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My beloved, the emperor is Christ; the knight is man, and the wife the flesh. To visit the Holy Land, is by good works to attain heaven. The wise master is a prudent confessor. The clerk is the devil, and the image represents human pride and vanity. The bath is confession; the glass, the Sacred Writings, which ward off the arrows of sin.

was a very wise and just prince and suffered no offender to escape. It