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 he, is folly; a brave knight mut not fight on purpoe to be overcome, but to conquer, and acquire renown and praie. Conider, moreover, that the prince would decide on your challenge not according to the laws of knighthood, but jealouy, and remand you without delay to the antichamber of Pluto. But as love prevails over the dread of death, and I oberve your paion is tronger than your reaon, o that nothing can divert you from the beautiful Zoe, I will pour a drop of the balam of hope into your heart, which may revive though it cannot cure you. Hear, therefore, a ecret known but to few philoophers, and which no reward nor hope of gain could extort from me, though friendhip and compaion for your ituation is able to break the eal of ilence—your adored Zoe decends, like many of our Grecian beauties, as well as thoe of other countries, from the lineage of the fairies, and is only related on one ide to the race of mortals. The antient tra-