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trailed friendfhips with heretics in Germany, and in? 



Italy was known to be on an amicable footing with 

 Vi Gloria Colonna, widow of the marquis cf Pefcara, 

 and with Julia Gonzaga, who were fufpected on ac- 

 count of religion. Convictufque, fays he, quod cum 

 fectariis in Germania, et in Italia cum Victoria Colum- 

 bia, marchionis Pifcarii vidua, et Julia Gonzaga, lec-* 

 tiffimis alioqui feminis, de pravitate fectaria fufpectis^ 

 amicitiam coluifTet 



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Jupiter, in a reclined pofture on a couch hejirewed with 

 rofes ; Juno, fitting at his feet \ 



Jupiter. 



A ND is this all, dear Tuno, thou hadft to aft 

 of me ? Hadft thou even requefted fomewhat impof- 

 ftble, I would have tried, in order to pleafe thee, whe- 

 ther it might not have been rendered poffible. 



Juno7\ Thou art very galant, Jupiter! — I fhall 

 never require any thing unreasonable of thee. 



Jupiter?^ The kings and the nobles of the earth 

 have ever belonged to thy department ; and it is the 

 leaft thou canfc. expect of my tendernefs, that I leave 

 thee to act undifturbed in thy own fphere. 



Juno."] My wi flies extend no farther. For, as I 

 know thy prefent maxims, it would be exacting too 



f. Jo. Aug, Thuan. Hid. torn. II. lib. xxxix. p. 48, 



much 



