Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              give a greater Air of Dignity and Awſulneſs to
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              a Place than ſome artful Laws made by the
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              Ancients; ſuch as theſe: That nothing Male
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              ſhould preſume to ſet Foot in the Temple of
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              the
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              Bona Dea,
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              nor in that of
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              Diana
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              in the Pa­
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              trician Portico; and at
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              Tanagra,
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              that no Wo­
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              man ſhould enter the ſacred Grove, nor the in­
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              ner Parts of the Temple of
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              Jeruſalem;
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              and
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              that no Perſon whatſoever, beſides the Prieſt,
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              and he only in order to purify himſelf for Sa­
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              criſice, ſhould waſh in the Fountain near
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              Pan­
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              thos;
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              and that nobody ſhould preſume to ſpit
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              in the Place called
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              Doliola
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              near the great Drain
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              at
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              Rome,
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              where the Bones of
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              Numa Pompilius
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              were depoſited; and upon ſome Chapels there
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              have been Inſcriptions, ſtrictly forbidding any
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              common Proſtitute to enter; in the Temple of
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              Diana
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              at
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              Crete,
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              none were admitted, except
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              they were bare-footed; it was unlawful to bring
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              a Bond-woman into the Temple of the God­
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              deſs
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              Matuta;
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              and all common Cryers were ex­
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              cluded from the Temple of
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              Orodio
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              at
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              Rhodes,
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              and all Fiddlers from that of
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              Temnius
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              at
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              Te­
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              nedos.
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              <s> So again, it was unlawful to go out of
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              the Temple of
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              Jupiter Alfiſtius
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              without ſacri­
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              ficing, and to carry any Ivy into the Temple
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              of
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              Minerva
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              at
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              Athens,
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              or into that of
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              Venus
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              at
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              Thebes.
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              <s> In the Temple of
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              Fauna,
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              it was not
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              lawful ſo much as to mention the Name of
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              Wine. </s>
              <s>In the ſame Manner it was decreed,
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              that the Gate
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              Janualis
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              at
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              Rome
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              ſhould never
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              be ſhut, but in Time of War, nor the Temple
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              of
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              Janus
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              ever opened in Time of Peace; and
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              that the Temple of the Goddeſs
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              Hora
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              ſhould
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              ſtand always open. </s>
              <s>If we were to imitate any
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              of theſe Cuſtoms, perhaps it might not be a­
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              miſs to make it criminal for Women to enter
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              the Temples of Martyrs; or Men, thoſe dedi­
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              cated to Virgin Saints. </s>
              <s>Moreover there are ſome
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              Advantages very deſirable, ſaid to be procured
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              by Art, which when we read of, we could
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              ſcarcely believe, unleſs we ſaw ſomething like
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              it in ſome particular Places even at this Day.
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              </s>
              <s>We are told that it was brought about by hu­
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              man Art, that in
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              Conſtantinople
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              Serpents will
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              never hurt any body, and that no Daws will fly
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              within the Walls; and that no Graſshoppers
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              are ever heard in
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              Naples,
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              nor any Owls in
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              Candy.
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              </s>
              <s> In the Temple of
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              Achilles,
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              in the
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              Iſland of
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              Boriſthenes
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              no Bird whatſoever will
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              enter, nor any Dog or Fly of any Sort in the
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              Temple of
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              Hercules
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              near the
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              Forum Boarium
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              at
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              Rome.
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              <s> But what ſhall we ſay of this ſur­
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              prizing Particularity, that at
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              Venice,
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              even at
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              this Day, no Kind of Fly ever enters the pub­
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              lick Palace of the
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              Cenſors?
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              And even in the
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              Fleſh-market at
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              Toledo,
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              there is never more than
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              one Fly ſeen throughout the Year, and that a
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              remarkable one for its Whiteneſs. </s>
              <s>Theſe
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              ſtrange Accounts which we find in Authors,
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              are too numerous to be all inſerted here, and
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              whether they are owing to Nature or Art, I
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              ſhall not now pretend to decide. </s>
              <s>But then,
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              again, how can we, either by Nature or Art,
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              account for what they tell us of a Laurel-tree
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              growing in the Sepulchre of
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              Bibrias
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              King of
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                <emph type="italics"/>
              Pontus,
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              from which if the leaſt Twig is brok­
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              en, and put aboard a Ship, that Ship ſhall ne­
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              ver be free from Mutinies and Tumults till the
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              Twig is thrown out of it: Or for its never
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              raining upon the
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              Altar
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              in
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              Venus's
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              Temple at
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              Paphos:
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              Or for this, that whatever Part of the
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              Sacrifice is left at
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              Minerva's
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              Shrine in
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              Phrygia
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              minor,
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              will never corrupt: Or this, if you
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              break off any Part of
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              Anteus's
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              Sepulchre, it
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              immediately begins to rain, and never leaves off
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              till it is made whole again? </s>
              <s>Some indeed af­
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              firm, that all theſe Things may be done by an
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              Art, now loſt, by means of little conſtellated
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              Images, which Aſtronomers pretend are not
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              unknown to them. </s>
              <s>I remember to have read
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              in the Author of the Life of
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              Apollonius Tyaneus,
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              that in the chief Apartments of the Royal Palace
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              at
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              Babylon,
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              ſome Magicians faſtened to the
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              Cieling four golden Birds, which they called
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              the Tongues of the Gods, and that theſe were
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              endued with the Virtue of conciliating the Af­
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              fection of the Multitude towards their King:
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              And
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              Joſephus,
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              a very grave Author, ſays that
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              he himſelf ſaw a certain Man named
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              Eleazer,
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              who in the Prefence of the Emperor
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              Veſpaſian
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              and his Sons, immediately cured a Man that
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              was poſſeſſed, by faſtening a Ring to his Noſe;
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              and the ſame Author writes that
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              Solomon
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              com­
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              poſed certain Verſes, which would give Eaſe
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              in Diſtempers; and
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              Euſebius Pamphilus
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              ſays,
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              that the
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              Ægyptian
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              God
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              Serapis,
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              whom we call
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                <emph type="italics"/>
              Pluto,
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              invented certain Charms which would
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              drive away evil Spirits, and taught the Methods
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              by which
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              Dæmons
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              aſſumed the Shapes of brute
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              Beaſts to do miſchief.
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              Servius
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              too ſays, that
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              there were Men who uſed to carry Charms
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              about them, by which they were ſecured a­
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              gainſt all unhappy Turns of Fortune; and that
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              thoſe Charms were ſo powerful, that the Per­
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              ſons who wore them could never die till they
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              were taken from them. </s>
              <s>If theſe Things could
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              be true, I ſhould eaſily believe what we read
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              in
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              Plutarch,
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              that among the
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              Pelenei
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              there was
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              an Image, which if it were brought out of the </s>
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