conduits. Provision was made in each bathroom for shower or douche baths, the water being conducted along the walls in open gutters pierced with holes above each wooden tub. Lucrezia also built a large house which served as an hotel and, as at Cauterets--the favourite bathing resort of Marguerite d’Angoulême, the Queen of Navarre, where there was a _Maison du Roi_, while the other bathers lived in _cabanes et logis_--there was a “small palace” for her own use and that of her family. It must have been a thorough holiday for the energetic and busy woman, for, as the Queen of Navarre said, “while at the baths one must live as free from care as a child.” Lorenzo accompanied his mother to Morba, but there was a report which seems to have been well founded, though Piero in his letter to her treats it as an idle dream, that the Florentine exiles had resolved to attack the place and capture both mother and son. So Lucrezia invented some pretext to send him back to Florence, and the family doctor prevented his return. It will be noticed that although children in those days spoke of their parents by their Christian names, yet they almost always wrote _voi_ (you) in addressing them. Only husband and wife and parents used the familiar _tu_ (thou). _Lei_, now universally used to all but near relations or great friends, is never met with. Lorenzo de’ Medici _to his mother_ Lucrezia _at Bagno a Morba_ I thought I should have been with you by now, but the weather has become much cooler, and Maestro Mariotti does not think it would be good for my eczema to return there. Therefore I have determined not to come. Piero has promised to go and see you either with Messer Benedetto or soon afterwards. Let us find that you are so improved in health that nothing more will be necessary. We are all well here, particularly Piero, whose only need is to hear oftener about you; in truth, whether from the negligence of the writer or perhaps of the messenger, till now we have had but scant news. Therefore to satisfy us all, more particularly Piero, see that we get your answers more quickly, and apply yourself diligently to benefit from your sojourn there. I commend myself to you.--In Florence on the 19th day of September 1467. I should be glad if you send me back my purple _cioppetta_ (tunic) as I have nought to wear, the other things I do not want. Your Lorenzo de’ Medici.[114] Piero de’ Medici _to his wife_ Lucrezia _at Morba_