Dialogi Marini

Doris A handsome lover, Galatea, this Sicilian shepherd who they say is so mad for you!

Galatea Don’t be sarcastic, Doris; he is Posidon’s son, after all.

Doris Well, and if he were Zeus’s, and still such a wild shaggy creature, with only one eye (there is nothing uglier than to have only one eye), do you think his birth would improve his beauty?

Galatea Shagginess and wildness, as you call them, are not ugly in a man; and his eye looks very well in the middle of his forehead, and sees just as well as if it were two.

Doris Why, my dear, from your raptures about him one would think it was you that were in love, not he.