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Good Signora Barbaria, you did not speak the American language, nor understand those curious perversions of thought which pass among the Americans for humour; but you understood how to make a little inn cheerful and home-like; yours was a very simple and agreeable art of keeping a hotel.
"When did a poet ask two names to head his sonnet? And surely you wanted mine for a sonnet?" "So be it, Cydaria," said I. "So be it, Simon. And is not Cydaria as pretty as Barbaria?" "It has a strange sound," said I, "but it's well enough." "And now the nosegay!" "I must pay a reckoning for this," I sighed; but since a bargain is a bargain I gave her the nosegay.
Sed enarrata Africae antiquitate, res postulat, uti novam etiam ejus descriptionem subjiciamus. Dividitur nunc universa in septem potissimum partes sive regiones, quarum nomina sunt haec: Agyptus, Barbaria, Biledulgerid, Sarra desertum, Nigrita, Athiopia Interior, sive Superior, quod Abissinorum imperium, et Athiopia Exterior sive Inferior. Agyptus.
With this girl, at least between 1779 and 1782, Casanova rented a small house at Barbaria delle Tole, near S. Giustina, from the noble Pesaro at S. Stae. Casanova, always in demand for his wit and learning, often took dinner in the city.
The close of the dragon's speech, of course, made them all the more curious; and the Lady Elizabeth did but speak for all when she said: "I pray you, good Sir Dragon, let us have your tale first. We have had enow of Barbaria and Perew. If that yours may be so wondrous, let us hear it even now, and then may we decide." "As your lady's grace wishes," said the dragon.
"Onorando padre, Considerando che quando fui in la armata di Barbaria alle Gierbe vi furono grate le nuove advisatevi giornalmente per lo illustre sig.
Agypto continuatur nobilissima totius Africae regio Barbaria; in sex partes divisa, quarum una est provincia Barcana, quinque reliquae sunt regna, Tunetanum, Tremisenum, Fessanum, Maurocanum et Darense. Barcana regio. Inter Agyptum et Tunetanum regnum litori praetenditor Barcana regio, a Barce antiqua urbe cognominata, soli asperitate pariter ac siccitate sterilis. Regnum Tunetanum.
Poets sang of it, a painter-in-ordinary depicted the siege, a potter at Urbino burnt the scene into his vase; all Europe was agog with enthusiasm at the feat. Charles posed as a crusader and a knight-errant, and commemorated his gallant deeds and those of his gentlemen by creating a new order of chivalry, the Cross of Tunis, with the motto "Barbaria," of which however we hear no more.
Here be stout maskers can tell us strange tales of fairies and goblins, or, perchance, of the foreign folk with whom they have trafficked in Calicute and Affrica, Barbaria, Perew, and other diverse lands and countries over-sea. And after they have ended, then will I essay a tale that shall cap them all, so past belief shall it appear."
All the nations in this Africa the lesse are of the sect of Mahomet, and a rusticall people, liuing scattred in villages. The best of this part of Afrike is Barbaria lying on the coast of the sea Mediterraneum. Mauritania Tingitania is now called the kingdom of Fes, and the kingdom of Marocco. The principall citie of Fes is called Fessa: and the chiefe citie of Marocco is named Marocco.
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