STORY OF APOLLONIVS OF TYRE.,
And thus in hope and good beleve, Of that the corps shall well arrive, They cast it over borde as blive.
The ship forth on the wawes went. The prince hath chaunged his en tent And saith, he woll nought come at Tire As thanne, but all his desire Is first to sailen unto Tharse. The windy storm began to scarse, , The sonne arist, the weder clereth, ' The shipman, which behinde stereth, Whan that he sigh the windes saught, Towardes Tharse his cours he straight
But now to my matere ayein, To telle as olde bokes sain, This dede corps, of whiche ye knowe, With winde and water was forth thro we, Now here, now there, till ate last At Ephesim the see upcast The coffre and all that was therinne. Of great merveile now beginne May here, who that sitteth still. That god woll save may nought spill. Right as the corps was throwe a londe, There cam walkend upon the stronde A worthy clerke and surgien And eke a great phisicien, Of all that lond the wisest one, Which highte maister Cerimon. There were of his disciples some. This maister is to the coffre come, He peiseth there was somwhat in And bad hem bere it to his inne, And goth him selve forth with all All that shall falle, falle shall.
They comen home and tarie nought. This coffire into his chambre is brought,
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Qualiter Ap-pollinus, uxorii sue corpore tn mare projecto, Tyrum reUn-quens cursum suum versus Tharsim navi-gio dolens arripuit.
Qualiter corpus predicte de-functe super litus apua Ephesun qui-
mon cufii ali-quibus suis • discipulis in-venit, quod in
ponens, spira-culo vite m ea adhuc invento, ipsam plene sanitati resti-tuit.