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Marinuzza, Indra and Iodina, has been tenderly debauched
(in Halliday's view), by Honuphrius, and Magravius knows
from spies that Anita has formerly committed double sacrilege
with Michael, vulgo Cerularius, a perpetual curate, who wishes
to seduce Eugenius. Magravius threatens to have Anita molested
by Sulla, an orthodox savage (and leader of a band of twelve
mercenaries, the Sullivani), who desires to procure Felicia for
Gregorius, Leo, Vitellius and Macdugalius, four excavators, if
she will not yield to him and also deceive Honuphrius by ren-
dering conjugal duty when demanded. Anita who claims to have
discovered incestuous temptations from Jeremias and Eugenius
would yield to the lewdness of Honuphrius to appease the
savagery of Sulla and the mercernariness of the twelve Sullivani,
and (as Gilbert at first suggested), to save the virginity of
Felicia for Magravius when converted by Michael after the
death of Gillia, but she fears that, by allowing his marital rights
she may cause reprehensible conduct between Eugenius and
Jeremias. Michael, who has formerly debauched Anita, dispen-
ses her from yielding to Honuphrius who pretends publicly to
possess his conjunct in thirtynine several manners (turpiter!
affirm ex cathedris Gerontes Cambronses) for carnal hygiene
whenever he has rendered himself impotent to consummate by
subdolence. Anita is disturbed but Michael comminates that
he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus
even if she should practise a pious fraud during affrication
which, from experience, she knows (according to Wadding),
to be leading to nullity. Fortissa, however, is encouraged by
Gregorius, Leo, Viteilius, and Magdugalius, reunitedly, to warn
Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius
and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife
of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and
repents. Has he hegemony and shall she submit?
    Translate a lax, you breed a bradaun. In the goods of Cape and 
Chattertone, deceased.
    This, lay readers and gentilemen, is perhaps the commonest 
of all cases arising out of umbrella history in connection with