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overwhelmed and despairing, retired to a solitude at a distance from her, where I passed several months totally occupied by my grief. Zumio followed me, and though he was the innocent cause of my misfortunes, his attachment, gaiety, and natural gentleness, made his society agreeable: besides, he knew Agelia, and I could converse with him of her.

Zomio had been a great traveller; his relations were pleasant and graceful; and, in order to divert me, he told me every evening of the interesting things he had seen in his travels. Among the rest, he had often spoke of a princess named Arpalisa, on whom he made such pompous eulogiums, that he excited my curiosity. I asked him whether she was as handsome as Agelia?

Pshaw! said Zumio, had you ever seen the divine Arpalisa, you never would have been in love with this little Agelia, who is agreeable enough I own, and does not want wit some times; but being in reality a wild, capricious, thoughtless thing, cannot be compared to the princess I mention, who is an accomplished