Arte, il piu bel mestier che si facesse;
Il letto er’ una veste, una gonella
Ad ognun buona che se la mettesse.”
Orland. Innamor, lib. iii. cant. vii.
[CHAPTER II.]
THE SISTERS OF OLD.
“What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire;
That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth,
And yet are on’t?”——Macbeth.