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CHAP. II.
An Account of his Adventures and Enterprizes, in which he won the fair Virgin's Hearts.
WHEN Aurelius was at the age of fourteen, he went to a wake to recreate himself with the country youths, where he behaved so well as to gain vast praise and took so well with the virgins that some of them began to feel a fever in their minds, which Cupid, who at such meetings is seldom backwards in promoting the business of ⟨love⟩ failed not to increase But he was not yet capable of feeling the flame of that passion, so regarded not their amorous glances, or understood the silent language of inflamed hearts; who were cautiously jealous of him as most dangerous rival, and gathered reasons ⟨for⟩ it from the many praises their girls bestowed on him in his absence.
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