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  • Title: Apollonius of Tyre
  • Editors: Tom Bishop, Andrew Forsberg

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    Editors: Tom Bishop, Andrew Forsberg
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    Apollonius of Tyre

    [Qualiter Appolinus, vxoris sue corpore in mare proiecto, Tyrum relinquens cursum suum versus Tharsim nauigio dolens arripuit.]
    How Appolinus, having thrown his wife's body in the sea, abandoning Tyre, set his ship's course towards Tharsis, mourning.
    The Schip forth on the wawes wente;
    The prince hath changed his entente,
    And seith he wol noght come at Tyr
    1170As thanne, bot al his desir
    Is ferst to seilen unto Tharse.
    The wyndy Storm began to skarse,
    The Sonne arist, the weder cliereth,
    The Schipman which behinde stiereth,
    1175Whan that he sih the wyndes saghte,
    Towardes Tharse his cours he straghte.