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 no objection to your applying to my bride, and receiving back from her hand your former property.’ ‘Fairly poken,’ replied Zoe; ‘chooe from among my attendants a virgin that finds favour in your eyes: he hall be furnihed with a liberal dower, on condition that he forego the jewel, and place it on my finger as oon as he receives it from your hand. I will alo exalt you to great honour and high trut.’

No ooner was this ecret treaty ratified, than the princes’s nunnery changed to an harem. She invited every beauty of the country, and placed them in her train. She attired them in plendid cloaths, and attempted to exalt their natural charms, by the unnatural appendage of tawdry tinel, tortured and twited according to the rules of fahion. For he was jut as much mitaken as our fair contemporaries, who think the gilded frame, and not the painting, ells the picture; though daily experience evinces, that a court dres as little