{"collection":"folklore-oral-tradition","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_78536/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_78536","id":"gutenberg_78536","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78536","summary":null,"tags":["Fairy tales","Fortunatus (Legendary character) -- In literature"],"text":"Transcriber\u2019s Note\n  Italic text displayed as: _italic_\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: _The Queen taking Andolocia\u2019s purse._\n\n_London. Published by Tabart & C^o. Sep. 1804._]\n\n\n\n\n  THE\n  ADVENTURES\n  OF\n  ANDOLOCIA,\n\n  WITH THE PURSE AND CAP OF HIS FATHER\n\n  FORTUNATUS:\n\n  A TALE FOR THE NURSERY.\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  A NEW EDITION.\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  _With Three Copperplates._\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  LONDON:\n\n  PRINTED FOR TABART AND CO. AT THE\n  JUVENILE AND SCHOOL LIBRARY, NO. 157,\n  NEW BOND-STREET; AND TO BE HAD\n  OF ALL DEALERS IN BOOKS.\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  _Price Sixpence._\n\n  1804.\n\n\n\n\n  PUBLISHED BY\n  TABART AND CO.\n  AT THE\n  JUVENILE AND SCHOOL LIBRARY,\n  _No. 157, New Bond-Street_;\n\n  Where is constantly kept on Sale the largest\n  Collection of Books of Amusement and\n  Instruction in London,\n\n  From ONE PENNY to FIVE-GUINEAS in Price.\n\n  Entered at Stationers\u2019 Hall.\n\n  R. TAYLOR _and Co. Printers, Black-Horse-Court_.\n\n\n\n\n  THE\n  ADVENTURES\n  OF\n  ANDOLOCIA.\n\n\nAMPEDO and ANDOLOCIA were the two sons of the celebrated Fortunatus,\nof Famagosta in the island of Cyprus, who, besides immense treasures,\nleft them at his death his purse and cap, both which, all who have read\nhis wonderful history and entertaining travels (published by TABART\nand CO. at the Juvenile Library, New Bond-street,) must remember. This\npurse, which was the source of his great riches, had been given him,\nwhen a young man and pennyless, by Fortune; who, on presenting him\nwith it, told him that wherever he might be, when he wanted money, he\nhad only to put his hand into the purse as often as he pleased, and he\nwould be sure to find in it ten pieces of gold; that the purse should\nnever fail of producing the like sum, as long as it remained in the\npossession of him and his children; but that, when he and they should\nbe dead, the purse should lose this extraordinary quality.\n\nHis cap he had got, when on his travels, from the Sultan at Alexandria;\nand it had the wonderful property of instantly conveying any one who\nput it on his head, to whatever part of the world he wished.\n\nFortunatus, on his death-bed, had told his sons the secret of his\npurse and cap, commanding them on no account to disclose it to any\nliving creature, and at the same time advising them to live together in\nharmony, and make use of the purse between them.\n\n[Illustration: _London. Published by Tabart & C^o. Sep. 1804._]\n\nNot long after the death of Fortunatus, Andolocia, whose adventures we\nare going to relate, came to his brother Ampedo, who being the eldest\nhad the purse in his possession, and begged he would let him have it\nfor a certain time, as he wished to set out on his travels for distant\ncountries: this Ampedo would by no means consent to; and they came\nto high words concerning it. At length, however, Ampedo consented\nto let his brother have the purse for six years: and accordingly,\nafter filling all his coffers, he gave it into his hands; with this\nagreement, however, that he was afterwards to keep it for as long a\ntime himself.\n\nAs Andolocia possessed exactly his father\u2019s temper in his love of\ntravelling to distant countries, he was overjoyed to think he had\nobtained the purse, and immediately began his preparations for setting\nout. The first place he visited was Paris.\n\nIn this place there was a famous wrestler called Strongfist, who had\nnever yet been thrown by any man. Andolocia sent him a challenge, which\nStrongfist willingly accepted, and a day was appointed for the combat:\nin the mean while the news reached all the inhabitants of Paris, who\naccordingly resolved to be witnesses of the scene.\n\nThe combatants met at the time and place appointed, and fell-to with\ngreat spirit; but it was soon seen that Strongfist was not half so\nskilful as Andolocia, who, after a few blows, made him cry out \u201che\ncould fight no longer.\u201d\n\nNo sooner, however, was Strongfist recovered of the blows he had\nreceived, than, enraged to think he had been conquered by a stranger,\nand lost his reputation, he sent Andolocia another challenge; and they\naccordingly met as before.\n\nBut Strongfist gained nothing by this second attempt, for Andolocia\nmade him once more cry out \u201che was satisfied;\u201d so that the air\nresounded with the acclamations bestowed on Andolocia, while Strongfist\nwas so maimed he could never after engage in wrestling.\n\nAfter staying some time longer in Paris, where he was loaded with every\nmark of distinction, the news of his great skill reached England, and\nhe was invited by the king to the court of London; for, being just at\nthat time going to war with the king of Scotland, he wished to have\nAndolocia\u2019s advice how to conduct his army.\n\nAndolocia accepted the proposal with joy; for it was the king of\nScotland\u2019s father who had deprived his grandfather, the lord Loch\nFitty, of all his fortune, and caused him to leave his lady and his\nhome, and live in a mean condition in Paris; as has been related in the\nHistory of Fortunatus.\n\nHe lost no time in preparing for the journey, and reached London in\nsafety; where he was received with marks of the greatest kindness by\nthe king and the whole court: and Andolocia informing his majesty of\nthe ill-will he owed the king of Scotland, on the late king\u2019s account,\nit was immediately agreed on that he should head an army of the\nchoicest troops in the English dominions, and march against him.\n\nThey accordingly set out for Scotland; had a furious battle with the\nking, and defeated him and his whole army; and when they returned to\nLondon, Andolocia was loaded with the highest honours at the court of\nthe king of England.\n\nAndolocia took a magnificent house in the finest street in London, and\nfrequently entertained the king and all his nobles, whom he treated in\nso sumptuous a manner, that the king could not help wondering how a\nprivate gentleman could possibly have so much wealth.\n\nOne day Andolocia being at court, he happened to see the king\u2019s\ndaughter Agrippina, with whom he fell violently in love, and made her\nsuch costly presents as surprised the king more than before; so that he\ncould not help telling the queen that he could not imagine how he came\nby such a fortune.\n\nThe queen immediately set herself to work to find out the secret; and\naccordingly she told her daughter Agrippina, when she should be alone\nwith him, to find it out if possible.\n\nSoon after Andolocia, being seated by the princess, told her how very\nbeautiful he thought her, and how much he wished for the honour of\nhaving her for his wife.\n\nThe princess thought this a very good opportunity for finding out the\nsecret: so she answered, That she liked him very well, but supposed\nthat he could not possibly have sufficient fortune to maintain the\ndaughter of a king.\n\nUpon this Andolocia pulled out his purse, and threw ten pieces of gold\nat a time into her lap; and at length told her how it came into his\nfather\u2019s possession, and every particular concerning it.\n\nThe princess Agrippina hastened to relate all that she had heard to\nthe queen; who, pretending the greatest fondness for Andolocia, took\nhim into her closet, and presented him with a glass of the richest\ncordial, into which she had put a drug that soon threw him into a sound\nsleep; when, putting her hand into his pocket, she took his purse, and\nhad him immediately conveyed to his own house fast asleep.\n\nThe queen then gave the purse to the young princess, saying, that as\nshe had taken it for her sake, it was but right that it should be in\nher possession.\n\nWhen Andolocia waked and missed his purse, he was almost frantic. When\nhe had run about the house for a long time, not knowing what to do, he\nat last thought of what had happened to him at the palace; whither he\nimmediately went, and asked to speak with the queen, and was told that\nshe could not be seen. He then inquired for the princess, and obtained\nthe same answer.\n\nAll this convinced Andolocia that the queen had taken his purse, and\ndid not intend to return it. The first thing he did was to borrow a\nhundred crowns of his steward; by means of which he got to Famagosta\nas fast as he could, and, with great difficulty, prevailed on his\nbrother to spare him the cap, for a short time, that he might transport\nhimself, in a moment, wherever he pleased.\n\nHaving obtained it, he put it on, and instantly wished himself in\nthe chamber of princess Agrippina, whom he intended to consult about\ngetting back his purse from the queen.\n\nBut no astonishment could be greater than his, when, looking at\nthe princess, he saw his purse fastened to her girdle. Andolocia\nperceiving this desired of the princess to restore it; which she\nrefusing, he clasped her in his arms, and wished himself in an orchard\nfull of fruit-trees in the neighbourhood of Constantinople.\n\nHis wish was instantly accomplished, and they found themselves\nsitting under a large fig-tree; when the princess, seeing what fine\nfigs were on it, entreated him to get her one to eat. Andolocia, who\nloved Agrippina very much, notwithstanding that she had used him so\nunkindly, immediately threw his cap upon the ground, and began to climb\nthe tree.\n\nThe princess, quite ignorant of the virtue in the cap, being greatly\nfatigued with the scorching of the sun, put it on her head; and\nhappening at the same moment to be wishing that she was in her cold\nbath at the palace of her father, she was immediately taken up into the\nair, and was out of sight in a minute.\n\nWhen Andolocia looked round and saw that both the princess and his cap\nwere gone, he knew not, so great was his vexation, what step to take;\nbut after walking about for some time, finding himself thirsty, he\nbegan to eat some apples, \u2014when two large horns sprang directly out of\nhis forehead.\n\nHe now ran like a madman about the orchard, and his cries were heard by\nan aged hermit, who came up to him and inquired what was the matter?\nWhen Andolocia had related the manner in which the accident had\nhappened, the hermit assured him, that if he would eat some apples\nfrom another tree he would soon find his horns disappear.\n\nAndolocia lost no time in doing as he was desired; and the horns\naccordingly disappeared. Having first filled his pockets with some\nof both sorts of these extraordinary apples, he set out on foot for\nthe palace of princess Agrippina\u2019s father, where he stood at the gate\ndisguised as a poor man, who had the finest apples to sell that ever\nwere seen in England.\n\nThe princess as she passed out observed the apples, and, seeing\nthat they were as fine as those she had seen in the orchard near\nConstantinople, began to buy them with great eagerness, and turned back\nagain to the palace to eat them.\n\nImmediately two great horns sprang from her forehead; upon which the\nprincess screamed so loud as to alarm every one in the palace; and the\nking, among the rest, came in to her assistance.\n\nSeeing what had happened, he called in all the physicians, to obtain a\ncure if possible; but not one was found who understood her case.\n\nAt length Andolocia, disguising himself as a physician with a great\nfalse nose, went to the palace and offered his services; which were\nwillingly accepted.\n\nUpon being shown into her room, he perceived his cap lying disregarded\non a chair: so, pretending he must speak with his patient in private,\nhe sent the nurse out of the room, and in the mean while found an\nopportunity to put the cap into his pocket.\n\nAndolocia then produced some of the apples that were a cure for the\nhorns occasioned by those he had sold her; and having cut them very\nsmall, he desired her to eat them immediately; when the horns from that\nmoment began to grow less.\n\nThe princess was excessively delighted at this; and, thinking that she\ncould not too handsomely reward her physician, took out the purse.\nAndolocia snatched it from her, clapped on his cap, and wished himself\nat Famagosta; whither he was immediately conveyed. But as he was in\nlove with the princess, he took care not to give her enough of the\napples to remove the horns entirely, that no other gentleman might fall\nin love with her.\n\n[Illustration: _Andolocia going to cure the Princess._\n\n_London. Published by Tabart & Co. Sep. 1804._]\n\nHaving related his adventures to his brother Ampedo, the latter said he\nhad no inclination to have either the cap or purse, since they brought\ntheir possessor into so much danger, and would give them wholly to\nAndolocia, provided he consented to pay him a handsome allowance as\nlong as he lived.\n\nThus Andolocia kept his purse and cap to himself; but though he had\nsuch immense treasures, and, besides, the power of conveying himself\nwhere-ever he pleased in a moment, he was not quite happy.\n\nBeing however convinced that nothing was wanting to make him so but\nAgrippina, he first set about building a magnificent palace, taking\ncare every now and then to put on his cap and wish himself at the\ncourt of London, where he sometimes had the good fortune to see the\nprincess as she took an airing in her carriage, and found means to know\nif the horns still remained on her head as before.\n\nWhen the palace was finished, Andolocia equipped himself with all\nthe splendour possible; and, taking with him some of the handsomest\ngentlemen of Famagosta, who looked like great lords, and in addition\nthe most costly jewels that were to be got as presents for the\nprincess, he set out for England to demand her formally in marriage.\n\nThe king of England received him very courteously: the queen, supposing\nit impossible that any prince would offer to marry a princess with\nhorns on her head, and perceiving there was no other way of getting\nthe purse, gave her consent also; and the princess Agrippina, who had\nalways wished to bestow on him her hand, said, she really loved the\nprince, but that she would never bring so great a misfortune on him as\nto be his wife while she had horns on her head.\n\n\u201cDear princess Agrippina,\u201d replied Andolocia, \u201cthen all our wishes will\nbe gratified, for I have the power to make them disappear immediately.\u201d\n\nSaying this he left the room, and returned in a few minutes with some\nof the apples which he had given her once before, and with which he had\ntaken care to be provided; when, presenting them to the princess, he\nasked her if she did not remember the physician with the great nose,\nwho some time before had made her horns grow less.\n\nThe princess fell to eating the apples presented her by Andolocia,\nand the horns immediately disappeared. She embraced Andolocia with\ntenderness; they were married that very day, and shortly after were\nconducted in the greatest pomp to the palace built for her reception at\nFamagosta, where they lived a long and happy life.\n\nAndolocia kept his cap and purse in a cabinet set apart for that\npurpose; and for fear of further accidents he never suffered the key of\nit to be touched by any one but himself.\n\nTHE END.\n\n_R. Taylor and Co. Black-Horse-Court._\n\n\n\n\n  AT\n\n  TABART\u2019S\n\n  _Juvenile and School Library_,\n\n  NO. 157, NEW BOND-STREET,\n\n  Are just published\n\n  A GREAT VARIETY OF\n\n  INTERESTING LITTLE BOOKS,\n\n  ADORNED WITH\n\n  BEAUTIFUL COLOURED PLATES,\n\n  Similar to the present Work;\n\n  _All of which may be had of every Bookseller_.","title":"The adventures of Andolocia, with the purse and cap of his father Fortunatus : $b a tale for the nursery","tradition":"folklore-oral-tradition","translated_text":null,"word_count":2654}