OF REMEMBRANCE OF BENEFITS.
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are the Grace and Favour of God. The high-way, is the ten commandments; the by-way, a bad life; those who lay in ambush are heretics. The old man is the world, and his wife is vanity. The conspirators are devils.
TALE XXIV.
OF THE REMEMBRANCE OF BENEFITS.
There was a knight, who devoted much of his time to hunting. It happened one day, as he was pursuing this diversion, that he was met by a lame lion, who shewed him his foot. The knight dismounted, and drew from it a sharp thorn; and then applied an unguent to the wound, which speedily healed it. A while after this, the king of the country hunted in
