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1. Ne mæg sōðlice on þillicum þingum nān þing wurðan būtan Godes willan.” 2. Arcestrates beseah tō ðām þrým cnihtum and cwæð: “Sōð is þæt ic ēow ǽr sǽde 3. þæt gē ne cōmon on gedafenlicre tīde mīnre dohtor tō biddanne, ac þonne hēo 4. mæg hī fram hyre lāre geæmtigan, þonne sende ic ēow word. Ðā wendon hīe hām 5. mid þisse andsware. And Arcestrates se cyngc hēold Apollonius hand and hine 6. lǽdde hām mid him, nā swilce hē cuma wǽre ac swilce hē his aðum wǽre. Ðā æt 7. nýhstan forlēt se cyng Apollonius hand and ēode āna into ðām būre þǽr his dohtor 8. inn wæs and þus cwæð: “Lēofe dohtor, hwæne hafast þū ðē gecoren tō 9. gemæccan?” Ðæt mǽden þā fēol tō hyre fæder fōtum and cwæð: “ðū ārfæsta 10. fæder, gehýr þinre dohtor willan. Ic lufige þone forlidenan man ðe wæs þurh 11. ungelymp beswicen, ac þē læs þe þū twēonige þǽre sprǽce, Apollonium ic wille, 12. mīnne lārēow, and gif þū mē him ne selst, þū forlǽtst ðīne dohtor.” Se cyng ðā 13. sōðlice ne mihte āræfnian his dohtor tēaras, ac ārǽrde hī up and hire tō cwæð: 14. “Lēofe dohtor, ne ondrǽt þū ðē ǽniges þinges. Ðū hafast gecoren þone wer þe mē

wel līcað.”