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 fruit-trees, planted vines, and reared melons, by which I could refreh the weary traveller, I eteem more meritorious than all the praying, fating, and penance, that have raied the fame of my piety o high: thee are works of more worth than even the romance of my life. Therefore,’ proceeded father Benno, addreing himelf to his faithful companion, the attentive Friedbert; ‘therefore I would not have an active young man like you dream away your life in this dreary olitude. Stay, however, the hort time which yet remains to me, perform the lat duties, and lay my bones in the grave which I dug many years ago, in otentatious hypocriy, under yonder rocks. Then return again to the world, and earn by the weat of thy brow bread to feed a lovely wife and a blooming circle of boys and girls round thy table. The rape of the Sabines turned out a fortunate adventure to the Romans. Thou, if thou pleaet, mayet try whether for-