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Rh "My dear lord," cried she, "permit me to strengthen the uninjured eye, by medicinal applications ; or the diseased part may communicate with the sound, and thereby both be irremediably injured." The knight made no objection, and his wife spreading a large plaster so as completely to obstruct his sight, beckoned to her gallant, who escaped. Satisfied with her successful stratagem, the lady observed to the husband, "There, dear! now I am secure: your sound eye will take no injury. Go into your bed, and sleep."

My beloved, the knight is a prelate of the church; the adulterous wife is the soul. The prelate's eye is struck out as often as it is blinded with gifts.