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Apollonius of Tyre
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544[Qualiter Appolinus in portu Tharsis applicuit, vbi in hospicio cuiusdam magni viri nomine Strangulionis hospitatus est.]
How Appolinus landed at the port of Tharsis, where he was received hospitably in his house by a nobleman named Strangulio.
545 Bot over this now forto telle
546Of aventures that befelle
547Unto this Prince of whom I tolde,
548He hath his rihte cours forth holde
549Be Ston and nedle, til he cam
550To Tharse, and there his lond he nam.
551A Burgeis riche of gold and fee
552Was thilke time in that cite,
553Which cleped was Strangulio,
554His wif was Dionise also:
555This yonge Prince, as seith the bole,
556With hem his herbergage tok;
557And it befell that Cite so
558Before time and thanne also,
559Thurgh strong famyne which hem ladde
560Was non that eny whete hadde.
561Appolinus, whan that he herde
562The meschief, hou the cite ferde,
563Al freliche of his oghne yifte
564His whete, among hem forto schifte,
565The which be Schipe he hadde broght,
566He yaf, and tok of hem riht noght.
567Bot sithen ferst this world began,
568Was nevere yit to such a man
569Mor joie mad than thei him made:
570For thei were alle of him so glade,
571That thei for evere in remembrance
572Made a figure in resemblance
573Of him, and in the comun place
574Thei sette him up, so that his face
575Mihte every maner man beholde,
576So as the cite was beholde;
577It was of latoun overgilt:
578Thus hath he noght his yifte spilt.