Note 607 — BOOK XII[500]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Cf. Florio's Montaigne, Booke III. chap. IX.: Of Vanitie. "Amongst her vaine favours I have none doth so much please my fond self-pleasing conceit as an authenticke bull, charter or patent of denizenship or borgeouship of Rome, which at my last being there, was granted me by the whole Senate of that citie—garish and trimly adorned with goodly seales, and written in faire golden letters—bestowed upon me with all gracious and free liberalitie."—T.