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Court at the Hague, with the adjoining gardens, which 

 were full of ornament, close-walks, statues, marbles, 

 grotts, fountains, and artiticiall musiq, Sec. 



But there was nothing about this Citty which more 

 ravished me than those delicious shades and walkes of 

 stately trees, which render the fortified workes of the 

 towne one of the sweetest places in Europ ; nor did I 

 ever observe a more quiet, cleane, elegantly built, and 

 civil place, then this magnificent and famous Citty of 

 Antwerp. 



Brussels. By an accident we could not see the 

 Library. There is a faire terrace which looks to the 

 Vine-yard, in which, on pedestalls, are fix'd the statues 

 of all the Spanish Kings of the House of Austria. The 

 opposite walls are paynted by Rubens, being an history of 

 the late tumults in Belgia ; in the last piece the Arch- 

 Dutcbesse shutts a greate payre of gates upon Mars, 

 who is coming out of hell, arm'd, and in a menacing 

 posture. On another, the Infanta is seen taking leave 

 of Don Philip. 



From hence we walked into the Parke, which for 



