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12 VI.

How Androgus returned, visited his brother and sister; of his dissimulation.

NDROGUS returned and hearing what distress the late flourishing couple were in, hastened to them and upon entering the chamber where they lay helpless expressed abundance of sorrow and not wanting the art of a true dissembler, shed a few crocodile tears to make this seeming grief to pass for current; and after some forced sighs, began to condole the deplorable state wherein he found them.

O! said he, that e’er I should live to see this unhappy day, that my eyes should behold so dismal a, to see you here upon the bed of languishment, helpless and comfortless. Oh! that death with his icy hand, had sealed my eyes long since, and without the sense of so great sorrow, I quietly have slumbered in my grave.

And thereupon leaning towards them, appearing more tenderly to weep, insomuch that Pisaurus and Eugenia in a manner forgetting their own pain strove with faint voices to comfort him, desiring