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 health has flown away on the wings of love, it can only return by the ame conveyance. I was urprized that Theophratus hould have as accurate intelligence of the ecrets of my heart, as if he had diected it with his anatomical knife. I did not therefore conceal from him what he already knew, and added, in a tone of deep melancholy, How hall I hope for recovery from love, who has lily thrown his hackles round me, and fatened them with a Gordian knot? Nothing remains but to reign myelf to my fate, and choak in the treacherous nooe. By no means, replied he; hopeles love is in truth bitterer than death: do not therefore abandon all hopes. There is indeed nothing new under the un; but what has once happened, may happen again. Did the lean Tithonus, I pray you, dream that he hould ever leep in the bed of the Goddes of the dawn? yet he o pent himelf with love in her arms, that at lat his whole ubtance was carce