text: " If the verses above would have baffled the sagacity of the father of Italian literature what would he have thought of the following in which the interview between Sir Hubert and Mabel is described when the lady comes to negotiate with him about the hawk? She accosts him "Sir Hubert!" and then there is presented to our imaginations such a picture of female loveliness as (thank Heaven!) can only be done justice to in the language which is employed for the occasion