Giovanni Boccaccio

“ After awhile, the rain showing no sign of giving over and they wishing to304 reach Florence by daylight, they borrowed of their host two old homespun cloaks and two hats, rusty with age, for that there were no better to be had, and set out again upon their way. ”

“ DAY SIXTH-NOVEL V
-- Messer Forese da Rabatta and Master Giotto the painter coming from Mugello. each jestingly rallieth the other on his scurvy favour --
Neifile being silent and the ladies having taken much pleasure in Chichibio's reply, Pamfilo, by the queen's desire, spoke thus: "Dearest ladies, it chanceth often that, like as fortune whiles hideth very great treasures of worth and virtue under mean conditions, as hath been a little before shown by Pampinea, even so, under the sorriest of human forms are marvellous wits found to have been lodged by nature ”