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                            Amadis of Gaul,

                                  by

                            VASCO LOBEIRA.


                           IN FOUR VOLUMES.

                               VOL. IV.


                                LONDON:
            Printed by N. Biggs, Crane-court, Fleet-street,
              FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER
                                 ROW.

                                 1803.




_AMADIS of GAUL._




Book the Fourth.




_CHAPTER 1._


You have heard in the third book of this great history how King
Lisuarte against the will of all his subjects great as well as little,
delivered up his daughter Oriana to the Romans, and how by Amadis and
his companions of the Firm Island she was from them rescued; now we
will tell you what ensued. When Amadis had left the vessel where the
Princess was he went through the fleet to give orders concerning the
prisoners and the spoils, coming near the ship where Salustanquidio lay
dead he heard a great lamentation, for the people and the Knights of
that Prince were making moan over him, and relating all his praises and
greatness so that Agrayes and they who had won the ship could neither
quiet them, nor remove them from the body. Amadis therefore ordered
that they should all leave the vessel, and he gave command that the
body should be placed in a coffin,