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France painted to the life by a learned and impartial hand.
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Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
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onely of Amiens could I meet with any antient Character which also was but a Gothish Dutch Letter and expressed nothing but the name and vertue of a Bishop of the Church in whose time it was So little also did I perceive them to be inclining to be Antiquaries that both neglects considered si Verbis audaciadetur I dare confidently averre that one Cotton for the Treasury and one Selden now Mr. Camden is dead for the study of Antiquities are worth all the French As for these five peices in La salle des Antiques they are I confess worthy our observation and respect also if they be such as our trudgeman informed us At the further end of it the Statua of Diana the same as it is said which was worshipped in the renowned Temple of Ephesus and of which Demetrius the Silver-smith and his fellow Artists cried out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great is Diana of the Ephesians Of a large and manly proportion she seemeth to be Quantum quale latus quam juvenile femur As Ovid of his Mistriss She is all naked save her feet which are buskin'd and yet she hath a scarfe or linnen roul which coming over her left shoulder and meeting about her middle hung down with both ends of it a little lower In the first place towards the right hand as we descended towards the door was the Statua of one of the Gods of Aethiopia as black as any of his people and one that had nothing about him to express his particular being Next unto him the Effigies of Mercury naked all except his feet and with a pipe in his mouth as when he inchanted Argos Nam que reperta Fistula nuper erat Saith the Metamorphosis Next unto him the portraiture of Venus quite naked and most immodestly apparreld in her hand her little Son Cupid as well arrayed as his Mother sitting on a Dolphin Last of all Apollo also in the same naked truth but that he had shooes on He was portrayed as lately returned from a Combat perhaps that against the Serpent Python Quem Deus arcitenens nunquam talibus armis Ante nisi in damis caprisque fugacibus usus Mille gravem telis exhausta pane pharetra Perdidit effuso per vulnera nigra veneno The Archer-God who e're that present tide Ne're us'e those arms but ' gainst the Roes and Deer With thousand shafts the earth made to be dy'de With Serpents bloud his quiver emptied cleer That I was in the right conjecture I had these reasons to perswade me the Quiver on the Gods right shoulder almost emptied his warlike belt hanging about his neck his garments loosly tumbling upon his left arm and the slain Monster being a water-serpent as Pithon is fained to be by the Poets All of these were in the same side of the wall the other being altogether destitute of ornament and are confidently said to be the statues of those Gods in the same forms that they were worshipped in and taken from their several Temples They were bestowed on the King by his Holiness of Rome and I cannot blame him for it It was worthy but little thanks to give unto him the Idols of the Heathen who for his Holiness satisfaction had given himself to the Idols of the Romans I beleive that upon the same terms the King of Enggland should have all the Reliques and ruines of Antiquity which can be found in Rome Without this room the Salle des Antiques and somewhat on the other side of the Louure is the House of Burbon and old decayed fabrick in which was nothing observable but the Omen For being built by Lewis of Burbon the third Duke of that branch he caused this Motto ESPERANCE to be engraven in Capital Letters over the door signifying his hopes that from his loyns should proceed a King which should joyn both the Houses and the Families and it is accordingly happened For the Tuilleries I have nothing to say of them but that they were built by Catherine de Medices in the year 1564 and that they took name from the lime-kils and tile-pits there being before the foundation of the house and the garden the word Tuillerie importing as much in the French language I was not so happy as to see them and will not be indebted to any for the relation CHAP. X. The person age and marraige of King Lewis Conjectural reasons of his being issueless Jaqueline Countess of Holland kept from issue by the house of Burgundy The Kings Sisters all married and his alliances by them His natural Brethren and their preferment His lawful Brother the title of Monsieur in France Monsieur as yet unmarried not like to marry Mont-Peusiers Daughter That Lady a fit Wife for the Earl of Soisons The difference between him and the Prince of Conde for the Crown in case the Line of Navarre fail How the Lords stand affected in the cause Whether a Child may be born in the eleventh moneth King Henry the fourth a great Lover of fair Ladies Monsieur Barrados the Kings Favorite his birth and offices The omniregency of the Queen Mother and the Cardinal of Richilieu The Queen Mother a wise and prudent Woman THe King is the soul of the Court without his presence it is but a Carcass a thing without life and honour I dare not so farre wrong the Louure as to make it but a common house and rob it of the fruition of its Prince and therefore will treat of him here though during my aboad in France he lay all the while in Fountain Bleau For person he is of the middle stature and rather well proportioned than large His face knoweth little yet of a beard but that which is is black and swarthy his complexion also much of the same heiw carrying in it a certain boysterousness and that in a further measure than what a graceful Majesty can admit of So that one can hardly say of him without a spice of Courtship what Paterculus did of Tiberius Quod visus praetulerit principem that his countenance proclaimed him a King But questionless his greatest defect is want of utterance which is very unpleasing by reason of a desperate and uncurable stammering which defect is likely more and more to grow upon him At this time he is aged twenty four years and as much as since the 27 day of September last which was his birth day an age which he beareth not very plausibly want of beard and the swarthiness of his complexion making him seem elder At the age of eleven years he was affianced to the Lady Anna Infanta of Spain by whom as yet he hath no children It is thought by many and covertly spoken by divers in France that the principal cause of the Queens bartenness proceedeth from Spain that people being loath to fall under the French obedience which may very well happen she being the elder Sister of the King For this cause in the seventh article of marriage there is a clause that
a Country which I know not whether it be more happy in it self or more unhappy in its Inhabitants This I am almost confident of that the worst of its commodities are the people who by no vertue of theirs which my understanding is yet guilty of deserve to grow there France then being in their possession is like a delicate choice dish of meat disgraced in the cooking Or to give you my verdict of them both both Men and Country modestly and in a word I think you never saw a fair Lady worse marred and indeed to speak the truth But soft What white is that which I espie Which with its lustre doth eclipse mine eye That which doth Neptunes fury so disdain And beats the billow back into the main It is some dreadful Scylla fast'ned there To shake the Sayler into prayer and fear Or it s some I stand floating on the Wave Of which in Writers we the stories have 'T is England hah 't is so clap clap your hands That the full noise may strike the nighb'ring lands Into a Palsey Doth not that lov'd name Move you to extasie Oh were the same As dear to you as me that very word Would make you dance and caper over board Dull Shipemen how they move not how their hoof Grows to the planks yet stay here 's sport enough For see the Sea Nimphs foot it and the fish Leap their high measures equal to my wish Triton doth sound his shell and to delight me Old Nereus hobbleth with his Amphitrite Excellent triumphs but curs'd Fates the Main Quickly divides and takes them in again And left me dying till I came to land And kist my dearest Mother in her sand Hail happy England hail thou sweetest Ile Within whose bounds no Pagan rites defile The purer Faith Christ is by Saints not mated And he alone is worshipp'd that created In thee the lab'ring man enjoys his wealth Not subject to the Lords rape or the stealth Of hungry Publicans In thee thy King Fears not the power of any underling Or petty Prince but by his awful word Commands not more the Beggar than the Lord. In thee those heav'nly beauties lie would make Most of the Gods turn Mortals for their sake Such as out-go report and make Fame see They stand above her bigg'st Hyperbole And yet to strangers will not grude the bliss Of salutation and an harmless kiss Hail then sweet England May I breath my last In thy lov'd arms and when my dayes are past And to the silence of the grave I must All I desire is Thou would'st keep my Dust And now I am safely come into my Country where according to the custom of the Ancients I offer up my thanksgiving to the God of the Waters and testifie before his Altars the grateful acknowledgement of a safe voyage and a prosperous return Blessings which I never merited Me tabula sacer Votiva paries indicat uvida Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta inariis Deo FINIS March 11. 1655. This Book is Entred J. BURROUGHS Printed or sold by William Leake at the sign of the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple Gates These Books following YOrk's Heraldry Folio A Bible of a very fair large Roman letter 40. Orlando Furioso Folio Callis learned Readings on the Sâ—at 21. Hen. 8. Chap. 5 of Sewers Perkins on the Law of Engl. Wikinsons Office of Sheriffs Persons Law Mirrour of Justice Topicks in the Laws of Engl. Sken de significatione Verborum Delamon's use of the Horizontal Quadrant Wilby's 2d set of Musique 3 4 5 and 6 parts Corderius in English Doctor Fulk's Meteors with Observations Malthus Fire-works Nyes Gunnery and Fire-works Cator Major with Annotations by Will. Austin Esquier Mel Helliconium by Alexander Rosse Nosce teipsum by Sr. John Davis Animadversions on Lillies Grammer The History of Vienna and Paris Lazarillo de Tormes Hero and Leander by G. Chapman and Christoph Marlow Posing of the Accidence Guilliam's Heraldry Herberts Travels Man become guilty by Iohn Francis Senalt and Englished by Henry Earl of Monmouth Excersitatio Scolastica The Ideot in 4. books the first and second of Wisdom the third of the Mind the fourth of Statick Experiments of the Ballance The life and Reign of Henry the eighth written by the Lord Herbert Aulalucis or the house of light The Fort Royal of Holy Scriptures by I. H. the third Edition A Tragedy of Christs Passion written by the most learned Hugo Grotius and Englished by George Sands Mathematical Recreations with the general Horological Ring and the double Horizontal Dial by William Oughtred The Garden of Eden or an Acurate description of all Flowers and Fruits now growing in England with particular rules how to advance their Nature Growth as well in Seeds and Hearbs as the secret ordering of Trees and Plants by that learned and great Observer Sir Hugh Plat Knight the fourth Edition Solitary devotions with man in glory by the most Reverend and holy Father Ansolem Arch-Bishop of Canterbury PLAYES Henry the Fourth Philaster The Wedding The Hollander Maids Tragidy King and no King The grateful Servant The strange discovery The Merchant of Venice