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One that walked before King Alphonsus, having given a thrust to a Branch of a Tree, it flew back, and struck the Kings Eye black and blue, and made it swell. As every one exprest how much they were sensible of his Pain: I have no Pain said he, that more sensibly affects me, than the Sorrow and Fear of him that hurt me.

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Une Personne qui marchoit devant le Roy Alphonse ayant poussé une Branche d’Arbre, elle fit ressort, et frappa l’oeil du Roy, qui en fut meurtri, et en devint fort enflé. Comme chacun lui temoignoit avoir part à sa douleur: Je n’ai point de Mal, dit-il, qui me touche plus sensiblement, que la douleur et la crainte de celui qui ma blessé.