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 enemies: his veins are turgid with tiger’s blood, yet the fetters of love enchain his furious paions. Hence he revenges the tricks of Cupid on the Paladins of the beautiful Zoe, never on herelf. Your lot would have been the ame with your predeceors in the tower of famine, had he not felt more for you than for all the ret that have uffered and hungered for her ake. She offered to prove her innocence and your virtue by the fiery ordeal; and boldly demanded your deliverence from yonder charnel-houe. But when the prince harhly refued this jut requet, he departed from him in orrow, and took a olemn oath never more to touch food, in order that he might die the ame death with you, ir knight. The hard-hearted huband was o little affected, that he et out on a hunting party. She took the advantage of his abence to bribe the guard, and upply you with necearies, though he herelf, in Rh