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I suppose we shall have him preaching again this next Advent," said Nello. "And not before there is need," said Cronaca, gravely. "We have had the best testimony to his words since the last Quaresima; for even to the wicked wickedness has become a plague; and the ripeness of vice is turning to rottenness in the nostrils even of the vicious.
The port is without a sail, excepting that once in a while a solitary felucca may be seen, disgorging its holy cargo of baccala, the meagre provision for the Quaresima or Lent.
Well, I don't read it they can't accuse me of reading anything. Save me from going to a wedding again, if that's to be the fashion; for all of us who were not Piagnoni were as comfortable as wet chickens. I was never caught in a worse trap but once before, and that was when I went to hear their precious Frate last Quaresima in San Lorenzo.
Da Ferrara facie lanno del. 1496 negiorni delle feste, finito che hebbe la quaresima: & prima riposatosi circa uno mese ricomincio eldi di Sco Michele Adi. viii di Maggio. The text commences "CREDITE IN Dno Deo uestro & securi eritis." In the cell of Savonarola at the Monastery of St. Mark is preserved a MS. volume of the famous preacher.
There has not been a change since the Quaresima, either in Rome or at Florence, but has put a new seal on the Frate's words that the harvest of sin is ripe, and that God will reap it with a sword." "I hope he has had a new vision, however," said Francesco Cei, sneeringly. "The old ones are somewhat stale. Can't your Frate get a poet to help out his imagination for him?"
I've been at the wedding to-day Dianora Acciajoli's with the young Albizzi that there has been so much talk of and everybody wondered at its being to-day instead of yesterday; but, cieli! such a wedding as it was might have been put off till the next Quaresima for a penance.
And several cows and women have had still-born calves this Quaresima; and for the bad eggs that have been broken since the Carnival, nobody has counted them. Ah! a great man a great politician a greater poet than Dante. And yet the cupola didn't fall, only the lantern. Che miracolo!" A sharp and lengthened "Pst!" was suddenly heard darting across the pelting storm of gutturals.
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