The more favors were bestowed on Kerfael, the more Fatme dreaded punishment. The great Seneschal gave his opinion for death, grounded upon the law: Si foemina ff. de vi C. calumniatrix . The Sultan was inclined for perpetual imprisonment. Mirzoza finding too much rigor in one of these judgments, and too much indulgence in the other, condemned Fatme’s Toy to the padlock. The Florentine machine was publicly clapt on, upon the same scaffold that had been erected for Kerfael’s execution. Thence she was conducted to a house of correction, together with the matrons who had given their decisive opinions with so much knowledge.

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