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 the arye, at two and twenty. They call men much by their Christian names, Signor Pietro, Signor Francesco, Signor Jacomo, &c. and you may live whole years with an Italian, and be very well acquainted with him without knowing him, that is, without knowing his distinctive surname. People of quality never visit one another, but they send first, to know when they may do it without troubling him they intend to visit: by byby [sic] this means they never rush into one anothers Chambers without knocking, as they do in France; nor cross the designs or business of him they visit, as they do in England with tedious dry visits; nor finde one another either undressed in clothes, unprovided in compliments and discourse, or without their attendants, and train about them. In the streets men and women of condition, seldome or never go together in the same Coach, except they be strangers, that is, of an other Town, or Country: nay husbands and wives are seldome seen together in the same Coach, because all men