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Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,
Receive the manners of each other nation.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)

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Source: First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation", William Shakespeare, Richard II, act ii. sc. 1.
Work: La Semaine; ou, Création du monde, 1578
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