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Show TilE LILY AX!) TilE TOT::::\f. Jive in this faith, we deem it one in which it will not be ami!i.!! to die!" AnJ the spenkcr looked round him, into the f:1ces of l1is fellow~, and they ligl1hmcd up with a glow of cheerfulness and pri•lc, though no word was spoken. " Speaks this man for the rest of yc ?11 demanded )Jclendcz. l~or a moment there was sil.::ncc. At length n. matelit advanced- a. common sailor- a man bcf01e tl1e umst. " Ay ! ay! captain! what he says we say! and there's no uso for more palnxcr. J~ct there be an end of it. \Vc arc of th(' church of Messer Luther, and no other ; if death's the word, we're ready. 'Ve'ro not the men, at the end of the reckoning, to belie the whole voyage !" "Be it it even as yo say !n answered Melendez coldly, but sternly, and without change of accent or f.ohow of passion : " Take them forth, and let them be hung to yonder tl-ec !1' 'fbcu rose the shrieks of women and tho edes of children ; women seckin~ to embrace their hw;band.'i and cl1ildrcn clingiug to the knee!! of their doomed sires. But these produced no 1·clcutings. The parties were separated by the strong hand, nnd the unhappy men we1·e hurrri('d to the fatui tree. The priest stood ready to receive their recantations. lJis exhortations were not spared; but soldier and sailor had equally spoken for the re~lute martyrdom of the whole. 'fhc re\'ercnd father preaeheJ to them, and promised them in vain. Amidst cries and curses, tho victims were run up to tho wide-spreading brnnches of a migl1ty oak, dishonored in its employment for such n. purpose, and porisln~d in their fidelity to the faith which tl1cy p1·ofe.•:.scd. ']'h('il" bodi '!I were left l1anging in the sun ami wind, destined equally llS trophies of the victor, nud wnrnin~s to the heretic. A monument was in- 363 stnntly raised beneath tho tree, upon which was printed in largo characters- "iii:IJ<G< ~o not suffer t!Jns as $rcnrlpncn, bnt as j!jm~ tics nn~ ~ncmi~s to <!:So~!" |