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TRUE HISTORY.
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us likewise of his own adventures, how that he also was a man, by name Endymion,Icaromen. C. and rapt up long since from the earth as he was asleep, and brought hither, where he was made king of the country, and said it was that region which to us below seemed to be the moon; but he bade us be of good cheer Endymion, King of the Moon.and fear no danger, for we should want nothing we stood in need of: and if the war he was now in hand withal against the sun succeeded fortunately, we should live with him in the highest degree of happiness. Then we asked of him what enemies he had, and the cause of the quarrel: and he answered, Phaethon, the The son of Phœbus and Clymene, who having obtained leave to ride one day about the world inking of the inhabitants of the sun (for that is also peopled as well as the moon), hath made