After him came six heavily-laden carts, each drawn by a pair of bullocks, and the rear of the procession was brought up by a flock of a dozen bleating sheep, herded by a blasphemant man-at-arms.

They passed the astonished watchers, who remained concealed until that odd company had melted away into the night.
"I could swear," said Fanfulla, "that that friar and I have met before." "Nor would you do a perjury," answered him the fool.

"For it is that fat hog Fra Domenico--he that went with you to the Convent of Acquasparta to fetch unguents for his Excellency." "What does he in that company, and who are they ?" asked the Count, turning to the fool as they rode out of their ambush.
"Ask me where the devil keeps his lures," quoth the fool, "and I'll make some shift to answer you.

But as for what does Fra Domenico in that galley, it is more than I can hazard a guess on.

He is not the only one known to me," Peppino added, "There was Ercole Fortemani, a great, dirty, blustering ruffian whom I never saw in aught but rags, riding at their heads in garments of most unwonted wholeness; and there was Romeo Gonzaga, whom I never knew to stir by night save to an assignation.
Strange things must be happening in Urbino." "And the litters ?" inquired Francesco, "Can you hazard no guess as to their meaning ?" "None," said he, "saving that they may account for the presence of Messer Gonzaga.