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 door, he wrote upon it, Ichabod. As he traveled. they would frequently ſit in the ſhade, divert themſelves with songs and often turn aſide, which made progreſs very ſmall; and this indolence smiled more and more, until they came follow valley by the brink of the river Euphrates, where they turned aſide and fell upon; and while they ſlept, there aroſe a flood in the river, and the flood ſwept them away.

For the third, whoſe name was Eumaius when he heard the admonitions they deep impreſſions upon his mind, and him with awful apprehenſions; he was convinced of the pernicious conſequences would attend ſuch company, and applied ſolicitus to avoid them; but how it would have now forgot, whether, before conſiderations, he had contracted a confidence, or whether afterwards, by dalli and giving latitude to his fancy, he for himself, and was entangled with a daughter the Chaldees which, betwixt the indigious he had received and his own miſsed affections, cauſed ſome ſtrugglings mind: for the perſon was of a come nt diſpoſition, nor ſeemed at all react to the things he had in view. Yet mainly perceived, ſhe had no taſte to, and that her innate diſpoſition was