off with her naked weapon, and when she perceived that every one of us
wept and lamented, she spake in this sort: I pray you my friends weepe
not, nor lament for me, for I have revenged the death of my husband, I
have punished deservedly the wicked breaker of our marriage; now is it
time to seeke out my sweet Lepolemus, and presently with this sword to
finish my life. And therewithall after she had made relation of the
whole matter, declared the vision which she saw and told by what meane
she deceived Thrasillus, thrusting her sword under her right brest, and
wallowing in her owne bloud, at length with manly courage yeelded up
the Ghost. Then immediately the friends of miserable Charites did bury
her body within the same Sepulchre. Thrasillus hearing all the matter,
and knowing not by what meanes he might end his life, for he thought
his sword was not sufficient to revenge so great a crime, at length
went to the same Sepulchre, and cryed with a lowd voice, saying: o yee
dead spirites whom I have so highly and greatly offended, vouchsafe to
receive me, behold I make Sacrifice unto you with my whole body: which
said, hee closed the Sepulchre, purposing to famish himselfe, and to
finish his life there in sorrow. These things the young man with
pitifull sighes and teares, declared unto the Cowheards and Shepheards,
which caused them all to weepe: but they fearing to become subject unto
new masters, prepared themselves to depart away.
THE THIRTY-THIRD CHAPTER
How Apuleius was lead away by the Horsekeeper: and what danger he was
in.
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