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