THE
FAMOUS HISTORY
Of two Unfortunate Lovers,
LEANDER & HERO.
When Grecce flourished in riches and renown becoming by virtue and valorous achievements, the glory of the whole world, having subdued to itself not only the Persian empire, but almost all India, and indeed the most part of Asia, then it was that the fam’d Leander, after many warlike exploits and bringing into subjection divers countries, as general of the grecian forces, coming back with his victorious army, adorned with laurels and trumpets, had his praises sung every where, whilst the crowding spectators flowed from all parts to behold him as he passed in a triumphal chariot; and amongst the rest of the Asian beauties, the fairest of her sex, and even the very mirror of beauty, Hero, daughter of a prince who had a stately castle called Sestus, situate upon the banks of the Hellespont, or narrow sea, of about two
