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and burnt him to ashes. Then called Tharsia for the villaine, and saide vnto him : Because by thy meanes, and all the citizens, I haue hitherto remained a vir-gine euen vntill my fathers comming, my will is that thou be free; and moreouer, 1 heere giue vnto thee two hundred peeces of gold for a reward. Secondly, she called for all the women that were in the bawdes brothell, and saide vnto them: good women, whose chances, perhaps, hath beene as greeuous vnto you as mine was vnto me, I set you al at liberty, and whereas heretofore you haue gained money by hiring foprth the vse of your bodies, receiue of mee here this rewarde, that you may Hue hereafter more in the feare of God, and practise some more commendable way to sustaine necessitie, and therewithall she gaue to euerie one of them a rewarde, and so dismissed them. And when all these things were ended, Apol-lonius minding to depart, spake vnto the people saying : Noble Prince Athanagoras, and beloued citizens of Machilenta, I acknowledge my selfe much bounden to you, and I yeeld you hearty thanks for all your benefites bestowed vppon me and my daughter. And now in recompence thereof I giue vnto you fifty poundes weight of golde to be diuided amongest you, that when I am gone from you, you maybe mindefull of me. The citizens thanked him, and bowed their heads in token of reuerence; and they agreed together, and they erected two statues of brasse one unto him, .another to his daughter in the market place of the citie with these superscriptions written in their bases: Vnto Apollonius prince of Tyrus, the preserver of our houses; and vnto his vertuous daughter Tharsia^ a virgin, the mindefull citizens of Machilenta haue erected those monuments. But Apollonius remembring the great curtesie o/ Athanagoras, and his promise made vnto him concerning Tharsia, appointed a short time for their mariage, against which there was great