ABSTRACT
In Pentapolis (II.5) on the morning after the banquet, the King tells the other suitors that Thaisa will not marry for another year, and persuades them to abandon their vain suit. Thaisa has written him a letter declaring her love for 'the strange knight'. This is related to Gower where the suitors are told to write letters to the Princess, each describing 'His name, his fader, and his good' (885), and she writes to her father that she will have none but Apollonius, whereupon the King dismisses the others, shows Apollonius the letter, and gets the Queen to agree to their marriage-albeit reluctantly, since nobody knows who Apollonius really is. Twine's heroine sickens for love (Ch. 6) and lies in bed until her father agrees to the marriage.
