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Rh are the Grace and Favour of God. The high-way, is the ten commandments; the by-way, a bad life; those who lay in ambush are heretics. The old man is the world, and his wife is vanity. The conspirators are devils.

was a knight, who devoted much of his time to hunting. It happened one day, as he was pursuing this diversion, that he was met by a lame lion, who shewed him his foot. The knight dismounted, and drew from it a sharp thorn; and then applied an unguent to the wound, which speedily healed it. A while after this, the king of the country hunted in