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« gage ? Never fear that ; when he is under any fuch difH- 

 "culty, he has only to call vipon me *, and I will help 

 *.' him." 



Hannes, befidcs his age, was very feeble in body; and 

 having had no converfation bxit with monks and prieils, 

 this had debilitated his mind as much as age had done his 

 body. He could not be perfuaded to take any fhare in go- 

 vernment. The whole day was fpent in pfalms and prayers ; 

 but Ras Michael had' brought from the mountain with him 

 two fons, Tecla Haimanout the eldeft, a prince of fifteen 

 years of age, and the younger, called George, about thir- 

 teen. 



GuEBRA Denghel, a nobleman of the firfl: family in 

 Tigre had married a daughter of Michael by one of his. 

 "wives in that province. By her he had one daughter, Wel- 

 leta SelifTc, whom Michael in the beginning, while joas 

 and he were yet friends, had deftined to be queen, and to 

 be married to him. Hannes was of the age only to need a 

 Shunnamite ; and Welleta Selafle, young and beautiful, and 

 who merited to be fomething more, was deftined as this 

 facrifice to the ambition of her grandfather. A kind of 

 marriage, I believe, was therefore made, but never confum- 

 matcd. She lived with Hannes fome months in the palace, 

 but never took any ftate upon her. She was a wife and a 

 queen merely in name and idea. Love had in that frozen 

 compofition as little Ihare as ambition, and thofc two great 

 ' temptations^ 



* Wiiat made the ridicule here was, Micliael was older thin the king, and could noi 

 Aaod aiace. 



