2 Metaphors for servente

As it is not the custom in Florence that husbands and wives should go together to places of public amusement, the lady is generally accompanied by her cavalier servente: but it by no means follows that the cavalier servente is the favored lover: one is often adopted as a cover to another who enjoys the peculiar favors of the lady.

In short, my cavaliere servente must be my shadow.

2 Metaphors for  servente