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23, leaving her beloved Sabrina, sole Empress of the Roman Empire.

after the death of her mother, Alexander, King of Germany courted and married her, leaving his own kingdom to come to reside at Rome; where he had not been before he heard his land was invaded by  King of Macedon, who soon took it, and  all Germany, were upon full  to besiege Rome.

This obliged the Emperor and Empress, and their two sons, and the Seven Wise Mistresses to retire to a remote island, taking things necessary with them for their accomodation, and passed the rest of their  in a quiet and peaceable retirement;  on their tombs was engraved the following epitaph.