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son, and promised that if he would, he should know how 

 to restore him to the favour of the governor; for that he 

 (Jerome) had retired from the duke's friendship, not the 

 duke from his. 



Jerome replied, that he needed no such good offices, 

 and no such favour. 



" Why ?" asked the physician. 



" Because he would not, or he could not, certainly he 

 did not, save my son." 



" Then," Jerome goes on to relate, " he cried out be- 

 fore witnesses that my son had perished by his own fault, 

 not the governor's. He even added, that I was abusing 

 the governor, and had best take care what I said. At 

 these words people ran to us, and a ring was made about 

 us; many who heard his accusations had not heard what 

 I did really say. At last, when he had long held to the 

 same tale, he added madly what I did not know before, 

 or did not positively know, that my son perished by the 

 fault of the governor's brother-in-law, and he named him, 

 so that he was a maligner of princes rather than I. I 

 answered nothing to his anger, but that I was not ma- 

 ligning, and had not maligned, or thought of maligning, 

 the prince whom I served." 



Afterwards this physician, with his son and two com- 

 panions, meeting Jerome in the open market, told him 

 that a relation of the prince, an angry man certainly, had 



