had something of great Importance to communicate to him; upon which the good Man embraced him, and wept.
Florio
was no sooner arrived at the great House that stood in his Neighbourhood, but
Eudoxus
took him by the Hand, after the first Salutes were over, and conducted him into his Closet. He there opened to him the whole Secret of his Parentage and Education, concluding after this manner:
I have no other way left of acknowledging my Gratitude to
Leontine,
than by marrying you to his Daughter. He shall not lose the Pleasure of being your Father by the Discovery I have made to you.
Leonilla
too shall be still my Daughter; her filial Piety, though misplaced, has been so exemplary that it deserves the greatest Reward I can confer upon it. You shall have the Pleasure of seeing a great Estate fall to you, which you would have lost the Relish of had you known your self born to it. Continue only to deserve it in the same manner you did before you were possessed of it. I have left your Mother in the next Room. Her Heart yearns towards you. She is making the same Discoveries to