Excerpt from The Book of the Courtyer, a Possible Source of Benedick and Beatrice: A Paper Read Before the Modern Language Association of America, at the University of Pennsylvania, December 28, 1900
To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, to remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation, was first attempted by Case. In his book of manners, and Castiglione in the Courtier. (works, VII, 428, Addison.)
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