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" g a K e ? Never fear that ; when he is under any fuch dim* 

 " culry, he has only to call upon me *, and I will help 

 '? him." 



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

 having had no converfation: but with monks and priefts,. 

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

 body, tie could not be perfuaded to take any mare 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 firft family in 

 Tigrc had matried a daughter of Michael by one of his 

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

 leta SelafTe,. whom Michael in the beginning, while Joas 

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

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

 Shunnamite \ and Welleta SelafTe, young and beautiful, and 

 who merited to be fomething more, was deflined as this 

 facrifice to the ambition of her grandfather. A kind of 

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

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

 but never took any flate upon hen She w r as a w r ife and a.-, 

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

 eompofition as little ihare as ambition, and thofe two great 



temptations,. 



* What made the. ridicule here was, Michael was older tianthe king, and could not 

 fiaiid alone. 



