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which had encircled the whole caravan and God a Mercy said I if we shall all of us be a mouthful for it. As I was in these doleful dumps what should I hear to comfort me but the shrieks regrets and lamentations of the whole caravan. every man began to wail and cry out lustly Ah my poor fatherless children said one. ah my luckless self said another to owe my death to such a fearful brute in this delightful. Still they kept each other company till morning. The sun the Sultan of Rum at last raised his head or as the Poet says

Now from his halls with stately stalk

Behold the fair magician walk

His talisman of Sunderos (?)

Dispells the vapours dark and gross

His chrystal ear he rases (?) high

Oer every throne of ebony

from shrinking Night his timid bride

The rosy veil he draws aside

Ye drowsy sleepers ope your eyes

To view the gay reviving skies

The cock crows up the drowsy dawn

The birds are chirping on the lawn

Ye sleepers hark tis opening day 
Tell us what the songsters say

At break of day people saw that the whole caravan was incercled (encircled?) like a gem set in a

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