He replied that it was a favourite song among the popolino of Trapani
about a girl who did not want to be seen going about with a man. “The
people in this place,” says the song, “are very ill-natured, and if they
see you and me together, they will talk,” &c.
I do not say that there was any descent here from Nausicaa’s speech to
Ulysses, but I felt as though that speech was still in the air. [_Od.
VI_. 273.]
I reckon Gadshill and Trapani as perhaps the two most classic grounds
that I frequent familiarly, and at each I have seemed to hear echoes of
the scenes that have made them famous. Not that what I heard at Gadshill
is like any particular passage in Shakespeare.