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what would be done to a poor innkeeper, who should be of thy

opinion (since upon them the proclamation bear hardest), and

should not inform himself of the name of any one who did him the

favour to lodge at his house. _Under penalty of whoever of the

above-said hosts, tavern keepers, and others, of three hundred

crowns_,-behold three hundred crowns hatched; and now to spend

them well,-_two thirds to be applied to the royal chamber, and

the other third to the accuser or informer. And in case of

inability, five years in the galleys, and greater pecuniary and

corporal punishments, at the discretion of his Excellency._ Very

much obliged for such favours, indeed!" He ended his soliloquy,

finding himself at his destined point, the palace of the Capitano

di Giustizia.