Coryat's Crudities; Reprinted from the Edition of 1611. to Which Are Now Added, His Letters from India, &C. and Extracts Relating to Him, from Various - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 edition. Excerpt: ...is erected a faire monument alfo of the Dukes father and mother done in Alabafter with their Hatues very artificially made at the toppe, and their Epitaphs in Latin: but this monument is farrc inferiour to the other. This following was written upon the tombc of a certaine Bifhop of Neuers, that was buried in the Quire of the fame Church. Firft aboue the reft this is written in golden letters upon a peece of touch-ftone. Sapientia amara tnexpertis. Vnder that this, Arnaldi Sarbini Niuernenfis Eptfcopl Stemmata. 1592. Laft this Magnus fedis honos,fedi at preejlat ejje honori. The high altar of the Church is very fump-luous, being beautiful with ftately pillars of marble, and great fquare peeces of touch-ftone, very like to thofe of the laft Dukes Tombe. The Quire is hanged with a great deule of very faire tapiftry or cloth of arras, There is alefuitical Colledge in Neuers, whofe printed bils in Latin of certain matters touching the victories of Carolus Quintus and other things I faw hanged up by the South gate of the Cathedrall Church, and in another place of the citie. I neucr faw fo many roguifh Egyptians together in any one place in all my life as in Neuers, where there was a great multitude of men, women and children of them, that t'ifguiie their faces, as our counterfct weftern Egyptians in England. For both their hairc and their faces looked fo blacke, as if they were raked out of hel, and fent into the world by great Beelzebub, to terrific and aftonifli mortall men: their men are very Ruffians & Swashbucklers, hauing exceeding long blacke haire curled, and fwords or other weapons by their fides. Their women alfo fuffer their haire to hang loofely about their (boulders, whereof fome I faw dancing in the ftreets, and finging lafciuious...

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