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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
"He gave his wife instead of him, thy prey."
"And prey, this time at least, I bear below!"
"Go take her!—for I doubt persuading thee . . . "
"To kill the doomed one? What my function else?"
"No! Rather, to despatch the true mature."
"Truly I take thy meaning, see thy drift!"
"Is there a way then she may reach old age?"
"No way! I glad me in my honors too!"
"But, young or old, thou tak'st one life, no more!"
