Ferdinand I. de Medici. This young princess had arrived in Italy
adorned in her rich French gowns, which she soon cast off in favor
of Italian fashions. This concession quickly made her a favorite.
It was at the wedding of Christine that the first Italian operas
were performed. (Litta, _Medici di Firenze_, IV., tav. xv.)
[95] P. 171:
◆Brantôme is very likely thinking of Princess de Condé, whom Pisani
brought before the Parliament, which acquitted her.
[96] P. 174–175:
◆Probably an allusion to Mme. de Simiers and not to Marguerite de
Valois, as Lalanne thinks. More tenacious if not more constant than
the princess, Louise de Vitry, Lady de Simiers, lost successively
Charles d’Humières at Ham, Admiral de Villars at Dourlens, and the
Duke de Guise, whom she deeply loved and who gave her so little in
return; this does not include Count de Randan, who died at Issoire,
and others of less importance. When she reached old age, old
Desportes alone remained for her. He had been her first lover, a
poet, whom she had forgotten among her warriors; but it was much too
late for both of them.
◆Brantôme is mistaken; it is Seius and not Séjanus.
[97] P. 177:
◆Théodore de Bèze, the Reformer; born at Vézelais, in the Nivernais,
1519. Author, scholar, jurist and theologian. Died 1595.
[98] P. 178:
◆All the satirical authors agree in charging Catherine de’Medici
with this radical change of the old French manners. It would be
juster to think also of the civil wars in Italy, which were not
without influence upon the looseness of the armies, and, therefore,
upon the whole of France.
[99] P. 179:
◆It is the 91st epigram of Bk. I.
[100] P. 180:
◆Isabella de Luna, a famous courtesan mentioned by Bandello.
◆Cardinal d’Armagnac was Georges, born in 1502, who was successively
ambassador in Italy and archbishop of Toulouse, and finally
archbishop of Evignon.
[101] P. 181:
◆Quotation badly understood. _Crissantis_, in the Latin verse, is a
participle and not a proper noun. (Cf. Juvenal, sat. iv.)
◆_Filènes_, from _Philenus_, a courtesan in Lucian.
◆The line should read,
Ipsa Medullinæ frictum crissantis adorat.
[102] P. 184:
◆Brantôme seems to speak of himself; yet he might merely have played
the side rôle of confidant in the comedy.
[103] P. 187:
◆Brantôme refers to the _Dialogue de la beauté des dames_.
Marguerite d’Autriche is not (as he says) the Duchess de Savoie,
who died in 1530, but the natural daughter of the Emperor; she
married Alessandro de’Medici, and later Ottavio Farnese.
[104] P. 189:
◆The famous Church of Brou, at Bourg, was built in 1511–36 by
the beautiful Marguerite of Austria, wife of Philobert II., le
Beau, Duke of Savoy, in fulfilment of a vow made by Marguerite of
Bourbon, her mother-in-law. It contains the magnificent tombs of
Marguerite herself, her husband and mother-in-law. Celebrated in a
well-known poem, “The Church of Brou,” of Matthew Arnold.
[105] P. 190:
◆Jean de Meung, the poet (nicknamed Clopinel on account of his
lameness), was born at the small town of Meung-sur-Loire in the
middle of the XIIIth Century. Died at Paris somewhere about 1320.
His famous _Roman de la Rose_ was a continuation of an earlier work
of the same name by Guillaume de Lorris, completed and published in
its final form by Jean de Meung.
[106] P. 192:
◆Twenty-sixth Tale. It is Lord d’Avesnes, Gabriel d’Albret.
[107] P. 194:
◆Claudia Quinta (Livy XXIX, 14).
[108] P. 196:
◆Plutarch, Œuvres mêlées, LXXVII, t. II., p. 167, in the 1808
edition.
[109] P. 200:
◆The vogue of drawers dated from about 1577; three years later the
hoop was in great favor and served to do away with the petticoat.
Brantôme probably means that the lady discards the petticoat and
wears the hoop over the drawers.
[110] P. 212:
◆The pun on _raynette_ and _raye nette_ cannot be reproduced in
English.
[111] P. 213:
◆Etienne Pasquier, the great lawyer and opponent of the Jesuits, was
born at Paris, 1529; died 1615.
◆Thibaut, sixth of the name, Comte de Champagne et Brie,
subsequently King of Navarre, was born 1201. Surnamed _Faiseur de
Chansons_ from his poetic achievements. Brought up at the Court of
Philippe-Auguste. The whole romance of his love for Queen Blanche
of Castille is apparently apocryphal; it rests almost entirely on
statements of one (English) historian, Matthew Paris. She was 16
years older than he, and is never once mentioned in his poems.
◆E. Pasquier, _Œuvres_, 1723, t. II, p. 38. “Which of the two,”
says Pasquier, “brings more satisfaction to a lover—to feel and
touch his love without speaking to her, or to see and speak to her
without touching her?” In the dialogue between Thibaut de Champagne
and Count de Soissons, Thibaut preferred to speak.
[112] P. 215:
◆Brantôme aims here at Queen Catherine de’Medici and her favorites.
◆_Cf._ Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, c. xxi.
[113] P. 216:
◆_Id._, Demetrius, cap. xxvii. Brantôme is mistaken; the woman in
question was Thônis.
◆Eighteenth Tale.
◆The “wheel of the nose” was a sort of “mask beard” that women wore
in cold weather; it was attached to the hood below the eyes.
[114] P. 220:
◆It was François de Compeys, lord of Gruffy, who sold his estate in
1518 in order to expatriate himself.
[115] P. 221:
◆It is not three but four S’s that the perfect lover must carry with
him, according to Luis Barabona (_Lagrimas de Angelica_, canto
IV.), and these four S’s mean:
SABIO, SOLO, SOLICITO ET SEGRETO.
These initial letters were much in vogue in Spain during the sixteenth
century.
[116] P. 224:
◆This story was popular in Paris; it was amplified and embellished
into a drama and ascribed to Marguerite de Bourgogne. Was it not
Isabeau de Bavière?
◆Isabeau, or Isabelle, de Bavière, wife of the half imbecile Charles
VI. of France, and daughter of Stephen II., Duke of Bavaria, was
born 1371; died 1435. Among countless other intrigues was one
with the Duc d’Orléans, her husband’s brother. One of her lovers,
Louis de Boisbourdon, was thrown into the Seine in a leather sack
inscribed _Laissez passer la justice du roi_. The famous story of
the Tour de Nesles seems mythical.
[117] P. 225:
◆See under _Buridan_, in Bayle’s _Dict. Critique_. Compare also
Villon, in his Ballade of the _Dames des Temps Jadis_ (Fair Dames
of Yore):
Semblablement où est la reine,
Qui commanda que Buridan
Fust jeté en un sac en Seine?
(Likewise where is the Queen, who commanded Buridan to be cast in a
sack into the Seine?)
[118] P. 227:
◆Plutarch, Anthony, Chap. xxxii.
[119] P. 229:
◆Livy, lib. XXX., cap. xv. Appien, _De Rebus punicis_, XXVII.
◆Joachim du Bellay, _Œuvres poétiques_, 1597.
◆_La Vieille Courtisane_ (“The Old Courtesan”), fol. 449. B. of the
_Œuvres poét._ of Joachim du Bellay, edition of 1597.
[120] P. 230:
◆This pun is difficult to explain.
[121] P. 231:
◆Lucian, _Amours_, XV.
[122] P. 235:
◆Marguerite, wife of Henri IV., whose elegance drew from the old
Queen Catherine this remark: “No matter where you may go, the court
will take the fashion from you, and not you from the court.”
(Brantôme, _Elogé de la reine Marguerite_.)
◆Brantôme alludes to the Duke d’Anjou.
◆Jeanne de Navarre, wife of Philippe le Bel, King of France,
daughter and sole heiress of Henri I. of Navarre, was born
1272, died 1305 at the early age of 33. She was a beautiful and
accomplished Princess, and the tales told by some historians
reflecting on her character are apparently quite without foundation.
◆The _Divorce satyrique_ attributes this contrivance to Queen
Marguerite, who adopted it to make her husband, the King of
Navarre, more deeply enamoured and more naughty.
[123] P. 236:
◆These are taken from an old French book entitled: _De la louange
et beauté des Dames_ (“Of the Praise and Beauty of Ladies”).
François Corniger has put the same into 18 Latin lines. Vencentio
Calmeta has rendered them also into Italian verse, commencing with
the words: _Dolce Flaminia_.
◆Pliny speaks of this Helen of Zeuxis.
[124] P. 237:
◆Ronsard, _Œuvres_, 1584 edition, p. 112. It is a poem addressed to
the famous painter Clouet, according to Janet, in which the poet
sings the praises of his fair lady. This poem has more than one
point in common with the present chapter of the _Dames_.
[125] P. 238:
◆Marot had arranged this Spanish proverb into a quatrain, and at the
time of the Ligue it was applied to the Infanta of Spain:
Pourtant, si je suis brunette,
Amy, n’en prenez esmoy,
Car autant aymer souhaitte
Qu’une plus blanche que moy.
[126] P. 239:
◆Raymond Lulle was a native of Majorca, and lived towards the end
of the thirteenth century: he was reputed to be a magician. The
story that Brantôme tells was taken from the _Opuscula_ by Charles
Bovelles, fol. XXXIV. of the in-4^o edition of 1521. The famous
Raimond Lulle (generally known in England as Raimond Lully),
philosopher and schoolman, was celebrated throughout the Middle
Ages for his logic and his commentary on Aristotle, and above all
for his art of Memory, or Ars Lulliana. He was born at Palma, the
capital of Majorca, in 1235. He travelled in various countries, and
died (1315) in Africa after suffering great hardships, having gone
there as a missionary.
[127] P. 240:
◆Or Charles de Bouvelles. His life of Raymond Lulle is a quarto,
printed at Paris, and published by Ascencius. It is dated 3rd of
the Nones of December, 1511. Several other works by the same author
are extant.
◆Arnauld de Villeneuve, a famous alchemist of the end of the
thirteenth century; he died in a shipwreck, in 1313.
◆Oldrade, a jurist, was born at Lodi in the thirteenth century. His
_Codex de falsa moneta_ is not known.
[128] P. 242:
◆Sisteron, in the Department of the Basses-Alpes, on the Durance.
Seat of a Bishopric from the 4th Century down to 1770.
◆Aimeric de Rochechouart (1545–1582) was the bishop of Sisteron; he
succeeded his uncle Albin de Rochechouart. As to the “very great
lady,” that applies to one of a dozen princesses.
[129] P. 244:
◆Pliny, XXXIII., cap. iv. Brantôme is mistaken about the temple.
[130] P. 246:
◆Claude Blosset, lady of Torcy, the daughter of Jean Blosset and
of Anne de Cugnac. She married Louis de Montberon (in 1553),
Baron de Fontaines and Chalandray, first gentleman of the king’s
bed-chamber. The beautiful Torcy, as she was called, had been
presented to Queen Eleonor by Mme. de Canaples, the enemy of Mme.
d’Etampes.
◆Hubert Thomas, _Annales de vita Friderici II. Palatini_ (Francfort,
1624), gives no idea of this exaggeration of Queen Eleonor’s bust,
who was promised to Frederick Palatine.
[131] P. 248:
◆Suetonius, _Octavius Augustus_, cap. lxix.
[132] P. 249:
◆Henri de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, nicknamed _le Balafré_, born 1550.
Murdered by the King’s (Henri III.) orders at Blois in 1588.
◆Duc d’Anjou, afterwards Henri III.
[133] P. 250:
◆The personages in question are probably Bussy d’Amboise and
Marguerite de Valois.
[134] P. 252:
◆The king was Henri II., and the grand widow lady the Duchess de
Valentinois. They thought it was due to a charm.
[135] P. 254:
◆Pico della Mirandola, _Opera omnia_, t. II., liv. III., chap.
xxii., in the 1517 edition.
◆Pico della Mirandola, one of the greatest of all the brilliant
scholars of the Renaissance, and so famous for the precocity
and versatility of his talents, was born 1463. After completing
his studies at Bologna and elsewhere, he visited Rome, where he
publicly exhibited a hundred propositions _De omni re scribili_,
which he undertook to defend against all comers. The maturity of
his powers he devoted to the study of religion and the Platonic
philosophy. He died 1494, on the day of Charles VIII.’s entry into
Florence.
[136] P. 255:
◆Ferdinando Francesco Avalos, Marquis de Pescaire, of a well-known
Neapolitan family, began his career as a soldier in 1512 at
the battle of Ravenna. Distinguished himself by the capture of
Milan (1521) and numerous other brilliant feats of arms. Took an
important part in the battle of Pavia, where François I. of France
was taken prisoner. Wounded in that battle, and died in the same
year, 1525. His wife was the celebrated Vittoria Colonna.
[137] P. 257:
◆Josephus, _The Antiquities of the Jews_, Bk. XV., Chap. vii. Herod
the Great; died B. C. 4. He put to death his wife Mariamné, as well
as her grandfather and his own sons by her.
[138] P. 258:
◆Shiraz, a town of Persia, capital of the Province of Fars, famous
for its roses, wine and nightingales, sung by the Persian poets
Hafiz and Saadi.
◆Plutarch, _Alexander_, Chap. XXXIX.
◆It is in his_ Observations de plusieurs singularités_ (Paris, 1554)
that Belon reports this fact. (Liv. III., chap. x., p. 179.)
[139] P. 261:
◆The usual form is Ortiagon. The woman is the beautiful Queen
Chiomara. (Cf. Livy, XXXVIII., cap. xxiv., and Boccaccio, _De
claris mulieribus_, LXXIV.) Chiomara, wife of Ortiagon, King of
Galatia, was taken prisoner by the Romans when Cn. Manlius Vulso
invaded Galatia, B. C. 189. The story is told by Polybius (XXII.,
21).
[140] P. 262:
◆Suetonius, _Cæsar_, LII.
[141] P. 263:
◆Livy, XXX., cap. xv.
◆Plutarch, _Cato the Elder_. Brantôme attributes the anecdote to
Scipion.
[142] P. 265:
◆Charles de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise, known as Cardinal de
Lorraine, died in 1574. He played an important rôle at the Council
of Trente. Brantôme refers to the truce of Vaucelles between Henri
II. and the Emperor, which Cardinal Caraffa had succeeded in
breaking in 1556. This passage had evidently been written before
1588, the year of the death of another Cardinal de Guise, the
brother of Balafré.
◆The beautiful Venitians are described by Vecellio as wearing
exquisite gowns on holidays. (See Vecellio, _Habiti antichi_,
Venice, 1590.)
[143] P. 266:
◆This passage is not in the _Dies geniales_ by Alessandro, but in
Herodotus, II., chap. ix.
[144] P. 267:
◆What Brantôme says of Flora is not true. The woman in question was
not called Flora, but Acca Taruntia.
[145] P. 269:
◆Pausanius, Suetonius, and Manilius have not written special works
on women. Brantôme is no doubt referring to the anecdotes that are
found in their works.
[146] P. 273:
◆This princess was Catherine de’Medeci.
[147] P. 275:
◆The same story has been told of Mademoiselle, cousin german of
Louis XIV., with this addition that she was in the habit of giving
any of her pages who were tempted by her charms a few louis to
enable them to satisfy their passion elsewhere.
[148] P. 276:
◆Suetonius, _Vitellius_, cap. ii.: “Messalina petit ut sibi pedes
præberet excalceandos.” Brantôme prefers to quote in his own manner.
◆LVIIth Tale.
◆Undoubtedly the grand prior François de Lorraine, who accompanied
Mary Stuart to Scotland; however, D’Aumale and René d’Elbeuf also
accompanied her.
[149] P. 281:
◆Philip II., of Spain, son of Charles the Fifth, born 1527; died
1588. The husband of Queen Mary of England.
[150] P. 282:
◆Béatrix Pacheco was lady of honor to Eleonor d’Autriche prior
to 1544 with several other Spanish ladies; she became Countess
d’Entremont through her marriage with Sébastien d’Entremont. Her
daughter, the woman in question here, was Jacqueline, the second
wife of Admiral de Coligny, against whom the enemies of her husband
turned; she was not, however, beyond reproach.
[151] P. 284:
◆The description which follows was textually taken by Brantôme from
account printed at Lyons, in 1549, entitled: “La magnificence de la
superbe et triomphante entrée de la noble et antique cité de Lyon
faicte au très-chrestien Roy de France Henry deuxiesme.”
[152] P. 286:
◆Brazilian wood, known before the discovery of America. _Brésil_ is
a common noun here.
[153] P. 287:
◆The king’s visit to Lyons took place September 18, 1548.
[154] P. 288:
◆La _volte_ was a dance that had come from Italy in which the
gentleman, after having made his partner turn two or three times,
raised her from the floor in order to make her cut a caper in the
air. This is the caper of which Brantôme is speaking.
◆Paul de Labarthe, lord of Thermes, Field Marshal of France, died in
1562. (Montluc, Ruble edition, t. II., p. 55.)
[155] P. 289:
◆Scio (Chios) was the only island in the Orient where the women wore
short dresses.
[156] P. 298:
◆Suetonius, _Caligula_, XXV. “Cæsonia was first the mistress and
afterwards the wife of the Emperor Caligula. She was neither
handsome nor young when Caligula fell in love with her; but she
was a woman of the greatest licentiousness.... At the time he was
married to Lollia Paulina, whom, however, he divorced in order to
marry Cæsonia, who was with child by him, A. D. 38.... Cæsonia
contrived to preserve the attachment of her imperial husband down
to the end of his life; but she is said to have effected this
by love-potions, which she gave him to drink, and to which some
persons attributed the unsettled state of Caligula’s mental powers
during the latter years of his life. Cæsonia and her daughter
(Julia Drusilla) were put to death on the same day that Caligula
was murdered, A. D. 41.”
[157] P. 299:
◆The Emperor Caracalla (M. Aurelius Antoninus) was the son of the
Emperor Septimus Severus and was born at Lyons, at the time
his father was Governor of Gallia Lugdunensis. Caracalla (like
Caligula) is really only a nickname, derived from the long Gaulish
cloak which he adopted and made fashionable. Reigned from Severus’
death at York in 211 to his own assassination in 217. His brother
Geta was at first associated with him in the Empire. Him he
murdered, and is said to have suffered remorse for the act to the
end of his life,—remorse from which he sought distraction in every
kind of extravagant folly and reckless cruelty.
◆Spartianus, _Caracalla_, Chap. x.
[158] P. 300:
◆This son was Geta.
[159] P. 301:
◆Béatrix was the daughter of Count Guillaume de Tenda; to her second
husband, Phillipe Marie Visconti, she brought all the wealth of her
first husband, Facino Cane. In spite of her ripe years, Béatrix was
suspected of adultery with Michel Orombelli, and Phillipe Marie had
them both killed. As a matter of fact this was a convenient way of
appropriating Facino Cane’s wealth.
◆Collenuccio, liv. IV., anno 1194.
◆Filippo Maria Visconti; born 1391, died 1447. Last Duke of Milan of
the house of Visconti, the sovereignty passing at his death to the
Sforzas.
◆Facino (Bonifacio) Cane, the famous _condottiere_ and despot
of Alessandria, was born of a noble family about 1360. The
principality he eventually acquired in N. Italy embraced, besides
Alessandria, Pavia, Vercelli, Tortona, Varese, and all the shores
of the Lago Maggiore. Died 1412.
◆Mother of Frederick II.
◆Pandolfo Collenuccio, famous as author, historian and juris-consult
towards the end of the XIVth century. Born at Pesaro, where he
spent most of his life, and where he was executed (1500) by order
of Giovanni Sforza, in consequence of his intrigues with Cæsar
Borgia, who was anxious to acquire the sovereignty of that city.
[160] P. 302:
◆Daughter of Bernardin de Clermont, Vicomte de Tallard.
◆Brantôme undoubtedly aims here at Marguerite de Clermont.
[161] P. 303:
◆Jean de Bourdeille.
◆Renée, daughter of Louis XII., married to the Duke of Ferraro. She
was ungainly but very learned.
[162] P. 304:
◆Marguerite d’Angoulème.
[163] P. 312:
◆Meung-sur-Loire, dep. Loiret, on right bank of the Loire, eleven
miles below Orléans.
◆Eclaron, dép. Maute-Marne.
◆Leonor, Duke de Longueville.
◆François de Lorraine, Duke de Guise.
[164] P. 313:
◆Louis I., Prince de Condé.
◆Captain Averet, died at Orléans in 1562.
◆_Compère_ was the name King Henri II. gave the Constable de
Montmorency.
[165] P. 316:
◆_Octavius_ is translated _Octavie_ by Brantôme. _Cf._ Suetonius,
_Caligula_, XXXVI., and _Octavius Augustus_, LXIX.
◆Suetonius, _Nero_, XXXIV.
[166] P. 318:
◆Brantôme undoubtedly refers to Henri III. and to the Duke
d’Alençon, his brother.
[167] P. 319:
◆Plutarch names this woman _Aspasia_ and makes her a priestess of
Diana. _Cf._ _Artaxerxes-Mnemon_, Chap. XXVI.
◆Collenuccio, liv. V., p. 208.
◆Artaxerxes I. (Longimanus), King of Persia for forty years, B. C.
465 to 425; he succeeded his father Xerxes, having put to death his
brother Darius.
[168] P. 320:
◆Wife of François d’Orléans.
◆Diane died at the age of 66, April 22, 1566; she was born in 1499.
◆Jacqueline de Rohan-Gié, married to François d’Orléans, Marquis de
Rothelin.
[169] P. 321:
◆François Robertet, widow of Jean Babou, whose second husband was
Field Marshal d’Aumont.
◆Catherine de Clermont, wife of Guy de Mareuil, grandmother of the
Duke du Montpensier, François, surnamed the _Prince-Dauphin_.
◆Gabrielle de Mareuil, married to Nicolas d’Anjou, Marquis de
Mézières.
◆Jacqueline or Jacquette de Montberon.
◆Françoise Robertet, widow of Jean Babon de la Bourdaisière.
[170] P. 322:
◆Paule Viguier, baronne de Fontenille.
◆Françoise de Longwi.
◆The praise of this Toulousean beauty is to be found in the very
rare opuscule by G. Minot, _De la beauté_, 1587.
[171] P. 323:
◆Anne d’Este. She was not exempt from the faults of a corrupt court.
◆This journey occurred in 1574.
◆Louis XII.
[172] P. 324:
◆Jean d’O, seigneur de Maillebois.
◆It is not François Gonzagne, but Guillaume Gonzagne, his brother
and successor to the duchy of Mantoue, born in 1538, died in 1587.
[173] P. 325:
◆He returns here to the Duchess de Guise.
[174] P. 326:
◆At the wedding of Charles Emmanuel, married to Catherine, daughter
of Philip II. of Spain.
[175] P. 327:
◆Marie d’Aragon, wedded to Alphonse d’Avalos, Marquis del Guasto or
Vasto.
◆Henri II., son of Francis I., and husband of Catherine de Medici.
Born 1518. Came to throne in 1547; accidentally killed in a tourney
by Montgommeri 1559.
◆Paul IV. (of the illustrious Neapolitan family of Caraffa) was
raised to the chair of St. Peter in 1558; died 1559.
◆This viceroy was Don Perafan, Duke d’Alcala, who entered Naples
June 12, 1559.
[176] P. 328:
◆Claude de Lestrange?
[177] P. 331:
◆Brantôme’s memory fails him. Of the two daughters of the Marquess,
Béatrix, the first married Count de Potenza; the other, Prince de
Sulmone.
[178] P. 336:
◆His son was François Ferdinand, Viceroy of Sicily, died in 1571.
[179] P. 337:
◆Soliman II.
[180] P. 351:
◆Referring to Montaigne’s _Essays_.
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Transcriber’s Note (continued)
The book contains long passages of older French in which the reader
will notice many flaws in grammar, spelling and accents. These may make
some of the French difficult to read but it will be obvious that this
cannot be fixed without sometimes inadvertently changing the intended
meaning. For that reason all passages in French are presented unchanged
in this transcription.
Similarly with the passages in Italian and Spanish.
For the rest of the text, the many inconsistencies in English spelling,
capitalisation, and hyphenation have been left unchanged except where
noted below. Other minor typographical errors have been corrected
without note.
Page xxvi – “ocasionally” changed to “occasionally” (occasionally
borrow)
Page 5 – “satsified” changed to “satisfied” (would fain be satisfied)
Page 18 – “emprisonment” changed to “imprisonment” (in perpetual
imprisonment)
Page 27 – “notorios” changed to “notorious” (most notorious harlot)
Page 46 – “pourtrayed” changed to “portrayed” (were portrayed a
number of)
Page 133 – “armourors” changed to “armourers” (armourers that do
make swords)
Page 145 – “si” changed to “is” (love is mastered by scorn)
Page 152 – “exceeding” changed to “exceedingly” (an exceedingly
narrow)
Page 157 – “hade” changed to “had” (that had made)
Page 162 – “acommodating” changed to “accommodating” (far more
accommodating)
Page 199 – “consecrate” changed to “consecrated” (the most surely
consecrated and devoted to Venus)
Page 226 – “alway” changed to “always” (always hard at the collar)
Page 236 – “thans” changed to “than” (than Zeuxis himself)
Page 237 – “alway” changed to “always” (yet will a beautiful woman
always be beautiful)
Page 237 – “an” changed to “and” (and if she have but the half)
Page 242 – “witties” changed to “wittiest” (one of the wittiet men
at Court)
Page 248 – “vigins” changed to “virgins” (even virgins of marriageable
age)