open. He was torn to pieces [with] a bear: this avouches
the shepherd's son; who has not only his innocence, which
seems much, to justify him, but a handkerchief and rings
of his that Paulina knows.
First Gent. What became of his bark and his followers?
Third Gent. [Wrecked] the same instant of their master's
death and in the view of the shepherd: so that all the instruments
which aided to expose the child were even then
lost when it was found. But O, the noble combat that
'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in Paulina! She had one