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About two years ago, unhappily for me, I became the rival of Prudina; a new attachment had occupied me for above three months; the fairy took a fancy to my lover, which cost me my liberty; she carried me off, conducted me hither, and while, as she held me by the hand, we crossed the garden, I wept in the utmost despair; be comforted, Agelia, said she, my revenge will not be cruel; you have something amiable and desirable about you, and, if you had not quite so much levity, would really be enchanting; therefore, as you interest me in spite of myself, I shall rather endeavour to correct than to punish you.
This mockery of the fairy did not deceive me. We continued walking, till at last the bowers, the trees, the garden, all disappeared, and we found ourselves in an immense plain, bounded only by the horizon. The view was much like that you have on board a ship at sea: but the motion and noise of the waves, and the reflections of the sun-beams on the surface of the water, give life to this picture! while, on the plain where we were, there was
