therefore I will shew you how you may continue in honour and wealth, as I have done to my dying day. He declared to them the virtue of his purse, and how it would last no longer than both their lives: he also told them the virtue of the wishing hat commanded them not to part with those jewels, but to keep them in common, and live friendly together; and that they should not make any person privy to the virtue of the purse, were they ever so beloved of them. I have, saith he, concealed the virtue of it these forty years, and never revealed it to any, save you. When having said this, and given them several wholesome instructions, he ceased speaking, and gave up the ghost. His sons buried him honourably in the church that he built, in a stately tomb.
FINIS.
GLASGOW:
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