come, Jesus, the joy of angels, Jesus the king of patriarchs, Jesus, the inspirer of the prophets, Jeſus, King of Patriarchs, and Light of the Prophets, Have Mercy on us.

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Both characters are strangely, and emasculatingly, dependent on the objects of their fixation. Both bow rather mechanically to the pressures of duty at the expense of emotional and sexual fulfillment.

The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith.