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to ask your permission to be married here; but, in all likelihood, a quarter of an hour's conversation will rob them of that wish; for no more time is necessary in this palace to make the most tender lovers fall out.

As Gelanor spoke, we perceived the young man coming; I approached him, and asked him whether he still persisted in his resolution to marry his mistress?

Yes, my lord, replied he, and that resolution is less liable to fail, because it is not inspired by love.

How! are you not then in love?

No, my lord; I once was passionately in love with this same lady, as she was with me; but an extraordinary accident tore my mistress from me, only to persecute her; this I knew, but knew not into what part of the world she was carried. Love obliged me to go in search of her, and I left my country, vowing never to return till I had found her whom I adored. My travels lasted more than three years. Love followed, or rather guided my path, for the first year; but the way at length

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