Pietro Nelli Quote

As when you melons in the market buy.
You'll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile,
'Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy.
So, in our day, of all the tongues we deem,
From outward showing, free from every guile,
But two per cent, are really what they seem.

Satire, II., IX. — "A Benedetto Barbarigo."

As when you melons in the market buy. You'll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile, 'Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy. So, in our day, of all...

As when you melons in the market buy. You'll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile, 'Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy. So, in our day, of all...

As when you melons in the market buy. You'll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile, 'Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy. So, in our day, of all...

As when you melons in the market buy. You'll cut a hundred, and, amongst the pile, 'Tis hard if you two good ones shall espy. So, in our day, of all...