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I bade the seneschal who stood in attendance to give the messenger refreshment ere he left, and upon that dismissed him. When we were alone I turned to Bianca. "Galeotto bids me go," I said. "There is surely hope." She took the note, and passing a hand over her eyes, as if to clear away some mist that obscured her vision, she read it.
It appeared that once more there was talk between the Duke and Galeotto of the latter's taking service under him, and Galeotto made use of this circumstance to forward his plans. He was, I think, the most self-contained and patient man that it would have been possible to find for such an undertaking.
True there was also Falcone to overhear, appreciate, and grin under cover of his great brown hand. "Does this mean that you are come to your senses on the score of a stipend, Ser Galeotto?" quoth the Duke. "I am not a trader out of the Giudecca to haggle over my wares," replied the burly condottiero. "But I nothing doubt that your magnificence and I will come to an understanding at the last."
Nevertheless Shakespeare derived indirectly the plot of All's Well that Ends Well from the Ninth Novel of the Third Day, and an element in the plot of Cymbeline from the Ninth Novel of the Second Day. Beginneth here the book called Decameron, otherwise Prince Galeotto, wherein are contained one hundred novels told in ten days by seven ladies and three young men.
"You have not a happy air," said Galeotto as they went. "And, Body of God! it is no matter for marvel considering the company you keep. How long has the Farnese beast been here?" "His visit is now in its third week," said Cavalcanti, answering mechanically. Galeotto swore in sheer surprise. "By the Host! And what keeps him?" Cavalcanti shrugged and let his arms fall to his sides.
"And you, sir," said Galeotto, smiling his sweetest in return, "are, I trust, a better charlatan than a condottiero." He went up the stairs, the gaudy throng making way before him, and he came at last to the top, where stood the Lord of Pagliano awaiting him, a great trouble in his eyes. They clasped hands in silence, and Cavalcanti went in person to lead his guest to his apartments.
But let the people rise and show themselves ill-governed, let them revolt against Farnese once he has been created their duke and when thus the State shall have been alienated from the Holy See, and then you may count upon the Emperor to step in as your liberator and to buttress up your revolt." "Do you promise us so much?" asked Galeotto.
The familiar appearance and proceedings of life became wonderful and heavenly, and a paradise was created as out of the wrecks of Eden. And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art: Galeotto fu il libro, e chi lo scrisse.
His answer to the Pope was that if Parma and Piacenza are Imperial fiefs integral parts of the State of Milan it would ill become the Emperor to alienate them from an empire which he holds merely in trust; whereas if they can be shown rightly to belong to the Holy See, why then the matter concerns him not, and the Holy See may settle it." Galeotto shrugged and his face grew dark.
What the end would have been but for the terrible intervention there was in our affairs, I have often surmised without result. It happened that one day, about a week after Galeotto had left us there rode up to the gates of Pagliano a very magnificent company, and there was great braying of horns, stamping of horses and rattle of arms.
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