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

 forfaken the faith of your anceftors. All this time the 

 Virgin Mary was kneeling before her bkiled Son, befeech^ 

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

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

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

 fently." 



Sqcinios defired them to afk the man, " How it: was po£» 

 fible that, having fo lacely 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 fair ?" To this 

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

 abundance of every thing; and people were very well ufec^ 

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

 wine, bifkets, and fweetmeats.". To, which Soeinios 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 theperfon who fent 

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

 in order that he may deliver the melTage quickly in the 

 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,* 

 fcemed to have forfaken the ambaiTador. Upon hearing this 

 meiTage 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 meiTage 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 ope man, and that; he fhould therefore remain upon 



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