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 of progenitors fabricated with little trouble, of a length and breadth uitable to the formality, yet he prudently reted his pretenions to be admitted into o illutrious a family on the tetimony of love, who, as he aid, pairs like with like, and does not couple the jackdaw with the eagle, nor the owl with the otrich. In aying this he appealed to his word, as an irreproachable evidence, ready to maintain, againt an hot of gainayers, the honour of his birth. Zoe found nothing to object to the validity of thee proofs, epecially as he oberved, that the tranger knight had awakened Callita’s enibility, in which cae a prudent mother, unles he is dipoed wantonly to diturb the family peace, has no alternative but to approve her dear daughter’s choice, and totally to forego the maternal prerogative of controuling the concerns of the virgin’s heart.

Mis Callita dubbed honet Friedbert a Tetrarch in Swabia, with as good a right as his holines creates bihops and prelates in partibus, and under this plendid