Dancing naked at Flora's holidays.

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The Trojan dance in armour.') Afterwards she gave orders that they should show us the apartments and curiosities in her palace.

Accordingly we saw there such new, strange, and wonderful things, that I am still ravished in admiration every time I think of't.

However, nothing surprised us more than what was done by the gentlemen of her household, abstractors, parazons, nebidins, spodizators, and others, who freely and without the least dissembling told us that the queen their mistress did all impossible things, and cured men of incurable diseases; and they, her officers, used to do the rest.
I saw there a young parazon cure many of the new consumption, I mean the pox, though they were never so peppered.