Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij.Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth

¶How kyng Egeus lete falle hym selfe in to the see for y^e deth of his sone Theseus. Capitulum xxxij^o.

WHan Egeus sawe the shippe of his sone comyng a∣yen wyth y^e blacke saylle spred abrode / lyke as whā he departed from hym / he wende verely that he hadde be ded / And for grete sorowe that he hadde / dyd caste hymself oute of the wyndowes of his castell in to the see and loste his lyf in this wyse. And whan kynge Mynos wyst that Theseus was escaped by dedalus / he put hym in pryson and his sone wyth hym / But Dedalus made wynges and fas¦tened theym to his armes. and to his sones armes of fede∣res of pytche and of wex connyngly made / and floughe ou¦te at the wyndowes fro the prison where they were. But sy¦carus the sone of dedalus floughe alle to highe wherby the wax wexed hoote & beganne to melte. and the feders to falle of. wherfore he felle doun in to the see. and was drowned but his fader floughe soo longe▪ as Salamon telleth. that he ca∣me in to the isle of Sardayne. and after went he to Thebes And alle thus eschaped dedalus oute of the pryson of My¦nos kynge of Crete / Now shalle I leue to speke of this mater and shalle telle of Eneas and of his werkes