210 STORY OF APOLLONWS OF TYRE.
But how so ever he be assailed, His latter ende shall be good.
And for to speke how that it stood Of Thaise his doughter, wher she dwelleth, In Tharse as -the cronique telleth, She was well kept, she was well loked, She was wel taught, she was wel boked, So well she sped her in her youth, That she of every wisdom couth, iJSffi That for to seche in every londe So wise an other no man fonde Ne so well taught at mannes eye. But wo worth ever false envy. For it befell that time so, A doughter hath Strangulio, The which was cleped Philotenne, But fame, which woll ever renne, Came all day to her moders ere And saith, wher ever her doughter were With Thaise set in any place, The commun vois, the commun grace • Was all upon that other maide, And of her doughter no man saide. Who was wroth but Dionise than ? Her thought a thousand yere till whan She might be of Thaise wreke, Of that she herde folk so speke. And fell that ilke same tide, That dede was trewe Lichoride, Whiche had be servaunt to Thaise, So that she was the wors at ese. For she hath thanne no servise But onely through this Dionise, Which was her dedlich enemy. Through pure treson and envy She, that of alle sorwe can, Tho spake unto her bondeman,