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come from Jerafalem, through vile Turkim governments, and hot, unwholefome climates, to fee a river and a bog, no part of which you can carry away were it ever fo valua- ble, and of which you have in your own country a thou- fand larger, better, and cleaner, and you take it ill when I difcourage you from the purfuit of this fancy, in which you are likely to periih, without your friends at home ever hear- ing when or where the accident happened. While I, on the other hand, the mother of kings who have fat upon, the throne of this country more than thirty years, have for my only wifh, night and day, that, after giving up every thing in the world, I could be conveyed to the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerufalem, and beg alms for my fub- fiflcnce all my life after, if I could only be buried in the ftreet within fight of the gate of that temple where our bleffed Saviour once lay." This was faid in the moft me- lancholy tone poliible, anunufual gloom hanging upon her countenance. Her defiring me, however, to flay at Kofcam, till I knew whether the king and Michael would return or not, confidering the large army they were to lead to the field, and the fecblenefs of the fo-often defeated Fafil, made me from that inftant apprehend that there was fomething' behind with which I was yet unacquainted.
Gold, and orders for cattle and provifions while at Em- fras, followed this converfation with the queen ; this, in- deed, had never failed at other times, which, byAyto A}lo's advice, I never more refufed. Here I cannot help obferving the different manner in which three people did the fame thing. When I received gold from Michael, it was openly from his hand to mine, without compliment, as he paid the pell of the king's fervants. When I received it irom the
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