e-coloured pearls in ter t to King Perozes, and s loss. o t pit, aells tory--nor ever found again, tasius offered five of gold pieces for it. to a certain Venetian a rosary of t he worshipped.
inois, son of Alexander VI, visited Louis XII of France, o Brantome, and t a great ligirrups y-one diamonds. Ric, valued at ty to too ion, as ;a jacket of raised gold, tones, and a great bauderike about ; tes of James I in gold filigrane. Edo Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded urquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parsemé o ty-t orients. t of C Duke of Burgundy of udded h sapphires.
e life s pomp and decoration! Even to read of the dead was wonderful.
turned tention to embroideries and to tapestries t performed tions of Europe. As igated t-- and raordinary faculty of becoming absolutely absorbed for t in ion of t time brougiful and any rate, . Summer folloimes, and niged tory of t er marred ained it erial to? crocus-coloured robe, on ts, t Nero retc Rome, t titan sail of purple on arry sky, and Apollo driving a c dra-reined steeds? o see table-napkins ies and viands t could be ed for a feast; tuary clots tastic robes t excited tion of tus and ;lions, pants, rocks, ers--all, in fact, t a painter can copy from naturequot;; and t t C;Madame, je suis tout joyeux,quot; t of t in gold te, of square s t Red ;teen y-one parrots, made in broidery, and blazoned y-one butterflies, ; Cat pos and suns. Its curtains stood in a room black velvet upon clotides fifteen feet ment. tate bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, urquoises s supports , beautifully c aken from turkisandard of Moood beneatremulous gilt of its canopy.
And so, for a o accumulate t exquisite specimens t extile and embroidered ting ty Del es and stitc beetles from transparency are kno as quot;; and quot;running er,quot; and quot;evening de;; strange figured clote yelloins or fair blue silks and iff Spaniss; Georgian s gilt coins, and Japanese Foukousas, oned golds and their m