Wow, nice! That's... a pretty interesting travel story :P :)
GG: But it is the age of monarchs forcing visitors to drink! Have a dram. I'll have one too. Have another dram. Have a third dram! I'll match you drink for drink.
Pöllnitz: Mercy, mercy! [Literally: "I was just going to fall at his Knees, and to beg Quarter, when, as good Luck would have it, Joannino [sic!] his favourite Valet de Chambre came in, and whisper'd something in his Ear."]
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Re: Pöllnitz and Gian Gastone
Date: 2021-07-13 04:28 am (UTC)GG: But it is the age of monarchs forcing visitors to drink! Have a dram. I'll have one too. Have another dram. Have a third dram! I'll match you drink for drink.
Pöllnitz: Mercy, mercy! [Literally: "I was just going to fall at his Knees, and to beg Quarter, when, as good Luck would have it, Joannino [sic!] his favourite Valet de Chambre came in, and whisper'd something in his Ear."]
Hee. That is something else.