P.
446).
Footnote 226: Fynes Moryson had a great deal to say on this subject. In
particular, he instances the Germans as reprehensible in living only
with their own countrymen in Italy, "never attaining the perfect use of
any forreigne Language, be it never so easy. So as myselfe remember one
of them, who being reprehended, that having been thirty yeeres in Italy
hee could not speake the Language, he did merrily answer in Dutch: Ah
lieber was kan man doch in dreissig Jahr lehrnen? Alas, good Sir, what
can a man learne in thirty yeeres?" (Itinerary, vol. in. p. 379).
Footnote 227: A Method for Travell, B 4, verso.
Footnote 228: Court and Times of James I., vol. i. p. 286.
Footnote 229: Amias Paulet to Elizabeth, Jan. 31, 1577. Cal. State
Papers, Foreign.
Footnote 230: By Cesare Nigri Milanese detto il trombone, "Famose e
eccellente Professori di Ballare." Printed at Milan, 1604.
Footnote 231:
"In twenty manere coude he trippe and dance
After the schole of Oxenforde tho,
And with his legges casten to and fro."
The Milleres Tale, 11. 142-4.
Footnote 232: Ellis, Original Letters, 2nd Series, vol. iii. p. 214.
Footnote 233: Ibid., 1st Series, vol. iii. pp. 138-9.
Footnote 234: A Method jor Travell, fol.
