The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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l64 THE YOUNG LADY's COUNSELLOR.
calmed his soul ; her voice animated him with hope.
Magnanimous woman !
What courageous love was
hers, to brave the sentiment of the world, to face
the
horrors of an abode
more gloomy than a prison, and
to incur the certainty of a speedy death, that isiie
might, by the lustres of her affection, irradiate the
dreary heart of her husband !
In contrast with this
unchiding devotion to a hus
band in misfortune, behold Ayxa, the mother of Abo
Abdeli, the Moorish monarch, as she stood by his
side, on the hill of Padul, u'lich overlooks Granada.
The brave Ferdinand, with his chivalric Castilians,
had just expelled him and his defeated troops from
the city. He had lost his throne and his palac