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CHAP. III.

"Oh! let me still with simple Nature live,
My lowly field-flowers at her altar lay;
Enjoy the blessings that she meant to give,
And calmly waste th' inoffensive day.

"When waves the grey light o'er the mountain's brow,
Then let me meet the morn's first beauteous ray;
Carelessly wander from my sylvan shed
And catch the sweet breath of the op'ning day."
Langhorne.

Enrico arose early in the morning, and as no part of the family was stirring, except the inferior domestics, endeavoured forsome