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16 may be animated with joy and exultation." After this exorciſm, the parricide is brought before the altar over which is painted the hiſtory of Jaques Clement, a Dominican monk, with the images of angels protecting him, and carrying him to heaven. This the Jeſuits ſhew him, and withal, preſent him an heavenly crown, ſaying, "Regard, O Lord this thine arn, and the executor of thy juſtice, let all thy ſaints ariſe and give him place." After theſe ceremonies; four Jeſuits are deputed to talk with the parricide alone, thefe, during their diſcourſe, are wont often to ſay, that there appears in him a divine ſort of brightneſs, by the radiancy of which they are moved to kiſs his hands and feet, and that he no longer ſeems to them to be a man, but a heavenly ſaint ; they pretend alſo to envy the great glory and bleſſedneſs to which he is now advanced, fighing and ſaying, "Would to God I had been choſen in thy room, that being delivered from the punishment of Purgatory, I might have gone directly to paradiſe." But, if he whom they judge proper to perpetrate the murder be backward and reluctant, then they either force him to make ſuch a vow by nightly bugbears, and monſtrous ſpectres, or animate and introduce him to the enterprize, by contriving apparitions of the Virgin Mary, or angels, or other ſaints, and ſometimes of Ignatius and his followers.