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13 him not to grieve and cast himself down, since their lives was a debt, they were born to die and that it was but a little sooner than they expected, if they went to their place of rest, entreating him to lead such a life, as when he died, that they might meet again in bliss, never more to be parted; and he being as they thought, the only person they could confide in, he, by out-living them, might be a support to their poor babes which they must otherwise leave behind destitute, to maintain them whilst they grew up, and after they grew up to maturity, if it should please God to bring them to it.

This did not a little inwardly rejoice Androgus, though yet a cloud of sorrows was artfully made to sit upon his countenance so that at that instant promising to do all that was desired and departed.

VII.

How Pisaurus made his will, delivered his children to Androgus, and died, as did his wife.

HE languishing parents finding their end to be near, and that they must exchange this for another