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 exclaimed, as he approached, ‘has the bloom of nature uch little charms for you, that you cannot employ yourelf better than in tearing to pieces her earliet preents, and profaning the feat of Flora? Is your heart o incapable of every oft and amiable affection, that neither the flowers of my garden, nor the blooming race of the virgins of my court, can make a tender impreion upon it? Why do you remain in this olitary arbour, when Joy is calling you aloud to yon fetive hall, and Love miles in every bloom, and peeps from all the ocial bowers of this garden? But if your adnes prings from the tender paion, make me acquainted with your ecret pain, if perchance it lies within my power to atisfy the cravings of your heart.’ ‘Your agacity, dicreet Zoe,’ replied Friedbert, ‘has pierced the recees of my oul: you judge very jutly that a latent fire glows within my boom: nor do I know, whether I hould feed Rh