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thought a greater breach of deUcacy to have refufed than to 

 have compUed : — 



But what fuccefs VaneiTa met 



Is to the world a fecret yet ; 



Can never to mankind be told, 



Nor fhall the confcious mufe unfold. 



Fye upon the confcious mufe, fays lord Orrery; and fye, too, 

 fay I : — a man of honour and gallantry fliould not permit 

 himfelf fuch a hint as this, though the Red Sea was betweeit 

 him and his miflrefs. 



It was impofTible to fleep ; the whole night was one con- 

 tinued florm of thunder, rain, and lightning; the morn- 

 ing was clearer, and my people very urgent to go away ; 

 but I had Itill to fettle with Zor Woldo, who had been kept 

 by his millrefs, Fafil's wife, notwithflanding his matter's or- 

 ders, till he had told her the whole circumilances of our ex- 

 pedition, and made her laugh heartily at the oddity of our 

 fentiments and cuftoms. This flie repaid to him by plen- 

 tiful horns of mead and bouza, as alfo large collops of raw 

 meat, which made him a very eloquent hiftorian ; whether 

 or no he was a faithful one, I cannot polTibly judge. 



After having fettled with him to his perfeiH: fatisfadlionj 

 and cancelled entirely the memory of fome difagreeable 

 things pafTed, he configned us very folemnly to Ayto Aylo's 

 fervant, in prefence of Welled Amlac, and had taken his 

 leave, when a very fine white cow was brought to the door 

 of the tent from Fafil's wife, whoinfifled, as a friend of her 

 hulband, that I would Itay that day for her fake 5 and I fliould 



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