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 which contributed (I suppose) something each of them to this Costly Fabrick. in fine, this Chappel is so rich within with its own shining bare walls, that it scorns all Hangings, Painting, Gilding, Mosaick Work, and such like helpers off of bare Walls, because it can find nothing richer and handsomer then its own pretious Walls. Its now above threescore years since it was begun; and there are ordinarily threescore men at work daily here, and yet there's onely the Tomb of Ferdinand the Second perfectly finished. The very Cushion which lieth upon his Tomb, cost Threescore thousand Crowns, by which you may guess at the rest. Indeed these stately Tombs make almost death it self look lovely, and dead mens ashes grow proud again. As for the Altar and Tabernacle of this Chappel, I will speak of them by and by, when I will describe the Gallery of the Great Duke, where they are kept till the Chappel be finished.

2. The Church of S. Laurence,