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.