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 was left with a ſtrong guard, to prevent the impertinence of the rabble, many of whom, ſuppoſing he would devour all the victims in the country, had this audacity to ſhoot their arrows at him; but the colonel ordered ſix of them to be ſeized, and delivered into his hands, they were immediately bound, and puſhed towards him; he placed them upon his right hand, and made a ſign as if he would eat them up alive; they were greatly affrighted, and ſqualled terribly, when they ſaw him take out his knife; but afterwards looking mildly, and cutting the ſtrings with which they were bound, he placed them gently on the ground, and away they ran as faſt as they were able. This mark of clemency was repreſented much to his advantage at court.

For a fortnight he lay upon the naked pavement of the houſe which was ſmooth ſtone; during which time ſix hundred beds were brought in carriages, and worked up within the building: one hundred and fifty were ſown together in breadth and length, and theſe were four double, which, however, was barely ſufficient to relieve him from the hardneſs of the floor; and in the ſame manner alſo, he was provided with ſheets, blankets and coverlids

The emperor, however, had frequent councils concerning him; the court apprehended his breaking looſe, that his diet would be very expenſive, and cauſe a famine. Sometimes they determined to ſtarve him, or to ſhoot him in the face with poiſoned arrows: but again they foreſaw, that the ſtench of ſo large a carcaſe might produce a plague in the land. In one of theſe conſultations, an officer of the army went to the council chamber, and gave an account of his behaviour to the ſix criminals juſt mentioned, which worked ſo favourably on the mind of his majeſty, that he ſent orders for all the villages within nine hundred