as may
readily be supposed, his madness was of the wildest and most extravagant
character.

Count Pisani endeavored to soothe his violence by assuring him that
Angelica had been carried off by force, and that she would doubtless
seize the first opportunity of escaping from the hands of her captors
and rejoining her lover. This assurance, repeated earnestly but gently,
speedily had the effect of calming the fury of the maniac, who, after a
little time, requested that the count would unfasten his
strait-waistcoat. This Count Pisani agreed to do, on condition of the
patient pledging his word of honor that he would not profit by his
liberty to make any attempt to pursue Angelica. This sympathy for
imaginary misfortune had a good effect. The patient did not attempt to
quit his bed, but merely raised himself up. He had been a year in the
establishment, and, notwithstanding the deep grief into which his
fancied misfortunes plunged him, he had never been known to shed tears.
Count Pisani had several times endeavored to make him weep, but without
success. He proposed soon to try the experiment of announcing to him the
death of Angelica. He intended to dress up a figure in funeral garments,
and to prevail on the heart-broken Orlando to be present at the
interment. This scene, it was expected, would have the effect of drawing
tears from the eyes of the sufferer; and if so, Count Pisani declared he
should not despair of his recovery.

In an apartment facing that of Orlando Furioso, there was another man
raving mad. When we entered his room he was swinging in a hammock, in
which he was fastened down, for biting his keeper. Through the gratings
of his window he could perceive his comrades strolling about and amusing
themselves in the garden. He wished to be among them, but was not
allowed to go, because, on a recent occasion, he had made a very violent
attack on a poor harmless creature, suffering from melancholy madness.
The offender was in consequence condemned to be tied down in his
hammock, which is the secondary punishment resorted to in the
establishment. The first and most severe penalty being imprisonment; and
the third the strait-waistcoat. "What is the matter?" said Count Pisani.
"What have you been doing to-day?" The lunatic looked at the count, and
then began whining, like a peevish child. "They will not let me go out
to play," said he, looking out of the window, where several of his
companions were enjoying the air in