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Apollonius of Tyre
1602[Qualiter Appolinus post parliamentum Tharsim pro Thaise filia sua querenda adiit, qua ibidem non inventa abinde navigio recessit.]
How Appolinus, after the parliament, went to Tharsis seeking for Thaisis his daughter, and, not finding her there, departed thence by ship.
1603 Whan this was do, thanne he him thoghte
1604Upon his doghter, and besoghte
1605Suche of his lordes as he wolde,
1606That thei with him to Tharse scholde,
1607To fette his doghter Taise there:
1608And thei anon al redy were,
1609To schip they gon and forth thei wente,
1610Til thei the havene of Tharse hente.
1611They londe and faile of that thei seche
1612Be coverture and sleyhte of speche:
1613This false man Strangulio,
1614And Dionise his wif also,
1615That he the betre trowe myhte,
1616Thei ladden him to have a sihte
1617Wher that hir tombe was arraied.
1618The lasse yit he was mispaied,
1619And natheles, so as he dorste,
1620He curseth and seith al the worste
1621Unto fortune, as to the blinde,
1622Which can no seker weie finde;
1623For sche him neweth evere among,
1624And medleth sorwe with his song.