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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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