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The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

PREFACE
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I also am tired of it.

I have quitted Gascony, never to return, and I am going to Rome.' At the conclusion of these words, he had reached the end of the garden, and, as I endeavoured to accompany him, he in the kindest and gentlest manner waved his hand; but, upon my persevering, he cried out in a more peremptory manner, 'Stay! you must not at present attend me.' Whilst he spoke these words, I fixed my eyes upon him, and saw the paleness of death upon his countenance.

Seized with horror, I uttered a loud cry, which awoke me.

I took notice of the time.

I told the circumstance to all my friends; and, at the expiration of five-and-twenty days, I received accounts of his death, which happened in the very same night in winch he had appeared to me." On a little reflection, this incident will not appear to be supernatural.


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