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An they overhear thee, it were safer for thee even to go back to thy London." Sasportas shook his head with a humorous twinkle. "Yea, if Sabbataï will accompany me. An he be Messiah let him face the Plague, let him come and prophesy in London and outdo Solomon Eagle; let him heal the sick and disburden the death-carts."
"Rabbi as thou art, thou art an Epicurean; thou sittest in the seat of the scorner." "'Twas thou didst invite me thereto," murmured Sasportas, smiling. "The Plague is but a sign of the Messianic times, and the Fire that hath burnt thy dwelling-place is but the castigation for thine incredulity."
At Hamburg, despite the epistolary ironies of Jacob Sasportas, the rare Kofrim, or Anti-Sabbatians, were forced, by order of Bendito de Castro, to say Amen to the Messianic prayer. At Livorne commerce dried up. At Venice there were riots, and the Kofrim were threatened with death. In Moravia the Governor had to interfere to calm the tumult.
"Yea, there be those who think our royal Charles the Messiah, and petition him to declare himself," said Sasportas, with his genial twinkle. "Hath he not also his Melisseldas?" "Hush, thou blasphemer!" cried De Castro, looking anxiously at the howling multitude. "But thou wilt live to eat thy words." "Be it so," said Sasportas, with a shrug of resignation. "I eat nothing unclean."
"Hi diddi hulda hi ti ti!" they carolled in merry meaninglessness. "Nay, but this is second childhood," quoth the venerable Jacob Sasportas, chief Rabbi of the English Jews, as he sat in the presidential pew, an honored visitor at Hamburg. "Surely thy flock is demented." De Castro's brow grew black. "Have a care, or my sheep may turn dog.
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