The latter, in 1566, married a wealthy shoemaker from Siena, Gaspare Chinucci, but her husband divorced her; and then Duke Cosimo caused her father to marry her, in 1572, to an opulent foreign merchantMesser Baldassarre Suarez, who had come over from Spain and was a protégé of the Duchess Eleanora.

"It is true," repeated the shoemaker, throwing into his words all the bitterness of his grinding life of poverty, with a constantly increasing family, and with no other help but his inadequate work.

" "Do you hush, tailor!" cried the hunchbacked shoemaker.

Not immediately comprehending how Solon or Scipio could be introduced in a fray at Paris, I dispatched Angelique to make enquiry; and at her return I learned that a croud of boys were following a shoemaker of the neighbourhood, who, while he was member of a revolutionary Committee, had chosen to unite in his person the glories of both Rome and Greece, of the sword and gown, and had taken unto himself the name of Scipio Solon.

It was his delight, for instance, to remind a certain shoemaker, noted alike for display of wealth and for personal uncleanness, of his inconsiderable origin in a song of which but the first stanza has come down to us:

" "No, señor," replied the shoemaker.

"We meet in the tower now," said the bell-ringer; "Silver Stick looks on our meetings with an evil eye, and he has gone so far as to threaten the shoemaker to turn him out of the Claverias if the meetings continue to be held in his house.

Well, then, do me a favor and bring the shoemaker immediately to take my measure for a pair of boots.

Even the good Wooden Staff, Esteban, protested in his own way, saying quietly to Don Antolin: "Is it really true that you intend turning out the shoemaker?

They could not live without him, so declared the shoemaker.

not but what our Ned's as good as he is." "Is Ned up there now?" demanded the shoemaker, turning pale, as the mirthful face of Mr. Garnham suddenly occurred to him.

"Here lies Tom Nash, that notable railer, That in his life ne'er paid shoemaker nor tailor.