OF PAINEFULL ADVENTURES. 285
such was the excellencie of her beutie in each respect, that it could suffer no deformitie to accompany it, whereby also may be discerned a singular perfection of her minde, created by God and infused into her bodie, whereby it was mooued, and those good qualities of hers expressed in operation: so that all outward beautie of the bodie proceedeth from the inward beuty of the minde, from whence sprang up the olde and true saying of the wisest Philosophers, that the sundry nature of the forme or soule, diuersely dis-poseth the matter according vnto it[s] owne qualitie : as it expresly appeared in the beutiful countenaunce and stature of this Ladies bodie, whereof Cerimon stoode amazedly taking the view.
THE NINTH CHAPTER.
How Lucina was restored to life by one of Cerimon the Phisitions schollers ; and howe Cerimon adopted her to his daughter; and placed her in the temple of Diana.
THE surpassing beauty of faire Lucina, being such as is before recited, no woonder it was though Cerimon were maruellously rauished at ye sight, whereby his affection inforced him to breake out into these words: Alas good beautiful gentlewoman, what vnhappy and cruell chance hath thus made thee away, and caused thee to be so wofully forsaken? And as he spake those wordes, hee peiceiued the golde that lay at her head, and the siluer that lay at her feet, with a scroll of paper written, the which hee tooke vp and read, the tenor whereof was this : Whosoeuer shal finde this chest, I pray him for to take ten pieces of golde for his paines, and to bestowe ten peeces more on the