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 ing among the trees in the park, he drew him aide, and aid, ‘I have a boon to beg, ir knight, which you mut not refue: Tell me how you got poeion of the ring you wear on the little finger of your left hand. That ring was formerly mine.—I know not how or when I lot it; and I long exceedingly to know how it came into your hands.’ ‘Noble lady,’ replied the artful adventurer, ‘I honourably gained the ring at a tilting match, from a valiant knight, whom I vanquihed in my own country; and who unhappily lot his life on the occaion. But how he came by it, whether it was the prize of war, purchaed from a Jew, received as the recompence of knighthood, or inherited from his predeceors, I am not able to inform you.’ ‘What would you do,’ replied Zoe, ‘hould I demand it as my property?’ ‘It would ill become the gallantry of our knightly profeion to refue a lady’s requet.’‘Yet I do not