' And when the king had put it upon his finger, it
appeared otherwise engraven than before. The abbot enquiring of him
that brought him the ring, how he came by it? he answered, it is
true that the king hath said. Hence arose a strange rumour of a
ring, that, by turning the stone, you might discern three great
letters engraven, S.R.P. as much as to say, _Sebastianus Rex
Portugallix."--Harl. Mis._ vol. v. p. 462.
11. It is said, in the pamphlets alluded to, that Don Sebastian, out
of grief and shame for having fought against the advice of his
generals, and lost the flower of his army, took the resolution of
never returning to his country, but of burying himself in a
hermitage; and that he resided for three years as an anchorite, on
the top of a mountain in Dalmatia.
EPILOGUE,
SPOKEN BETWIXT ANTONIO AND MORAYMA
_Mor._ I quaked at heart, for fear the royal fashion
Should have seduced us two to separation:
To be drawn in, against our own desire,
Poor I to be a nun, poor you, a friar.
_Ant._ I trembled, when the old man's hand was in,
He would have proved we were too near of kin:
Discovering old intrigues of love, like t'other, }
Betwixt my father and thy sinful mother; }
To make us sister Turk and Christian brother.
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