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 My daughter, my daughter! My dear Fawnia, I am thy father; and this is the neck-lace I gave thy mother.

These transporting words and actions of King, filled them all with wonder, especially Dorastus and Fawnia; but the King, rehearsing before the ambassadors, the whole matter, and expressing a great deal of grief for what he had done, convinced them that this was the child he had sent a floating to the sea; at the same time relating them what the oracle of Apollo said "That he should die without an heir, unless the child that was lost should be found.'

But to tell the universal joy that ensued on this discovery, is a talk too great for my pen: You may be sure Fawnia was glad to find such a royal father, and Dorastus was equally joyful he had such a Princess in the person of Fawnia, whom now he doubted not of having for his wife; Porrus was made a Knight, for being the cause of this joy and, soon after, Pandosta, with  daughter Fawnia, and his intended son-in-law, prince Dorastus, went over to Sicily to Egistus, to whom this discovery gave an equal joy where Dorastus and Fawnia were married with exceeding great triumph, and afterwards reigned many years happily, both over Bohemia and Sicily.