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"many hours spent in persuasions and exhor-tations, prevailed upon him to admit them."From the evening of Wednesday, till the fol-lowing Saturday, the pope took no food; nor"did he sleep from Thursday morning till the sa-rnie hour on the ensuing day. At length, ko-"wever , giving way to the intreatics of his at-tendants, he began to restrain his sorrow, and"to consider the injury which 1 his own health"might sustain, by the further indulgence of"his grief .” —— Roscoe’s Leo Tenth , Pol. I.page at>5.

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