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All Turkes do detest the colour of blacke, and thinke those that weare it, shall never enter into Paradise: But the colour of greatest request among them is greene; wherewith if any Christian be apparrelled, he shall be sure of Bastinadoes, and other punishments.

— William Lithgow

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A painted Whoore, the maske of deadly sin,
Sweet faire without, and stinking foule within.

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A monstrous filthinesse, and yet to them a pleasant pastime, making songs, and singing Sonets of the beauty and pleasure of their Bardassi, or buggerd boyes.

May not the scelerate hands of foure blood-shedding wolves facily devoure, and shake a peeces, one silly stragling lambe?

The science of the world ... is onely acquisted by conversation, and haunting the company of the most experimented; ... and above all, and principally by Travellers, and Voyagers ... whose experience confirmeth the true Science thereof.

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