72 ESSA ys CIVIL AND MORAL. 



galleries ; in which galleries let there be three, or five fine cupolas 

 in the length of it, placed at equal distance ; and fine coloured win 

 dows of several works. On the household side, chambers of presence 

 and ordinary entertainments, with some bed-chambers ; and let all 

 three sides be a double house, without thorough lights on the sides, 

 that you may have rooms from the sun, both for forenoon and after 

 noon. Cast it also, that you may have rooms both for summer and 

 winter ; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have 

 sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to 

 become to be out of the sun or cold. For imbowed windows, I hold, 

 them of good use (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of the 

 uniformity towards the street), for they be pretty retiring places for 

 conference ; and besides, they keep both the wind and sun off ; for 

 that which would strike almost through the room doth scarce pass the 

 window. But let them be but few, four in the court, on the sides 

 only. 



Beyond this court, let there be an inward court, of the same square 

 and height, which is to be environed with the garden on all sides : and 

 in the inside, cloistered on all sides upon decent and beautiful arches, 

 as high as the first story : on the under story, towards the garden, let 

 it be turned to a grotto, or place of shade or estivation ; and only have 

 opening and windows towards the garden, and be level upon the floor, 

 no whit sunk under ground, to avoid all dampishness. And let there 

 be a fountain, or some fair work of statues, in the midst of this court, 

 and to be paved as the other court was. These buildings to be for 

 privy lodgings on both sides, and the end for privy galleries : whereof 

 you must forsee, that one of them be for an infirmary, if the prince or 

 any special person should be sick, with chambers, bed-chamber ante- 

 camera and recamera joining to it. This upon the second story. 

 Upon the ground-story, a fair gallery, open, upon pillars ; and upon 

 the third story, likewise, an open gallery, upon pillars, to take the 

 prospect and freshness of the garden. At both corners of the farther 

 side, by way of return, let there be two delicate or rich cabinets, daintily 

 paved, richly hanged, glazed with crystalline glass, and a rich cupola 

 in the midst, and all other elegancy that may be thought upon. In the 

 upper gallery, too, I wish that there may be, if the place will yield it, 

 some fountains running in divers places from the wall, with some fine 

 avoidances. And thus much for the model of the palace, save that 

 you must have, before you come to the front, three courts : a green 

 court plain, with a wall about : a second court of the same, but more 

 garnished, with little turrets, or rather embellishments upon the wall ; 

 and a third court, to make a square with the front, but not to be built, 

 nor yet inclosed with a naked wall, but inclosed with terraces, leaded 

 aloft, and fairly garnished on the three sides ; and cloistered on the 

 inside with pillars, and not with arches below. As for offices, let them 

 stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the 

 palace itself. 



