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OF CONCORD AND FORETHOUGHT.
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the emperor is Christ; the knight is man, and the wife the flesh. To visit the Holy Land, is by good works to attain heaven. The wise master is a prudent confessor. The clerk is the devil, and the image represents human pride and vanity. The bath is confession; the glass, the Sacred Writings, which ward off the arrows of sin.
TALE XXIII.
OF DOING ALL THINGS WITH CONCORD AND FORETHOUGHT.
Domitian was a very wise and just prince[1] and suffered no offender to escape. It hap-
- ↑ A strange contradiction of history.
