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have I lost you? and so awoke with rosy blushes on her cheeks, and tears in her eyes, and being told of this by Amorissa, she could no longer deny her love, whereupon she promised her best assistance, which she faithfully performed, as will hereafter appear.
CHAP. II.
Love having thus gained a double conquest, and both the lovers ignorant of each other’s passion, Leander grew impatient, forming in his mind many schemes how he might come to the speech of his fair Hero, whose image had made so deep an impression on his heart. At length he resolved to pass over into Asia as a private person, to wait there a while for a favourable opportunity of seeing his beloved. He could see her castle from the shore of Europe, and often walked thither for that purpose. Going one day as usual, and finding a small bark in a private harbour between two rocks, he, without the knowledge of any one, agreed with the master to transport him to the farther shore, which he did with a favourable gale, and landed him by the side of a forest, some distance from Sestus, the castle of his beloved Hero, and having dismissed the master of the bark with a reward suitable to his labour, he set him down to consider the best method to be taken without giving offence.
He had not been there long before ho heard dismal cries as of people in distress, and presently a man all bloody and wounded came running out of
