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 charms of the beautiful Zoe had o infatuated me, that it eemed eaier to part from life. My friend, aid I, your lat words are a entence of death. Did not you yourelf ay, that love without hope was bitterer far than death. Had you let me pine in the tower of famine, I had got rid of this wretched life, which can only be a burden and plague to me; if I am to give up all my hopes, let me die an honourable and knightly death. Tell the prince without reerve, that I have choen the beautiful Zoe to be the mitres of my heart, and am ready to maintain my choice in a ingle combat for life or death: and, ince I can never gain her as the prize of valour, I will engage all his knights, till I fall by the hand of one of them, in order that he may hed a tender tear over me in ecret! My friend Theophratus hook his venerable head, and miled on me, as on one whoe brain had become delirious from the violence of a fever. Your cheme, aid Rh