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A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank

down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep.

He was within an ace of falling in, when Dame Fortune appeared to

him and touched him on the shoulder, cautioning him to move

further away. "Wake up, good sir, I pray you," she said; "had you

fallen into the well, the blame would have been thrown not on

your own folly but on me, Fortune."

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