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Timoclia of Thebes.
〈◊〉〈◊〉, a Gentlewoman of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, vnderstan∣ding the couetous desire of a Thracian knight, that had a∣bused hir, and promised hir mariage, rather for hir goodes than loue, well acquited hir self from his falshode.
The third Nouel.
QVintus Curtius, that notable historiographer remembring the stoute facte of this Thebane gentlewoman, amongs other the gestes and fac∣tes of Alexander the great, I haue déemed it not altogether vnfit for this place, to reueale the fine and notable pollicie deuised by hir, to rid hir selfe from a couetous 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Thracian kinde, who for lucre rather than loue, for gaine than gratitude, promised golden hilles to this distressed poore gentlewoman. But she in the ende paying him his well deserued hire, was liked and prai∣sed of Alexander for hir aduēturous fact, being not one of the least vertues that shined in him, before he grewe to excessiue abuse. But bicause Plutarch in his treatise De claris mulieribus, more at large recounteth this hi∣storie, I haue thought good almost (verbatim) to follow him. Theagenes a gentleman of Thebes, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him∣self