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 Liveries; and that Money which we spend in Treats and 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 than a loud whispering.

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 behaviour, 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 curious 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 only out of an awe they stand in one towards another, not knowing whose turn it may be next, to come to the highest Honours ; but also out of a Natural Gravity and Civil Education, which makes even School Boys (an insolent Nation any where else) most respectful to one another in words and deeds ; treating one another