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j ?ne may fee by the learned remarks which he
• ij inade: had it not been for him, we ihould
ter have known, that in the city of Athens
dren cried when they were flogged : we owe
it difcovery to his profound erudition.”
-i After my comrade and I had obferved all thofe
i hgs which I have mentioned, we were curious
know the caufe of fuch preparations, and went
i ward to enquire, when Diego recognized in
1 i director of the feaft, Signor Thomas de la
! tenta, whom he accofted with great eagernefs.
fchoolmafler did not at flrlt, know the
ung barber; fo much was he altered during an
j fence of ten years; but recollecting him at
1, he embraced him affectionately, faying,
,'What! do 1 fee thee then, Diego, my dear ne-
. lew ? Do I fee thee returned to the town where
, ou fiift faweft the light? Thou art come to re-
; fit thy houihold gods; and heaven- reflores
ee fafe and found to thy kindred! O day,
,rice and four times happy ! O day, worthy to
, ? marked with a white (lone ! A world of chan¬
ts have happened, my friend, (purfued he):
i'y uncle Pedro, the poet, has fallen a victim to
mto, having died three months ago. That mi-
. r, while alive, was afraid of wanting the necef-
, ties of life. Argenti pallebat amove. For
;! lough he received large penlions from feveral
irandees, he did not fpend ten piftoles a-year for
as fubfiflence; and was even ferved by a valet
■horn he did not maintain. That fool, more
! uife lefs than the Grecian Arillippus, who or-
pijed liis flaves to throw away, m the defarts
I f Afric, the riches they carried, as a burthen
^at incommoded them in their march ;—he, I
iy, heaped up all the gold and iilver he could
"rape together; and tor whom ? for thofe very
heirs