CHAPTER II

_Titania_. If you will patiently dance in our round, And see our moonlight revels, go with us. MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Early on the following morning, the travellers set out for Turin. The luxuriant plain, that extends from the feet of the Alps to that magnificent city, was not then, as now, shaded by an avenue of trees nine miles in length; but plantations of olives, mulberry and palms, festooned with vines, mingled with the pastoral scenery, through with the rapid Po, after its descent from t…