OF ETERNAL CONDEMNATION.
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self am nothing near the size! Thou art a fool; and a fool thou wilt always remain." With this consolatory assurance she flew away. The man returned sorrowfully to his own house, but never again obtained a sight of the nightingale. (96)
APPLICATION.
My beloved, the archer is any Christian: the nightingale is Christ; and man attempts to kill him as often as he sins.
TALE LXXXVIII.
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OF ETERNAL CONDEMNATION.
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Barlaam says, that a sinner is like a man, who being afraid of a unicorn, stepped back-