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the power of moderating, changing, or 
taking away entirely, or in, part, the 
aforefaid penalties and penitences. 
And fo we fay, pronounce, and by our 
fentence declare, enact, condemn, and re- 
ferve, by this and every other better mode 
or formula, by which of right we can and 
ought. 
So.we, the underwritten Cardinals, pro- 
nounce, F. Cardinal de Afculo, G. Car- 
dinal Bentivelus, F. Cardinal de Cremo- 
na, Fr, Antony Cardinal §. Onuphrii, B. 
Cardinal Gypfius, F. Cardinal Verofpius, 
M. Cardinal Ginettus. ~ , - 
The Abjuration of Galileo.—I, Galileo 
Galilei, fon of the late Vincent Galileo, a 
Florentine, of the age of feventy, appear- 
ing perfonaily in judgment, and being on 
my knees in the prefence of you, moft 
eminent and’ moft reverend Lords Cardi- 
nals of the Univerfal Chriftian Common- 
wealth, Inquifitors General againft Here- 
tical Depravity, having before my eyes 
the Holy Gofpels, on which I now lay 
my hands, {wear that I have always :be- 
lieved, and now believe, and, God help- 
ing, that I fha'l for the future always be- 
lieve whatever the Holy Catholic and 
Apottolic Roman Church holds, preaches, 
and teaches. But becaufe this Holy Of- 
fice had enjoined me by precept, entirely 
to relinguifh the falfe dozma, which main- 
tains, that the fun is the centre of the 
world and immovable, and that the earth 
is not the centre and moves; nor to hold, 
defend, or teach by any means, or by 
writing, the aforefaid falfe doctrine ; and, 
after it had been notified to me, that the 
aforefaid doétrine is repugnant to the 
Holy Scripture, I have written and print- 
ed a book, in which [ treat of the fame 
doétrine already condemned, and adduce 
reafons with great efficacy in favour of it, 
“not offering’ any folution of them ; there- 
fore 1 have been adjudged and vehemently 
Original Poetry: 
AS 
fufpected of Herefy, namely,.that I main- 
tained and believed, that the ,fun is the 
centre of the world, and immovable, and 
that the earth is not the centre, and moves. 
Therefore, being willing to take out of 
the minds of your Eminences, and of every 
Catholic Chriftian, this vehement fulpi- 
cion, of right conceived again me, I, 
with fincere heart and faith unfeigned, 
abjure, execrate, and deteft, the abovefaid 
errors and herefies, and generally every 
’ other error and {fect contrary to the above- 
faid Holy Church; and I fwear that I 
wil] never any more hereafter fay or affert, 
by fpeech or writing, any thing through 
which the like fulpicion may be had of 
me; but, if I fhall know any one Here- 
tical, or fufpeéted of Herefy, I will de- 
nounce him to this Holy Offce, or to the 
Inguifitor and Ordinary of the place in 
which I fhall be. I moieover {wear and 
promife; that I will fulfil and obferve en- 
entirely all the penitences which have been 
impofed upon’ me, or which fhall be im- 
poled by this Holy Office. But if it 
fhall happen, that I fhall go contrary 
(which God avert) to any of my words, 
promifes, proteftations, and oaths, [ fub- 
ject myfelt to all the penalties and punith- 
ments, which, by the Holy Canons, and 
other Conftitutions, general and particu- 
lar, have been enacted and promulgated 
againft fuch delinquents : So help me God, 
and his Holy Gofpels, on which I now 
lay my hands. 
I, the aforefaid Galileo Galilei, have 
abjured, {worn, promifed, and have bound 
myfelf as above, and in the fidelity of 
thofe with my own hands, and have fub- 
{crided.to this prefent writing of my ab- 
juration, which I have recited word by 
word. At Rome, in the Convent of Mi- 
nerva, this 22d of June, of the year 1633. _ 
I, Galileo Galilei, have abjured as 
above with my own hand. 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
——ae 
The sprrits of the Lax¥ —Tranflated from 
” theCerman of Mifs AMELIA D’IMHOF, Maid 
of Fioncur at Weimar, by the CHEVALIER 
LAWRENCE. 
tT HE waters ceafe their hollow roar 5 
And, grey as the robe of a ghoft, 
Tehe dull thick vapours hover o’er 
The pach that finks in the fandy thorey 
And climbs the craggy coaft, 
The melancholy breeze 
Sighs among the trees, — 
And curls the lake below:. 
Night fhuts every eye, 
And aow and then from high 
There falls a tear of fnow. 
And ’mid the gloomy night that’s fpread 
Round Ullin’s filent rill, 
There roves, by love dittraéted led, 
A pleafing form 5 the refts her head, 
And liftens—but all is ftill. 
Fer treffes float on the breeze; 
She looks--no lover the fees, 
eke Nought. 
