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"Seeing's believing. I never trust runaway rogues. If they are false to their masters, they'll be false to us." "Well, go thy ways, old honesty; and Mr. Secretary shall give you a book to yourself in the 'Faerie Queene' 'Sir Monoculus or the Legend of Common Sense, eh, Edmund?" "Monoculus?" "Ay, Single-eye, my prince of word-coiners won't that fit? And give him the Cyclops head for a device.
"But the most remarkable of the superiors, who succeeded each other here in the middle ages, was Peter Monoculus, whose story was written by his friend, the member of the synod, Thomas de Reuil. "Pierre, called Monoculus, or the one-eyed, was a saint thirsting for austerities and sufferings. He was assailed by horrible temptations at which he laughed.
MONOCULUS for so, in default of catching his true name, I choose to designate the medical gentleman who now appeared is a grave, middle-aged person, who, without having studied at the college, or truckled to the pedantry of a diploma, hath employed a great portion of his valuable time in experimental processes upon the bodies of unfortunate fellow-creatures, in whom the vital spark, to mere vulgar thinking, would seem extinct, and lost for ever.
In fine, MONOCULUS is a humane, sensible man, who, for a slender pittance, scarce enough to sustain life, is content to wear it out in the endeavour to save the lives of others his pretensions so moderate, that with difficulty I could press a crown upon him, for the price of restoring the existence of such an invaluable creature to society as G.D.
The king of France, Louis VII., venerated him so much that, on seeing the empty eyelid, he wished to kiss it. Monoculus died in 1186; they soaked linen cloths in his blood, and washed his entrails in wine which was distributed, for the mixture was a powerful remedy.
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