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that I hoped you would amend of the great fin, the having 

 forfaken the faith of your anceftor-s. AU this time the 

 Virgin Mary was kneeling before her blelfed Son, befeech- 

 ing him to pardon you ; and, upon the whole, it was agreed^ 

 that, unlefs you repent in a fortnight's time, you ftiould be 

 puniflied in fuch a manner that you will not forget it pre-- 

 fently." 



SociNios defired them to afk the man, "How it was poA 

 fible that, having fo lately left the grave,. his body fhould 

 have fo little of the emaciated appearance of one long bu- 

 ried, and be now in fuch good cafe, fat and MrT To this 

 he anfwered, " That, in paradife, he thanked God there was 

 abundance of every thing ; and people were very well ufed 

 there, for he had lived upon good bread, and plenty of good 

 wine, bifkets, and fweetmeats." To which Socinios anfwer- 

 ed, " Tell him, after the pains he had taken, it would be 

 wrong in me to keep him long from fo good a place as this 

 his paradife. Let him go and acquaint the perfon who fent 

 him, I fhall live and die in the Roman Catholic faith ; and-i 

 in order that he may deliver the meflage quickly in tha 

 other world, fpeed him inftantly out of this, by hanging 

 him upon the tree before the palace-gate." 



The love of the wine, fweetmeats, and other celeftial food; 

 feemed to have forfaken the ambaffador. Upon hearing this 

 meflage he recanted, and was pardoned at the joint petition 

 of thofe of the court that were prefent, who concurred with 

 the monk in thinking, that the meflage of the emperor was 

 an indecent one, and ought not to be delivered; that ha- 

 ving been in paradife once, was as much as fell to the lot 

 ©f any one man, and that he Ihould therefore remain upon 



earth,.. 



