THE TWIN-BROTHERS OF MEZZO RANI A. 1 5 



was about to feparate, when the younger brother threw 

 himfelf on his knees before the judge : I implore 

 " your patience for a moment, faid he, I will rather 

 <c facrifice my right, than fee Berilla fo feverely 



doomed. Take her, o my brother : and may ye live 

 * c long and happily together ! And thou, the delight 

 *** of my life, forgive the trouble my innocent love has 

 " caufed thee ! This is the fole requeffc I have to make 

 f( thee." The affembly rofe up, and the magnani- 

 mous lover was about to depart, when the prince com- 

 manded him to ftay. " Son, remain where thou art, 



faid he, thy magnanimity deferves to be rewarded. 

 *' The damfel is thine ; for, by this facrifice, thou 

 l| haft merited her love. Give her thy hand, and live 

 " happily with her !" 



They were married Ihortly after, and the prince ac- 

 quired great renown by this decree. 



THE MODERN AMAZONS. 



Ever fince the time of the romantic hiftorian* 

 Quintus Curtius, who relates the hiftory of the Ama- 

 zons, and has found meaas to unite the accounts of 

 more antient poets and hiftorians into one narration ; 

 lince that time, copious and not unimportant contro- 

 verfies have been periodically raifed on the exiftence 

 and non-exiftence of thefe mafculine women. Won- 

 derful and fabulous as the various accounts concerning 



1 them 



