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THE FABLES OF POGE THE FLORENTYN.
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that the monſtre kyld the yonge children / whiche were drowned /  ¶ Jtem alſo within a lytyl whyle after hit befelle aboute the marches of ytaly that a child of fourme humayne whiche hadde two hedes and two vyſages or faces beholdynge one vpon the other / & the armes of eche other embraced the body / the whiche body fro the nauyl vpward was Joyned ſauf the two hedes / and from the nauyll dounward the lymmes were all ſepared one fro other in ſuche wyſe that the lymmes of generacion were ſhewed manyfeſtly / Of the whiche child the tydynges came vnto the perſone of the pope of Rome