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OF THE NATURE OF SIN.
lignity." Thus he became rich; and from a robber was made a prince and a dispenser of justice. (43)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the pirate in his galley is a sinner in the world; Alexander is a prelate.
TALE LXVII.
OF THE POISONOUS NATURE OF SIN.
The enemies of a certain king wished to destroy him by administering a very potent poison. Some of them came to the city where he abode, arrayed in humble garments. Now there was a fountain of water, from which the king frequently drank, and they impregnated it with the poison. The king, ignorant of their treason, drank according to custom, and died.
