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Lian, in whose honour I say it, hath gotten me this favour of God; nor
meseemeth should I fare well by day nor come to good harbourage at
night, except I had said it in the morning.' 'And did you say it[82]
this morning?' asked he who had put the question to him. 'Ay did I,'
answered Rinaldo; whereupon quoth the other in himself, knowing well how
the thing was to go, 'May it stand thee in stead![83] For, an no
hindrance betide us, methinketh thou art e'en like to lodge ill.' Then,
to Rinaldo, 'I likewise,' quoth he, 'have travelled much and have never
said this orison, albeit I have heard it greatly commended, nor ever
hath it befallen me to lodge other than well; and this evening maybe you
shall chance to see which will lodge the better, you who have said it or
I who have not. True, I use, instead thereof, the _Dirupisti_ or the
_Intemerata_ or the _De Profundis_, the which, according to that which a
grandmother of mine used to tell me, are of singular virtue.' [Footnote
81: _i.e._ take things by the first intention, without seeking to refine
upon them, or, in English popular phrase, "I do not pretend to see
farther through a stone wall than my neighbours."] [Footnote 82: _i.e._
the aforesaid orison.] [Footnote 83: Or "'Twill have been opportunely
done of thee."] Discoursing thus of various matters and faring on their
way, on the look out the while for time and place apt unto their knavish
purpose, they came, late in the day, to a place a little beyond Castel
Guglielmo, where, at the fording of a river, the three rogues, seeing
the hour advanced and the spot so