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The Voyage

Jesmin, and Orenge flowers, as they did mine often. Now the best Pallaces here are those of Malvezzi, Campeggi, Pepoli, Fachinetti, Cespi and others.

The Nobility.17. These fine Houses are full also of Nobility, and I remember to have seen here at a Corso di Paglio upon Midsommer day the long great street lined quite through with coaches on both sides, and those coaches double lined with Ladies and Cavaliers of Garbo. Indeed it would be pity, that such a stately town as Bologna, should like Leyden in Holland, be full onely of Hanses and Boren.

Their Traffick.18. Their Traffick here consisteth much in silks, velvets, olives, leather bottles, gellies, wash balls, and little doggs for Ladyes, which here are so little, that the Ladyes carrying them in their muffs, haue place enough for their hands too.

Their Markets.19. Their Markets here are also exquisitly good for all provisions of mouth, witness their Salsicci onely which are a regalo for a Prince.

20. But