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sioners, who pay for their teaching: and, others, after having served their time out, are retained to teach the rest; but that in both these cases they are allowed to go out of the Conservatorio at plea- sure.
I enquired throughout Italy at what place boys were chiefly qualified for sing- ing by castration, but could get no cer- tain intelligence. I was told at Milan that it was at Venice; at Venice, that it was at Bologna; but at Bologna the fact was denied, and I was referred to Flo- rence; from Florence to Rome, and from Rome I was sent to Naples. The opera- tion most certainly is against law in all these places, as well as against nature; and all the Italians are so much ashamed of it, that in every province they transfer it to some other.
" Ask where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed;
" In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there,
"At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." Pope's Ess. on Man.
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