Note 350 — ACT V.
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A mirror of refinement, a gallant of Castilian breeding. But there is also a reference to Baldessar Castiglione, author of the celebrated treatise Il Cortese. So in Guilpin’s Skialeheia, 1598, the name “Balthazer” is applied to a spruce courtier:— “Come to the court, and Balthazer affords Fountains of holy and rose-water words. Hast thou need of him and wouldst find him kind? Nay, then, go by, the gentleman is blind.” Sig. C. 4.