Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... friend I have sought to betray, and_yet_the DEGREESqdsjare slack - DEGREES DEGREES-rfp DEGREES-t DEGREES w>feac3eL> s g DEGREES .5sLg.'-v to plague such offences. Ah, unjQst ApoifQ! Pandosto is the man that hath committed the fault; why "should Garinter, silly child, abide tKe" paiiTf ""Well, ' sitfitfre gods meafi"to DEGREESrolohg my cTays to "increase my dolour, I will offer my guilty blood a sacrifice to those sackless souls whose lives are lost by my rigorous folly.' And with that he reached at a rapier to have murdered himself, but his peers being present stayed him from such a bloody act, persuading him to think that the commonwealth consisted on his safety, and that those sheep could not but perish that wanted a shepherd; wishing that if he would not live for himself, yet he should have care of his subjects, and to put such fancies out of his mind, sith in sores past help salves do not heal but hurt, and in things past cure, care is a corrosive. With these and such like persuasions the king was overcome, and began somewhat to quiet his mind; so that as soon as he could go abroad he caused his wife to be embalmed, and wrapt in lead with her young son Garinter; erecting a rich and famous sepulchre wherein he entombed them both, making such solemn obsequies at her funeral as all Bohemia might perceive he did greatly repent him of his forepassed folly; causing this epitaph to be engraven on her tomb in letters of gold-- U The Epitaph HERE LIES ENTOMBED BELLARTA FAIR FALSELY ACCUSED TO BE UNCHASTE ! CLEARED BY APOLLO *S SACRED DOOM, YET SLAIN BY JEALOUSY AT LAST. WHAT ERE THOU BE' DEGREESTHAT DEGREESp'ASSEST BY, CURSE HIM THAT CAUSED THIS QUEEN TO DIE. This epitaph being engraven, Pandosto would once a day repair to the
