And yet, though I have said there was no dearth,—
He chose himself to point out what he thought
Most proper for the Christians he had bought.
LXVIII.
The suit he thought most suitable to each
Was, for the elder and the stouter, first
A Candiote cloak, which to the knee might reach,
And trousers not so tight that they would burst,
But such as fit an Asiatic breech;
A shawl, whose folds in Cashmire had been nursed,