called liberty, to run the gauntlet six-and-thirty
times. He bore this twice. The regiment was
composed of two thousand men; that composed
for him four thousand strokes, which laid bare
all his muscles and nerves, from the nape of his
neck quite down to his rump. As they were
going to proceed to a third whipping, Candide,
able to bear no more, begged as a favour that
they would be so good as to shoot him. He
obtained this favour; they bandaged his eyes,
and bade him kneel down. The King of the
Bulgarians passed at this moment and ascer-
tained the nature of the crime. As he had great
talent, he understood from all that he learnt of
Candide that he was a young metaphysician, ex-
tremely ignorant of the things of this world,
and he accorded him his pardon with a clemency
which will bring him praise in all the journals,
and throughout all ages.

An able surgeon cured Candide in three weeks
by means of emollients taught by Dioscorides
He had already a little skin, and was able to
march when the King of the Bulgarians gave
battle to the King of the Abares. ²

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