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crucified. This was done accordingly, and much praise was given to the judge for the sentence he had pronounced.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the emperor is God; the woman is the soul, and the violator, the devil. The knight is Christ; the castle, the human body.
TALE XXXVIII.
OF DECEIT.
A certain knight who had made a temporary residence in Egypt, was desirous of laying up a sum of money which he possessed in that country. He inquired, therefore, for some person in whom he might repose confi-
