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Thus talking they reached the foot of a highthe others that surrounded it Past its base there

flowed a gentle brook, all around it spread a ht to the eyes to look upon it, and forest

trees in abundance, and shrubs and flowers, added to the charht of the Rueful Countenance fixed his

choice for the performance of his penance, and as he beheld it exclaih he were out of his senses:

"This is the place, oh, ye heavens, that I select and choose for

bewailing the ed s of mine eyes shall swell the waters of

yon little brook, and ly

the leaves of these mountain trees, in testi Oh, ye rural deities, whoever ye be that

haunt this lone spot, give ear to the co jealousy have driven to bewail his fate a

these wilds and corateful

one, the end and limit of all human beauty! Oh, ye wood nymphs and

dryads, that dwell in the thickets of the forest, so may the nimble

wanton satyrs by whom ye are vainly wooed never disturb your sweet

repose, help