OF A PERFECT LIFE.
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third inscription says, "I have given." Tell me, my beloved, what have you given? The good Christian may reply, "My whole heart to God." Et sic de cæteris.
[From hence, the morals have been abridged, and merely the chief heads of them given.]
TALE XVII.
OF A PERFECT LIFE.
An Emperor decreed, that whoever wished to serve him, should obtain his wish, conditionally, that he struck three times upon the palace-gate, by which those within might understand what he wanted. Now, there was a certain poor man in the Roman empire, called Guido; who, on hearing the mode by which admission to the Emperor's service was to be
