VI. Portraits: among which are Queen Elizabeth at sixteen years
old; Henry, Richard, Edward, Kings of England; Rosamond; Lucrece;
a Grecian Bride, in her nuptial habit; the Genealogy of the Kings
of England; a picture of King Edward VI. representing at first
sight something quite deformed, till, by looking through a small
hole in the cover, which is put over it, you see it in its true
proportions; Charles V., Emperor; Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy,
and Catherine of Spain his wife; Ferdinand Duke of Florence, with
his Daughters; one of Philip King of Spain when he came into
England and married Mary; Henry VII., Henry VIII. and his Mother;
besides many more of illustrious men and women, and a picture of
the Siege of Malta.
VII. A small hermitage, half hid in rock, finely carved in wood.
VIII. Variety of emblems, on paper, cut in the shape of shields,
with mottoes, used by the nobility at tilts and tournaments, hung
up here for a memorial.
IX. Different instruments of music, upon one of which two persons
may perform at the same time.
X. A piece of clock-work, an Aethiop riding upon a rhinoceros, with
four attendants, who all make their obeisance when it strikes the
hour: these are all put into motion, by winding up the machine. At
the entrance into the park from Whitehall is this inscription:—
The Fisherman who has been wounded learns though late to beware
But the unfortunate Actaeon always presses on.
The chaste Virgin naturally pitied:
But the powerful Goddess revenged the wrong.
Let Actaeon fall a prey to his dogs
An example to Youth
A disgrace to those that belong to him.
May Diana live the care of Heaven
The delight of mortals
The security of those that belong to her.
In a garden joining to this Palace, there is a Jet d’eau with a
sun-dial, which, while strangers are looking at, a quantity of
water, forced by a wheel, which the gardiner turns at a distance,
through a number of little pipes, plentifully sprinkles those that
are standing round.”
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