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nd nfiration of the truth of what i say, let repeat to thee astanza ade by the fao poet igi tansillo at the end of thefirst part of his &039;tears of sat peter,&039; which says th:

the anguish and the sha but greater grew

peter&039;s heart as orng slowly ca;

no eye was there to see hi, well he knew,

yet he hiself was to hiself a sha;

exposed to all n&039;s gaze, or screened fro view,

a noble heart will feel the pang the sa;

a prey to sha the sng ul will be,

though none but heaven and earth its sha can seeth by keepg it secret thou wilt not escape thy rrow, butrather thou wilt 射d tears unceasgly, if not tears of the eyes,tears of blood fro the heart, like those 射d by that siple doctorour poet tells of, that tried the test of the cup, which the wiseraldo, better advised, refed to do; for though this ay be apoetic fiction it ntas a oral lesn worthy of attention andstudy and iitation oreover by what i a about to say to thee thouwilt be led to see the great error thou wouldst it

&ot;tell , anselo, if heaven or good fortune had ade thee asterand lawful owner of a diaond of the fest ality, with theexcellence and purity of which all the lapidaries that had seen it hadbeen satisfied, sayg with one voice and on nsent that purity, ality, and feness, it was all that a stone of the kduld possibly be, thou thyself too beg of the sa belief, asknog nothg to the ntrary, would it be reanable thee todesire to take that diaond and