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作者:雨霖铃      更新:2024-12-13 14:16      字数:1342
  those violent passions which makes the mind all turbulence and
  anxiety; I had had a lover whom I esteemed and valued; and at the
  latter part of my life I was raised to a station as high as the
  vainest woman could wish。  But in all these various changes I
  never enjoyed any real satisfaction; unless in the little time I
  lived retired in the country free from all noise and hurry; and
  while I was conscious I was the object of the love and esteem of
  a man of sense and honor。〃
  On the conclusion of this history Minos paused for a small time;
  and then ordered the gate to be thrown open for Anna Boleyn's
  admittance on the consideration that whoever had suffered being
  the queen for four years; and been sensible during all that time
  of the real misery which attends that exalted station; ought to
  be forgiven whatever she had done to obtain it。'11'
  '11' Here ends this curious manuscript; the rest being destroyed
  in rolling up pens; tobacco; &c。  It is to be hoped heedless people
  will henceforth be more cautious what they burn; or use to other
  vile purposes; especially when they consider the fate  which had
  likely to have befallen the divine Milton; and that the works
  of Homer were probably discovered in some chandlers shop in Greece。
  End