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We return'd to Paris by Madrid, another villa of 

 the King's, built by Francis I. and called by that 

 name to absolve him of his oath that he would not go 

 from Madrid, in which he was prisoner in Spayne, but 

 from whence he made his escape. This house is also 

 built in a park, walled in. We next called in at the 

 Bonnes hommes, well situated, with a faire Chapel and 

 Library. 



1 March. I went to see the Count de Liancourts' 

 Palace in the Rue de Seine, which is well built. 

 Towards his study and bedchamber joyns a little 

 garden, which tho' very narrow, by the addition of a 

 well painted perspective is to appearance greatly en- 

 larged ; to this there is another part, supported by 

 arches, in which runs a streame of water, rising in the 

 aviary, out of a statue, and seeming to flow for some 

 miles, by being artificially continued in the painting, 

 when it sinkes downe at the wall. It is a very agree- 

 able deceipt. At the end of this garden is a little 

 theater, made to change with divers pretty seanes, and 

 the stage so ordered that with figures of men & women 

 paynted on light-boards, and cut out, and, by a person 

 who stands underneath, made to act as if they were 

 speaking, by guiding them, & reciting words in different 

 tones as the parts require. We were led into a round 



