VIII. THEOXENA AND PORIS.

The crueltye of a Kynge of Macedone who forced a gentlewoman called

Theoxena, to persuade hir children to kill and poyson themselves: after

which fact, she and hir husband Poris ended their lyfe by drowninge.

[_Source and Origin._--Livy, xl. 4.

_Painter._---I. ii. 39; II. ii. 48; III. ii. 94; IV. ii. 252.]

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