, who was a Woman of the greatest Beauty joined with the greatest Modesty, entertained at the same time a secret Passion for
Florio
, but conducted her self with so much Prudence that she never gave him the least Intimation of it.
Florio
was now engaged in all those Arts and Improvements that are proper to raise a Man's private Fortune, and give him a Figure in his Country, but secretly tormented with that Passion which burns with the greatest Fury in a virtuous and noble Heart, when he received a sudden Summons from
Leontine
to repair to him into the Country the next Day. For it seems
Eudoxus
was so filled with the Report of his Son's Reputation, that he could no longer withhold making himself known to him. The Morning after his Arrival at the House of his supposed Father,
Leontine