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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

Note 84 — VI OF FUGITIVE AND CLOISTERED VIRTUE[83]

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A reference to Pietro Aretino, born in 1492, died in 1557, a notoriously indecent writer and adventurer. Henry VIII once sent him 300 crowns.

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