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Ton Alexis vient de Turquie
Tout a V instant, Pour te voir et quitter la vie,
En sanglotant.
" Par ces tristes mots ranim£e
Alix parla: Alexis, j'ai ma foi donnee ;
Un autre 1' a. Ne dois vous ouir de ma vie
Un seul instant: Mais ne mouiez pas, je vous prie;
Partezpourtant"
In which, as the reader will see, Alexis tells Alix not to give way to despair, and that he has come in great haste from Turkey to see her (having heard of her marriage), and to die with a broken heart. Then Alix revives, but though she has given her faith (or troth) to another, begs him not to die, but to depart. Alexis in the next stanza promises this, but before going away from her for ever, he takes her hand. The hus-band returns, and seeing them thus together, stabs them both to the heart. Alexis is dead, and Alix, dying, kisses his eyes, and says she dies innocent. Her husband in his jealousy has taken her life, but she dies without regret. And then the husband is seized with remorse, and at night-time the spirit of his wife visits him, and pointing to the wound in her breast " sobs to
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