Though folk have their fling at tradition forsooth!

Row, boys, fore and aft, rhyme and chime!

BEATRICE SIGNORINI

This strange thing happened to a painter once:

Viterbo boasts the man among her sons

Of note, I seem to think: his ready tool

Picked up its precepts in Cortona's school—

That 's Pietro Berretini, whom they call

Cortona, these Italians: greatish-small,

Our painter was his pupil, by repute