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Moreover, there are not wanting in these poems instances of the term signore, or lord, applied to the beloved lady; which is one of the many periphrastical expressions used by the Romance poets to indicate their mistress." It is true that Cino compares his lady in one sonnet to a knight who has carried off the prize of beauty in the lists of love and grace by her elegant dancing.
"Yet once again," said the Eastern sage, after the periphrastical manner of his countrymen, "supposing that I come not as a friend?" "Come as thou wilt," said the Scottish knight, somewhat impatient of this circumlocution; "be what thou wilt thou knowest well it is neither in my power nor my inclination to refuse thee entrance."
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