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thought shee glittered like a diademe, and exceeded the brightest starres in beautie. But Lucina cur-teously lifted them vp from the ground, and bid them welcome, and afterward went to bestow the plate and ornaments of the temple in decent order, which thing was part of the Nunnes duety. Then Apol-lonius setled himselfe to doe as the Angell had com-maunded him in the vision, and thus he beganne to say: I being borne Prince of Tyrus, was called Apol-lonius, and when in youth I had attained vnto all kinde of knowledge, I resolued the cruel king Antio-chus parable, to the intent to have married with his daughter, whome he most shamefully defiled, and kept her from all men to serue his owne filthie lust, and sought meanes to slay me. Then I fled away, and lost all mygoodes in the sea, hardly escaping my selfe with life, and in my greatest extremitie I was courteously intertained by Altistrates king of Pen-tapolis \ and so highly receiued into fauor, that he left no kindes of fauor on me vntried, insomuch that hee bestowed vpon rnee his faire daughter and only childe Lucina to be rny wife. But when Antiochus and his daughter by the iust Judgement of God, were stroked dead by lightning from heauen, I carried my wife with me to receiue my kingdome, and she was deliuered of this my daughter and hers vpon the sea, and died in the trauell, whome I enclosed in a chest, and threwe into the sea, laying twenty sestercies of go'lde at her head, and as much in siluer at her feete, to the intent that they that should find her might haue wherewithal! to bury her honorably, leaving also a superscription that they might perceiue with what griefe of her friends she died, and of what princelie parentage shee descended. Afterwardes I arriued at the citie of Tharsus, where I put in trust my yoong daughter to be brought vp vnto certain wicked persons, and from thence I departed vnto the higher