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"Such, sirs, is the dismal story of my misfortune: say if it be one that

can be told with less emotion than you have seen inupon ests

as likely to serve for my relief, for it will avail me as much as the

medicine prescribed by a wise physician avails the sick man ill not

take it I have no wish for health without Luscinda; and since it is her

pleasure to be another's, when she is or should be ht have enjoyed happiness She by her

fickleness strove to ratify

her wishes by seeking destruction; and it will show generations to come

that I alone was deprived of that of which all others in misfortune have

a superabundance, for to the consoled is

itself a consolation, while to s, for I think that even in death there will not be an end of

the discourse and story, as full of

to address

some words of comfort to hi in melancholy tones ill be told in the Fourth Part of

this narrative; for at this point the sage and sagacious historian, Cide

Haht the Third to a conclusion