SIENESE VILLAS 
unchanging verdure. Imagination must people the 
stage with the sylvan figures of the Aminta or the 
Pastor Fido f and must place on the encircling seats a 
company of nobil donne in pearls and satin, with their 
cavaliers in the black Spanish habit and falling lace 
collar which Vandyke has immortalized in his Genoese 
portraits ; and the remembrance of this leafy stage will 
lend new life to the reading of the Italian pastorals, and 
throw a brighter sunlight over the woodland comedies 
of Shakspeare. 
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