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6 in his eraglio, where nine hundred pining beauties, with their attendants, were already immured, he forced her to yield to his licentious deires, but purchaed his enjoyment at a dear rate, as his life was the forfeit of it. The violated female, with a oul, the hrine of purity, like that of the divine Lucretia, whoe chaity will ever adorn the hitoric page, fired with indignation at uch unmanly treatment, grew frantic with rage, and didaining life after the lots of honour, tabbed her brutal raviher with a lancet, which he afterwards plunged into her own boom, and expired. Notwithtanding the dangerous wound he received, by the appointment of Heaven, from the avenging hand