Even at a cobbler’s stall, or tailor’s board),
“Good sir,” though to a tattered Swiss, “I pray,
May I not see His Eminence to-day?”
“No sproka to my Maister bater goud,
You go your lodgèe, come as when you coud.”[[4]]
“Sir, be so kind at least to let him know
That Lewis Ariosto is below.”
He answers that his Rev’rence would not see
St Paul himself, though on an embassy....
Lodovico Ariosto (1474–1533).