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Updated: July 21, 2025
Marco; the shops and stalls where chickens, ducks, &c. are sold by auction, comically enough, to the highest bidder; a flourishing fellow, with a hammer in his hand, shining away in character of auctioneer; the crowds which fill the courts of judicature, when any cause of consequence is to be tried; the clamorous voices, keen observations, poignant sarcasms, and acute contentions carried on by the advocates, who seem more awake, or in their own phrase svelti than all the rest: all these things take up so much time, that twenty-four hours do not suffice for the business and diversions of Venice; where dinner must be eaten as in other places, though I can scarcely find a minute to spare for it, while such fish wait one's knife and fork as I most certainly did never see before, and as I suppose are not to be seen in any sea but this, in such perfection.
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