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but to prevent his being with Rosamond; I felt my own tyranny, which love would not of itself have produced; but Zumio aggravated me by the rudeness and severity of his expressions and reproaches.

The sage Gelanor in vain endeavoured to make peace between us: Alas! said he, were you not in this palace, and otherwise in the same situation, Zumio would disguise his injurious fears and excessive resentment, and ap-pear mild and moderate, and you would then be equitable and generous. Remember, my lord, he is forced to speak what he thinks; remember he is under the dominion of love and anger, and that to-morrow he will not think as he does to-day.

Do you not see, exclaimed Zumio, that Phanor only wants a pretext to banish me the palace, that he may drive me from Rosamond; for do not suppose that he, like us, is obliged to speak what he thinks; his art preserves him from any such necessity: he will not own it, because he is naturally suspicious; but have found him out in more than twenty

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