In fact, in this dark green cabinet, almost everything--except Agnola's beautiful Roman shoulders--is covered up; even two images of saints were so. For a painted image of Mary with a real metallic crown--it was not meant for an emblem of princes with mock-heads under genuine crowns--was hidden by the cedars of the bed-plumes, and over a very fine St. Sebastian by Titian--copied from the Barbarigo palace in Venice--(the man looked, with his arrows, like a hedgehog, and yet hung close by her pillow)--she had drawn the bed-curtain, when his namesake without the arrows arrived, who rather adored than was adored. Many have assured me since, that it was a Sebastian of Vandyk's, from the Düsseldorf gallery; but farther on I shall show why not. Except a female eye reposing behind a veil, no finer specimen of nature's loveliness visits, methinks, us mortals (the Devil has got in here six final _S's_ in succession) than one which is just in the act of laying it aside. The poor Doctor had to meet the out-flashing of such a lovely glow--when he was about to proceed as oculist--that he at once proceeded as Protomedicus[30] of her head, in order to take her hand and thereby save himself. For while she stripped off from her hand the glove-callus--they were, however, only half-gloves with bare fingers, or semi-wing-sheaths, i. e. _hemiptera_,--then was the Doctor, because she had to look down at what she was doing, in the greatest possible security, and the Greek fire shot quite by him. Hence has there been inserted with just forethought in the fire-regulations of morality a whole, almost too long article, which forbids young girls to go about with their eyes exposed, as if with an uncovered light, in a parlor of company, because there is so much inflammable stuff lodged there,--all of _us_ in a body,--but they must bury them in a stocking, which they are knitting, or an embroidery frame, or a thick book--e. g. the Dog-Post-Days--as in a lantern. --It is really a pity: since the public and I have been in the princely chamber, one tail--I mean one digression _à la Sterne_--has followed another.--