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obtain your favour is by rectitude and virtue, and they will become new men. When monarchs bare arrived at an age of maturity, and toward the end of their reign, they are then the real formers of courtiers, and either pervert or make them virsuous.

Phanor followed his advice, and recalled his three courtiers, who had been shut up in a corner of the palace: but society was no longer agreeable; no person durst open his lips, lest he should say something impertinent; and, when forced to break this obstinate silence, trembled as he spoke, and seldom uttered a word but was either ill-timed or offensive. All execrated the palace; and the only pleasure they could find in it was to converse with the travellers, with which it swarmed.

One evening, Philamir, more discontented with Zeolide and sorrowful than ordinary, went to seek Gelanor, and relate his new cause of grief. He had never been in the apartment of this venerable old man, but was conducted thither by an attendant. As soon as he case

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