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furiously, and they hastened to take shelter in the
house of a peasant thereabouts who was known to
them; but the storm still prevailing, they, con-
sidering that they must of necessity return to
Florence the same day, borrowed from the peasant
two old, worn-out pilgrim-cloaks and two rusty old
hats, and so they set forth. They had not pro-
ceeded very far when they found themselves wet
through with the rain, and all bespattered with the
mud; but after a while, the weather clearing in
some small degree, they took heart, and from being
silent they began to discourse of various matters.
Messer Forese having listened a while to Giotto,
who was in truth a man most eloquent and lively
in speech, could not help casting on him a glance
as he rode alongside, and considering him from
head to foot thus wet, ragged, and splashed all
over, and thus mounted and accoutred, and not
taking his own appearance into account, he laughed
aloud. ‘ O Giotto,’ said he, jeeringly, ‘ if a stranger
were now to meet us, could he, looking on you,
believe it possible that you were the greatest painter
in the whole world ?’ ‘ Certainly,’ quoth Giotto,
with a side glance at his companion, ‘ certainly ; if
looking upon your worship he could believe it pos-
sible that you knew your ABC!’ Whereupon
Messer Forese could not but confess that he had
been paid in his own coin.”
This is one of many humorous repartees which
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furiously, and they hastened to take shelter in the
house of a peasant thereabouts who was known to
them; but the storm still prevailing, they, con-
sidering that they must of necessity return to
Florence the same day, borrowed from the peasant
two old, worn-out pilgrim-cloaks and two rusty old
hats, and so they set forth. They had not pro-
ceeded very far when they found themselves wet
through with the rain, and all bespattered with the
mud; but after a while, the weather clearing in
some small degree, they took heart, and from being
silent they began to discourse of various matters.
Messer Forese having listened a while to Giotto,
who was in truth a man most eloquent and lively
in speech, could not help casting on him a glance
as he rode alongside, and considering him from
head to foot thus wet, ragged, and splashed all
over, and thus mounted and accoutred, and not
taking his own appearance into account, he laughed
aloud. ‘ O Giotto,’ said he, jeeringly, ‘ if a stranger
were now to meet us, could he, looking on you,
believe it possible that you were the greatest painter
in the whole world ?’ ‘ Certainly,’ quoth Giotto,
with a side glance at his companion, ‘ certainly ; if
looking upon your worship he could believe it pos-
sible that you knew your ABC!’ Whereupon
Messer Forese could not but confess that he had
been paid in his own coin.”
This is one of many humorous repartees which
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