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 the iland Naxos in the Archipelago. Though I was no wimmer, my guardian angel bore me up by the hair of the head, and I reached the hore, where the natives received me kindly, and took care of me till I was diburthened of the alt-water I had wallowed. I then repaired to Quia, where Zeno, a decendant of Marcus Sanuto, to whom the Emperor Henry of Swabia had granted the Cyclades, held his court; here in the character of an Italian knight I found a good reception.

‘Here I aw the lender Zoe, his wife, a lady formed according to the nicet meaures of Grecian proportion, and whom Apelles would have choen as a model for the goddes of love. The ight of Zoe kindled a flame in my breat, which overpowered all other thoughts and deires. I forgot my vow of going a cruader into the Holy Land, and all my thoughts and actions had no other tendency than how to make my paion