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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 Athenagoram cum Thaise vxore sua super Tyrum coronari fecit.]
    How Appolinus caused Athenagoras, with Thaisis his wife, to be crowned over Tyre.
    The king, as he wel couthe and scholde,
    Makth to his poeple riht good chiere;
    And after sone, as thou schalt hiere,
    1960A parlement he hath sommoned,
    Wher he his doghter hath coroned
    Forth with the lord of Mitelene,
    That on is king, that other queene:
    And thus the fadres ordinance
    1965This lond hath set in governance,
    And seide thanne he wolde wende
    To Tharse, forto make an ende
    Of that his doghter was betraied.
    Therof were alle men wel paied,
    1970And seide hou it was forto done:
    The Schipes weren redi sone,
    And strong pouer with him he tok;
    Up to the Sky he caste his lok,
    And syh the wynd was covenable.