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Lundin." "Toys, young sir trifles," answered the leech with grave disclamation of superior skill; "the hit-or-miss practice of a poor retired gentleman, in a short cloak and doublet Marry, Heaven sent its blessing and this I must say, better fashioned mediciners have brought fewer patients through lunga roba corta scienzia, saith the Italian ha, fair sir, you have the language?"
When, in 1546, Cosimo, Duke of Florence, ordered all prostitutes to wear a yellow veil or handkerchief as a public badge of their profession, Tullia appealed to the Duchess, a Spanish lady of high character, and received permission to dispense with this badge on account of her "rara scienzia di poesia et filosofia." She dedicated her Rime to the Duchess.