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Cosini
(To Agostino)
And if I mistake not,
I recognize In you the youngster,
who for us — when was it?
Agostino
When the Prince
Feasted at our Duke’s table.
Cosini
(Recollecting)
The day before we left Bologna.
Believe me, we have heard many a lute player
Since that day — but none like you.
So I take it as a good omen,
To find three such Masters here.
Ago stino
Permit our astronishment to ask a question.
When did you reach here?
Ercole
Twas rumoried.
that only the Duke
And Count Andrea reached home, the others
Are still on the way, with very little hope,
Of everauting home again.
Cosini
Heaven spared us from so bad an ending
With six friends
Of our journey.
I reached the City a few hours
After the Duke.
And ten richly laden beasts,
And indeed three wogons did we bring home,
Of such rare value that they are cq eted
By savants and by Kings.
Ereole
I wager they be Grecian manuscripts
Which you have found!
Cost ni
These are not wanting either.
And coins, jewels, old wespons,
And most splendid goods, enough, to dress
Twenty of Bologna's most besuteous women.
And then a Spearman in merble
That’s his pos — too bad he lecks an arm
Rescus d before our eyes from theSubbish
By Carsoli – God given to us when we have the leisr