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for the Sun, and sometimes for the Shade, accor-
ding to the Season. Since they are very nume-
rous, and not usually to be seen any where else,
the Broglio is the general Rendezvous, where Vi-
sits are made, and a great deal of Business dis-
patch’d. No Person is suffer’d to mingle with
them, on that side of the Broglio where they walk;
but the other side is free., This place is so parti-
cularly deftin'd, and set apart for them, that
when a young Nobleman is’come to the Age re-
quir’d for admittance into the Council, and to
take the Robe, the sirst Day he puts it on, Four
Noblemen of his Friends do ceremoniously in-
troduce him into the Broglio; and when any of
them are banish d the Council, at the same time
they are restrain’d from appearing on the Broglio.
It was about the beginning of the Ninth Century
that the Merchants of Venice brought the Body
of St. Mark thither; which, ’tis said, they had,
by I know not what chance, dug out of the
Earth, in the City of Alexandria in Egypt. And
as there is a certain Tradition, that this Evange-
liR being in Prisbn, Christ appeared to him, and
saluted him in these Words; Eax tibi Marce Evan-
gelifia mens: The Senate of Venice receiv’d the
Body of the Saint with the same Words, when it
was brought to their City : And the same Words
are written upon the open Book, held by the
Lion of St. Mark, in the Arms of Venice. You
may imagine, there was1 great rejoycing for the
possession of the Rellcks of this Evangelist; of
which it seems they could give no greater Tesli-
mony, than by preferring him, as they did, be-
fore poor St. Theodore, the ancient Patron of the
Republick, who had not given them the leaft
cause of Complaint. But they stopt not here ;
for besides divers other Honours which they paid
to the Bones of the New-comer, they built the
above-
for the Sun, and sometimes for the Shade, accor-
ding to the Season. Since they are very nume-
rous, and not usually to be seen any where else,
the Broglio is the general Rendezvous, where Vi-
sits are made, and a great deal of Business dis-
patch’d. No Person is suffer’d to mingle with
them, on that side of the Broglio where they walk;
but the other side is free., This place is so parti-
cularly deftin'd, and set apart for them, that
when a young Nobleman is’come to the Age re-
quir’d for admittance into the Council, and to
take the Robe, the sirst Day he puts it on, Four
Noblemen of his Friends do ceremoniously in-
troduce him into the Broglio; and when any of
them are banish d the Council, at the same time
they are restrain’d from appearing on the Broglio.
It was about the beginning of the Ninth Century
that the Merchants of Venice brought the Body
of St. Mark thither; which, ’tis said, they had,
by I know not what chance, dug out of the
Earth, in the City of Alexandria in Egypt. And
as there is a certain Tradition, that this Evange-
liR being in Prisbn, Christ appeared to him, and
saluted him in these Words; Eax tibi Marce Evan-
gelifia mens: The Senate of Venice receiv’d the
Body of the Saint with the same Words, when it
was brought to their City : And the same Words
are written upon the open Book, held by the
Lion of St. Mark, in the Arms of Venice. You
may imagine, there was1 great rejoycing for the
possession of the Rellcks of this Evangelist; of
which it seems they could give no greater Tesli-
mony, than by preferring him, as they did, be-
fore poor St. Theodore, the ancient Patron of the
Republick, who had not given them the leaft
cause of Complaint. But they stopt not here ;
for besides divers other Honours which they paid
to the Bones of the New-comer, they built the
above-