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 THE HISTORY OF FORTUNATUS.

CHAP. I. Of Fortunatus’ Birth, Parentage, <Sfc. In the isle of Cyprus there is a stately city ca Famagosta, where once lived one Theodorus, scended of noble parents, who left him wil great estate; but being brought up to notl but pleasures, he soon wasted the greatest pcy his riches, to the great grief of. all his relati who, thinking to make him leave off these comfi determined to match him to a rich merchcj daughter in the city of Nicovia, named Gratii] a discreet woman, whose prudence and good mour might be a means of bringing him to soberly and frugally; and proposing it to with many persuasive reasons and arguments much it would be for his good, he resolved to I her; and, after a few months courtship, they married in a splendid manner, most of the pH pal gentlemen of either city being at the wedcjj mid go they lived together in content and ; felicity for the space- of one year, in which