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68 curioity, andrilicule thoe who paid uch repect to the memory of their uppoed holy man, who had been depited here. He imputed their zeal to the force of prejudice and upertition, and turned it into uch contempt, that he made water on the very tomb that was by them held acred: but hortly after, as if he had been arreted by ome inviible hand, for his preumption, having rode but a few paces from the tomb, he was thrown from his hore to the ground, where he lay ome time peechles; and being conveyed to Mongh-ere on a litter, oon after his arrival expired. Here is an awful leon to thoe who, through a narrownes of judgement and confined peculation, are too