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OF CELESTIAL DEW.
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APPLICATION.

My beloved, the nobleman, is any one who seeks a worldly name by bad means.





TALE LXX.

OF CELESTIAL DEW.

Pliny says that there is a certain land in which neither dew nor rain falls. Consequently, there is a general aridness; but in this country there is a single fountain, from which when people would draw water, they are accustomed to approach with all kinds of musical instruments, and so march around it for a length of time. The melody which they thus produce, sweetens the water, and ascending to the fountain head, makes it flow forth