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What the manoeuvres of the next day might have effected, and how far Sir John Hunter profited by the new instructions which were given to him in consequence of this conversation, can never be accurately ascertained, because the whole united plan of operations was disturbed by a new and unforeseen event. "Un volto senza senno, Un petto senza core, un cor senz' alma, Un' alma senza fede."

Others represented the hero Hidesato vanquishing a monster on the bridge of Seta; the sage Lao Tsze on his ox; Senno Kinko, a pious man, riding on his golden-eyed carp, absorbed in a book; the god Idaten, pursuing an oni, or devil, who had stolen Buddha's pearl; a bird prying open a Venus's shell with his bill; a golden-eyed octopus or cuttlefish; the sage Kiko leaning from the window of his house, reading a scroll by moonlight.

Ov' è, Rinaldo, il tuo senno di pria? Ov' è, Rinaldo, il tuo antivedere? Ov' è, Rinaldo, la tua fantasia? Ov' è, Rinaldo, l' arme e 'l tuo destriere? Ov' è, Rinaldo, la tua gloria e fama? Ov' è, Rinaldo, il tuo core? a la dama." Canto xvi. st. 50. Oh where, Rinaldo, is thy gagliardize? Oh where, Rinaldo, is thy might indeed? Oh where, Rinaldo, thy repute for wise?

It is said that Soami, the great painter and connoisseur of the court of Ashikaga-Yoshimasa, was one of the earliest adepts at it. Juko, the tea-master, was one of his pupils, as was also Senno, the founder of the house of Ikenobo, a family as illustrious in the annals of flowers as was that of the Kanos in painting.

The ostensible motive for this elaborate ornamentation is contained in the portraits of six poets, who are probably Homer, Virgil, Lucan, Horace, Ovid, and Dante, il sesto tra cotanto senno. But the portraits themselves, though vigorously conceived and remarkable for bold foreshortening, are the least part of the whole design.

This looks different enough from the common text, that, for example, of the Florentine edition of 1844. I' mi volsi a Beatrice, e quella udio Pria ch' io parlassi, ed arrisemi un cenno Che fece crescer l' ale al voler mio. Poi cominciai cosi: L' affetto e il senno, Come la prima egualita v' apparse, D' un peso per ciascun di voi si fenno;