Sysim.
Cease your wonder;
The mother of this beautious girl which here
Standeth before us for a certain cause
Which you shall learn hereafter, laid her forth
Clad in such weeds as commonly is used
For such a purpose, so committing her
⟨image 7⟩To fortunes doubtful chance, but I by hap
Finding her took her up, for tis not lawful
That we neglect a soul when once it hath
Entered a humane body, (being a precept
Amongst the wise men with us, to be whose
Unlearned scholar I was once judged worthy)
Beads even in the infants eyes appeared,
Something which bred both wonder and delight.
With her I found this bag of precious stones
Which I gave you of late, and a like cloth
Wrought full with letters in her mother tongue,
Wherein contained was her whole estate;
Her mother as I guess procured the same,
Which after I had read, I knew from whence
and what she was, and therefore carried her
Into the Land far distant from the City
Delivering her to certain honest shepherds
To bring her up, with charge that they should not
Reveal her unto any; for those things
That were found with her I detained with me,
Least for them she might suffer any danger,
And thus at first this matter was kept close.
Sysim.
Cease your wonder;
The mother of this beautious girle which here
Standeth before us for a certaine cause
Which you shall learne hereafter, laid her forth
Clad in such weeds as commonly is us'd
For such a purpose, so committing her
⟨image 7⟩To fortunes doubtfull chance, but I by hap
Finding her tooke her up, for tis not lawfull
That we neglect a soule when once it hath
Entred a humane body, (being a precept
Amongst the wise men with us, to be whose
Unlearned scholler I was once judg'd worthy)
Beades even in the infants eyes appear'd,
Something which bred both wonder and delight.
With her I found this bag of precious stones
Which I gave you of late, and a like cloth
Wrought full with letters in her mother tongue,
Wherein contayned was her whole estate;
Her mother as I ghesse procur'd the same,
Which after I had read, I knew from whence
and what shee was, and therefore carryed her
Into the Land farre distant from the City
Delivering her to certaine honest shepheards
To bring her up, with charge that they should not
Reveale her unto any; for those things
That were found with her I detain'd with me,
Least for them she might suffer any danger,
And thus at first this matter was kept close.
