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fpread throughout all the city : fo that the 

 people, men as well as women, great as well 

 as fmall, young as well as old, flocked to 

 the market-place to behold the Wolf with 

 Saint Francis. And all the people being 

 gathered together, Saint Francis rofe up 

 and began to preach to them, faying among 

 other things : " Inafmuch as for your fins, 

 God hath permitted certain evil things and 

 fundry peftilences ; and far more danger- 

 ous as are the flames of Hell, which en- 

 dure eternally for the damned, than is the 

 wrath of the Wolf, which can but kill the 

 body, — so much more therefore fliould 

 ye fear the jaws of Hell, when the mouth 

 of one fmall animal can terrify and alarm 

 fo vaft a multitude ! Turn then, my Be- 

 loved, unto God, and repent worthily of 

 your fms, and God fliall rid you of the Wolf 

 in this prefent time, and of the fires of Hell 

 in time to come." And having preached, 

 Saint Francis faid : ''Hearken, my Brethren : 

 Brother Wolf, who ftands here before you, 

 hath promifed and given me a token of his 

 good faith to make peace with you, and 

 never to offend you more in anything what- 

 foever ; and you muft promife henceforth to 

 give him daily all that is needful to him, 

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