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celebrated and of good memory[.]”
Having taken up the child he then went out and his mother[,] with a heavy heart and tearful eye[,] followed behind[,] for the purpose[,] she said [“] Of seeing the sanguinary monster that I may know by whose hand my tender blossom is bruised[,] but God grant that he may fail of his bloody purpose[.”] The husband and wife arrived at the mansion of the demon and found the savage still sharpening his dagger [.] He looked up at their approach and Diu Faz threw the infant before him[.] The monster placed a basin beneath the child’s throat and immediately putting a dagger to his throat he separated his head from his body and received the blood in the basin[.] Diu Faz with the utmost difficulty beheld the horrid scene[.] Not so the mother[,] who unable to endure it exclaimed[, “] Alas this new blown flower is withered before it had time to mature itself in the garden of life [!”] and repeated these verses[:]
How sweet a bud of rosy hue
Has even vanished from the view
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