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 with the beloved Object, which were permitted without so much as any Feint of Repulse, drew upon her, and gave her a very deep Wound in the Neck. The Governor, who, being in Years, seemed to have outlived all Remembrance of the Effervescencies of that Passion, especially with a little Encouragement, was at first more incensed against his Servant, than troubled at the Danger of his Wound; he sent away a Letter full of heavy Complaints to the Canon at Rome, what a Person of his sacred Function should grant his Recommendation, and that expressed in the most unexceptionable Terms, to a young Vagabond, and the most abandoned Whoremaster that ever seduced a Woman. The Canon, being a Person of unblemished Sanctity, but so ready to all Acts of ness,