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barity.—Oh! were you in my place.—Oh! cruel genius! Oh, more inhuman fairy. To what strange punishment am I condemned!
The princess could not continue her moving complaints; for at that instant her swing took so rapid, so impetuous a motion, that she wanted breath and utterance.
I now learnt the unfortunate Eliana was enchanted in this fatal swing. I drew near to her, told her what was become of her lover, promised to restore her to liberty, and intreated her to inform me of all that had happened. Alas! my lord, said she, I fear you have not power to break the enchantment, which vengeance and jealously have imagined; or that you will be shocked by the conditions, which must be fulfilled ere this can be accomplished.
My history, in a few words, is as follows: The cruel Phormidas, after tearing me from the arms of my husband, brought me to his palace. I endeavoured to kill myself, and should, no doubt, have proceeded to some fatal extremity, had not the roof of the palace suddenly opened, and a woman, or rather a fury,
