the citie where perhappes thou shalt finde some of better abilitie that will rue thine estate and if thou doe not returne then againe hither vnto mée and thou shalt not want what may be perfourmed by the pouertie of a poore fisherman And in the meane time of this one thing onelie I put thee in mind that when thou shalt be restored to thy former dignitie thou doe not despise to thinke on the basenesse of the poore péece of garment To which Apollonius answered If I remember not thée and it I wish nothing else but that I may sustaine the like shipwracke And when hée had saide so he departed on the way which was taught him and came vnto the citie gates whereinto he entred And while he was thinking with himselfe which waie to séeke succor to sustaine his life he saw a boy running naked through the stréete girded only with a tuell about his middle and his head annointed with oyle crying aloude and saying Hearken all as well citizens as strangers and seruants hearken Whosoeuer will be washed let him come to the place of exercise When Apollonius heard this he followed the boy and comming vnto the place cast off his cloake and stripped himselfe and entred into the Baine and bathed himselfe with the liquour And looking about for some companion with whome he might exercise himselfe according vnto the manner of the place and countrey and finding none sodainelie vnlooked for entred in Altistrates King of the whole land accompanied with a great troupe of seruitours Anone he beganne to exercise himselfe at tennis with his men which when Apollonius espied he intruded himselfe amongst them into the kings presence and stroke back the ball to the king and serued him in play with great swiftnes But whē the king perceiued the great nimblenesse and cunning which was in him surpassing the residue stand aside quoth he vnto his men for me thinkes this yong man is more cunning than I. When Apollonius heard himselfe commended hée stept foorth boldly into the middes of the tennis court and taking vp a racket in his hand he tossed the ball skilfully and with wonderful agilitie After play he also washed the king very reuerently in the Baine and when all was done hée tooke his leaue duetifully so departed When Apollonius was gone the king said vnto them that were about him I sweare vnto you of truth as I am a Prince I was neuer exercised nor washed better then this day and that by the diligence of a yongman I know not what he is And turning back go said he vnto one of his seruants know what that yong man is that hath with such duty diligence taken pains with me The seruant going after Apollonius and séeing him clad in a filthy fishers cloke returned againe to the king saying If it like your grace the yongman is a sea-wracked man How knowest thou that said the king the seruāt answered Though he told me not so himselfe yet his apparel bewraieth his state Then said the king to his seruant Go apace after him say vnto him that the king desireth him to sup with him this night Then the seruāt made haste after Apollonius did the kings message to him which so soone as he heard he granted thereto much thanking the kings maiestie came back with the seruant When they were come to the gate the seruant went in first vnto the king saying The sea-wracked man for whom your grace sent me is come but is ashamed to come into your presence by reason of his base aray whome the King commaunded immediatly to be clothed in séemely apparell and to be brought in to supper and placed him at the table with him right ouer against himselfe Immediately the boorde was furnished with all kinde of princelie fare the guests fed apace euery man on that which he liked onelie Apollonius sate still and eate nothing but earnestly beholding the golde siluer and other kingly furniture whereof there was great plentie hée could not refraine from sheading teares Then saide one of the guests that sate at the table vnto the king This yoong man I suppose enuieth at your graces prosperitie No not so answered the King you suppose amisse but he is sorie to remember that he hath lost more wealth then this is and looking vpon Apollonius with a smiling countenance be mery yong man quoth he and eate thy meate with vs and trust in GOD who doubtlesse will send thée better fortune CHAP. V. ¶ How Lucina King Altistrates daughter desirous to heare Apollonius aduentures fel in loue with him NOW while they sate at meate discoursing of this and such like matters at the boord suddenlie came in the kings daughter and onlie child named Lucina a singular beautifull ladie and a maiden now of ripe yéeres for mariage and she approched nigh and kissed the king her father and al the guests that sate with him at the table And when she had so done she returned vnto her father and saide Good father I pray you what yongman is this which sitteth in so honourable a place ouer against you so sorrowfull and heauie O swéete daughter answered the king this yong man is a sea-wracked man and hath done me great honour to day at the baines and place of exercise for which cause I sent for him to sup with me but I knowe not neither what neither whence he is If you be desirous to know these things demaund of him for you may vnderstand all things and peraduenture when you shall knowe you will be mooued with compassion towardes him Nowe when the lady perceiued hir fathers mind she turned about vnto Apollonius and saide Gentleman whose grace and comlinesse sufficiently bewraieth the nobilitie of your birth if it be not grieuous vnto you shew me your name I beséech you and your aduentures Then answered Apollonius Madam if you aske my name I haue lost it in the sea if you enquire of my nobilitie I haue left that at Tyrus Sir I beséech you then said the Lady Lucina tel me this more plainly that I may vnderstand Then Apollonius crauing licence to speake declared his name his birth and nobilitie and vnripped the whole tragedie of his aduentures in order as is before rehearsed and when he had made an end of speaking he burst foorth into most plētifull teares Which when the king beheld he saide vnto Lucina déere daughter you haue done euill in requiring to know the yong mans name and his aduentures wherein you haue renued his forepassed griefes But since nowe you haue vnderstoode all the trueth of him it is méete as it
as you sée not moued by my will but constrained by iniurie Wherfore tell me was I euer vnthankfull vnto your Citie in generall or vnto any of you al in particular They all aunswered with one voice no my lord and therfore wee are ready all to spend our liues in thy quarrell and as thou knowest well wée haue erected heere in perpetuall memorie of thee a statue of brasse because thou preseruedst vs from death and our citie from vtter destruction Then said Apollonius vnderstand then this much my friends that when I departed last from this citie I committed my daughter in trust vnto Stranguilio and his wife Dionisiades and when I came to require her they woulde not deliuer her vnto me nor tell me the trueth what is become of her Immediatly they were both called forth to aunswere vnto these matters before Apollonius where falling downe on their knees before him Dionisides answered in this manner My lord I beséech you stand fauourable vnto my poore husband and mee and not to beleeue any other thing concerning your daughter then that shée is departed this life And as for hir graue you haue seene it and also the monument of brasse erected by the whole citie in the memoriall of her and moreouer you haue read the superscription Then Apollonius commaunded his daughter to stand foorth in the presence of them all and shée saide vnto Dionisiades beholde thou wicked woman dead Tharsia is come to greete thée who as thou diddest well hope shoulde neuer haue béen forth comming to haue bewrayed thy wickednesse But when the miserable woman beheld Tharsia her heart quaked for feare and shée fell to the ground in a swoond and when shée recouered againe shee cried out vppon the iust iudgement of God and cursed the time that shee was borne And all the people ranne thronging about Tharsia and wondered at her thinking howe greatly they had been of long time abused by Stranguilio and Dionisiades and they reioyced much in her safetie and all knewe by her countenance that it was shée and none other O now who were able to declare the bitter griefe and intollerable care which eftsoones assaied the wearisome consciences of these twaine the husband and the wife when they sawe her liuing and in good liking before their faces whose death they had so traiterously conspired Euen hell it selfe is not comparable vnto so heauie a burden the vnspeakable weight whereof all men ought to feare and none can sufficiently describe vnlesse hée haue been semblably plunged in the like gulfe of horrible desperation Then Tharsia called for Theophilus Stranguilios villaine and when hée was come into her presence shée saide vnto him Theophilus aunswere mée aloud that all the people may heare who sent thee forth to slay me Hee aunswered Dionisiades my Mistresse What mooued her thereunto saide Tharsia None other thing I suppose saide the villaine but to enioy the money and ornamentes and also because thy beautie and comelinesse were commended aboue Philomacias her daughters Nowe when the people heard this they ranne vppon Stranguilio and Dionisiades and tooke them violently and bound them and drew them out of the citie and stoned them to death and would likewise haue slaine Theophilus the villaine for that that at his mistresse commandement he would haue murdered the innocent maiden But Tharsia intreated for him saying Not so my deare friends I pray you let me obtaine pardon for him at your handes for vnlesse he had giuen me respite to say my praiers I had not been heere now to haue spoken for him and when she had said so the furious multitude was appeased And Apollonius gaue many exceeding rich giftes vnto the citie and repared it strongly in many places where it was decaied and abode there with them the space of three monthes in feasting and making merry before he departed CHAP. XXII How Apollonius sailed from Tharsus to visite his father in law Altistrates king of Pentapolis who died not long after Apollonius comming thither THe terme of thrée monethes that Apollonius purposed for his delight to remaine at Tharsus was almost expired and he cōmanded all things to be prepared for the iourney and when the day was come hee made generall proclamation vppon paine of death euery man to ship And when the whole army was imbarked he took ship himselfe with his wife and his daughter being honourably accompanied by the citizens vnto the water side and after due courtesie on both sides done and receiued hee hoysed sayle and departed towardes Pentopolis king Altistrates Citie And when they had sailed with prosperous winde ten dayes vppon the Sea they discouered a farre off the Steeples and Towres of Pentapolis and the Souldiers reioyced and gaue a shout for gladnesse that they were so neere to their wished land Then they cast about and cut towards the hauen and cast anker and landed all safe and Apollonius with his wife and daughter after hee had taken order for the companie rode vnto the court vnto king Altistrates whom they found in good health and merry And when Altistrates saw his sonne in lawe his daughter and his neece Tharsia hee bid them welcome and reioyced exceedingly and sent for the Nobles of his land to keepe them companie and gaue them the best entertainement that hee could deuise and they soiourned with him an whole yeare in pleasure and pastime whereof the king tooke as great comfort as was possible for a man to doe in any worldly felicitie But as there was neuer yet any thing certaine or permanent in this mortall life but alwaies we be requited with sowre sauce to our sweete meate and when wee thinke our selues surest in the top of ioy then tilt wée downe soonest into the bottome of sorrow so fared it now vnto these personages in the midst of their iollitie For the good old king Altistrates fell sodainly sick which much appalled them all and grew euerie day weaker than other Then were the Phisitions sent for in haste who left nothing vntried that appertained vnto Art and experience to doe and aboue all Apollonius and Lucina his wife plaied the parts of duetifull children in tendring their aged and weake father with all care and diligence possible But alas olde age which of it selfe is an vncurable sickenesse and had béene growing nowe well nigh an hundred yeares lacking seuen vpon him accompanied with the intollerable paine of the gowt and the stone of the bladder had consumed naturall moisture so that his force gaue ouer to the disease and shortely after changed this transitorie life for a better When report was spread abroad of the kings death there was great sorrowe and lamentation made in all places neither was there any that tooke not grieuously the losse of so good a Prince But to describe the inward affliction of Apollonius and the teares of the Ladie Lucina and Tharsia her daughter woulde make any heart of flint to bléede considering the tender affections of women aboue men and howe prone
comfort vnto our citizens but that we shall all perish by extreme famine and now certes there resteth nothing but the fearefull image of gastly death before our eies When Apollonius heard these wordes he said vnto him Then giue thankes vnto God who in my flight hath brought me a land into your costes For I haue brought great store of prouision with me and I will presently giue vnto your citie an hundreth thousand bushels of wheate if you will onely conceale my comming hither At these wordes Stranguilio being strooken as it were into a sodaine amazednesse as it happeneth when a man is ouerioyed with some glad tidinges fell downe prostrate before prince Apollonius feete and saide My lord Apollonius if you coulde and also if it might please of your great goodnesse in such sort as you say to succour this afflicted and famished citie we wil not onely receiue you gladly and conceale your abode but also if néede so require willingly spend our liues in your quarrell Which promise of mine to the intent you may heare to be confirmed by the full consent of all the citizens might it please your Grace to enter into the citie and I most willingly will attend vpon you Apollonius agréed thereto and when they came into the citie he mounted vp into the place of iudgment to the intent he might the better be heard and gathering al the people togither thus hee spake vnto the whole multitude Ye citizens of Tharsus whom penurie of vittell pincheth at this present vnderstand ye that I Apollonius prince of Tirus am determined presently to relieue you In respect of which benefite I trust ye will be so thankfull as to conceale mine arriuing hither And know ye moreouer that not as being driuen away through the malice of king Antiochus but sayling along by the Seas I am happily fallen into your hauen Wherefore I meane to vtter vnto you an hundred thousand busshels of wheate paying no more than I bought it for in mine owne countrey that is to say eight péeces of brasse for euerie bushell When the citizens heard this they gaue a shout for ioy crying God saue my Lord Apollonius promising to liue and die in his quarrell and they gaue him wonderfull thankes and the whole citie was replenished with ioy and they went forthwith vnto the ships and bought the corne But Apollonius doubting lest by this déede he should séeme to put off the dignitie of a prince and put on the countenance of a merchant rather than a giuer when he had receiued the price of the wheate he restored it backe againe to the vse and commoditie of the same citie And when the citizens perceiued the great benefites which he had bestowed vpon their citie they erected in the marked place a monument in the memoriall of him his stature made of brasse standing in a charret holding corne in his right hand and spurning it with his left foot and on the baser foot of of the pillar whereon it stoode was ingrauen in great letters this superscription Apollonius prince of Tirus gaue a gift vnto the citie of Tharsus whereby hée deliuered it from a cruell death CHAP. IIII. How Apollonius departing from Tharsus by the perswasion of Stranguilio and Dionisiades his wife committed shipwracke and was relieued by Altistrates king of Pentapolis THus had not Apollonius aboden many daies in the citie of Tharsus but Stranguilio Dionisiades his wife earnestly exhorted him as séeming very carefull and tender of his welfare rather to addresse himselfe vnto Pentapolis or among the Tirenians as a place most fit for his securitie where he might lie and hide himselfe in greatest assurance tranquilitie Wherefore hereunto he resolued himselfe and with conuenient expedition prepared al things necessarie for the iourney And when the day of his departure was come he was brought with great honour by the citizens vnto his ships where with a courteous farewell on ech side giuen the marriners weighed anker hoysed sailes and away they goe committing themselues to the wind and water Thus sailed they forth along in their course thrée days and thrée nights with prosperous winde and weather vntill sodainly the whole face of heauen and sea began to change for the skie looked blacke and the Northerne wind arose and the tempest increased more and more insomuch that prince Apollonius and the Tyrians that were with him were much apalled and began to doubt of their liues But loe immediatly the winde blew fiercely from the South-west and the North came singing on the otherside the rain powred down ouer their heads and the sea yéelded forth waues as it had béene mountanes of water that the ships could no longer wrestle with the tempest and especially the admirall wherein the good prince himselfe fared but néeds must they yéeld vnto the present calamitie There might you haue heard the winds whistling the raine dashing the sea roaring the cables cracking y e tacklings breaking the shippe tearing the men miserable shouting out for their liues There might you haue séene the sea searching the shippe the bordes fléeting the goods swimming the treasure sincking the men shifting to saue themselues where partly through violence of the tempest and partly through darcknes of the night which then was come vpon them they were all drowned onely Apollonius excepted who by the grace of God and the helpe of a simple boord was driuen vpon the shoare of the Pentapolitanes And when he had recouered to land wearie as he was he stoode vpon the shoare and looked vpon the calme sea saying O most false and vntrustie sea I will choose rather to fall into the handes of the most cruell King Antiochus than venture to returne againe by thée into mine owne Countrey thou hast shewed thy spite vpon me and deuoured my trustie friendes and companions by meanes whereof I am nowe left alone and it is the prouidence of almightie God that I haue escaped thy gréedie iawes Where shall I now finde comfort or who will succour him in a strange place that is not knowen And whilest he spake these wordes hée sawe a man comming towardes him and he was a rough fisherman with an hoode vpon his head and a filthie leatherne pelt vpon his backe vnséemely clad and homely to beholde When hée drewe neare Apollonius the present necessitie constraining him thereto fell down prostrate at his féet and powring forth a floud of teares he said vnto him whosoeuer thou art take pitie vpon a poore sea-wracked man cast vp nowe naked and in simple state yet borne of no base degrée but sprung foorth of noble parentage And that thou maiest in helping me knowe whome thou succourest I am that Apollonius prince of Tyrus whome most part of the worlde knoweth and I beséech thée to preserue my life by shewing mée thy friendly reliefe When the fisherman beheld the comlinesse and beautie of the yoong Gentleman hée was mooned with compassion towardes him and lifted him vp from the ground and lead
which I beleeuing to be true put on mourning attire and desired nothing so much as to die and while I was in that extremitie of sorrowe and determined to haue sayled vnto Tyrus while I was on my way vpon the sea the winde turned and there arose a tempest and draue me vnto the citie Machilenta where my daughter was restored vnto me Then went I with my sonne in law and my daugter once againe to haue sailed vnto Tyrus by Tharsus and as I was now in the iourney I was admonished in my sleepe by an Angell to turne my course vnto Ephesus and there in the temple to declare aloud al my aduentures that had befallen me since my youth vnto this present day which hath hitherto guided me in all my troubles will nowe send an happy end vnto all mine afflictions CHAP. XX. How Apollonius came to the knowledge of his wife the ladie Lucina and how they reioyced at the meeting of ech other THe ladie Lucina was not so busie in executing her office in the Church but that she gaue also attentiue eare vnto her lord Apollonius talke whom at the first she knew not But when shee heard the long discourse whereby she knewe by all signes that hee was her husband and shee was his wife her heart burned within her and she could scarce temper her affections vntill hee had done talking Yet measuring her loue with modestie as nowe of long time hauing learned the true trade of pacience shee gaue him libertie to make an end which done shee ran hastily vnto him and embraced him hard in her armes and woulde haue kissed him Which thing when Apollonius sawe hee was mooued with disdaine and thrust her from him as misliking such lightnesse in her whose modestie and good grace hee had so lately before commended in his heart and nothing at all suspecting that she had béen his wife Then shee pouring foorth teares aboundantly O my lord Apollonius said she the one halfe of my life why deale you thus vngently with me I am your wife daughter vnto Altistrates king of Pentapolis and my name is Lucina And you are Apollonius prince of Tyrus my lord and deare husband and you are my schoolemaister which taught mée musicke and moreouer you are the Sea-wrecked man whom I especially loued aboue many not for concupiscence sake but for desire of wisedome When Apollonius heard those words he was sodainly astonied and as the strangenes of the chance appalled him much so the great ioy reuiued his spirites againe and he cast his eies earnestly vppon her and immediatly called her to remembrance and knewe perfitly that it was shée indéede and hée went vnto her and fell vppon her necke and for excéeding ioy brast out into teares and then lifting vp his handes and eyes to heauen hee saide Blessed be the moste mightie God of heauen which sitteth aboue and beholdeth the state of men on earth and dealeth with them according to his great mercie who nowe also of his vnspeakeable goodnesse hath restored vnto mée my wife and my daughter Then did hee most louingly embrace and kisse his ladie whom he supposed long before to be dead and shée likewise requited him with the like fruites of good will and courtesie whom she surely thought she should neuer haue séene againe And when they had continued a good space in intertaining the one another O my moste deare lord Apollonius saide the lady Lucina where is my childe whereof I was deliuered Apollonius aunswered my best beloued ladie it was a daughter and she was named Tharsia and this is she and therewithal he shewed her Tharsia Then kissed and embraced she her daughter and likewise her sonne in law Athanagoras and they greatly reioyced one in another And when report héereof was spread abroad there was great ioy throughout all the Citie of Ephesus and the report was blowen about in euerie place how prince Apollonius had found out his ladie and wife among the Nunnes in the Temple Then Lucina discoursed vnto her lord and husband Apollonius of all the strange accidents that happened vnto her after his casting her forth into the Sea Namely howe her chest was cast on land at the coast of Ephesus and taken vp by a Phisition and how she was reuiued and by him adopted and for preseruation of her honestie placed among the Nunnes in the Temple of Diana where hee then found her accordingly as it appeareth before in the historie wherefore they blessed the name of God and yéelded most heartie thankes vnto him that hée had preserued them thitherto and graunted them so ioyfull a meeting CHAP. XXI How Apollonius departed from Ephesus and sailed himselfe his wife his sonne and daughter vnto Antiochia and then to Tyrus and from thence to Tharsus where he reuenged himselfe vpon Stranguilio and Dionisiades APollonius and Lucina his wife and the residue of their traine hauing rested themselues and made merrie sufficient time at Ephesus when the winde serued tooke leaue of their friendes and went aboord of their ships and lanched from the shore and departed vnto Antiochia where according as Calamitus the maister of the ship of Tyrus had tolde him before the kingdome was reserued for him since the death of Antiochus But when the citizens heard that he was arriued they were all exceeding glad and put on their brauest apparell and garlandes of bayes vpon their heads and went forth in procession to méet him and brought him in triumph into the Citie and crowned him king with all ioy and gladnesse And when all the solemnities of the coronation the feastes triumphes largesses and pardons were finished hée abode with them certaine daies to dispose some matters in order that required redresse and to establish certaine lawes for the due administration of iustice Which being all accomplished according to his desire he tooke his leaue of the Citizens and with his wife sonne and daughter departed to the sea and sayled vnto Tyrus his owne natiue country where he was ioyfully receiued of his subiects and found his kingdome gouerned in good order There placed he for his lieuetenant his sonne in lawe Athanagoras which had married his daughter Tharsia to rule the countrey in his absence and when he had aboden a conuenient time amongst them to make merrie and to prouide necessaries for his farther affaires he leuied in shorter space a mightie armie of the best approoued souldiours with sufficient store of money and munition and taking with him moreouer his lady and his daughter Tharsia tooke shipping in the hauen and had so prosperous winde that in few dayes they landed in the coast of Tharsus And when they were come all ashoare they marched forward in battell aray and came into the Citie to the great terrour of al the inhabitantes When hee was come into the market place he commaunded that Stranguilio and Dionisiades should be brought before him which being done he thus spake vnto the people Ye Citizens of Tharsus I am come hither in armes