lord’s discovery of the banians and persees.

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her to view the rooms of his building, as if he meant to woo her with the fair worksof his hands: but Ihe, taking his importunity in evil part, told him, that if he defiredher not to fhun the place, he would difmifs her freely. So turning from him with fomedifplealure, becaufe file was by him unwillingly detained, file fled from him with coydiftafte, he almoft expiring with the fadnefs of her departure, whofe prefence he couldnot purchafe, and his pleafure therein, without her anger.

She having robbed his eyes of that fight, that they would never willingly have loft,he committed himfelf to the rack of penfive meditations, broke the quiet Humber ofrepofe, thinking darknefs unfavourable to him that fufpended and prorogued the chear-ful day from his appearance, in which he might renew his vifitations of her. So traverf-ing the woods to and fro, he at laft came into a valley, where he found her croppingthe flowers, and gratifying her fenfes with their feveral odours; on whom intruding erefhe well perceived, he faid, “ Oh, fweeter than all flowers or fcents that the field canboaft of, whofe lovelinefs hath drawn me to make a proffer of new kindnefs, fly me not,who haft had a former trial of my behaviour towards thee!” So bearing with his prefence,he took occafion to make known to her the creation of the world, and the parents fromwhom he was defcended, the difperfing of his brethren into the feveral parts of theworld, the hardinefs and hazard of his voyages, the qualities with which he was indued,and the feveral monuments of his art which he had left in the places where he hadbeen. Further, he conceived that the power above had not prompted him, with thejeopardy of a thoufand lives, to cut a path through feven rugged feas in a floating habi-tation, but even to that end that the bitternefs of all thofe evils might be fweetened byhis enjoyment of her.

She, defirous to break off this fpeech, as ungratpful to her ears, turned back thisdifcourfe, defiring him to take his contentments elfewhere than in queft of her ; thatif fhe could prevail with him in any requeft, it fhould be in this, to leave her, andnever after to difturb her with fuch motions. So both departed, fhe in difdain, he infadnefs and forrow for fuch difmiflion ; giving him only this as a doubtful comfort attheir parting, that if ihe found herfelf inclined to his fociety, Ihe knew where to findhim, and to manifeft to him fuch alteration.

Upon this, having left the place that contained his blifs, with oppreffed thoughts, hewas no fooner got into a private place that might feern as counfel-keeper to his pafiions,but he humbled himfelf under the green trees, and faid, “ Oh ! thou to whom belong?the acknowledgment of my being, I have, by thy guidance, forfaken the fociety of myparents, whom I know not whether I fliall ever behold again, as alfo the fellowlhip ofmy brethren: I have coped with as many hazards as can make travel bitter and dif-comfortable : I have left company to come into folitude ; nay, which is worfe, to beholdone that might give me the wifhed comforts of fociety, by her refufal to add degrees tomy forrow. Ohj make me not void the end of my being ! give not fuch an evilrecompence to my adventures ; bury not all thefe qualities thou haft put into thiseffence by this one difafter ! Witnefs, O you heavens, under whofe azured roof I nowam, the forrows Ifuffer ; and witnefs, O ye green trees, that, if ye were fenfible of mycomplaint, would fpend yourfelves in gummy tears, what agony perplexeth me ! And:if the Maker of creatures overlooks his works, let him now appear, and'redrefs themiferies of his fervant!”

With that a ftill and quiet air breathed through the leaves of the trees, and a voiceiffued thereupon, and faid, “ What required; thou, oh, thou fon of Pourous ?” And"Wyfe made anfwer, That he only defired that the woman with whom he had met, mightafford him the comforts of fociety in the copulations of marriage j which requeft was

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