" "Like the Orseoli!" said Morosini Morosini, who was a friend of the Giustiniani, and who, like many another strong-brained Venetian, knew the taste of unsatisfied longings, yet kept a brave heart for the records of the Republic.

" "Like the Orseoli!" said Morosini Morosini, who was a friend of the Giustiniani, and who, like many another strong-brained Venetian, knew the taste of unsatisfied longings, yet kept a brave heart for the records of the Republic.

"Nay," said another speaker quickly, a friend to Morosini the historianfor the Broglio had been known to have a voice as well as ears, and the subject was a dangerous one, not honorable to Venice"Nay, there are no Orseoli.

" "And the coronation oath hath grown over straight since the days of the Michieli," responded Morosini.

But Morosini, by grace of the Signoria, hath been with me for a moment, that there may be no misgivings of fear upon this fête-day of our house.

One of the habitues of the Aldine Club was chief among this noble company of the Morosini.

He had opinions gathered at first hand from influential minds of every land and creed to contribute to the talk when it flowed in narrowing channels; and he himself came thither for refreshment from abstruse studies, out of a quiet cell in the convent of the Servi, while seemingly unaware that many a stranger begged for an invitation to the palazzo Morosini in the hope of an introduction to this "miracle of Venice.

Morosini questioned of Donato, who had been ambassador in Rome while Paul V, who had but just ascended the throne, was still Cardinal Borghese.

Morosini urged.

"It is well to know the qualities we have to fear," said Andrea Morosini, "and we have listened in the Senate to letters from our ambassador at Rome which bespeak his Holiness of a presence and a dignitysave for over-quickness of temperwhich befit a Pope; and that he hath reserved himself from promises, to the displeasure and surprise of some of those who created him.

The Senator Morosini turned graciously to Marcantonio.

But Morosini repeated Marcantonio's speech with some amusement, for the scholarly friar had never been known to have a friend among the womenold or young.

" "Who named him to the Signoria?" "Donato knew him well, and Morosini and all our ablest men; and his knowledge of the ways of Rome, where he hath been much in legislation at the Vatican, is a power in the Senatewhich hath no mind to be taken in argument, nor to fail in courtesy, nor to show ignorance in its demands.

"The Senators Morosini and Sagredo will escort them," he said, "and will return in haste with the Senator Giustiniani to do their duty to the Republic.

"It cannot be from knowledge, acquired as all men learn, that he taketh this position in such varied sciences," said the Senator Morosini; "for a life-time doth suffice to few men for such attainment in one field as he hath reached in all.

[Note 6: Sabellicus, in a letter to Antonio Morosini (Liber Epistolarum, xi., p. 459) wrote thus of Pomponius Lætus: ...fuit ab initio contemptor religionis, sed ingravesciente ætate coepit res ipsa, ut mibi dicitur curæ esse.