And that is the reason why you will find ,if you travel there, as I trust you may, for nowhere are the ladies fairer or the men so gallant) more win- dows in the Duchy of Deodonato than anywhere in the wide world besides. For the more windows, the wider the view ; and the wider the view, the more pretty damsels you see, the more jocund a thing is life — and that is what the men of the Duchy love — and not least Duke Deodonato, whom, with his bride Dulcissima, may Heaven long preserve !