E.V. Lucas With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour By
Harry Morley and Thirty-Two Photographs From Paintings and a Map
New York — The Macmillan Company 1914
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Copyright, 1914, By the Macmillan Company
“In like manner I say, that had there bin an offer made unto me before I took my journey to Venice, eyther that foure of the richest manors of Somerset-shire (wherein I was borne) should be gratis bestowed upon me if I never saw Venice, or neither of them if I should see it; although certainly these manors would do me much more good in respect of a state of livelyhood to live in the world than the sight of Venice, yet notwithstanding I will ever say while I live, that the sight of Venice and her resplendent beauty, antiquities, and monuments, hath by many degrees more contented my minde, and satisfied my desires, than those foure Lordships could possibly have done.”
—Thomas Coryat.