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9 how he might with reason renew his hopes, found all he could think dark and difficult; his brother's life at some time he proposed to invade by sundry stratagems, but those appeared hazardous upon second thoughts; he thought upon other expediments, as drugs to occasion abortion; but that prevailed not neither. Wherefore not enduring to cast his eyes on that happy pair, he betook himself for some years to travel in foreign lands where I shall leave him a while, and return to Pisaurus and Eugenia.

How Cassander and Jane being born, Pisaurus and Eugenia fell sick, and by what means.

HE fair Eugenia by this time had ventured so far among the secrets of love, that as wished, she found herself with child, the first news of it did not a little over joy Pisaurus, but more when he found his fair Eugenia delivered of a boy. Great was the congratulation and rejoicing of the gossips and neighbours, and the infant was brought up in the tenderest manner,