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The story of the following piece is this. Oswald, a Gothic Chieftain, oppress'd at once by old age and a painful disease, exerts his remaining strength to die in a manner which was esteemed highly honourable by his countrymen, and was also believed to entitle him to a seat in Valhalla;OSWALD.