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7 give me leave to tell you that your beauty at first sight kindled a fire within my breast, which nothing can allay but your sleeping with me upon a bed of roses The Princess turning about with a scornful look repulsed him. This immediately turned his love into fury, and running out of the garden he cried out, He saw the Princess with a man under the fig-tree committing fornication, to the breach of the law, the shame of her parents, and the destruction of her own soul.

The Empress at this was struck with horror and amazement, & summoning her council, she again asked Radamantus where he saw it, He said, under the fig-tree, & that when the man saw him he ran away. They then hasted into the garden and finding the Princess alone, asked her what man had been there, with her? she answered not a word.

The Empress seeing she was in the garden as Radamantus had reported, believed all he said, and in a great rage commanded her to be burnt at a stake.