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BNL.737.013
8-15 Sep 1737:12 (1748)
London, July 7. A letter from Paris says, that the famous
and most illustrious Italian songster, Farinello, who
glean'd some thousands of louis d'ors from the folly of the
French about a year ago, after the golden harvest he had
made among the English, return'd to that city the 9th
instant, N.S. where he intends to tarry a few days for
picking up some loose coins, especially if the French Queen
happens to be brought to bed of a Duke of Anjoy. When he
has got as much as he can expect there, our correspondent
says he intends to go and see what crop he can find in
Madrid, where he designs to fix his abode until the winter
season and the heaviness of our purses invite him back again
to London. But if our brains were not as heavy as our
purses, such shameless fellows would have no business among
us. Farinello, what with his salary, his benefit night, and
the presents made him by some of the wise people of this
nation, get at least 5000 L a year in England, and yet he is
not [ ] to run about like a stroller from Kingdom to
Kingdom, as if we did not give him sufficient encouragement,
which we hope the noble lords of the Haymarket will look
upon as a great affront done to them and their country, and
consequently send all the Italian strollers a packing out of
the nation.
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