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OF AVARICE.
but secretly wrote letters to the noblemen, declaring how he had been treated, and imploring them to relieve him from the misery he was compelled to endure. His ill usage excited their pity and indignation; they restored the father, and threw the son into prison, where he died[1].
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the king is Christ; and the son is any bad Christian.
TALE LXXIII.
OF AVARICE, WHICH MAKES MANY BLIND.
A certain king of Rome decreed, that every blind man should annually receive a hundred
- ↑ Our nursery-books contain a story not unlike the present. A father resigns his estates to an ungrateful son, and is driven into the garret, and left to neglect and poverty. The grandson pities, and by a pointed speech—hardly characteristic of a child—reproves, and touches his parent's heart.
