melody that is played ; but then at the exit they meet with so many jets 

 of water that few escape a wetting." 



Many engravings were made of this villa, and the old artists give us 

 various touches of manners and customs which lend interest to their 

 work. Ladies and gentlemen are to be seen walking hand in hand 

 through the gardens, the lady often provided with a nosegay or carrying 

 the flag-shaped fan then in vogue. Children, who are much in evidence, 

 run about with toy windmills, like those still sold at country fairs, or 

 play with a bird tied at one end of a string, just as they do in Italy to- 

 day, and a maid wheels a very primitive perambulator, chariot shaped 

 with solid wheels. In another picture two men are shown playing a 

 ball-game with long-handled mallets. This can be no other than the 

 ancient game of Pall Mall, or " giuoco del Palamaglio" to which an old 

 author refers as having been played in his time at the villa. 



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