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model of all perfection; you would be dazzled with the depth of her beauty, and enchanted with her understanding, her virtues, talents, and the extent of her knowledge.—Such greatness of soul!—such sensibility!—O! were you to hear her discourse on friendship.

Zumio was exhaustless on this subject, and his every day repeated praise at length inspired me with a strong desire to see this miraculous princess.

Notwithstanding, however, all the prudent counsels of Agelia, I heartily regretted the loss of my ring: I had a favour to ask of the sovereign of the genii, and after much incertitude, and many reflections, I went to him, and conjured him to build me a palace, in which, by a charm, every one that entered it should be obliged to deciare their secret thoughts when-ever they spoke. I asked likewise, in quality of the possessor of the palace, to be the only one exempt from that general law: For, said I, a lover ought to be discreet, and I would not willingly expose myself to the least impropriety of this kind. Let me, implored I, in this palace,

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