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THE HISTORY
in the same forest, the letter hearing a child cry, went and took it up, and named it Montellion.
Constantia was in danger of her life by the Queen, who had slain the infant if she had not discovered whose it was: and Helion finding she was married to Pericles, was resolved to punish her; and accordingly ordered a tower to be built, surrounded with ditches, shut up with gates of brass, and inchanted with Necromantic spells, placing Knights and Giants to defend it; and enquiring of the Oracle about the success of it, was answered, that many Knights hearing of Constantia’s beauty, and not knowing whose daughter
