Page 9 - The Enchanted Doe

here was once a certain
King of Long Pergola
named Iannone, who,
desiring greatly
_____ to have children,
continually made prayers to the gods
that they would swell his wife's bell;
and, in order to grant him this
satisfaction, he was so charitable to
pilgrims that he gave them the best
of his treasure; but seeing, at last,
that these things went on and on and
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