Of Italy
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Taverns, they spend in Coach and Furniture. They never whisper privately with one another in company, nor speak to one another aloud in an unknown tongue when they are in conversation with others, thinking this to be no other then a lowd whispering.
Their Ceremonies.They are precise in point of Ceremony and Reception; and are not puzzled at all, when they hear a great man is coming to visit them. There's not a man of them, but he knows how to entertain men of all conditions; that is, how far to meet, how to place them, how to stile and treat them, how to reconduct them, and how far. They are good for Nunciatures, Embassies, and State Employments, being men of good behavior, looks, temper, and discretion, and never out-running their business. They are great Lovers of Musick, Meddals, Statues, and Pictures, as things which either divert their Melancholy, or humor it: and I have read of one Jacomo Raynero a Shoomaker of Bolognia, who gathered together so many curiousMeddals
