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When Apollonius, who lay solitarily vnder the hatches, heard such a sodaine voice of mirth, hee called vnto the master, and demaunded what it meant. The master aunswered, we reioyce, and be you glad also with us my lorde, for this day we doe solemnize the feast of your birth. Then Apollonius sighed, and said himselfe : All keepe hollyday saue I onely, and let it suffice vnto my servants that I onely re-maine in sorrowe and heauinesse : Howbeit, I giue vnto them ten peeces of go old, to buy what they will to keepe holyday withall. But whosoeuer shall call me vnto the feast, or goe about to prouoke me vnto mirth, I comrnaund that his thighes shall be broken. So the cater tooke the money, and went aland, and prouided necessaries, and returned againe vnto the ship.
THE SIXTEENTH CHAPTER.
How Athanagoras prince of Machilenta seeing the beau-tie of Apollonius ship^ went dboord of it> and did the best he could to comfort him.
As fortune thereto serued, and delight to take the fresh aire moued Athanagoras prince of ye Citie, to walk toward the sea side, he sawe Apollonius ships riding at anker: at the view wherof he tooke great pleasure, especially at ye Admirall which was a great ship and a beautiful, wherin Apollonius himself was carried, the like wherof haply he had not seene often before. This was that Anthagoras that loued Tharsia so tenderly, and he haled vnto the Marriners, and asked of whence that faire ship was ? The Marriners answered, that she came now from Tharsus. Truly, said Athanagoras, it is a faire shippe, and well ap-