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much, I should utterly have been ignorant from whence I had come. And therefore now, good nurce, I thank thee with all my heart, and if euer need so require, thy counsel shal be followed: and while they were debating these matters betweene them, Ligozides being verie sicke and weake, gaxie up the ghost, and by the death of this present bodie, passed into the state of live euerlasting.
THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER.
How after the death of Ligozides the nurce Dionisiades enuying at the beautie of Tharsia, conspired her death, which should haue been accomplished by a villaine of the coimtrey.
THARSIA much lamented the death of Ligozides her nurce, and caused her bodie to be solemnly buried not farre of, in a field without the walles of the citie, and mourned for her an whole yeere following. But when the yeare was expired, she put off her mourning attire, and put on her other apparel, and frequented the schooles, and the studie of liberall Sciences as before. And whensoeuer she returned from schoole, she would receiue no meate before she had visited her nurces sepulchre, which she did daily, entring thereinto, and carrying a flagon of wine with her, where she used to abide a space, and to call vppon her father and mother. Now on a day it fortuned, that as she passed through the street with Dionisiades, and her companion Philomacia, the people beholding the beautie and comlinesse of Tharsia, said : Happy is that father that hath Tharsia to his daughter, but her companion that goeth with her, is foule and euill fauoured. When Dionisiades heard Tharsia commended, and her owne daughter Philomacia so dis-