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    High And Low Life In Italy,

    audietice the whdle ? mbthitig to people of Gvefy liatidri in the wwld : that iff is th £ only court ft £ ever desires to enters but

    that here he is so great a cottrtier , he is ready to endure thro life the suspicions of Tiberius * the scowl of Caligula , and the contempt of Nero . I am , 8 cc .

    MR . STIVERS TO LADY C . My Lady , Since Mr Tallboys has been at Florence , he has not forgotten to keep his word with master . He is as busy as old

    Spindkt in picking up news and anecdotes . I will give you a specimen , but you must not shew it to anybod y ^ for master is as particular as the most jealous lover , both in keeping his own to himself and in

    having the first of it . A Bolognese at Florence , who did not know his way about the city , met by chance an Englishman near theDuomo , and asked him the toad to

    Via de' Servi ( Slave street ) . " Take which you please , " replied the Englishman , " you cannot miss it . " Do you desire another ? Here it is then .

    " It is difficult to imagine /' said a Florentine to a countrymaii of Ours , " how Prince Cbrsini , who dats and drinks but moderately , even when from hbme , and takes iaoderate

    exercise , and totally abstains from study , should have the stotle itt his bladder /* " A pifece broken bff his heart /* said the Cynit ? , He had en-

    High And Low Life In Italy,

    dured tnir mltody fb * ftfefet # t moiiths fifidftf' e ^ riM & titig % ii ^ tures , arid entered into a tftiffg negotiation With a Stirggdtt of Paris , who demanded one hundred louis for his journey aiid operation . One dfcy his fariiflf

    sent for the parish priest in great hurry and trejpid & tiftn ^ to conie and give him extreme unction ; for they heard him cry aloud , " Meglio moriite Meglio morire ! better to die better to die V Wtifen tbig

    priest came , they * dll entered the chamber together , and found him walking up and down the room with tliG fatal letter in his h & ndj which he had just received from the Post-office .

    I am , & c . MR TALLBbYS TO HIS FATHER . My dear Sir , A single life is not the life of a rational man , and rarely the life of a happy orie . Beauty

    has attractions for all ; but tise ^ ful pursuits and serious reflexions often intercept the object . When however the moat exquisite beatlty is United with

    a modesty incomparably inore rare , can it be , should it be neglected or resisted ? O ttiy dear father ! may I lay Open my heart to you ! In vain did yoii desire me at parting not to suffer my affection ^ to be en- *

    gaged abroad . Surely it is iitot disobedience if they are seized and occiipied . The young lady has no fortune , but hat family is respect & blfe , Mi hope to throw myself with her into your arm ^ and to Implore

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/31/