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... women . The girls who are not yet married are kept much more rigorously and strictly than in the Low Countries . The women are beautiful , fair , well - dressed and modest , which is seen there more than elsewhere , as they go about the ...
... women . The girls who are not yet married are kept much more rigorously and strictly than in the Low Countries . The women are beautiful , fair , well - dressed and modest , which is seen there more than elsewhere , as they go about the ...
Page 123
... women do likewise upon their heads and shoulders . In women also , it is most to be lamented , that they do now far exceed the lightness of our men ( who nevertheless are transformed from the cap even to the very shoe ) , and such ...
... women do likewise upon their heads and shoulders . In women also , it is most to be lamented , that they do now far exceed the lightness of our men ( who nevertheless are transformed from the cap even to the very shoe ) , and such ...
Page 271
... women , contrary to the nature of other women , do lay eggs and hatch them , from whom do children come fifty times greater than those which are born of women . There did I see Scipodes having but one foot , which is so broad that they ...
... women , contrary to the nature of other women , do lay eggs and hatch them , from whom do children come fifty times greater than those which are born of women . There did I see Scipodes having but one foot , which is so broad that they ...
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