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honoured, from some of the principal
nobility, of being admitted to their
private concerts ; and thus far for the
honour of Italy, as well as for my own,
I must say, that I met with the politest
treatment, and greatest encouragement
and assistance imaginable, wherever I
stopt. At Venice my expectations were
greatly surpassed, as I had always been
told, that the inhabitants, particularly
the better sort, were reserved and difficult
of access.
I was indebted for much of my enter-
tainment and information at Venice, to
the assiduity and friendship of Mr. Ed-
wards, a young gentleman who was born
in England, but has lived so long in this
city, that he has wholly lost his ver-
nacular tongue. With this gentleman,
and D. Flaminio Tomj, I went from the
Conservatorio of the Mendicanti to Signor
Grimani's: here the Abate Tomj sung
two or three pathetic airs with more taste
than I can remember to have heard since
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