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 not touched by them. She was only thinking that she was utterly forgotten by the Prince, who had never lost such an opportunity to write to her; but [at last] there came a poem:

The lady saw that he could not forget her and she was pleased.

Her poem:

His Highness would read, and he would feel that he must not desert her. Towards the moon-hidden day [end of the month] he wrote to her:

Her reply:

The messenger who took the poem came back with one from him:

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