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GIL B L A S.
: ] tanifh cavalier! I accordingly threw myfelf at
5r feet, thanked her for her goodnefs, faid all
kt a man of gallantry could utter on fuch an
•j cafion, and Hie had reafon to be fatisfied with
ie tranfports of my gratitude. We parted
- i ebeft friends in the world, after having agreed
: l fee one another every night on which ihe
I© ould be difengaged from the duke of Al-
eyda, and this fhe promifed to advertife me
' punctually; in which ihe did not fail, fo that,
1 became the Adonis of this new Ve-
Vhatever meafures the lady could take
1 our correfpondence from my rival,
jie did not fail to get notice of the whole of what
If was fo much our intereft to keep from his
. bowledge. A male-content chambermaid in-
3)rmed him of the affair ; and that lord, natural-
:: \ generous, but withal haughty, jealous, and
iaffionate, was incenfed at my prefumption:
■ fige andjealoufy took polfeffion of his foul; and
'• flowing the dictates of his fury, he refolved to
venge himfelf of me in an infamous manner.
)ne night, while I was with Hortenfia, he wait-
lid for me at the little garden-door, attended by
ill his footmen, armed with clubs, and as foon as
came out, making thefe wretches feize me, or-
;e red them to cudgel me to ^death. “Strike,
Eiid he, and let the audacious villain perifh un-
er your hands; for fo I am refolved to punifh
is infolence.” He had ho fooner fpoke thefe
■ voids than his people aflaulted me all together,
:j indgave me fo many blows, that I lay ftretched
i ipou the ground wdthout fenfe or motion,
kfter which they retired with their mailer, who
had regaled himfelf with this cruel execution;
pleafures of life are far from being
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