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256 shipwrecked?" One, whose name was Ardonius, replied, "I have, my lord." "What!" cried another, "diseases confound thee; mayst thou be neither safe nor sound. I know perfectly well that thou hast never been beyond the gates of the city; where then wert thou ship-wrecked? When the king could not discover the shipwrecked suitor, he turned to Apollonius, and said, "Take thou the tablets and read; perhaps they will be more intelligible to you than they are to me." He took them, and running his eye over the contents, perceived that he was the person designed; and that the lady loved him. He blushed. "Dost thou discover this ship-wrecked person, Apollonius?" asked the king. He blushed still deeper, and made a brief reply. Now in this the wisdom of Apollonius may be perceived, since, as it is in Ecclus.Eccles. [sic] "There is no wisdom in many words." And in 1 Peter ii., "Christ hath left you an example to be diligently followed, who never sinned, neither was deceit found in his mouth." The same also, the Psalmist declares, "As he said, so it was done;" wherefore he was to be called