One thing you must say, and that is that, even when I have sinned most against her, I have never forgotten her; nay, that the memory of that happy time when she was fain to call herself my Laura moved me to ride forth to Treviso, where, in the chapel of the Franciscan Brethren, there may be seen a head of the true Laura done by the limner Simone di Martino, the friend of Petrarca, a right worthy work of art.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
We owed this good limner thanks for many a pleasant hour.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
So in Fleet Street I met with Mr. Salisbury, who is now grown in less than two years' time so great a limner-that he is become excellent, and gets a great deal of money at it.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke