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  Speaker 1: Book ten, Part two of over its Metamorphoses. This is
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Chelifa William Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidious Nassau, translated
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  Speaker 1: by brooks More, Book ten, Part two. Pygmalion saw these
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  Speaker 1: women wasted their lives in wretched chain and critical of
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  Speaker 1: thoughts which Nato had so deeply planted through their female hearts.
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  Speaker 1: He lived in Preference for many years unmarried, but while
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  Speaker 1: he was single, with consummate skill, he carved a statue
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  Speaker 1: out of snow white ivory and gave to it exquisite
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  Speaker 1: beauty which no woman of the world has ever equalled.
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  Speaker 1: She was so beautiful he fell in love with this creation.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared in truth a perfect virgin was grace of life.
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  Speaker 1: But in the expression of such modesty, all motion was restrained,
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  Speaker 1: and so his art concealed his art. Pigmaliing gazed inflamed
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  Speaker 1: with love and admiration for the form in semblance of
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  Speaker 1: a woman he had carved. He lifts up both his
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  Speaker 1: hand to feel the work, and wonders if it can
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  Speaker 1: be ivory, because it seems to him more truly flesh
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  Speaker 1: his mind, refusing to conceive of it as ivory, He
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  Speaker 1: kisses it and feels his kisses are returned, and speaking love,
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  Speaker 1: caresses it with loving hands that seem to make an
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  Speaker 1: impress on the parts. If they touch so real that
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  Speaker 1: he fears he then may bruise her by his eager breassing.
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  Speaker 1: Softest tones are used each time he speaks to her.
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  Speaker 1: He brings to her such presents as are surely prized
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  Speaker 1: by sweet girls, such as smooth round pebbles, shells and birds,
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  Speaker 1: and fragrance flowers of thousand tints, lilies and painted balls,
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  Speaker 1: and amber tiers of heliods which had distilled from far
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  Speaker 1: off trees. He drapes her enrich clothing and in gems
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  Speaker 1: rings on her fingers, a rich necklace round her neck,
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  Speaker 1: pearl pennants on her graceful ears, and golden ornaments adorn
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  Speaker 1: her breast. All these are beautiful, and she appears most
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  Speaker 1: lovable if carefully attired. All perfect is a statue unadorned.
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  Speaker 1: He laid her on a bed, luxurious spread with coverlets
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  Speaker 1: of Tyrian purple dye, and naming her the concert of
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  Speaker 1: his couch, lays her reclining head on the most soft
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  Speaker 1: and downy pillows, trusting she could feel. The festal day
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  Speaker 1: of Venus, known throughout all Cypress, now had come, and
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  Speaker 1: frogs were there to celebrate. Hyphers who were spreading horns,
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  Speaker 1: All gaul tipped fell when given him the stroke of
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  Speaker 1: death upon their snow white necks, and Frankinson's was smoking
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  Speaker 1: on the altars there intent. Pygmalion stood before an altar
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  Speaker 1: when his offering had been made, and although he feared
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  Speaker 1: the result, he prayed, if it is true, o God,
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  Speaker 1: that you can give all things, I pray to her
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  Speaker 1: as my wife. But he did not dare to add
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  Speaker 1: my ivory statue made and said one like my ivory
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  Speaker 1: golden Venus heard, for she was present at her festival,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew clearly what the prayer had meant. She
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  Speaker 1: gave a sign that her divinity favored his flea three
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  Speaker 1: times the flame leaped high and brightly in the air.
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  Speaker 1: When he returned, he went directly to his image maid,
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  Speaker 1: bent over her and kissed her many times while she
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  Speaker 1: was on her couch, And as he kissed she seemed
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  Speaker 1: to gather some warmth from his lips. Again, he kissed her,
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  Speaker 1: and he felt a breast. The ivory seemed to soften
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  Speaker 1: at the touch, and its firm texture yielded to his
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  Speaker 1: hand as honeywax of mount Hamitis turns to many shapes
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  Speaker 1: when handled in the sun, and surely and surely softens
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  Speaker 1: from each a gentle touch. He is amazed, but stands
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing in his doubt, while fearful there is some mistake again,
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  Speaker 1: and yet again givestrial to his hopes by touching with
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  Speaker 1: his hand. It must be flesh. The veins pulsate beneath
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  Speaker 1: a careful test of his directed finger. Then, indeed, the
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  Speaker 1: astonished hero poured out lavish i thanks to Venus bressing
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  Speaker 1: with its ruptured lips as Statu's lips now real true
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  Speaker 1: to life. The maiden felt the kisses given to her,
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  Speaker 1: and blushing, lifted up her timid eyes, so that he
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  Speaker 1: saw delight in skin above as well as a rapt
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  Speaker 1: lover while he leaned gaining beside her. And all this
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  Speaker 1: at once the goddess grace the marriage he had willed,
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  Speaker 1: and when nine times aggressioned, moon had changed, increasing to
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  Speaker 1: the full the statue of bride gave birth to her
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  Speaker 1: dear daughter powerfuse from which famed event the island takes
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  Speaker 1: its name. The Royal Qunoras was sprung from her, And
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  Speaker 1: if he had been father of no child, might well
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  Speaker 1: have been accounted fortunate. But I must sing of horrible
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  Speaker 1: events avoided daughters. Parents shun this tale. But if my
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  Speaker 1: verse has charmed your thoughts, do not give me such
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  Speaker 1: credit in this part. Convince yourself it cannot be true
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  Speaker 1: life or of against my wish. You hear and must
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  Speaker 1: believe it. Then be sure to notice how such wickedness
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  Speaker 1: gets certain punishment. And yet if nature could permit such
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  Speaker 1: crimes as at this to happen, I congratulate is marrying
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  Speaker 1: people and all fracy as well. And I congratulate this nation,
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  Speaker 1: which we know is far away from the land where
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  Speaker 1: this is a vile abomination did occur. The land we
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  Speaker 1: call Pankaya may be rich in balsam, cinnamon and costumed sweet,
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  Speaker 1: for ointment rankin sends distilt from trees with many flowers. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: all this large wealth combined could never compensate the land
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  Speaker 1: for this detestable one crime. Even though the new margery
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  Speaker 1: advance on that richer soil Cupid declares his weapons never
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  Speaker 1: caused an injury to Mirror, and denys at tortures ever
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  Speaker 1: could have urged her crime. One of the three bad
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  Speaker 1: sisters kindled this with fire brand from the sticks and
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  Speaker 1: poisoned you with swollen vipers. It is criminal to hate
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  Speaker 1: a parent, but love such as hers is certainly more
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  Speaker 1: criminal than hate. The chosen princes of all lands desire
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  Speaker 1: you now marriage, and young men for theadioria, are vying
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  Speaker 1: for your hand. Jews mirror one from all of these
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  Speaker 1: for your good husband. But exclude from such a thought
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  Speaker 1: your father only. She indeed, is quite aware, and struggles
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  Speaker 1: bitterly against her vile desires, and argues in her heart,
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  Speaker 1: what am I tending to o? Listening Gods, I pray
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  Speaker 1: for aid, I pray to natural love, Ah made a
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  Speaker 1: sacred right of parents. Keep this vile desire from me,
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  Speaker 1: defend me from a crime so great. If it indeed
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  Speaker 1: is crime, I am not sure it is. I have
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  Speaker 1: not heard that any god or written law condemns a
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  Speaker 1: union of a parent and his child. All enemis Well
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  Speaker 1: made as a desire a high for may endure her sire,
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  Speaker 1: and who condemns it? And the happy start is not
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  Speaker 1: refused by his mad daughters. The he goat consorts and
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  Speaker 1: thought of with the flock of which he is the father,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds conceive of those from whom they were themselves,
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  Speaker 1: be God, pabby? Are they w have such privilege? Malignant
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  Speaker 1: men have given spite for laws, and what is right
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  Speaker 1: to nature is decreed unnatural by jealous laws of men.
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  Speaker 1: But it is said there are some tribes today in
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  Speaker 1: which the mother marries her own son, the daughter takes
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  Speaker 1: a father, and by this the laugh Cagnature gives of
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  Speaker 1: them is increased into a double bond. Oh, wretched me,
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  Speaker 1: why was it not my fortune to be born in
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  Speaker 1: that love blessed land? I must abide depressed by my
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  Speaker 1: misfortunes in this place? Why do I dwell on these
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  Speaker 1: forbidden hopes? Let me forget to think of lawless flame.
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  Speaker 1: My father is most worthy of my love, but only
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  Speaker 1: as a father. If I were not born the daughter
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  Speaker 1: of great Us, I might be joined to him. But
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  Speaker 1: as it stands, because he is mine, he is never mine.
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  Speaker 1: Because near to me is far from me. It would
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  Speaker 1: be better for me if we were but strangers to
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  Speaker 1: each other, for I then could wish to go and
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  Speaker 1: leave my native land and to escape temptation to this crime.
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  Speaker 1: But my unhappy passion holds me here that I might
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  Speaker 1: see Sonora's face to face, and touch him, talk with him,
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  Speaker 1: and even kiss him the best of nothing else can
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  Speaker 1: be allowed. But what more could be asked for by
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  Speaker 1: the most debraved. Think of the many sacred tides and
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  Speaker 1: loved names you are dragging to the mire the rival
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  Speaker 1: of your mother. Will you be the mistress of your father,
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  Speaker 1: and be named the sister of your son, and make
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  Speaker 1: yourself the mother of your brother? And will you not
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  Speaker 1: dread the sisters with black snakes for hair, whom guilty
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  Speaker 1: creatures such as you can see, brandish relentless flames for
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  Speaker 1: the rise and faces. While your body has not sinned,
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  Speaker 1: you must not let sin creep into your heart. And VI, lady,
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  Speaker 1: great Nature's law, with your unlawful rovings, if you have
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  Speaker 1: the right to long for his endearment, it could not
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  Speaker 1: be possible. He is a virgous man and is regardful
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  Speaker 1: of the moral law. Oh, how I wish my passion
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  Speaker 1: could be his. And so she argued and declared her love,
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  Speaker 1: but sin her as her father, who was urged by
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  Speaker 1: such a throng of suitors for her hand, that he
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  Speaker 1: could make no choice. At last, inquired of her so
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  Speaker 1: she might make a heart wish known, and as he
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  Speaker 1: named them over, asked her which she fixed her gaze
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  Speaker 1: upon her father's face in doubt or agony, what she
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  Speaker 1: could say, while hot tears filled her eyes. Her father
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  Speaker 1: sure it all was of a virginal alarm, as he
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  Speaker 1: is telling her she need not weep, dried her wet
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  Speaker 1: cheeks and her sweet lips too much. She delighted with
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  Speaker 1: his gentle words in kind and dearments mirror. When he
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  Speaker 1: asked again which one might be, her husband said, the
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  Speaker 1: one just like yourself, And he replied, not understanding what
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  Speaker 1: her heart would say, your answer as a loving daughter should.
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  Speaker 1: When she heard, loving daughter said, the girl, too conscious
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  Speaker 1: of her guilt, looked on the ground. It was now midnight,
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  Speaker 1: peaceful sleep dissolved the world care of all mortals, but
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  Speaker 1: of her, who sleeplessly through the night, burned in the
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  Speaker 1: flame of her misplaced affection. First despair compels her to
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  Speaker 1: abandon every hope, and then she changes and resolved to try.
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  Speaker 1: And so she waves from desire to shame, for she
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  Speaker 1: could not adhere to any plan. As great tree cut
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  Speaker 1: by the swinging axes, chopped until the last blow has
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  Speaker 1: been struck, then sways and threatens danger to all sides.
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  Speaker 1: So does her weak mind, cut with many blows, waver
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  Speaker 1: unsteadily this way and that, and turning back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: It finds no rest from passion, save the rest that
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  Speaker 1: lies in death. The thought of death gave comfort to
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  Speaker 1: her heart. Resolved to hang herself, she set off right. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as she tied her girdle to a beam, she said, farewell,
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  Speaker 1: beloved cinnerus, and may you know the cause of my
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  Speaker 1: sad death? And while she spoke those words, her fingers
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  Speaker 1: fixed the noose rope close around a death's pale neck.
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  Speaker 1: They say the murmur of despairing words was heard by
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  Speaker 1: her attentive nurse, who watched outside the room. And, fatful
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  Speaker 1: as of old, she opened the shut door. But when
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  Speaker 1: she saw the frightfu preparations made for death, the old
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  Speaker 1: nurse screamed and beat and tore her breast, then seized
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  Speaker 1: and snatched the rowe from mirror's neck. And after she
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  Speaker 1: had torn the news apart, at last she had the
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  Speaker 1: time to weep, and time while she emraised of the
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  Speaker 1: girl to ask her why the holter had been fastened
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  Speaker 1: round her neck. The girl, in stubborn silence, only fixed
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  Speaker 1: her eyes upon the ground, said that he first attempt
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  Speaker 1: at death becast too slow, was spoiled. The old nurse
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  Speaker 1: woman urged and urged, and showed her gray hair and
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  Speaker 1: her wizard breasts, and begged her, by the memory of
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  Speaker 1: her cradled days and baby nourishment, to hide no more
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  Speaker 1: from her long trusted nurse would cause to grieve. The
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  Speaker 1: girl turned from her questions with a sigh. The nurse,
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  Speaker 1: still more determined to know awe promised fidelity and her
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  Speaker 1: best aid. Tell me, she said, and let me give
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  Speaker 1: your help. My old age offers means for your relief.
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  Speaker 1: If it be frantic passion, I have charms and healing herbs,
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  Speaker 1: Or if an evil spell was worked on you by someone,
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  Speaker 1: you shall be cured to your perfect self by magic rights.
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  Speaker 1: Or if your actions have enraged to the gods, a
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice will satisfy their wrath. What else could be the cause.
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  Speaker 1: Your family and you are prosperous, Your mother dear, and
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  Speaker 1: your loved father are alive and dwell. And when she
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  Speaker 1: heard her say the name of father, a sigh heaved
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  Speaker 1: up from her distracted heart. But even after that, the
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  Speaker 1: nurse could not conceive such evil and the girl's sick heart.
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  Speaker 1: And yet she had a feeling it must be only
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  Speaker 1: a love affair could cause a crime, And with persistent
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  Speaker 1: purpose becked the cause. She preassed the weeping girl against
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  Speaker 1: her breast, and as she held her in her feeble arms,
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  Speaker 1: she said, sweetheart, I know you are in love in
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  Speaker 1: this affair. I meantirely yours for your good service. You
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  Speaker 1: must have no fear. Your father cannot learn of it
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  Speaker 1: from me. Just like a mad girl, mirror sprang away,
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  Speaker 1: and with her face deep buried in a couch, sobbed out.
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  Speaker 1: Go from me. You'll stop asking me my cause of grief.
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  Speaker 1: It is a crime of shame. I cannot tell it. Horrified,
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  Speaker 1: the nurse stretched forth her trembling hands. Palsied with age
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  Speaker 1: and fear, she fell down at the feet of a
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  Speaker 1: loved foster child, and coaxing her and frightening her, she
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  Speaker 1: threatened to disclose the knowledge of the halter and of
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  Speaker 1: what she knew of her attempted suicide. And after all
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  Speaker 1: was said, she gave a word to help the girl.
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  Speaker 1: When she had given to her a true confession of
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  Speaker 1: a sad heart love. The girl just lifted up her
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  Speaker 1: face and laid it weeping on the bosom of her
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  Speaker 1: She tried so often to confess, and just as often
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  Speaker 1: checked her words. Her shamed face hid deep in her garment.
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  Speaker 1: Oh at last, she groaned, Oh, mother, blessing your husband.
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  Speaker 1: Oh only that much, she said, and groaned. The nurse
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  Speaker 1: felt a cold horror stealing through her heart and frame,
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  Speaker 1: for she now understood it all, and her white hair
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  Speaker 1: stood bristling on her head. While with the utmost care
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  Speaker 1: of love and art, she strove to use appropriate words
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  Speaker 1: and deeds to banish the mad passion of the girl.
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  Speaker 1: Though mirror knew that she was truly warned, she was
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  Speaker 1: resolved to die unless she could obtain the object of
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  Speaker 1: a wicked laugh. The nurse gave way at last in defeat,
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  Speaker 1: and said, live and enjoy, but did not dare to
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  Speaker 1: say your father did not finish, though she promised and
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  Speaker 1: confirmed it with an oath. It was a time when
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  Speaker 1: madrons celebrated the annual festival of Series. Then all roped
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  Speaker 1: in decent garments of snow white. They bring garlands of
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  Speaker 1: fresh as wheat, which are first fruit of worship. And
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  Speaker 1: for nine nights they must count forbidder every act of love,
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  Speaker 1: and shun the touch of man. And in that throng cancrees.
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  Speaker 1: The king's wife, with constant care, attended every sacred ride.
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  Speaker 1: And so while the king's bed was lacking his true wife,
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  Speaker 1: one of those knights, King Sinners, was drunk with too
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  Speaker 1: much wine. The scheming nerves informed him of a girl
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful, whose love for him was passionate. In a
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  Speaker 1: false tale, she pictured a true passion. When he asked
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  Speaker 1: the maiden's age, she answered just the same as mirs.
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  Speaker 1: Bidden by the king to go and fetch her, the
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  Speaker 1: officious old nurse, when she found the girl, cried out, rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, we have contrived it. The unhappy girl could
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  Speaker 1: not feel genuine joy in her amazed and startled body.
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  Speaker 1: Her dazed mind was filled with a strange forebodings, but
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  Speaker 1: she did believe her heart was joyful. Great excitement filled
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  Speaker 1: her wrecked heart with such inconsistencies. Now was the time
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  Speaker 1: when nature is addressed between the bears. Boots turned his
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  Speaker 1: way down to the west, and the guilty mirror turns
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  Speaker 1: to her enormity. The golden moon flies from the heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and black clouds covered the hiding styles, and night has
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  Speaker 1: lost her fires. The first to hide were stars of
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  Speaker 1: Icarus and of Arigoni into hallowed love devoted to her father.
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  Speaker 1: Mirror Thrice was warned by omen of her stumbling foot.
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  Speaker 1: The funeral screech owl also warnedeth Rice with dismal cry.
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  Speaker 1: Yet a mirror onward goes, it seems to her the
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  Speaker 1: black eyed. Lessened shame, she holds fast to her nurse
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  Speaker 1: with her left hand, and with the other hand gropes
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  Speaker 1: to through the dark. And now they go until she
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  Speaker 1: finds the door. Now at the threshold of her father's room,
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  Speaker 1: she softly pushes back the door. Her nurse takes her within.
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  Speaker 1: The girl's knees trembling sink beneath her. Her drawn, bloodless
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  Speaker 1: face had lost his color, and while she moves to
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  Speaker 1: the crime, bad courage goes from her until afraid of
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  Speaker 1: her bald effort, she would gladly turn unrecognized, But as
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  Speaker 1: she hesitates, the h crone still haulds her by the hand,
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  Speaker 1: and leading a rub to the high bed. There, delivering
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  Speaker 1: mirror says, now cinnerus, you take her. She is yours
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  Speaker 1: and leaves the pair doomed in their crime. The father
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  Speaker 1: to belude his own flesh in his own bed, where
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  Speaker 1: he tries first to encourage her from maiden fears by
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  Speaker 1: gently talking to the timid girl. He chanced to call
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  Speaker 1: her daughter as the name bessuited to her rage, and she,
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  Speaker 1: in turn, endearing called him father, so no names might
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  Speaker 1: be omitted. To complete their guilt, she staggered from his
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  Speaker 1: chamber with the crime of her own father hidden in
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  Speaker 1: her womb, and their guilt was repeated many nights till
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  Speaker 1: sinneras determined he must know his mistress. After many meetings
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  Speaker 1: brought to light and knew his crime had harmed his daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Speechless and shame, he drew force at right sort out
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  Speaker 1: from the scabbard where it hung near by, but frightened
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  Speaker 1: mirror fled and so escaped death in the shadows of
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  Speaker 1: dark night. Groping her pathless way at random through the fields.
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  Speaker 1: She left Arabia, famed for spreading palms, and wondered, flew
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  Speaker 1: pankey and lands, until after nine months of Amo's wandering days,
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  Speaker 1: she rested in Seba, for she could not hold the
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  Speaker 1: burden she had borne so long, not knowing what to
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  Speaker 1: pray for, moved alike by fear of death and rariness
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  Speaker 1: of life, her wishes were expressed in prayer. Oh, Gods,
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  Speaker 1: if you will listen to my prayer, I do not
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  Speaker 1: shunner dreadful punishment deserved. But now because my life offensed
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  Speaker 1: a living and dying, I offend the dead. Drive me
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  Speaker 1: from both conditions, change me, and refuse my flesh both
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  Speaker 1: life and death. Some guards did listen to her unnatural prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Her last petition had answering guards, for even as she prayed,
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  Speaker 1: the earth closed over her legs, roads grew out, and
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  Speaker 1: stretching force obliquely from her nails gave strong support to
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  Speaker 1: a rough grown trunk. Her bones got harder, and her marrow,
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  Speaker 1: still unchanged, kept to the center. As her blood was
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  Speaker 1: changed to sap, as her round stretching arms became long
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  Speaker 1: branches and her fingers twigs, And as a soft skin
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  Speaker 1: hardened into bark, and the fast growing tree had closely
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  Speaker 1: bound her womb, still heavy and had covered her soft
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  Speaker 1: bosom and was spreading quickly up to her neck, she
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  Speaker 1: cannot endure the strain, and sinking down into the rising wood,
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  Speaker 1: her whole face soon was hidden in the bark. Although
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  Speaker 1: all sense of human knife was gone as quickly as
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  Speaker 1: she lost a human form, her weeping was continued, and
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  Speaker 1: warm drops distilled from her. The tree sees not to fall.
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  Speaker 1: There is a virtue even in her tears. The valued
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  Speaker 1: mud distilling from the trunk keeps to her name, by
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  Speaker 1: which he still is known and cannot be forgult of
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  Speaker 1: aging time. The guilty cotton child had growth, while which
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  Speaker 1: was growing and endeavored now to find a way of
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  Speaker 1: save birth. The tree, drunk was swelling and tightened against mirror, who,
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  Speaker 1: unable to express her torture, could not call upon the
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  Speaker 1: sina and the usual words of travail. Then, just like
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  Speaker 1: a woman in great pain, the tree bends down and
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  Speaker 1: violet groans bedews itself with falling tears. Lucina stood in
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  Speaker 1: pity near the groaning branches, laid her hands on them,
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  Speaker 1: and uttered charms to aid the hindered berth. The tree
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  Speaker 1: cracked open. Then the bark was rent asunder, and it
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  Speaker 1: gave forth its living weight, a wailing baby boy. The
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  Speaker 1: nayards laid him on soft leaves, and they anointed him
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  Speaker 1: with his own mother's tears. Even envy would not fail
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  Speaker 1: to praise the child as beautiful as naked Cupid seen
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  Speaker 1: in chosen paintings, only give to him a polished quiver,
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  Speaker 1: or take their from them, And no keen eye could
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  Speaker 1: choose him from their midst time gliding by without our
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  Speaker 1: knowledge cheetahs, And nothing can be swifter than the years.
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  Speaker 1: That son of sister and grandfather, who was lately hidden
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  Speaker 1: in his barren tree, just lately born a lovely baby boy,
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  Speaker 1: is now youth, now man, more beautiful than during growth.
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  Speaker 1: He wins the love of Venus and so avenges his
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  Speaker 1: own mother's passion. For while the goddess son was quiver
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  Speaker 1: held on shoulder, once was kissing his loved mother, it chanced,
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  Speaker 1: unwittingly he graced abreast with a projecting arrow. Instantly, the
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  Speaker 1: wounded goddess pushed his son away, but a scratch had
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  Speaker 1: pierced her deeper than she thought, and even Venus was
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  Speaker 1: at first deceived. Delighted with the beauty of the youth,
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  Speaker 1: she does not think of her chytherin shawls, and does
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  Speaker 1: not care for powerfuls which is girthed by the deep sea,
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  Speaker 1: nor needles horn of fish, nor amateurs far famed for
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  Speaker 1: precious oars Venus, neglecting heaven, prefers Adonis to heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: so she holds close to his ways as his companion,
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  Speaker 1: and forgets the rest of noonday in the shade, neglecting
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  Speaker 1: care of his sweet beauty. She goes to through the
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  Speaker 1: woods and over mountain ridges and wild fields, rocky and
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  Speaker 1: thunted bear to her white knees after Diana's manner, and
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  Speaker 1: she cheers. The hounds intend to hunt for harmless prey,
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  Speaker 1: such as the leaping hair, or the wild stack, high
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  Speaker 1: crowned with branching antlers, or the dough. She keeps away
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  Speaker 1: from feerce wild balls, away from ravenous wolves, and she
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  Speaker 1: avoids the bears of frightful claws and lines glutted with
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  Speaker 1: the blood of slaughtered cattle. She warns you, Adonis, to
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  Speaker 1: beware and fear them if a fears for you were
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  Speaker 1: only heeded. Oh, be brave, she says, against those timid
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  Speaker 1: animals which fly from you. But courage is not save
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  Speaker 1: against the bold. Dear boy, do not be rash, Do
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  Speaker 1: not attack the wild beasts which are armed by nature,
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  Speaker 1: lest your glory may cost me great sorrow. Neither youth,
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  Speaker 1: nor beauty, nor the deed which have moved. Venus have
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  Speaker 1: effects on lions, bristling boars, and on the eyes and
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  Speaker 1: tempers of wild beasts. Boars have the force of lighting
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  Speaker 1: him their curved tusks, and a rate of tawny lines
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  Speaker 1: is unlimited. I fear and hate them all. When he
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  Speaker 1: inquires the reason, she says, I will tell it. You
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  Speaker 1: will be surprised to learn the bad result caused by
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  Speaker 1: an ancient crime. But I am weary with unaccustomed toil,
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  Speaker 1: and see a public convenient offers a delightful shade, and
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  Speaker 1: this lawn gives a good couch. Let us rest ourselves
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  Speaker 1: here round the so saying, she reclined upon the turf
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  Speaker 1: and pillarwing her head against his breast, and mingling kisses
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  Speaker 1: with her words, she told him the following tale. End
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  Speaker 1: of Book ten, Part two,