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    sant , and he invited me , with great show of kindness , to come often to his house . We took leave so late as nine o ' clock of the night , returning to town bydark . A son of Signor Alberto ' s attended the Grand Duke to

    town , and servants with torches . Passing outside the gates , the Grand Duke again became his ^ Highness , which was a most strange power of the gates . It chanced that one of Signor Alberto ' s sons did also ride

    with us , to do me honour , a sudden friendship having chanced between us ; he being mighty curious about our country , and our ships , and the like , and deaa . 11 "W 1 1 -I

    siring to see all . I did take what advantage I could of this , being very curious to know who was that tall lackey of Signor Alberto ' s , and so I heard his story .

    This tali man is a Signor Giovanni Strozzi , a most powerful noble , by his natural birthright . He and Signor Alberto , being young , did both love the same lady ; but Signor Alberto was the most favoured . Signor

    Alberto was very high fortuned , and did rejoice in all good favours , insomuch that he lived very magnificently , keeping a most goodly train , like a sovereign pr ince . He and the Grand Duke were close

    friends ( the father of the present ) , and in all things he outshone Signor Giovanni as the sun might do the moon . Whereat Signor Giovanni did conceive so passionate a malice , that he could not brook it , and often provoked the other with unmannerly words ; but this

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    Signor Alberto regarded not , as one that had the best of the matter . Soon after Signor Alberto was married ( which was done with great pomp ) , Giovanni , being pushed on by his devilish

    malice and jealousy , did compass to seize the lady , and conveyed her away to a castle of his . Signor Alberto was wild with wrath , and assembling his people , set forth to recover her , and partly by the authority of

    the Grand Duke ( who sent succours very suddenly ) , partly by force , she was got back . It was happy for Giovanni that he was imprisoned by the Grand Duke ' s orders , or certainly Signor Alberto would have slain

    him in his wrath . The lady discovered that Giovanni had tried to seduce her , and after , like a new Tarquin , had tried a shorter way to his will ; but happily she brought back her virtue . But she had been so

    sore frighted with these violences , breaking in upon her hymeneal contentment , that she died presently . Then Signor Alberto became a changed man , and very melancholy for the loss of his love ; but being withal a very devout and virtuous man , he

    was weaned from worldly vanities , and he said he repented him of many things , particularly towards Giovanni , saying that his misfortune was a

    punishment for the vain-glory that had provoked Giovanni to so much ; and he-prayed of the Grand Duke to release him , u as an atonement to heaven for his friend , " and it was done .

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    112 A Gentleman ! & Remorse .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/40/