SECOND MARRIAGES.
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 The Ephesian woman that the soldier told of in Petronius, was the talk of all the town, and the rarest example. dear affec- tIon to her husband. She descended with the corpse into the vault, and there being attended by her maiden resolved to weep 10 death, or die with famine or distemper- ed sorrow: from which resolution, nor his nor her friends, nor the reverence of the prlnclpa! citizens, who had used the intrea- ties of their charity and their power, could persuade her. But soldier that watched over dead bodies hanging upon trees just over against the monument, crept in, and while stared upon the silent and colnelv disorders of her sorrow; and having let tho wonder awhile breathe out at each others eyes, al last he fetched his supper and bottle of wine, with purpose to eat and drink, and still to feed himself with sad pfetiiness. His pity and first draught of wine made him bold and curious to try if the maid would drink; who, having many hours since felt her resolution faint, as her wearled body took his kindness, and the light returned into her eyes and danced like boys at festival, and fearing lest the pertinaciousness of her mistress' sorrows should cause her evil to revert, or her shame 10 approach, assayed whether she would endure 10 hear an argument to per- suade her to drink and live The violent passion had laid all her spirits in wldness and dissolution, and the maid found them willing 10 be gathered into order at the ar- rest of any new object, being weary of tho first, of which, like leeches, they had suck ed their fill till they fell down and burst. The weeping woman took her cordial, and was not angry with her maid, and heard the soldier talk. And he was so pleased with the change, that he, who at first loved the silence of her sorrow, was more in love with the music of her returning voice; es- pecIally which he himself had strung and put in tune, and the man began to talk amorously, and the woman's weak head and heart were soon possessed with a little wine, and grew gay, and talked, and fell in love: and that very night, in the morning of her passion, in inc grave of her husband, n the pomps of mourning, and in e ral garments, married her new and stran- ger guest.