Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	1,449	5	10.4561	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49620	The voyage of Italy, or, A compleat journey through Italy in two parts : with the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces, villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities : as also of the interest, government, riches, force, &c. of all the princes : with instructions concerning travel / by Richard Lassels, Gent. who travelled through Italy five times as tutor to several of the English nobility and gentry ; never before extant.	Lassels, Richard, 1603?-1668.; S. W. (Simon Wilson)	1670 (1670)	Wing L465; ESTC R2418	265,097	737

their garde and be wary with whom they conuerse and what they say 2. As for the women here they would gladly get the same reputation That their husbands have of being tall and hansome but they ouer do it with their horrible cioppini or high Shoos which I haue often seen to be a full half yard high I confesse I wondered at first to see women go vpon stilts and appeare taller by the head then any man and not to be able to go any whither without resting their hands vpon the shoulders of two grave matrons that vssher them but at last I perceiued that it was good policy and a pretty ingenious way either to clog women at home by such heauy shoos as the Egyptians Kept their Wifes at home by allowing them no shoos at all or at least to make them not able to go either farre or alone or inuisibly As for the yong ladyes of this towne that are not marryed they are neuer seen abroad but masked like Moscarades in a strang disguise at the Fair time and other publick solemnityes or Shows Being at other times brought vp in Monasteries of Nunns till they be marryed 3. Then I went to the Church of S. Mark the Euangelist whose body lyeth here hauing been translated hither from Alexandria 820 odd yeares ago hauing ever since been one of the chief Patrons of this state as his Lyon hath euer-since been the Armes of the Republick and its seale in all publicK writeings This church is built a la Thedesca as they call it and as the best Churches built about those times were It s neither great nor high but so rich for the materials that nothing but Mosaick worke and marble appeare in it The roof and the walls a good way downe are curioutly painted with Mosaick histories and pictures and the rest of the Wall is rare marble Among those Mosaïck pictures there are to be seen in the vault of the Arch ouer the dore of the Treasory two old Pictures the one of S. Dominick the other of S. Francis both made before they instituted their several Orders and yet both in the religious Habits which those of their Orders weare and all this out of the predictions of Ioachim Abbat of Curacium and not of S. Fleur as some wrongly call him who lived before these Orders were instituted The picture also of the Pope neare to the Pictures of the foresayd Saints is sayd to be a Prophetical picture of the sayd Abbats describing representing the last Pope that shall gouerne the flock of Christ when all the world shall be of one Religion The pauement of this Church is sutable to the rest being in some places composed of vast marble stones naturaly representing the waues of the Sea in other places its curiously inlayd with stones of seueral colours expressing Flowers starrs birds beasts and the like among which stones I perceiued here and there some Turky stones of great value among vs but here not scorning to be trod vpon Thirty six marble pillars of a round forme and two foot thick in diameter hold vp the roof of this Church The High Altar is a rare peéce especially when you see the back of it open as I did vpon the Ascension Eue. This back of the Altar is richly adorned with diuers rowes of little enamelled pictures a la Greca set in gold and enriched with braue pearle and pretious stones intermingled euery where between the pictures This most rich ornament or back of the Altar was giuen by a Dogè of Venice and brought from Constantinople● Behind the High Altar stands the Altar of the B. Sacrament where there are two transparent round pillars four yards high In the Sacristy which is hard by I saw neat Mosaick work in the roof and an admirable picture of S. Hierome of the same worke also Round about the inside of the Church ouer the pillars hang the Scutchions of Seueral Doges in a large size For the Dogès at their creation cause three things to be made First their picture which is set vp in the Sala of the Great Counsel Secondly their Armes or Scutchion which are sometimes of syluer of a huge si●e are set vp after the Doges death in the Church for euer Thirdly they must make their Picture in the Collegio or Pregiadi 4. From the Church we were let in to see the Treasory of S. Mark which ioynes to the Church It was showne vs by special leaue from aboue and by two Noble Venetians who are alwayes present when it is showne We were first showne the Spiritual Treasor and then-the Temporal that is first the Relicks and then the Iewels The Reliks were these principaly A great authenticall peéce of the Holy Crosse aboue a span long It is the greatest peéce I haue seen any where except that in the Holy Chappel in Paris and though some enemies of the Very Crosse of Christ as well as of other Relicks do ieeringly say that there are so many peéces of the Holy Crosse showne in the world that if they were all put together they would make a carte Load of wood yet I dare maintain more probably that all the peéces any one man can say are showne in Europe and I haue seen a good part of it would not make so much of the Crosse as one of those parts on which our Sauiours hands were nayled seing the greatest part that we finde of it is no thicker then an ordinary mans finger little longer then a span and that very part of it which I saw in the Popes owne Sacristy in the Vatican is no longer then a mans little finger and if the King of France S. Lewis in his two expeditions into the Holy Land could get onely so little a peéce of it as that which is showne in Paris in the Saint Chappelle and if the Pope himself could get no greater a peéce of it then that mentioned aboue I do not wonder if in other places they shew such little shreds of it as all together would not make two foot of timber much less a Cart load We saw also here a finger of S. Mark His Ring with a stone in it which our Lapidaries cannot tell how to name Some of our Sauiours blood gathered vp in his Passion with the earth it was spilt vpon A thorne of the Holy crowne of thornes A nayle which nayled the two peéces of the Crosse together A finger of S. Mary Magdalen A peéce of S. Iohn Baptists Cranium A tooth of S. Mark A peéce of S. Iohn Baptists habit Some of our B. Ladyes hair An anciet picture of S. Iohn Baptist enamelled in gold A peéce of our Sauiours white robe when he was scorned A Very ancient picture of our B. Lady carryed about anciently by Constantin the Great who had it alwayes with him One of the Stones of the Torrent wherewith S. Steuen was stoned And in fine the sword of S. Peter Then leading vs