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 lived a Knight, who had one whom he held in high eſteem, and for  noble accompliſhments, cauſed him to  taught all the arts and ſciences; in  being perfected, he ſent for him home,  as he ſat at dinner, a nightingale  ſweetly, at which the Knight ſaid, Ah,  ſweet a ſong is this, could any one but  it! to which the youth anſwered that he would undertake it, if he would be diſpleaſed; but his father  him to interpret it. Then, ſaid the the bird, in her ſong, expreſſed that  would be a great Lord, and that my  would hold the water, and my mother  towel to waſh my hands. Whereupon the growing angry, took him up, and running to the ſea, caſt him in, where he  to an uninhabited iſland, ſtayed three  four days, till a ſhip paſſing, took him  and ſold him to a Duke in Egypt, who  him wiſe, made him ruler of his. It happened the King of that country troubled with the cry of three ravens  demanded of the wiſe men the cauſe,  they could not reſolve him, therefore,  proclaimed, that if any could tell the meaning, or cauſe the noiſe to ceaſe, he  have his daughter to wife, and the kingdom after his deceaſe. Upon this Alexander (the youth's name) went to the King,, that the ravens were the two old and their young one, the male declaring