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The PRINCE of

gled cheerfully in the diversions of the evening, and all rejoiced to find that his heart was lightened.

CHAP. III.
The wants of him that wants
nothing.

ON the next day his old instructor, imagining that he had now made himself acquainted with his disease of mind, was in hope of curing it by counsel, and officiously sought an opportunity of conference, which the prince, having long considered him as one whose intellects were exhausted, was not very willing to afford: "Why, said he, does this man thus intrude upon me; shall I be never

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