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Rh innocent, study to amend your future life; for this time I pardon you—go in peace."

The people unanimously applauded the decision of the judge, in acquitting the guilty person, whose magnanimity had rescued two innocent persons from death.

My beloved, the emperor is God ; the two knights, Christ and our first parent ; the beautiful girl is the soul. The dead man is the spirit destroyed by the flesh.