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Return to your homes; you shall have bread at a fair price; you

can see, yourselves, the rate is affixed at every corner!_'"

"Was it true?"

"Can you doubt it? Do you think the lords of the cathedral would

come in their robes and declare falsehoods?"

"And what did the people do?"

"By little and little they dispersed; they ran to the corners of

the streets; the rate was there for those who knew how to read.

Eight ounces of bread for a penny!"

"What good fortune."

"The vine is fine, if its fruitfulness continues. Do you know how

much flour has been consumed since yesterday? As much as would

supply the dukedom two months."

"And have they made no good law for us country people?"

"What they have done at Milan is for the city alone. I know not

what to tell you; for you, it must be as God shall direct. The

tumult has entirely ceased for the present; I have not told you

all yet. Here is the best--"

"What! is there any thing more?"