round about, that no man could
come nigh it, for there was none of
all this plate touched in this ban-
quet, for there was fufficient be-
fides. The plates that did hang on
the walls to give light were of filver
and guilt, having in them great
pearchers of waxe burning, a great
fire burning in the chimney, and all
other things neceffary for the furni-
ture of fo noble a feaft. Now was
all things in a readiness, and fupper
tyme at hand, the principal officers
caufed the trumpeiters to blow to
warne to fupper: the officers dif-
crectly went and conducted thefe
noblemen from their chambers into
the chambers where they fhould
fuppe, and caufed them there to fit
downe, and that done their fervice
came up in fuch abundance both
coftly and full of futtleties, and with
luch a pleafant noyfe of inftruments
of muficke, that the Frenchmen (as
it feemed) were rapt into a heavenly
paradife. You must understand that
my lord cardinall was not yet co-
men thither, but they were merry
and pleafant with their fare and de-
viled futtleties. Before the fecond
courfe my lord came in, booted and
fpurred, all fodainely amongst them,
and bade them proface;* at whofe
coming there was great joy, with
rifing every man from his place,
whoi lord caused to fit ftill and
my
keep their roomes, and being in his
apparell as he rode, called for a
chayre and fat down in the middeft
of the high parade, laughing and
being as merry as ever I faw hym in
all my lyff. Anone came up the
fecond courfe, with fo many dishes,
futtleties and devices, above a hun-
dred in number, which were of fo

goodly proportion and fo coftly, that I thinke the Frenchmen never faw the like, the wonder was no less than it was worthy indeed. There was castles with images, in the fame Paul's church, for the quantity as well counterfeited as the painter fhould have painted it on a cloth or wall.

There were beafts, birds, foules, and perfonages, moft likely made and counterfeited, fome fighting with fwords, fome with guns and cross-bows, fome vaughting and leaping, fome dauncing with ladies, fome on horfes in complete harneffe, jufting with long and sharp fpeares, with many more devifes. Among all, one I noted was a cheffe-boord, made of fpiced plate, with men there of the fame, and for the good proportion, and because the Frenchmen be very cunning and expert in that play, my lord cardinall gave the fame to a gentleman of France, commanding there fhould be made a goodly cafe for the prefervation thereof in all haft, that he might convey the fame fafe into his coun trey. Then tooke lord a bole my of golde filled with ipocrafle, and putting off his cap, faid, I drinke to the king, my foveraigne lord, and next unto the king your mafter, and therewith did dryncke a good draught; and when he had done, he defired the graund maifire to pledge him, cup and all, the which was well worth 500 markes, and fo caufed all the boords to pledge these two royal princes: then went the cups fo merily about, that many of the Frenchmen were faine to be led to their beds. Then rofe up my lord, and went into his privy chamber to pull off his bootes, and to

An obfolete French term of falutation, abridged from bon prou vous face, i. e. much good may it do you. See Cotgrave under the word prou. The Italians had profaccia from buen pro vi faccia.

fhift

Thift him, and then went he to fup per, and making a very fhort fupper, or rather a repaft, returned into the chamber of prefence to the Frenchmen, ufing them fo lovingly and familiarly, that they could not commend him too much; and whileft they were in communication, and other paftimes, all their liveries were ferved to their chambers; every chamber had a bafon and an ewer of filver, a great liverey pot of filver, and fome guilt; yea, and fome chambers had two liverey pots, with wine and beere, a boule, a goblet, and a pot of fylver to drink in, both for their wine and beere; a filver candlesticke, both white and plaine, having in it two fizes, and a ftaffe torche of waxe a fine manchet, and a cheat loaf. Thus was every chamber furnished through the houte and yet the cupboords in the two banqueting chambers were not touched. Thus when it was more than time convenient, they were conveyed to their lodgings, where they refted that night. In the morning, after they had heard mafs, they dined with the cardinall, and fo departed to Windfor."

Account of the ancient Palace of
Karnac in the land of Philo.
From Ripaud's Report on the An-
tiquities of Upper Egypt.

HIS palace may be confidered

to a portico compofed of one hun dred and thirty columns, in rows of fixteen deep. In the two middle rows there are fix lotus columns; and on each fide are seven rows of thofe of the truncated lotus, which are lefs elevated than the former; the diameter of the former is eleven, and that of the latter seven, feet.

The length of this veftibule is feventy-eight paces, and its breadth is the fame as that of the mole. It was covered throughout, and received light from windows which had been opened above the lotus columns. The foundations having given way in fome parts, feveral of the columns were proftrate. The fall of the mole, which looks to the court, would have drawn after it the whole building, if it had not been conftructed with immoveable folidity. To this veftibule fucceeded a court, where there had been four obelisks, of which only one remains; from this court we paffed into another, decorated with two obelisks and twelve coloffal figures, in the form of termini, holding the handle of a pot on the breaft.

Two other courts lead to the apartment of the king. In a line with the gates are two faloons of granite, which appear to have been the apartments of ftate. It is probable, that at the period when Thebes was built, granite was not fo much ufed as it has fince been'

Tas pelation of kings, the by the Egyptian kings of Memphis,

principal mole is turned towards the Nile, and has a hundred and forty paces in length, by twenty-five of folid breath It leads to a court of a hundred and ten paces long, and whole breadth is equal to it.. Two rows of fix lotus columns, placed in a line with the mole, lead

and the Greek fovereigns of Alexandria. To the right and left of thefe faloons are the apartments of the court. Those of the king and the queen might be diftinguished in two chambers, whofe gates are of black granite. They did not appear to be more than twelve

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but ten feet; and they are reprefented as lying down on a base about three feet high.

feet fquare, The paintings in the
corridors which furround the halls
of audience, defcribe the power and
wealth of fovereigns. On the walls An avenue of sphinxes intersects
are fculptured cafkets, fcreens, pearl- it at right angles from eaft to weft,
necklaces, perfume-pots, ftrong and unites with an avenue of rams
boxes, and hoods enriched with in the fame direction. Oppofite
precious ftones. There are alfo the gate of the little palace of Kar-
pictures which reprefent different nac, the latter avenue ftretches on
ceremonies of initiation; while others to about a hundred fathom from
difplay the progrefs of love. that of Luxor, of which it appears to
have been a part.

At a hundred paces to the east of the palace is a long colonnade that ferves as a portico to the build"ings which appear to have been occupied by the king's household: they contain a great number of feparate apartments; their form is oblong, and their dimenfions are above twenty-five feet in length, by fifteen in breadth. They are all decorated with pictures. A gate in a very fine ftyle of architecture, on the caftern fide of the palace, and about four hundred paces from the range of buildings which terminates it, led to this part of the royal habitation.

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To the fouth of the court of obelifks were four moles, which being in a line with each other, formed on this fide the avenue to the great palace. This appears to have been the entrance of the kings of Egypt. The people were admitted no farther than the veftibule, fupported by the foreft of columns, which has been already mentioned,The particular audiences were probably given in the halls of granite, The gate of the most fouthern mole was conftructed of granite, or rather, perhaps, repaired by it, and was approached by an avenue of ninety lions, many of which are in good prefervation. Their ftature is coJoffal, and their length about fifteen feet: the interval between them is

In front of each of the moles, which lead to the court of obelifks in the great palace, are two and fometimes four coloffal figures in ftone or in granite. They are either feated in the pofition of thofe of Luxor, or fianding upright in the action of walking, the arms refting on their fides, and furnished with an inflected poignard.

The fides of these vaft buildings have fuffered various accidents, and the interior conftruction is very defective. Whatever precautions the Egyptians took, in general, to infüre the duration of their monuments, they trufted fo much to the quality of the air, which is free from every deftructive principle, that they adorned the exterior parts of them with as much care and elegance as they employed for the. decoration of the interior masonry.

To the fouth, and at two hundred paces from the flank of these moles, is a fuperb gate, which leads to a fmall palace, placed on a line with the court of the great palace. This gate, perhaps, is the only piece of Egyptian architecture which would be taken as a model in our days. It is now detached from two moles which flanked it, as they are le velled with the ground. The Egyp. tian gates in this ftate are infinitely more beautiful than when they form

a part