i. The Story of Apollonius of Tyre.

[From Cower* s " Confessio Amantls" lib. 8, edit* I8S7.3 .
Omnibus estcommunis amor, sedetimmoderatos Quifacit excessus, ?ion reputatur amans.
Sors tamen wide Venus attractat corda uidere, Qiie rationis erunt^ non rationefinit*
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F a cronique in daies gon. The which is cleped Panteon, In loves cause I rede thus, How that the great Antiochus, Of whom that Antioche toke His firste name, as saith the boke, Was coupled to a noble quene, And had a doughter hem betwene. But such fortune cam to honde, That deth, which no kind may withstonde, But every life it mote obey, This worthy quene toke awey. The king, which made mochel mone, Tho stood as who saith all him one Withoute wife_? but netheles His doughter, which was pereles

Hie loquitur adhuc contra
	coit
us, et narrat
xmrabile exem-
plumdemagrno
re^e Antiocho,
qui uxore mor-
tua propriam
filiam violavit,
etquiafiliema-
es alios impe-dire voluit,tale ab eo exut edictum, quod si quis earn iu-uxorem fiete-ret, nisi quod-dam proolema
quam ipse rex proposuerat, veraciter sol-veret, capitali
retur, super quo veniens tandem discre-tos juvenis