Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy].

  • Madame d'Aulnoy
Date:
1717
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Credit: Ingenious and diverting letters of a lady's travels into Spain; describing the devotions, nunneries, humour, customs, laws, militia, trade, diet, and recreations of that people / [Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » p] . 146... The Lady's Travels into Spain. need, but to draw Refpeët. Do you fee that Lady, fays fhe to fhe was ten Years old, fhe ever left them off, but when fhe the Streets and Affemblies you can never fail of meeting abun- ago, the Jacobite Friars had a Suit in Law of high importance 5 the Succefs of which they were too much concern’d for, ta neglect any Means. One of the young Fathers of the Conyent had fome Kindred of the greateft Quality, which upon his ac- count did follicit very hard on their behalf. The Prior affur’d him, that if through his Credit and Intereft they fhould get be granted him for an Acknowledgment,” Atlaft, they gain’d their point, and the young Father, tranfported with Joy, im-, mediately ran to tell the News ; and at the fame time.prepar’d himfelf to ask a Favour, which a long time he had had a migh- ty defire to obtain. But the Prior, after having: embrac’d him, with grave Looks and Tone, faid to him, Hermano, ponga las Ojalas 3 that is to fay, Brother, put on Spettacles. ‘The Honour of this Permiffion filled the young Monk with a ftrange Joy 5 he thought himfelf and hisCare too highly recompenced, and had nothing elfe to ask. ‘The Marque(s of 4ftorgas, Vice-Roy of Naples, added fhe, had his Statue, to the Middle, cut in Marble, upon which he was very careful to caufe his beft Spec- ‘J have heard, there are different Speétacles, according to the different Qualities and Degrees of Men and Women. Propor- tionably as a Man’s Fortune rifes, he increafes in the Largenefs for diftinétion, they call Ocales, They faften them behind their Ears, and leave them off as feldom as they do their Collars. Heretofore they had the Glaffes of them from Venice ; till after the Enterprize of the Marquefs of Cueva, which was called theTriumvirat, becaufe they were three Perfons who un- dertook to fire the Arfenal of Venice with Burning-Glaffes, and by this means to make the King of Spain Mafter of that thofe Orales to be made, and {ent to their Embaffador at Ma- grid, He prefented of them to the whole Court, and all ne ud
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