Her husband sailed upon the Adriatic,

And made some voyages, too, in other seas,

And when he lay in Quarantine for pratique[206]

(A forty days' precaution 'gainst disease),

His wife would mount, at times, her highest attic,

For thence she could discern the ship with ease:

He was a merchant trading to Aleppo,

His name Giuseppe, called more briefly, Beppo.[207]