. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . OLD HOUSES NEAR PONT ST. MICHEL, SHOWING SPIRE OF THE STE. CHAPELLE. faire shoppes, most plentifully furnished with bookes, andthe fair building, very spacious and broad, where the Judgessit in the Palais de Justice, the roofs sumptuously gilt and em-bossed, with an exceeding multitude of great, long bosses hang-ing downward. Coryat next visited the fine quadrangle of theLouvre, whose outside was exquisitely wrought with festoons,. THE PARIS OF HENRY IV. 191 and decked with many stately pillars and images. Fr
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . OLD HOUSES NEAR PONT ST. MICHEL, SHOWING SPIRE OF THE STE. CHAPELLE. faire shoppes, most plentifully furnished with bookes, andthe fair building, very spacious and broad, where the Judgessit in the Palais de Justice, the roofs sumptuously gilt and em-bossed, with an exceeding multitude of great, long bosses hang-ing downward. Coryat next visited the fine quadrangle of theLouvre, whose outside was exquisitely wrought with festoons,. THE PARIS OF HENRY IV. 191 and decked with many stately pillars and images. From QueenMarys bedroom he went to a room which excelleth not onlyall that are now in the world but also all that were since thecreation thereof, even a gallery, a perfect description whereofwould require a large volume, with a roofe of most glitteringand admirable beauty. Yea, so unspeakably fair is it that aman can hardly comprehend it in his mind that hath not seenit with his bodily eyes. The Tuileries gardens were thefinest he ever beheld for length of delectable walks. Next day Coryat saw the one thing above all he desiredto see, * that most rare ornament of learning IsaacCasaubon, who told him to observe a certain profane,superstitious ceremony of the papists—a bedde carried aftera very ethnicall manner, or rather a canopy in the form ofa bedde, under which the Bishop of the city, with certainpriests, carry the Sacrament. The procession of CorpusChristi, he adds, * though the papists esteemed it very h
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