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or mother. But as al things haue their time, so haue sorrowe and teares also, which are best dried vp with the towell of continuaunce -, which gaue nowe iust occasion vnto Apollonius to cast off drowsie sorrowe, and to prouide for the funeralles of his father in lawe, which he accomplished with so seasonable expedition, and in so honourable a sort, as was seemely for so mighty a king, and so vertuous a prince, whome hee buried among the auntient race of kings his aunces-tours in the Temple within the citie of Pentapolis. Which beeing all finished, as it is also a worke of charitie to fulfill the will of the dead, he applied him-selfe to execute his fathers testament, wherin he had giuen halfe his kingdpme vnto Apollonius, and the other halfe to Tharsia his neece, to haue and to holde to them and to their heires for euer.
THE TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTER.
How Apollonius rewarded the fisherman that releeited him after he had suffered shipwracke; howe hee dealt also with olde Calamitus, and likewise with the Pyrates that stole away Tharsia.
BY this time, when all cares were banished, and Apollonius inioyed his kingdome in quiet possession, he gaue himselfe sometimes to delight as other Princes are wont to do. And it fortuned that on a day when he had dined, he walked foorth for recreation vnto the sea side, with his wife and a fewe seruants. And when hee came there, he sawe a small fisher boat fleeting vnd'er saile, which hee thought by all signes he should knowe well, for hee supposed it to be the fishermans boat which succoured him, when he had suffered ship-wracke in sailing from Tharsus towardes Pentapolis.