He said, and departed for Alcanto, where the senator Hippomanes has his private lodge. He enters, walks round the apartments, and examines the furniture. Everything has a gay appearance. The private lodge of Agefilas, the nicest and most voluptuous of his courtiers, is not more elegant. He was on the point of resolving to leave it, without knowing what to think; (for besides all the rich beds, the looking-glass alcoves, the soft sofa’s; the cabinet of exquisite liquors, and everything else, were silent witnesses of what he desired to know:) when he espied a corpulent figure stretched on a couch, and sunk in a deep sleep. He turn’d his ring on her, and from her Toy he obtained the following anecdotes.