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bulk or strength; for though they were always willing to join with Appetite, yet when Education kept them apart from her, they would very punc

in which they were confined easier and smoother. It was observable, that their stature was never at a stand, but continually growing or decreasing, yet not always in the same proportions: nor could I forbear to express my admiration, when I saw in how much less time they generally gained than lost bulk. Though they grew slowly in the road of Education, it might however be perceived that they grew; but if they once deviated at the call of Appetite, their stature soon became gigantic; and their strength was such that Education pointed out to her tribe many that were led in chains by them, whom she could never more rescue from their slavery. She pointed them out, but with little effect; for all her pupils appeared confident of their own superiority to the strongest Habit, and some seemed in secret to regret that they were hindered from following the triumph of Appetite.

Then, beginning to examine more minutely the different parts, I observed at a great distance a multitude of both sexes issuing into view from the bottom of the mountain. Their first actions Itually obey command, and make the narrow roads could not accurately discern; but, as they every moment approached nearer, I found that they amused themselves with gathering flowers under the superintendence of a modest virgin in a white robe, who seemed not over solicitous to confine them to any settled pace or certain track: for she knew that the whole ground was smooth and solid, and that they could not easily be hurt or bewildered. When, as it often happened, they plucked a thistle for a flower, Innocence, so she was called, would smile at the mistake. Happy, said I, are they who are under so gentle a government, and yet are safe. But I had no opportunity to dwell long on the consideration of their felicity; for I found that Innocence continued her attendance but a little way, and seemed to consider only the flowery bottom of the mountain as her proper province. Those whom she abandoned scarcely knew that they were left, before they perceived themselves in the hands of Education, a nymph more severe in her aspect, and imperious in her commands, who confined them to certain paths, in their opinion too narrow and too rough. These they were continually solicited to leave by Appetite, whom Education could never fright away, though she sometimes awed her to such timidity, that the effects of her presence were scarcely perceptible. Some went back to the first part of the mountain, and seemed desirous of continuing busied in plucking flowers, but were no longer guarded by Innocence; and such as Education could not force back, proceeded up the mountain by some miry road, in which they were seldom seen, and scarcely ever regarded.

As Education led her troop up the mountain, nothing was more observable than that she was frequently giving them cautions to beware of Habits; and was calling out to one or another at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring them; that they would be under the dominion of Habit before they perceived their danger; and that those whom Habit should once subdue, had little hope of regaining their liberty.

It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.

When Education had proceeded in this manner. to the part of the mountain where the declivity began to grow craggy, she resigned her charge to two powers of superior aspect. The meaner of them appeared capable of presiding in senates, or governing nations, and yet watched the steps of the other with the most anxious attention, and was visibly confounded and perplexed if ever she suffered her regard to be drawn away. The other seemed to approve her submission as pleasing, but with such a condescension as plainly showed that she claimed it as due; and indeed so great was her dignity and sweetness, that he who would not reverence, must not behold her.

Of this caution, so frequently repeated, I was very solicitous to know the reason, when my protector directed my regard to a troop of pigmies, "Theodore," said my protector, "be fearless, which appeared to walk silently before those that and be wise; approach these powers, whose dowere climbing the mountain, and each to smooth minion extends to all the remaining part of the the way before her follower. I found that. I had Mountain of Existence." I trembled, and venmissed the notice of them before, both because tured to address the inferior nymph, whose eyes, they were so minute as not easily to be discerned, though piercing and awful, I was not able to susand because they grew every moment nearer in tain. "Bright Power," said I, "by whatever name their colour to the objects with which they were it is lawful to address thee, tell me, thou who presurrounded. As the followers of Education sidest here, on what condition thy protection will did not appear to be sensible of the presence of be granted?" "It will be granted," said she these dangerous associates, or, ridiculing their "only to obedience. I am Reason, of all subordidiminutive size, did not think it possible that hu-nate beings the noblest and the greatest; who, if man beings should ever be brought into subjection by such feeble enemies, they generally heard her precepts of vigilance with wonder: and when they thought her eye withdrawn, treated them with contempt. Nor could I myself think her cautions so necessary as her frequent inculcations seemed to suppose, till I observed that each of these petty beings held secretly a chain in her hand, with which she prepared to bind those whom she found within her power. Yet these Habits, under the eye of Education, went quietly forward, and seemed very little to increase in

thou wilt receive my laws, will reward thee like the rest of my votaries, by conducting thee to Religion," Charmed by her voice and aspect, I' professed my readiness to follow her. She then presented me to her mistress, who looked upon me with tenderness. I bowed before her, and she smiled.

When Education delivered up those for whose happiness she had been so long solicitous, she seemed to expect that they should express some gratitude for her care, or some regret at the loss of that protection which she had hitherto afforded

the Passions, Vanity. The most powerful assault was to be feared, when a Passion and an Appetite joined their enticements; and the path of Reason was best followed, when a Passion called to one side, and an Appetite to the other.

These seducers had the greatest success upon the followers of Reason, over whom they scarcely ever failed to prevail, except when they counteracted one another. They had not the same triumphs over the votaries of Religion; for though they were often led aside for a time, Religioa. commonly recalled them by her emissary Con

But they that professed to obey Reason, if once they forsook her, seldom returned; for she had no messenger to summon them but Pride, who generally betrayed her confidence, and employed all her skill to support Passion; and if ever she did her duty, was found unable to prevail, iî Habit had interposed.

them. But it was easy to discover, by the alacrity | drew aside the dull, and Passion the sprightly. which broke out at her departure, that her pre-Of the Appetites, Lust was the strongest; and of sence had been long displeasing, and that she had been teaching those who felt in themselves no want of instruction. They all agreed in rejoicing that they should no longer be subject to her caprices, or disturbed by her documents, but should be now under the direction only of Reason, to whom they made no doubt of being able to recommend themselves by a steady adherence to all her precepts. Reason counselled them, at their first entrance upon her province, to enlist themselves among the votaries of Religion; and informed them, that if they trusted to her alone, they would find the same fate with her other ad-science, before Habit had time to enchain them. mirers, whom she had not been able to secure against Appetites and Passions, and who, having been seized by Habits in the regions of Desire, had been dragged away to the caverns of Despair. Her admonition was vain; the greater number declared against any other direction, and doubted not but by her superintendency they should climb with safety up the Mountain of Ex- I soon found that the great danger to the folistence. "My power," said Reason, "is to ad-lowers of Religion was only from Habit; every vise, not to compel; I have already told you the danger of your choice. The path seems now plain and even, but there are asperities and pitfalls, over which Religion only can conduct you. Look upwards, and you perceive a mist before you, settled upon the highest visible part of the mountain; a mist by which my prospect is terminated, and which is pierced only by the eyes of Religion. Beyond it are the temples of Happiness, in which those who climb the precipice by her direction, after the toil of their pilgrimage, repose for ever. I know not the way, and therefore can only conduct you to a better guide. Pride has sometimes reproached me with the narrowness of my view, but when she endeavoured to extend it, could only show me, below the mist, the bowers of Content; even they vanished as I fixed my eyes upon them; and those whom she persuaded to travel towards them were enchained by Habits, and ingulfed by Despair, a cruel tyrant, whose caverns are beyond the darkness on the right side and on the left, from whose prisons none can escape, and whom I cannot teach you to avoid."

other power was easily resisted, nor did they find any difficulty, when they inadvertently quitted her, to find her again by the direction of Conscience, unless they had given time to Habit to draw her chain behind them, and bar up the way by which they had wandered. Of some of those the condition was justly to be pitied, who turned at every call of Conscience, and tried, but without effect, to burst the chains of Habit; saw Reli gion walking forwards at a distance, saw her with reverence, and longed to join her; but were, whenever they approached her, withheld by Habit, and languished in sordid bondage, which they could not escape, though they scorned and hated it.

It was evident that the Habits were so far from growing weaker by these repeated contests, that if they were not totally overcome, every struggle enlarged their bulk and increased their strength; and a Habit opposed and victorious was more than twice as strong as before the contest. The manner in which those who were weary of their tyranny endeavoured to escape from them, appeared by the event to be generally wrong; they Such was the declaration of Reason to those tried to loose their chains one by one, and to rewho demanded her protection. Some that recol-treat by the same degrees as they advanced ; but lected the dictates of Education, finding them now before the deliverance was completed, Habit alseconded by another authority, submitted with ways threw new chains upon her fugitive; nor did reluctance to the strict decree, and engaged them- any escape her but those who, by an effort sudselves among the followers of Religion, who were den and violent, burst their shackles at once and distinguished by the uniformity of their march, left her at a distance; and even of these many though many of them were women, and by their rushing too precipitately forward, and hindercontinual endeavours to move upwards, withouted by their terrors from stopping where they appearing to regard the prospects which at every step courted their attention.

were safe, were fatigued with their own vehemence, and resigned themselves again to that All those who determined to follow either Rea-power from whom an escape must be so dearly son or Religion, were continually importuned to bought, and whose tyranny was little felt, except forsake the road, sometimes by Passions, and when it was resisted. sometimes by Appetites, of whom both had reason to boast the success of their artifices; for so many were drawn into by-paths, that any way was more populous than the right. The attacks of the Appetites were more impetuous, those of the Passions longer continued. The Appetites turned their followers directly from the true way; but the Passions marched at first in a path nearly in the same direction with that of Reason and Religion, but deviated by slow degrees, till at last they entirely changed their course. Appetito

Some however there always were, who when they found Habit prevailing over them, called upon Reason or Religion for assistance; each of them willingly came to the succour of her suppli ant, but neither with the same strength nor the same success. Habit, insolent with her power, would often presume to parley with Reason, and offer to loose some of her chains if the rest might remain. To this Reason, who was never certain of victory, frequently consented, but al ways found her concession destructive, and sav

the captive led away by Habit to his former slavery. Religion never submitted to treaty, but held out her hand with certainty of conquest; and if the captive to whom she gave it did not quit his hold, always led him away in triumph, and placed him in the direct path to the Temple of Happiness, where Reason never failed to congratulate his deliverance, and encourage his adherence to that power to whose timely succour he was indebted for it.

to teach it with some success when her precepts were not misrepresented by Passion, or her influence overborne by Appetite. But neither of these enemies was she able to resist. When Passion seized upon her votaries, she seldom attempted opposition; she seemed indeed to contend with more vigour against Appetite, but was generally over-wearied in the contest; and if either of her opponents had confederated with Habit, her authority was wholly at an end. When Habit endeavoured to captivate the votaries of Religion, she grew by slow degrees, and gave time to escape; but in scizing the unhappy followers of Reason, she proceeded as one that had nothing to fear, and enlarged her size, and doubled her chains without intermission, and without reserve.

When the traveller was again placed in the road of Happiness, I saw Habit again gliding before him, but reduced to the stature of a dwarf, without strength and without activity; but when the Passions or Appetites, which had before seduced him, made their approach, Habit would on a sudden start into size, and with unexpected violence push him towards them. The wretch, thus impelled on one side, and allured on the other, too frequently quitted the road of Happiness, to which after his second deviation from it, he rarely returned: but by a timely call upon Re-rity of power. They were easily persuaded to ligion, the force of Habit was eluded, her attacks grew fainter, and at last her correspondence with the enemy was entirely destroyed. She then began to employ those restless faculties in compliance with the power which she could not overcome; and as she grew again in stature and in strength, cleared away the asperities of the road to Happiness.

Of those who forsook the directions of Reason, some were led aside by the whispers of Ambition, who was perpetually pointing to stately palaces, situated on eminences on either side, recounting the delights of affluence, and boasting the secufollow her, and Habit quickly threw her chains upon them; they were soon convinced of the folly of their choice, but few of them attempted to return. Ambition led them forward from precipice to precipice, where many fell, and were seen no more. Those that escaped were, after a long series of hazards, generally delivered over to Avarice, and enlisted by her in the service of Tyranny, where they continued to heap up gold till their patrons or their heirs pushed them headlong at last into the cavern of Despair.

From this road I could not easily withdraw my attention, because all who travelled it appeared cheerful and satisfied; and the farther they proceeded, the greater appeared their alacrity, and Others were enticed by Intemperance to ramthe stronger their conviction of the wisdom of ble in search of those fruits that hung over the their guide. Some, who had never deviated but rocks, and filled the air with their fragrance. I by short excursions, had Habit in the middle of observed, that the Habits which hovered about their passage vigorously supporting them, and these soon grew to an enormous size, nor were driving off their Appetites and Passions which there any who less attempted to return to Reaattempted to interrupt their progress. Others, son, or sooner sunk into the gulfs that lay before who had entered this road late, or had long for them. When these first quitted the road, Reason saken it, were toiling on without her help at least, looked after them with a frown of contempt, but and commonly against her endeavours. But I had little expectations of being able to reclaim observed, when they approached to the barren them; for the bowl of intoxication was of such top, that few were able to proceed without some qualities as to make them lose all regard but for support from Habit: and that they whose Habits the present moment; neither Hope nor Fear were strong, advanced towards the mists with could enter their retreats: and Habit had so absolittle emotion, and entered them at last with calm-lute a power, that even Conscience, if Religion ness and confidence; after which, they were seen had employed her in their favour, would not have only by the eye of Religion: and though Reason been able to force an entrance. looked after them with the most earnest curiosity, she could only obtain a faint glimpse, when her mistress to enlarge her prospect raised her from the ground. Reason, however, discerned that they were safe, but Religion saw that they were happy.

"Now, Theodore," said my protector, "withdraw thy view from the regions of obscurity, and see the fate of those who, when they were dismissed by Education, would admit no direction but that of Reason. Survey their wanderings, and be wise."

I looked then upon the Road of Reason, which was indeed, so far as it reached, the same with that of Religion, nor had reason discovered it but by her instruction. Yet when she had once been taught it, she clearly saw that it was right; and Pride had sometimes incited her to declare that she discovered it herself, and persuaded her to offer herself as a guide to Religion: whom after many vain experiments she found it her highest privilege to follow. Reason was however at last well instructed in part of the way, and appeared [

There were others whose crime it was rather to neglect Reason than to disobey her: and who retreated from the heat and tumult of the way, not to the bowers of Intemperance, but to the maze of Indolence. They had this peculiarity in their condition, that they were always in sight of the Road of Reason, always wishing for her presence, and always resolving to return to-morrow. In these was most eminently conspicuous the subtlety of Habit, who hung imperceptible shackles upon them, and was every moment leading them farther from the road, which they always imagined that they had the power of reaching. They wan dered on from one double of the labyrinth to another, with the chains of Habit hanging secretly upon them, till, as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the scents fainter; they proceeded in their dreary march without pleasure in their progress, yet without power to return; and had this aggravation above all others, that they were criminal but not delighted. The drunkard for a time laughed over his wine; the ambitious man triumphed in the miscarriage of his rival; but the

When she entered the thicket, and was near the place for which she was looking, from behind a blossoming hawthorn advanced a female form of very low stature, but of elegant proportion and majestic air, arrayed in all the colours of the meadow, and sparkling as she moved like a dewdrop in the sun.

captives of Indolence had neither superiority nor | liberty. She awaked early and listened, but no merriment. Discontent lowered in their looks, goldfinch could she hear. She rose, and walking and Sadness hovered round their shades; yet again in the same meadow, went to view the they crawled on reluctant and gloomy, till they bush where she had seen the lime-twig the day arrived at the depth of the recess, varied only before. with poppies and nightshade, where the dominion of Indolence terminates, and the hopeless wanderer is delivered up to Melancholy; the chains of Habit are riveted for ever, and Melancholy, having tortured her prisoner for a time, consigns him at last to the cruelty of Despair. While I was musing on this miserable scene, my protector called out to me, "Remember, Theodore, and be wise, and let not Habit prevail against thee." I started, and beheld myself surrounded by the rocks of Teneriffe: the birds of light were singing in the trees, and the glances of the morning darted upon me.

THE FOUNTAINS:

A FAIRY TALE.*

Felix qui potuit boni
Fontem visere lucidum.

Boethius.

Floretta was too much disordered to speak or fly, and stood motionless between fear and pleasure, when the little lady took her by the hand.

"I am," says she, "one of that order of beings which some call Fairies, and some Piskies: we have always been known to inhabit the crags and caverns of Phinlimmon. The maids and shepherds when they wander by moonlight, have often heard our music, and sometimes seen our dances.

"I am the chief of the fairies of this region, and am known among them by the name of Lady Lilinet of the Blue Rock. As I lived always in my own mountain, I had very little knowledge of As Floretta was wandering in a meadow at the human manners, and thought better of mankind foot of Plintimmon, she heard a little bird cry in than other fairies found them to deserve; I there such a note as she had never observed before, and fore often opposed the mischievous practices of looking round her, saw a lovely goldfinch entan-my sisters, without always inquiring whether gled by a lime-twig, and a hawk hovering over him, as at the point of seizing him in his talons. Floretta longed to rescue the little bird, but was afraid to encounter the hawk, who looked fiercely upon her without any apparent dread of her approach, and as she advanced seemed to increase in bulk, and clapped his wings in token of defiance. Floretta stood deliberating a few moments, but, seeing her mother at no great distance, took courage, and snatched the twig with the little bird upon it. When she had disengaged him, she put him in her bosom, and the hawk flew

away.

Floretta, showing her bird to her mother, told her from what danger she had rescued him: her mother, after admiring its beauty, said, that he would be a very proper inhabitant of the little gilded cage, which had hung empty since the starling died for want of water, and that he should be placed at the chamber window, for it would be wonderfully pleasant to hear him in the morning. Floretta, with tears in her eyes, replied, that he had better have been devoured by the hawk than die for want of water, and that she would not save him from a less evil to put him in danger of a greater she therefore took him into her hand, cleaned his feathers from the bird-lime, looked upon him with great tenderness, and, having put his bill to her lips, dismissed him into the air.

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He flew in circles round her as she went home, and, perching on a tree before the door, delighted them a while with such sweetness of song, that her mother reproved her for not putting him in Floretta endeavoured to look but silently approved her own act, and wished her mother more generosity. Her mother guessed her thoughts, and told her, that when she was older she would be wiser.

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they were just. I extinguished the light that was kindled to lead a traveller into a marsh, and found afterwards that he was hastening to corrupt a virgin; I dissipated a mist which assumed the form of a town, and was raised to decoy a monopolizer of corn from his way to the next market; I removed a thorn artfully planted to prick the foot of a churl that was going to hinder the poor from following his reapers; and defeated so many schemes of obstruction and punishment, that I was cited before the queen as one who favoured wickedness, and opposed the execution of fairy justice.

"Having never been accustomed to suffer control, and thinking myself disgraced by the neces sity of defence, I so much irritated the Queen by my sullenness and petulance, that in her anger she transformed me into a goldfinch. 'In this form,' says she, 'I doom thee to remain till some human being shall show thee kindness without any prospect of interest.'

"I flew out of her presence not much dejected; for I did not doubt but every reasonable being must love that which, having never offended, could ̧ not be hated, and having no power to hurt, could not be feared.

"I therefore fluttered about the villages, and endeavoured to force myself into notice.

"Having heard that nature was least corrupted among those who had no acquaintance with elegance and splendour, I employed myself for five years in hopping before the doors of cottages, and often sat singing on the thatched roof: my motions were seldom seen, or my notes heard; no kindness was ever excited, and all the reward' of my officiousness was to be aimed at with a stone when I stood within a throw.

"The stones never hurt me for I had still the power of a fairy.

"I then betook myself to spacious and magnificent habitations, and sung in bowers by the walks or on the banks of fountains.

"In these places, where novelty was recom

mended by satiety, and curiosity excited by lei-She heard from remote corners of the gloomy sure, my form and my voice were soon distin- cavern, the roar of winds and the fall of waters, guished, and I was known by the name of the and more than once entreated to return; but Lipretty goldfinch; the inhabitants would walk outlinet, assuring her that she was safe, persuaded to listen to my music, and at last it was their prac- her to proceed, till they came to an arch, into tice to court my visits by scattering meat in my which the light found its way through a fissure common haunts. of the rock.

There Lilinet seated herself and her guest upon

"This was repeated till I went about pecking in full security, and expected to regain my original | a bench of agate, and pointing to two fountains form, when I observed two of my most liberal that bubbled before them, said, "Now attend, my benefactors silently advancing with a net behind dear Floretta, and enjoy the gratitude of a fairy. me. I flew off, and fluttering beside them pricked Observe the two fountains that spring up in the the leg of each, and left them halting and groan-middle of the vault, one into a bason of alabaster, ing with the cramp.

"I then went to another house, where for two springs and summers I entertained a splendid family with such melody as they had never heard in the woods before. The winter that followed the second summer was remarkably cold, and many little birds perished in the field. I laid myself in the way of one of the ladies as benumbed with cold and faint with hunger; she picked me up with great joy, telling her companions that she had found the goldfinch that sung so finely all summer in the myrtle hedge, that she would lay him where he should die, for she could not bear to kill him, and would then pick his fine feathers very carefully, and stick them in her muff.

"Finding that her fondness and her gratitude could give way to so slight an interest, I chilled her fingers that she could not hold me, then flew at her face, and with my beak gave her nose four pecks that left four black spots indelible behind them, and broke a match by which she would have obtained the finest equipage in the county.

"At length the queen repented of her sentence, and being unable to revoke it, assisted me to try experiments upon man, to excite his tenderness, and attract his regard.

"We made many attempts, in which we were always disappointed. At last she placed me in your way held by a lime-twig, and herself in the shape of a hawk, made the show of devouring me. You, my dear, have rescued me from the seeming danger, without desiring to detain me in captivity, or seeking any other recompense than the pleasure of benefiting a feeling creature.

"The queen is so much pleased with your kindness, that I am come, by her permission, to reward you with a greater favour, than ever fairy bestowed before.

and the other into a bason of dark flint. The one is called the Spring of Joy, the other of Sorrow; they rise from distant veins in the rock, and burst out in two places, but after a short course unite their streams, and run ever after in one mingled current.

"By drinking of these fountains, which, though shut up from all other human beings, shall be always accessible to you, it will be in your power to regulate your future life.

"When you are drinking the water of joy from the alabaster fountain, you may form your wish, and it shall be granted. As you raise your wish higher, the water will be sweeter and sweeter to the taste; but beware that you are not tempted by its increasing sweetness to repeat your draughts, for the ill effects of your wish can only be removed by drinking of the spring of sorrow from the bason of flint, which will be bitter in the same proportion as the water of joy was sweet. Now, my Floretta, make the experiment, and give me the first proof of moderate desires. Take the golden cup that stands on the margin of the spring of joy, form your wish, and drink.”

Floretta wanted no time to deliberate on the subject of her wish; her first desire was the increase of her beauty. She had some disproportion of features. She took the cup, and wished to be agreeable; the water was sweet, and she drank copiously; and in the fountain, which was clearer than crystal, she saw that her face was completely regular.

She then filled the cup again, and wished for a rosy bloom upon her checks: the water was sweeter than before, and the colour of her cheeks was heightened.

She next wished for a sparkling eye: the water grew yet more pleasant, and her glances were like the beams of the sun.

She could not yet stop; she drank again, desired to be made a perfect beauty, and a perfect beauty she became.

"The former gifts of fairies, though bounties in design, have proved commonly mischiefs in the event. We have granted mortals to wish according to their own discretion, and their discretion She had now whatever her heart could wish; being small, and their wishes irreversible, they and making an humble reverence to Lilinet, rehave rashly petitioned for their own destruction.quested to be restored to her own habitation. But you, my dearest Floretta, shall have, what none have ever before obtained from us, the power of indulging your wish and the liberty of retracting it. Be bold, and follow me."

Floretta was easily persuaded to accompany the fairy, who led her through a labyrinth of crags and shrubs, to a cavern covered by a thicket on

the side of the mountain.

They went back, and the fairies in the way wondered at the change of Floretta's form. She came home delighted to her mother, who, on seeing the improvement, was yet more delighted than herself.

Her mother from that time pushed her forward into public view: Floretta was at all the resorts of idleness and assemblies of pleasure; she was "This cavern," said she, "is the court of Lili-fatigued with balls, she was cloyed with treats, net, your friend; in this place you shall find a she was exhausted by the necessity of returning certain remedy for all real evils." Lilinet then compliments. This life delighted her a while, but went before her through a long subterraneous pas-custom soon destroyed its pleasure. She found age, where she saw many beautiful fairies, who that the men who courted her to-day, resigned tame to gaze at the stranger, but who, from re- her on the morrow to other flatterers, and that verence to their mistress, gave her no disturbance. the women attacked her reputation by whispers

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