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moste deare lord Apollonius, saide the lady Lucina, where is my childe, whereof I was deliuered ? Apol-lonius aunswered : My best beloved ladie, it was a daughter, and she was named Tharsia, and this is she, and therewithal he shewed her Tharsia. Then kissed and embraced she her daughter, and likewise her sonrie in law Athanagoras, and they greatly re-ioyced one in another.
And when report heereof was spread abroad, there was great ioy throughout all the-Citie of Ephesus, and the report has blowen about in euerie place how prince Apollonius had found out his ladie and wife among the Nunnes in the Temple. Then Lucina discoursed vnto her lord and husband Apollonius, of all the strange accidents that happened vnto her after his casting her forth into the Sea. Namely, howe her chest was cast on land at the coast of Ephesus, and taken vp by a Phisition j and how she was reuiued and by him adopted, and for preseruation of her honestie, placed among the Nunnes in the Temple of Diana, where hee there found her, accordingly as it appeareth before in the historic, wherefore they blessed the name of God, and yeelded most heartie thankes vnto him, that hee had preserved them hitherto, and graunted them so ioyfull a meeting.
THE TWENTY-FIRST CHAPTER.
How Apollonius departed from Ephesus^ and sailed himself e> his wife, his sonne, and daughter vnto Antiochia^ and then to Tyrus, and from thence to Thar$u$) where he revenged himselfe upon Stran-iliO) and Dionisiades.
APOLLONIUS and Lucina his wife, and the residue of their traine, hauing rested themselues and made merrie