Eudoxus
, knowing that her Son could not be so advantageously brought up as under the Care of
Leontine
, and considering at the same time that he would be perpetually under her own Eye, was by degrees prevailed upon to fall in with the Project. She therefore took
Leonilla
, for that was the Name of the Girl, and educated her as her own Daughter. The two Friends on each side had wrought themselves to such an habitual Tenderness for the Children who were under their Direction, that each of them had the real Passion of a Father, where the Title was but imaginary.
Florio
, the Name of the young Heir that lived with
Leontine
, though he had all the Duty and Affection imaginable for his supposed Parent, was taught to rejoice at the Sight of