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 Know, then, it is not piety, but love, that has led me from far ditant lands into this cell. Liten to my adventures, and attend to the hitory of that pool, which gleams before our eyes like a lake of ilver in the moonhine.—In my youth I was a bold and manful knight: I was born in Switzerland, of the family of the Margraves of Kyburg. I followed patimes in my youth, and amued myelf in making love. I once lew a priet, who craftily educed a fair maiden, and made her prove fale to me: upon this I journeyed to Rome for abolution from the holy father; who enjoined me, by way of penance, to make three cruades to the Holy Land againt the Saracens, under condition, that if I did not return my effects hould fall to Holy Mother church. I took my paage on board a Venetian galley, and et ail in good pirits; but in the Ionian ea the faithles outh-wet wind began to howl, the ea welled, and our veel was dahed to pieces againt a concealed rock near