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 compliance with her vow, rigorouly abtained from all nourihment. In three days the prince was told that a leaden-coloured palenes began to feed on the damak cheek of his poue, and to extinguih the park of life in her brilliant eyes. This touched him to the oul: he flew repentant to her feet, and entreated her to deit from her purpoe of extirpating beauty from the earth. He agreed to pare your life, under condition that you hould depart from Naxos, as father Adam from Paradie, never to return. The prince committed to me the care of the beautiful Zoe’s health, and the princes that of your deliverance. Prepare, therefore, for an immediate departure: a hip is ready to et ail for the Hellepont, in her you will get afe to the continent.

‘At the end of his peech I embraced the kind phyician, and thanked him cordially for my emancipation. But the departure from Naxos lay heavy on my heart. The