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 port, wherever he hall land, till he hall receive further orders, yet you mut be enible Donna Leonora's ituation is omewhat delicate: it will be your buines to take the peediet meaures for her recovery; but as it eems he has had a dangerous and painful labour, this may be a work of more time than could be wihed, unles ome medicines more efficacious than common are adminitred: Art thou acquainted with any uch, friend Nicolas?"———“So pleae your excellency," quoth Nicolas, "my procees have been tolerably uccesful, I have bandages and cataplams, with oils and conerves; that I have no caue to complain of; they will retore nature to its proper tate in all decent time.”———"Thou talket like a fool, friend Nicolas," aid the Inluidor, interrupting him; "What tellet thou me of thy wathings and waddlings? quick work mut be wrought by quick medicines: Hat thou none uch in thy botica? I'll anwer for it thou hat not; therefore look you, irrah, here is a little vial compounded by a famous chymit; ee that you mix it in the next apozem you adminiter to Donna Leonora; it is the mot capital edative in nature; give her the whole of it, and let her huband return when he will, depend upon it, he will make no dicoveries from her.”——— "Humph!" quoth Nicolas within himelf, “Well aid Inquiidor!" He took the phial with all poible repect, and was not wanting in profeions of the mot inviolable fidelity and ecrecy.———"No more words, friend Nicolas," quoth the Inquiidor, “upon that core; I do not believe thee one jot the more for all thy promies, my dependence is on thy fears, and not thy faith; I fancy thou hat een enough of this place not to be willing to return to it once for all."———Having o