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But there is another remembrance which thy face awakens, of a death bed confession. Sub sigillo, perhaps I am wrong in putting the two things together. Sancte Benedicte ora pro me. So thou hast taken the habit of Saint Francis. Why didst not come to us, if thou wishedst to renounce the world and mortify the flesh?" Martin was silent. "And hast thou the gift of preaching? I do not mean of talking."
'Tis true, I never make a promise nunquam facio votum, except in certain cases, or, in other words, Dionysius, exceptis excipiendis in which is the essence, as it were, of a proper vow. In the meantime he proceeded 'With regard to your prospects in the church, I can only say, in the first place, and I say it with much truth and sincerity that I'm badly off for a horse; that, however, is, as I said, inter nos sub sigillo.
Sigillo, Penna, Fossombrone, Mercatello, Montemurlo each single village name, as the driver pointed it out, brought to my mind the recollection of some battle or some great act of treachery of former days.
Wherefore he had deposited this testificate and confession with the day and date of the said marriage, with his lawful superior Boniface, Abbot of Saint Mary's, sub sigillo confessionis."
That evening, that unfortunate evening, when I put the ingredients of that cursed punch in my pocket, I purposed imparting to you a piece of good news, and celebrating the happy day in convivial joys. Already I had learned that I was to be made Hofrat, for which promotion I have now the patent, cum nomine et sigillo Principis, in my pocket." "Ah!
"You mean " "I mean that so long as you choose to speak to me of it, now and here, it remains that I choose to regard it as sub sigillo in effect. But you must not come to me to-morrow, as if I knew it all in a plain way. I do not. I know it as a priest only." There was silence for a moment. Then Anthony stood up. "I understand," he said. "But you would refuse me absolution in any case?"
"Both points," said the Cardinal, "are absolutely sub sigillo until you hear of them from other sources. And I need not tell you, Monsignor, that they have the very strongest mutual effects." "I beg your pardon?" "Think it over," said the Cardinal, and waved him pleasantly away. From that time forward, as week followed week, the work became enormous.
"Sir, may I ask who is Doctor Tonge's informant?" His Majesty glanced up at me as if he saw me for the first time. "Tell him, Chiffinch," he said. "His name is Doctor Oates," said the page. "He was a Papist once, and is turned informer, he says. He still feigns secretly to be friends with one or two of the Jesuits, he says." "But every word you hear here is sub sigillo, Mr.
The Duchess immediately caused her son, Bartolommeo Orsini, to be proclaimed Duke of Urbania, and herself regent; and, with the help of two or three unscrupulous young men, particularly a certain Captain Oliverotto da Narni, who was rumored to be her lover, seized the reins of government with extraordinary and terrible vigor, marching an army against the Varanos and Orsinis, who were defeated at Sigillo, and ruthlessly exterminating every person who dared question the lawfulness of the succession; while, all the time, Cardinal Robert, who had flung aside his priest's garb and vows, went about in Rome, Tuscany, Venice nay, even to the Emperor and the King of Spain, imploring help against the usurper.
Dato in Algieri in nostro regio Palazzo, sigillato del nostro reggio sigillo, e fermato della gran ferma, et scritto del nostro reggio Secretario, il di 23 de Ienaro, 1583. The same in English.
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