OF GRATITUDE TO GOD.
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husband and his attendants. The priest then continued the service, and at the instant that he proceeded to consecration, a diabolical spirit, raising himself up, flew away, carrying along with him a portion of the chapel. As for the lady, she was seen no more; and part of the very tower is yet standing, in testimony of the truth of the above relation. (89)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the castle is the world; and the lord of it a discreet confessor.
TALE LXXXI.
OF GRATITUDE TO GOD.
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