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for it renders those things easiest that seem to the human mind most dIfficult since I have been very much amazed by this process, the following question has occurred to me can the WIll refuse the good If It ISoffered to men In an elegant and beautiful oration?

I certainly thought I could not be urged to do to leave my friends, my relations, and my sweetest native CIty, to go to the invincible queen of Spain to whom I am eager to fly-I even beg to go-because of your most eloquent persuasion. So great IS the power of sweet speech, 0 Immortal gods,

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