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 Fortunatus having lived long in pleasure and plenty, his two sons being grown to men’s maturity, he fell sick, and calling them to him, bestowed his riches on them revealed to them the virtue of his purse, and show it would last only for their lives; he also told them the virtue of his wishing hat; so desiring them to live lovingly together, and not to part with these jewels, or ever discover the virtues of them, but to ase them by turns: and in a most devout manner, recommending his foul unto the hands of his maker, he gave up the ghost. Soon after Cassandra, through exceeding grief, falling sick of a fever, died, and both were buried in a stately tomb he had caused to be built in his life time, in the chancel of the new church he had erected: having left bountifully to the poor, and for other charitable uses.

ORTUNATUS and his dear consort were no sooner laid in their tomb, but Andolocia, the youngest son, agreed with his elder brother to fill four coffers with gold out of the purse; that he should have the wishing hat and all the visible estate, and he only the purse to bear him company in his travels. So setting forward he came to the court of Paris, in France, where he appeared so splendid in his equipage, and so extravagant in his expenses, that he was wondered at by all, who took him for some strange prince, and rather by reason or his courage; for in the justs that were made for entertainment, he