Then they went into the presence, and reported what we had said, and they brought us before the entrance of the hall, lifting up the felt which hung before the decor, and we sung A solis ortus cardine, &c. When we had sung this hymn, they searched our bosoms, to see that we had no concealed weapons, and they made our interpreter leave his girdle and knife with one of the doorkeepers.

Occidit ille risus et formae lepos, Ille nitor, illa gratia, et verus decor, Illae aemulantes purpuram, et rosas genae, Oculique vinctaeque aureo nodo comae.

" They make an art of it, as the poet telleth us, "Quis credat? discunt etiam ridere puellae, Quaeritur atque illis hac quoque parte decor.

deliver as much, corpus exangue pallet, corpus gracile, oculi cavi, lean, pale,ut nudis qui pressit calcibus anguem, "as one who trod with naked foot upon a snake," hollow-eyed, their eyes are hidden in their heads,[5240]Tenerque nitidi corposis cecidit decor, they pine away, and look ill with waking, cares, sighs.

He applauds and admires everything she wears, saith or doth, "Illam quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia vertit, Composuit furtim subsequiturque decor; Seu solvit crines, fusis decet esse capillis, Seu compsit, comptis est reverenda comis.

" Petrarch's Laura made him so famous, Astrophel's Stella, and Jovianus Pontanus' mistress was the cause of his roses, violets, lilies, nequitiae, blanditiae, joci, decor, nardus, ver, corolla, thus, Mars, Pallas, Venus, Charis, crocum, Laurus, unguentem, costum, lachrymae, myrrha, musae, &c. and the rest of his poems; why are Italians at this day generally so good poets and painters?

The easel and the painting gear stayed, part of the decor.

Illam, quicquid agit, quoquo Vestigia flectit, Componit furlim, subsequiturque decor.

Still they lend a picturesqueness to the countryside, though to me it is, as so much of the war has been, too much like the decor of a drama.

Illam, quicquid agit, quoquo Vestigia flectit, Componit furlim, subsequiturque decor.

And he would seclude himself in turn in the particular recess whose decor seemed best to correspond with the very essence of the work his caprice of the moment induced him to read.

Only the eighteenth century had succeeded in enveloping woman with a vicious atmosphere, imitating her contours in the undulations and twistings of wood and copper, accentuating the sugary languor of the blond with its clear and lively decors, attenuating the pungency of the brunette with its tapestries of aqueous, sweet, almost insipid tones.

A similar decor covered the plinths and bordered the partitions which were covered with Japanese sea-green crepe, slightly wrinkled, imitating a river rippled by the wind.