86 JEROME CARDAN. 



marry Lucia, and by his eagerness greatly surprised the 

 captain, who at first believed his offer to be made in jest, 

 knowing what chances of marriage he had up to that 

 time steadily refused 1 . The offer was, however, no jest, 

 and the willing maiden was led to the altar by a willing 

 man 2 , who afterwards, during the short time that he re- 

 mained in Sacco, received all the aid and kindness that 

 her parents could bestow upon him. The dog had 

 howled, the dream had warned, but Jerome Cardan took 

 a wife home notwithstanding. 



1 De Lib. Prop. Lib. ult. Opera, Tom. i. p. 97. 



2 "Duco volentem volens." Ibid. p. 98. 



