Exigit innocuae tranquilla silentia vitae.[44]
Phil. Most elegant and matterful verses, whose are they, I beg?
Misi. Don’t you know?
Phil. No.
Misi. They are by Angelus Politian.
Phil. I should have taken them to be from the classics. They have the grace of antiquity. I suspect we have lost our way!
Misi. Ah! good sir, which is the way to Boulogne?
Rustic. You are going out of the way. Turn your beasts to the cross-roads and strike the way there where the river bends. On it you cannot get wrong. The road is straight and plain up to the old oak, then you turn quickly on this side (pointing with his hand).
Misi. We are grateful.