Painting to the End pf Henry VI L 83 



when the tailor came to take his meafure, 

 defired to have the damafk, under pretence 

 of inventing a fingular habit. He fold the 

 ftufF, drank out the money, and then painted 

 a fuit of paper fo like damalk, that it was 

 not diftinguifhed, as he marched in the 

 proceflio/i, between a philofopher and a 

 poet, other penfioners of the Marquis, who 

 being informed of the trick, afked the Em- 

 peror which of the three fuits he liked befl : 

 The Prince pointed to Mabufe's, as excel- 

 ling in the whitenefs and beauty of the flow-- 

 ers ; nor did he 'till convinced by the touch, 

 doubt of the genuinenefs of the filk. The 

 Emperor laughed much — but, though a 

 lover of the art, feems to have taken no 

 other notice of Mabufe; whofe excefTes 

 fome time after occafioned his being flung 

 into prifon at Middleburgh, where however 

 he continued to work. Vermander had i^tn. 

 fever al good drawings by him in black 

 chalk. 



At what time Mabufe came to England 

 I do not find i Vermander fays expreQy that 

 he was here, and the portraits drawn by him 

 are a confirmation. The pi6bure of Prince 

 Arthur, Prince Henry and Princefs Mar- 

 F a garet, 



