"Thou hast not been sufficiently heedful of thy attire, for this is a town of luxury, and he who would meet applause must appear on the canals in the guise of one less borne upon by fortune." "I know them! I know them!" returned the fisherman; "they are led away by their pride, and they think ill of one who cannot share in their vanities.

But, friend unknown, I have brought with me a face, which, old though it be, and wrinkled, and worn by the weather like the stones of the sea-shore, is uncovered to the eye, and without shame." "There may be reasons which thou knowest not, why I wear a mask.

But if my face be hid the limbs are bare, and thou seest there is no lack of sinews to make good that which I have undertaken.

Thou should'st have thought better of the matter ere thou puttest thyself in the way of so much mortification.

Defeat will not cause the people to treat thee more tenderly." "If my sinews are old and stiffened, Signor Mask, they are long used to toil.