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 ing the charms of his mitres into Greek, to celebrate her Grecian form, to etimate the finet proportion of the female peron at between eight and nine heads, or to denominate that a Grecian profile, where the root of the noe is continued in a traight line from the forehead. The eye and not the ruler, the feelings and not chool ubtleties, were the ole judges of beauty: their entence was deemed valid; and no man troubled himelf about the opinion of Greek or Barbarian on the ubject. But Friedbert opened both his ears, when he informed him that he was of princely blood, and no other than the younget daughter of Zeno and the beautiful Zoe of Naxos.

‘Explain to me,’ he continued, ‘friendly hermit, if thou knowet, the nature of this pool; tell me why my mother warned her daughters to avoid the northern bath? Had he herelf at any time the misfortune to loe her veil here? She ued to end us every