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OF JUDGMENT

that is the soul. The tablets are the ten commandments. The abbot is God, who saved us by his only-begotten Son. The fisherman-nurse is any prelate; the ship St. Gregory afterwards embarks in is the Church. The seneschal is a confessor. The broken lance, is to put away or destroy an evil life. The rock is penitence.





TALE II.

OF JUDGMENT AGAINST ADULTERERS.

A certain knight had a very beautiful castle, upon which two storks built their nest. At the foot of this castle, was a clear fountain, in which the storks were wont to bathe themselves. It happened that the female stork brought forth young, and the male flew