OF PA1NEFULL ADUENTURES.
Wherefore hee commaunded some of his seruantes, to take another shippe which rode at anchor there on the shore, to go after and take him, and to bring the fisherman vnto him vnto the Coort. When the poore man saw himselfe boorded of so many and so gay a multitude, hee feared they had beene pyrates, and that they woulde haue slaine him; and he fell -downe on his knees, and besought them to haue compassion vpon him: he was but a poore fisherman, and had not that which they sought for: it were others that were more fit for their purpose to meete withall, such as ventured further in greater vesselles, carrying foorth great summes of money, and bringing home plenty of costly merchandize : As for him, they should not only-find miserable pouertie in ransacking his boat, but if they were also determined to take away his life from him, they should likewise with the same stroke be-reaue the liues of his poore wife, and many small -Children, which were maintained by his hand onely. These or the like words vttered then the poore fisherman. But they smiling in their conceits, and minde-full of their Princes comrnaundement, bade him not feare that they would robbe him, but saide that he must goe with them, and brought him away vnto the court. And when he was come into the kings presence, Apollonius knewe him well, and saide vnto the Queene and the Nobles that were about him: Be-holde, this is the man that receiued me into his house, and succoured mee when I suffered shipwracke, and shewed me the way into the Citie, by which meanes I came acquainted with good king Altistrates. Aaid he rose out of his seate, and embraced him and said : I am Apollonius Prince of Tyrus whome thou diddest succour, and therefore bee of good cheere, for thou shalt be rewarded. And the poore fisherman wept exceedingly for ioy. And Apollonius commaunded two hundred sestercies of gold to be giuen vnto him,