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OF PRESUMPTION.
afflictions be as heavy as before! Moreover, if he were a bad man; it would, indeed, be torture to remember him who was good, while one so inferior had succeeded him. I am therefore determined to remain as I am."[1]
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the king is God; the daughter the soul, betrothed to our Lord Jesus Christ.
TALE LXXIX.
OF PRESUMPTION.
There was a certain king who had a singular partiality for little dogs that barked loudly; so much so, indeed, that they usually rested
