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6 A New Voyage Vol. II.
Iy a little peep-hole for one Eye ; then they en-
ter two by two into the Quire, where all the
Cardinals are assembl’d, and prottrate themfelves
at the Feet of the Pope, or of the Cardinal who
officiates for him, at whose side stands a certain
Officer appointed for that purpose, with a Bason
full of little white Bags in his Hand, each of
P^e Clement which contains either a Bill of Fifty Crowns
w a for those Maidens who chuse to marry, or a
Jns in a Hundred Crowns for such of them as
Marriage with are willing to enter into a Nunnery. Each Maid
his ekicsi having humbly declar’d her Choice, receives
her Bag hanging by a little String, and having
Crowns to her kiss d it, makes a low Courtesie, and files off, to
that went into make room for the rest. The future Nuns are
aNunnerji. distinguiffi’d by a Garland of Flowers, which
crowns their Virginity ; and they are rank’d in
the most honourable place at the Procession.
Of all the Three hundred and fifty , there
were but Two and thirty who choose St. Paul's
better part, and the rest contented themselves with
doing well.
rou may see at Give me leave to trip from the Minerva to the
the Mmerva Borghefe Palace, without obli
tZusof” anY other reason whV I do i
chrift em!>ra- follow my Journal thither. This Palace is very
ting the cross, beautiful, and contains many Rarities. The Por-
Michael tiCo’s are supported by Fourscore and sixteen An-
tique Pillars of eMigyptian Granite. Among the
Pictures in the lower Apartments, there are seven-
tecn hundred Originals by the most celebrated
Mailers : TheFeww blind-folding Cupid, while the
Graces bring him his Arms, by Titian, is e-
steem’d the best. Paul the Fifth, who was of this
Family, is painted in such fine Aso/^tl-Work,
that his PiAure is laid to contain above a Million
os Pieces: My Calculation assures me, that this
cannot be true ; bur, without criticising upon a
Trisse,
mg me to give you
[o, than that I must
Iy a little peep-hole for one Eye ; then they en-
ter two by two into the Quire, where all the
Cardinals are assembl’d, and prottrate themfelves
at the Feet of the Pope, or of the Cardinal who
officiates for him, at whose side stands a certain
Officer appointed for that purpose, with a Bason
full of little white Bags in his Hand, each of
P^e Clement which contains either a Bill of Fifty Crowns
w a for those Maidens who chuse to marry, or a
Jns in a Hundred Crowns for such of them as
Marriage with are willing to enter into a Nunnery. Each Maid
his ekicsi having humbly declar’d her Choice, receives
her Bag hanging by a little String, and having
Crowns to her kiss d it, makes a low Courtesie, and files off, to
that went into make room for the rest. The future Nuns are
aNunnerji. distinguiffi’d by a Garland of Flowers, which
crowns their Virginity ; and they are rank’d in
the most honourable place at the Procession.
Of all the Three hundred and fifty , there
were but Two and thirty who choose St. Paul's
better part, and the rest contented themselves with
doing well.
rou may see at Give me leave to trip from the Minerva to the
the Mmerva Borghefe Palace, without obli
tZusof” anY other reason whV I do i
chrift em!>ra- follow my Journal thither. This Palace is very
ting the cross, beautiful, and contains many Rarities. The Por-
Michael tiCo’s are supported by Fourscore and sixteen An-
tique Pillars of eMigyptian Granite. Among the
Pictures in the lower Apartments, there are seven-
tecn hundred Originals by the most celebrated
Mailers : TheFeww blind-folding Cupid, while the
Graces bring him his Arms, by Titian, is e-
steem’d the best. Paul the Fifth, who was of this
Family, is painted in such fine Aso/^tl-Work,
that his PiAure is laid to contain above a Million
os Pieces: My Calculation assures me, that this
cannot be true ; bur, without criticising upon a
Trisse,
mg me to give you
[o, than that I must