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Shakspeare has rejected altogether the character of the astutious Lady of Belmont with her magic potions, who figures in the Italian novel.

Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827

"It afforded, therefore, some mortification to this astutious princess, -- this daughter of Herodias, with more than all her mother's cunning and cruelty in her soul, -- to perceive that the Spanish warriors, who on that occasion beheld for the first time the assembled nobility of Brabant and Namur, were more struck by the

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