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The Prince oy thought within himself, how he
wished the apple would sing something
applicable to his own situation. At the same
moment he heard these words:—"Love can
the most rebellious heart subdue, then
struggle not to drive him from thy breast;
However cruel she whom you pursue,
Love on, still bravely, and you will be blest."

"Ah!" cried he, answering these lines, "what a
charming prediction! I may then hope to be
one day happier than I am now; I have just
been assured so." The Dove made no reply to
this; it was not born a prattler, and never
spoke but when absolutely necessary. As he
advanced, the beauty of the music increased;

and notwithstanding the haste the Prince was
in, he was sometimes so delighted, that he
stopped to listen, not thinking of anything
else; but the sight of the terrible dragon,
which suddenly appeared, with his twelve
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feet, and more than a hundred talons, his three
heads, and his brazen body, aroused him from
this sort of lethargy. He had smelt the Prince

from afar off, and expected to devour him, as
he had every one who had preceded ______

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