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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 Hellicanus ciuis Tyri Tharsim veniens Appolinum de insidiis Antiochi premuniuit.]
    How Hellicanus, a Tyrian citizen, came to Tharsis and warned Appolinus of Anitochus's plot.
    580 Upon a time with his route
    This lord to pleie goth him oute,
    And in his weie of Tyr he mette
    A man, the which on knees him grette,
    And Hellican be name he hihte,
    585Which preide his lord to have insihte
    Upon himself, and seide him thus,
    Hou that the grete Antiochus
    Awaiteth if he mihte him spille.
    That other thoghte and hield him stille,
    590And thonked him of his warnynge,
    And bad him telle no tidinge,
    Whan he to Tyr cam horn ayein,
    That he in Tharse him hadde sein.