Note 027
At a quarter, or even half a rial a lash, Sancho Panza was a cheaper, and possibly not a more dishonest, workman. I remember in Pere Labat (Voyages en Italie, tom. vii. p. 16 - 29) a very lively picture of the dexterity of one of these artists.

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 58