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OF CHRIST,

tal sin, they are at war. The wolf, is the devil, which being overcome, they live together in peace.





TALE LIV.

OF CHRIST, WHO DIED INNOCENT.

Seneca (34) relates, that there was a law in some city, by which a knight was obliged to be buried in armour; and further, that it was ordained if any one deprived the dead man of this armour, he should be put to death. It happened that the city was besieged by a tyrannical despot, who, planting ambuscades and pitfalls around the city, destroyed an infinite number of the inhabitants. Fear made them incapable of longer resistance; and, while thus situated, a noble and valiant knight entered the city, and compassionated the dis-