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 and almot as large, which were lock'd to my left Leg with ix and thirty Padlocks. Over-againt this Temple, on't'other ide of the great Highway, at twenty foot ditance, there was a Turret at leat five foot high. Here the Emperor acended with many principal Lords of his Court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not ee them. It was reckoned that above an hundred thouand Inhabitants came out of the Town upon the ame Errand; and in pight of my Guards, I believe there could not be fewer than ten thouand, at everal times, who mounted upon my Body by the help of Ladders. But a Proclamation was oon iued to forbid it upon pain of Death. When the Workmen found it was impoible for me to break looe, they cut all the Strings that bound me; whereupon I roe up with as melancholy a Dipoition as ever I had in my Life. But the noie and atonihment of the People at eeing me rie and walk, are not to be expreed. The Chains that held my