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A single tear fell from Gulielmo, notwithstanding the proud compressure of his lips. "Let it be so," said he. "I will make no words about it. Neither will I shun her sight. I will face it out, and shame them who think to flout me thus." "Bravo, my lad!" exclaimed Sartello. "I find that you are of the true stuff. So come along; the hour is already near, when she is to change her name.
Meanwhile, Gulielmo roamed the hills, his heart swelling with sadness. What use in longer adherence to home and the lowly shepherd's lot? No, he would no longer tamely submit to poverty and the contempt which it entailed on its victim. The moment was now arrived when he must bid adieu to Rosa, loved in vain, and to Sorento, spot hitherto so loved and lonely.
"Scoundrel!" replied Gulielmo, "dare no jests with me, else your life may fail you before your wedding is over." "My wedding may be near at hand," returned Jean; "but I fear much that Rosa will hardly be my bride. Go, fair maid, and lead this stubborn youth hither. If all else fail, I think that thou wilt be able to hold him captive." Rosa sprang from the porch to meet Gulielmo.
Suppose for instance that some great lord, or other noble patron of the arts, should send thee a couple of years to Rome; but I forget. Perchance the maid whom thou hast pictured here, might interpose her pretty face to spoil so fair a plan?" "Alas!" said Gulielmo, quickly, "she is not for me.
Lilly's behalf, he most readily granted, in the manner following, viz. 'GILBERTUS providentia divina Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus totius Angliæ Primas & Metropolitanus, dilecto nobis in Christo GULIELMO LILLY in Medicinis Professori, salutem, gratiam, & benedictionem. Dat. undecimo die mensis Octobris, Anno Domini 1670. Nostræque translationis Anno Octavo.
Thus musing, he began to trace on the sandy soil a rude outline, which certainly bore a striking resemblance to Rosa's pretty features. "Well done, Master Gulielmo!" suddenly exclaimed a strange voice. The startled youth looked up, and in so doing cast his eye on a face which seemed not altogether unknown to his remembrance.
"It is worse," said Mike, "than the Middle Temple Hall far worse; but I like this old colonnade, there is something so suggestive in this old inscription in bad Latin. 'Vetustissima Templariorum porticu Igne consumptâ; an 1679 Nova hæc sumptibus medii Templie extructa an 1681 Gulielmo Whiteloche arm Thesauör."
Ay, and deaf too, I'll be sworn, he cou'd neither hear, see nor understand; this Love's a miraculous thing. Guil. And that Minute, the most renoun'd Don Gulielmo Roderigo de Chimeny Sweperio, became your Gally-Slave, I say no more, but that I do love, and I will love, and that if you are but half so willing as I, I will dub you, Viscountess de Chimeny Sweperio. Isa. I am in Heaven, ah!
I have gained some honor, whatever its worth may be. And now, how fares the gentle maid whom I so long to see?" "Ah," replied Sartello, shaking his head sadly, "these women are indeed a puzzle. I fear much that Rosa's mind has changed since your departure. Absence, as the poets say, is love's worst bane. But let her go, Gulielmo; fairer charms than hers will soon ease your pain."
William Grotius wrote about this time the lives of the Advocates, under the title of Vitæ Jurisconsultorum quorum in Pandectis exstant nomina, conscriptæ a Gulielmo Grotio Jurisconsulto Delphensi. He sent this book to his brother, who writes to him that he read it with pleasure, and was delighted to see a work which demonstrated his brother's genius, learning, and good sense.
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