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. The countess and earl liked well the, only they objected against him as he had lands; which Fortunatus understanding, he  a lordship to settle on her jointure. The was kept 14 days with great splendour,  king, queen, nobles, and all of any note in the, being entertained. And the first year of happy marriage, his beautiful Cassandra  him a son, whom he named Ampedo;  the next year another, whom he named.

having lived 12 years with his loving, now began to think of travelling into other where he had not been; which his dear  much opposed. But being fully resolved travel, appeased her, promising, that he would  in a year; and so leaving her, besides his  ten thousand crowns, in ready money, in a  he had hired for his own use, he departed,  to turn merchant as well as traveller.

The first port he touched at was Alexandria in, where, as the custom was, he immediately to make a present to the Soldan, which he  in such rich jewels, that that mighty prince  it, and therefore entertained him very ly, sending him in requital very rich , and left him at liberty to traffic in the good ugs of Egypt, above the liberty granted to other ; so that, having richly freighted his