Deaths. When I intimated to your Highness, that the Remedy of your
Sorrows was too be found only in the Conversation of Women, I meant no
other than what the Laws both human and divine admit of. And that as
Solitude only serves to augment your Grief, the entertaining Wit and
Sprightliness of the Fair Sex, in their Conversations, was the only
Antidote against your growing Affliction, in which a whole Nation
participates.

There may be Danger in such a Step, replied the King, when once a Woman
has charmed the Mind, she soon makes her Way to the Heart, and since the
Queen has been pleased to return me mine, which I had so affectionately
given her, I will be always upon my Guard to keep it free and
insensible.

And at the same Time he changed the Discourse, and soon after dismissed
his Confident, who was impatient till he had related his Progress to
_Jeflur_. The _Mollak_, embracing him a thousand Times, cried, thy
Services are inestimable, neither shall I be ungrateful. _Liamil_, Wife
to the _Bassa_ of the same Name, is she whom you are to propose to
_Zeokinizul_. _Kelirieu_ could not conceal his Surprise at her Name.

How, says he to the Minister, can you conceive that he is to be
captivated by a Person of her Age? Would your _Holiness_ but reflect on
the Nature of _Zeokinizul_'s Scruples. It must be some enchanting Beauty
which can transport him to commit an Infidelity which he accounts no
small Crime. And you are for seducing him by _Liamil_, who has as few
Charms as any Court Lady, and who, besides, is under conjugal
Engagements. How shocking will the Idea of this complicated Guilt appear
to the Prince, who cannot bear the Thoughts of a single Infidelity? Ah!
learned _Mollak_, you require of me what is beyond my Power, and out of