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346 ; close their hands, and believe that they hold them fast. By and by, they open their hands and find nothing.]

This is the twenty-sixth chapter in Warton's Analysis.

The demon-hunter in Boccacio is brought to mind by this story. There the lady's apprehensions "grew so powerful upon her, that to prevent the like heavy doom from falling on her, she studied (and therein bestowed all the night season) how to