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to feek glory fo wickedly and unworthily, if he might purchafe that peace he foughtby any reafonable conceffion.”

The woman, attentive to the motion, profecuted with fo fair a carriage, after fomepaufe of filence, and dejection of countenance that gave confent to bafhfulnefs, replied,that though the marks of his violence were before her eyes, whofe anguilh were fuffi-cient to maintain the fuel of further paffion, yet in that which he had felt trial of likerage, had firft broke off violence, fhe gave fo good an ear to the motion as the ftiorttime of debiting might permit; affirming, that fhe was fo far content to fufpend fuchpaffages, as he, continuing that peaceful treaty, ffiould make his company acceptable,otherwife to renew the fame violence, as the found juft occafion of provocation.

Thus, with plighted hands, the form of their new-made amity, they became of in*teftine enemies reconciled and amorous friends, till prompt and intelligent nature,apprehenfive of her own ends, through fome longer converfation together, made themprove the difference of their fex, from whom plentiful generations were defcended,indued with the fortitude of fuch as are truly warlike. And thus the weft came to bepeopled from thefe two, from whofe enmities love wrought fo perfect and unexpectedagreement.

Chap. IV. — Of Shuddery, the third Son of Pourous; his Travels : he findeth a Mine

of Diamonds ; meeteth the Woman appointed for him ; they become conjoined together ,•

and by their IJfue the North is peopled.

The third fon, Shuddery, which was the merchant-man, according to his time and age,was fent to the north, who taking his balance and weights with him, the inftrumentsby whofe juftice he was to buy and fell, tended him whither the Almighty had directedhim. Having paffed on fome part of his way (as bufy nature loves to be in employ-ment), he defired he might meet with fome affair or bufinefs fuiting with his traffick-ing difpofition.

And being come to a goodly mountain, called Stachalla, there fell immoderate andexceffive rains, he ffieltering himfelf in fome hollow place of the mountain till the foulweather was paffed ; upon which there followed a clearnefsof the Ikies; but fuch a delugefucceeded upon the fall of thofe waters, that his journey was prohibited; for the rivers,not able to contain the ftreams', that had in rolling currents from the tops of the fteepmountains devolved into their channels below, began to make breaches in their banks ;and returning their burthen into the lower grounds, had turned the valley of Stachallainto a broad river unpaffable. Shuddery therefore refted in the hollow of this mountaintill the weather might be more propitious to his travel intended; when in fome daysthe fair weather had made the thirfty earth to drink up part of the water, the fun, todry up fhe other part, and fome were left to inherit the lower grounds, fo that the waybeing free for him over the valley, he paffed on ; but in the bottom of the valley hefound certain pearl-ffiells that had their precious treafure within ; which dividing to bemade capable of their contents, he found in them that which contented his eyes with theirfluffing, and promifed in their beauties fomething worth the prizing and prefervation,(though he was as yet altogether ignorant of their worth and value) : fo folding themup, he renewed his travel, till he came to a mountain on the other fide of the valley,where the mountain, he, and dark night, met all together.

But as if the pearls had but borne the meffage to him of a greater fortune, a rockor mine of diamonds aifcovered itfelf to his fight, which the late waffling of the watershad been as a midwife to bring to light, as if it had been unfit fo great riches fhouldvol. viii. 3 v be-