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    Now when Giovanni was released , he did set to work still to satisfy his greedy revenge ; for the last benefit he did hold a most notable injury and indignity . So one night * with many bravoes , he set

    upon Signor Alberto in his own vineyard , and left him for dead ; but being himself wounded in the leg by one of his own base companions in the dark , he was left by them in the open road , and taken by

    Signor Alberto ' s servants , who conveyed him straightway to the Grand Duke , for fear their master should oblige them to release him , and he was sent to the gallies . Now about this time the

    gallies were badly ordered and victualled , and Signor Alberto , who had not withdrawn himself from good works , did busy himself in mending the condiclition of the miserable

    malefactors , in getting them priests , and better food and lodging . One day he chanced to visit one of these gallies with the Grand Duke , and there he saw Giovanni , who had been newly removed ; and Giovanni ,

    looking at him sternly , said , " It is worthy of the line Signor Alberto to mock his enemy , who is helpless and unarmed /' Thereat Signor Alberto burst into tears , to see his miserable state , sitting in chains , with his hair and beard uncombed ,

    and the prison clothes on . " God knows , Signor Giovanni , " said he , " that I did not expect to find you here , and how sad it makes me to see you so low . " And so he r

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    knelt down , and prayed the Grand Duke to release his enemy , even though he put the irons on his legs who had helped to place him there ,

    meaning himself . And so with much labour he procured his freedom , and Giovanni left the country , and became a Turk .

    Now a war broke out with some Turks of Barbary about certain vessels they had seized , and Alberto commanded a galley in the battle , and was taken prisoner , It chanced that the galley which took him was commanded bv the

    renegade , Giovanni , who had many Christians under him , renegades like himself , as knowing best how to command them . Finding he had his enemy in his power , he was transported with new rage . He made

    them shave his head , and put him in mean clothes , and bare his back , and so flog him with ropes . Then he changed his humour , and made him be richly clad , and fed , and would have

    put him on sjiore without a ransom . This was for payment of his own freedom , being a right noble and proud gentleman , though so devilishly wicked . But a terrible storm

    arose , so that they could not land . The sailors were sore frighted , and being Christians , they repented of their sins , and setting Alberto free , made him their captai n . They would have slain Giovanni in the

    turmoil , but Alberto defended him at the peril of his life , and by blows and good words made them be pacified T But Gio *

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    A Gentleman ' s Remorse * 113

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/41/