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to excess, and fall into the half death-like quiet of sleep. They did so, and the prince returning put them all to death.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the prince is the devil; let us beware of what he leaves.
TALE IX.
OF THE TRIPLE STATE OF THE WORLD.
A certain knight had three sons, and on his death-bed he bequeathed the inheritance to his first-born; to the second, a treasure; and to the third, a very valuable ring, of more worth indeed than all he had left to the others. But the two former had also rings; and they
