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5 the expense of fish, had privately eaten a bit of her own cold meat, and drank half a buckale of red wine in a tavern. At last said our author. Brother Arthur, I will go and open that mothw’s bosom.” He did so, and raising up her head, flood or VINGARBA, of sour wine, sprung down the alabaster stairs, mixed with lumps of indigested meat; at which the people being amazed from the saint swore she was a devil; and, had not our travellers carried her in haste from the church to the tavern, they would doubtless have stoned Her to death. Embarking in a frigate at Aucona. Arthur and Lithgow in three days arrived at Venee, where as soon as they landed at St. Mark’s Place, perceived a great crowd of people, and in the midst of them a great smoke, inquiring the cause, they were told, that a grey-friar of the Franciscan order was burning alive at St. Mark’s Pillar, for debauching fifteen noble nuns, and all within a year. Pressing forward, they came to the Pillar, just as half his body and his right hand fell into the fire. This friar was forty-six years old, and had been confesspr of that nunnery Of Saneta Lucia five years. Most of these nuns were Senitors’ daughters.Fifteen (all pregnant) were sent home to their father's palaces; the lady prioress and the rest weie banished for ever; the nunnery was razed to the ground; the