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94 COUNT BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE
Dom Miguel de Silva, ' that I have not expressed or
even indicated the perfections of the Lady Duchess,
because my words could never describe them nor
could my intellect imagine them/ And when in a
foreign land, long years after he had left Urbino, the
news of her death reached him, it came as a great
shock, and wrung Lorn him a cry of pain. ' But
what cannot be told without tears is that the Lady
Duchess is herself dead ; and if my soul is troubled
by the loss of so many of my friends and masters,
who have left me in this life as in a desolate wilder-
ness, it is natural that I should grieve more bitterly for
the death of the Lady Duchess than for all the rest,
because she was worth far more than all the others,
and I was more deeply attached to her than to any of
them all/
Dom Miguel de Silva, ' that I have not expressed or
even indicated the perfections of the Lady Duchess,
because my words could never describe them nor
could my intellect imagine them/ And when in a
foreign land, long years after he had left Urbino, the
news of her death reached him, it came as a great
shock, and wrung Lorn him a cry of pain. ' But
what cannot be told without tears is that the Lady
Duchess is herself dead ; and if my soul is troubled
by the loss of so many of my friends and masters,
who have left me in this life as in a desolate wilder-
ness, it is natural that I should grieve more bitterly for
the death of the Lady Duchess than for all the rest,
because she was worth far more than all the others,
and I was more deeply attached to her than to any of
them all/