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3 Verbs to Use for the Word courtesans
Where Guarini depicted a courtesan, Fletcher has painted a yahoo.
In Italy he is not a gentleman, that besides his wife hath not a courtesan and a mistress.
[5077]P. Jovius commends his Italian countrywomen, to have an excellent faculty in this kind, above all other nations, and amongst them the Florentine ladies: some prefer Roman and Venetian courtesans, they have such pleasing tongues, and such [5078] elegancy of speech, that they are able to overcome a saint, Pro facie multis vox sua lena fuit.