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Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Reade, Charles, 1814-1884
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Publisher: Boston : Colonial Press Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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h them, by reason our Lord never preached at Tyre.Going hence they showed me the state nursery for thechildren of those aphrodisian dames, their favorites.Here in the outer wall was a broad niche, and if theybring them so little as they can squeeze them through italive, the bairn falls into a net inside, and the state takescharge of it, but if too big, their mothers must even takethem home again, with whom abiding tis like to be mailcorvi mali ovum. Coming out of the church we met themcarrying in a corpse, with the feet and face bare. This Ithen first learned is Venetian custom, and sure no othertown will ever rob them of it, nor of this that follows.On a great porphyry slab in the piazza were three ghastlyheads rotting and tainting the air, and in their hot sum-mers like to take vengeance with breeding of a plague.These were traitors to the state, and a heavy price — twothousand ducats — being put on each head, their friendshad slain them and brought all three to the slab, and so
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THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH. 99 sold blood of others and their own faith. No state buysheads so many nor pays half so high a price for that sorrymerchandise. But what I most admired was to see overagainst the dukes palace a fair gallows in alabaster,reared express to hang him, and no other, for the leasttreason to the state; and there it stands in his eye whis-pering him memento mori. I pondered, and owned thesesignors my masters, who will let no man, not even theirsovereign, be above the common weal. Hard by, on awall, the workmen were just finishing, by order of theseigniory, the stone effigy of a tragical and enormousact enacted last year, yet on the wall looks innocent.Here two gentlefolks whisper together, and there othertwain, their swords by their side. Four brethren werethey, which did on either side conspire to poison theother two, and so halve their land in lieu of quarteringit; and at a mutual banquet these twain drugged thewine, and those twain envenomed a marchpane, to su

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