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  • To the favoured lover there is generally opposed an importunate one, who presses his suit without return, the _soffione_ among the _cicisbei_; the former loves in silence, and frequently finds no opportunity till the end of the piece, of offering his little word of declaration; we might call him the _patito_.

    Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

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