"The description of their shipwracke, how Menelaus was cast on shore at Paralia, and how both the Lovers were driven on the coast of Pelusium: of their going towardes Alexandria, and how they were taken by theeves: the manner of their delivery from them: with their entertainment of Charmides: a cunning shift devised by Menelaus and Clinias, to save Leucippe which was appointed to bee sacrificed: the merry meeting againe of all these friendes, with the discourse of their daungers."
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W. Burton, Clitophon and Leucippe (1597), The Third Booke. The Contents
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