Footnote 225: As the use of Latin waned, a knowledge of modern languages became increasingly important. The attitude of continental gentlemen on this point is indicated by a Spanish Ambassador in 1613, to whom the Pope's Nuncio used a German Punctilio, of speaking Latin, for more dignity, to him and Italian to the Residents of Mantua and Urbino. The Ambassador answered in Italian, "and afterwards gave this reason for it: that it were as ill a Decorum for a Cavalier to speak Latin, as for a Priest to use any other Language." (_Winwood Memorials_, vol. iii. p. 446).
Footnote 226: Fynes Moryson had a great deal to say on this subject. In particular, he instances the Germans as reprehensible in living only with their own countrymen in Italy, "never attaining the perfect use of any forreigne Language, be it never so easy. So as myselfe remember one of them, who being reprehended, that having been thirty yeeres in Italy hee could not speake the Language, he did merrily answer in Dutch: Ah lieber was kan man doch in dreissig Jahr lehrnen? Alas, good Sir, what can a man learne in thirty yeeres?" (_Itinerary,_ vol. in. p. 379).
Footnote 227: _A Method for Travell_, B 4, verso.
Footnote 228: _Court and Times of James I_., vol. i. p. 286.
Footnote 229: Amias Paulet to Elizabeth, Jan. 31, 1577. Cal. State Papers, Foreign.
Footnote 230: By Cesare Nigri Milanese detto il trombone, "Famose e eccellente Professori di Ballare." Printed at Milan, 1604.
Footnote 231: "In twenty manere coude he trippe and dance After the schole of Oxenforde tho, And with his legges casten to and fro."
Footnote 232: Ellis, _Original Letters_, 2nd Series, vol. iii. p. 214.
Footnote 233: _Ibid_., 1st Series, vol. iii. pp. 138-9.
Footnote 234: _A Method jor Travell_, fol. B 4, verso.
Footnote 235: _Historiettes_, ed. Paris, 1834, tome 1er, p. 72.
Footnote 236: So counted the Pope's Legate in 1596. Cited by Jusserand, in _Sports et Jeux D'Exercise dans L'ancienne France_, p. 252.
Footnote 237: _A View of France_, fol. V, verso.
Footnote 238: Jusserand, _op. cit._, p. 241. Cited from Thomassin's _Ancienne et nouvelle discipline de l'Eglise_, 1725, tome iii. col. 1355.
Footnote 239: _The View of France_, T 4, verso, V, verso.