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Updated: May 1, 2025
You know how fatal has been and how rapidly spread this terrible pestilence which has cruelly harassed Paris. Tell him that you have just left the bedside of your old friend the Archbishop of Bordeaux; thus you will make him scutter away like straw before a whirl-wind. "Oh, oh!" cried the cardinal, "thou meritest more than an abbey.
You know how fatal has been and how rapidly spread this terrible pestilence which has cruelly harassed Paris. Tell him that you have just left the bedside of your old friend the Archbishop of Bordeaux; thus you will make him scutter away like straw before a whirl-wind. "Oh, oh!" cried the cardinal, "thou meritest more than an abbey.
Life and freedom were offered him by a being, whose power to accomplish his promise he did not doubt. The struggle was hard; but he resisted the temptation, and answered firmly, "No." "Then die the felon death thou meritest," cried Bess, fiercely; "and I will glut mine eyes with the spectacle." Incensed beyond endurance, the abbot looked sternly at her, and raised his hand in denunciation.
But Mine eye hath spared thee, because thy soul was precious in My sight; that thou mightest know My love, and mightest be thankful for My benefits; and that thou mightest give thyself altogether to true subjection and humility, and patiently bear the contempt which thou meritest." Of meditation upon the hidden judgments of God, that we may not be lifted up because of our well-doing
I have news for thee, O fisherman! 'What news? asked he, and the Afrit answered, 'Even that I am about to slay thee without mercy. 'O chief of the Afrits, said the fisherman, 'thou meritest the withdrawal of God's protection from thee for saying this! Why wilt thou kill me and what calls for my death?
"Look thee, caitiff!" said Ebbo; "thou meritest the rope as well as any wolf on the mountain, but we have kept thee so long in suspense, that if thou canst say a word for thy life, or pledge thyself to meddle no more with my lands, I'll consider of thy doom." "You have had plenty of time to consider it," growled the fellow. A murmur, followed by a wrathful shout, rose among the villagers.
So they made haste to depart, commending themselves to the Subtle, the All-wise; and Zoulmekan exhorted the Muslims to steadfastness, reciting the following verses: To thee be the praise, O Thou that meritest thanks and praise! And mayest Thou never cease to succour me all my days! I grew up in exile, but Thou, my God, wast ever my friend.
"I have somewhat partaken of thy kindness, and thou meritest some gratitude at my hands. Shall I not visit and endeavour to console thee in thy distress? Let me, at least, ascertain thy condition, and be the instrument in repairing the wrongs which thou hast inflicted. Let me gain, from the contemplation of thy misery, new motives to sincerity and rectitude."
Now take the death thou meritest, the death, Zeus, who presides over hospitality And every other god whom thou has left, And every other who abandons thee In this accursed city sends at last. Turn, vilest of vile slaves! turn, paramour Of what all other women hate, of cowards; Turn, lest this hand wrench back thy head, and toss It and its odors to the dust and flames."
The king, hearing the story, sent for the burgher, and asked him how he came to spare the life of such a rascal. 'Sire, said the honest burgher, 'I could never kill a wounded enemy. 'Thou meritest to be a noble, the king said, and created him one immediately, giving him as armorial bearings a wooden bottle pierced with an arrow!
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