text:  Of the former--the device of the false stomach and theatrical dagger by means of which Menelaus and Satyrus (after gaining moreover in a moment the full confidence of the buccaniers ) save the life of Leucippe when doomed to sacrifice is the most flagrant instance; though her second escape from supposed death when Clitophon imagines that he sees her head struck off by the Alexandrian pirates is almost equally liable to the same objection; while in either case the deliverance of the heroine might as well have been managed without prejudice either to the advancement or interest of the narrative by more rational and probable methods