iscover whether the
ground in any of these places had been recently dug."--E. Van Meteren,
_History of the Low Countries_.]

[Footnote 23: "Simon Turchi was known to be a perverse and immoral man; in
a word, he was a compound of every vice and every evil
inclination."--_Matteo Bandello_.]

[Footnote 24: "Go and do what I have commanded you. Disinter the body,
take it on your shoulders and cast it into the sewer which is in the
square where the three streets meet."--_Simon Turchi_.--_Matteo
Bandello_.]

[Footnote 25: "I will send Bernardo to help you, and I will order him to
obey you, whatever you may command. When you have thrown the body into the
sewer, you can, by a quick movement, push Bernardo in also. The sewer is
deep, and whoever falls into it is immediately drowned."--_Matteo
Bandello_.]

[Footnote 26: "Simon Turchi begged Julio to take the crime upon
himself."--Van Meteren, _History of the Low Countries_.]

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