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

    • Copyright Tom Bishop and Andrew Forsberg. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: John Gower
    Editors: Tom Bishop, Andrew Forsberg
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    Apollonius of Tyre

    [Qualiter Artestrate Pentapolim Rege mortuo, ipsi de regno epistolas super hoc Appolino direxerunt: vnde Appolinus vna cum vxore sua ibidem aduenientes ad decus imperii cum magno gaudio coronati sunt.]
    How when Artestrates, King of Pentapolis, died, they sent from the kingdom letters about this to Apollonius; so that Apollonius and his wife arriving there were crowned with great joy, to the glory of his rule.
    2010 Whan al this thing is don and ended,
    This king, which loved was and frended,
    A lettre hath, which cam to him
    Be Schipe fro Pentapolim,
    Be which the lond hath to him write,
    2015That he wolde understonde and wite
    Hou in good mynde and in good pes
    Ded is the king Artestrates,
    Wherof thei alle of on acord
    Him preiden, as here liege lord,
    2020That he the lettre wel conceive
    And come his regne to receive,
    Which god hath yove him and fortune;
    And thus besoghte the commune
    Forth with the grete lordes alle.
    2025This king sih how it was befalle,
    Fro Tharse and in prosperite;
    He tok his leve of that Cite
    And goth him into Schipe ayein:
    The wynd was good, the See was plein
    2030Hem nedeth noght a Riff to slake,
    Til thei Pentapolim have take.
    The lond, which herde of that tidinge,
    Was wonder glad of his cominge;
    He resteth him a day or tuo
    2035And tok his conseil to him tho,
    And sette a time of Parlement,
    Wher al the lond of on assent
    Forth with his wif hath him corouned,
    Wher alle goode him was fuisouned.
    2040Lo, what it is to be wel grounded:
    For he hath ferst his love founded
    Honesteliche as forto wedde,
    Honesteliche his love he spedde
    And hadde children with his wif,
    2045And as him liste he ladde his lif;
    And in ensample his lif was write,
    That alle lovers myhten wite
    How ate laste it schal be sene
    Of love what thei wolden mene.
    2050For se now on that other side,
    Antiochus with al his Pride,
    Which sette his love unkindely,
    His ende he hadde al sodeinly,
    Set ayein kinde upon vengance,
    2055And for his lust hath his penance.
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