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192  sin, they are at war. The wolf, is the devil, which being overcome, they live together in peace.

(34) relates, that there was a law in some city, by which a knight was obliged to be buried in armour; and further, that it was ordained if any one deprived the dead man of this armour, he should be put to death. It happened that the city was besieged by a tyrannical despot, who, planting ambuscades and pitfalls around the city, destroyed an infinite number of the inhabitants. Fear made them incapable of longer resistance; and, while thus situated, a noble and valiant knight entered the city, and compassionated the