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THE HISTORY OF

tugal, the better to solemnize their marriage, and he would turn Christian on their arrival at his castle, all which they believed, and soon after embarked with him.

When he had got them on board, he ordered them to be put in irons, which so much grieved his sister Clerimond, that she would have thrown herself into the sea, had she not been stopped.

CHAP. V.

Pacolet comforts the Ladies, and delivers Valentine and Orson out of Prison.

WHEN they were come to Portugal he put Valentine and Orson into a dungeon, and fed them with bread and water, but allowed his sister Clerimond the liberty of the castle, where she met the Empress Bellifant, who had been confined twenty years in the castle of Feragus.

She seeing her so full of grief, comforted her, enquiring the reason, which she told her.

The Empress was mightily grieved,