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"You would deal with them more harshly and cruelly than their owner

hiht nor proper to do the

will of one who enjoins what is wholly unreasonable; it would not have

been reasonable in Augustus Caesar had he permitted the directions left

by the divine Mantuan in his will to be carried into effect So that,

Senor An your friend's body to the earth, you

should not consign his writings to oblivion, for if he gave the order in

bitterness of heart, it is not right that you should irrationally obey

it On the contrary, by granting life to those papers, let the cruelty of

Marcela live for ever, to serve as a warning in ages to coer; or I and all of us who have

come here know already the story of this your love-stricken and

heart-broken friend, and we know, too, your friendship, and the cause of

his death, and the directions he gave at the close of his life; froreat was the cruelty of Marcela, the

love of Chrysostoether with the