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14 Meddals of Gold, Silver, and Brass, as would have become the Cabinet of any Prince. In fine, they are extreamly civil to one another, not onely out of an awe they stand in one towards another, not knowing whose turn it may be next, to come to the highest Honours; bur also out of a Natural Gravity and Civil Education, which makes even Schoolboys (an insolent Nation any where else) most respectful to one another if words and deeds; treating one another with Vostra Signoria, and abstaining from all gioco di mauo. Nay Masters themselves here, never beat their Servant, but remit them to Justice, if the fault require it, and I cannot remember to have heard in Rome, two Women scold publickly, or Man and Wife quarrel in words, except once; and then they did it so privatly and secretly, and scolded in such a low tone, that I perceived the Italians had reason about them even in the midst of their choler.

As for their particular Customs, they are many, They marry by their