MOREOVER she was promised that the lad

Should be nor clownish, nor in person bad;

Nor such as any way might give disgust,

But one to whom she perfectly might trust.

THE wondrous draught was taken by the fair;

Next day our Wight prepared his wily snare:

Himself bepowdered like a miller's man,

With beard and whiskers to complete his plan;

A better metamorphose ne'er was seen;

Ligurio, who had in the secret been,