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 looking both the Town and Country, great ponds of water, a World of statues of Marble and Stone, a rare round basin of water, with Fountains and much wetting sport; the place for Birds and Beasts; the curious Ice-house and coole Cellar under it, where the melting Ice dropping down upon the Barrels of Wine, refresh it so exceedingly, that in all my life time I never drunk so coole as I did at the Tap in this Cellar. But to return again to the Pallace from whence this Garden hath led me; from the Garden we ascended into the Chambers of the Great Dukes appartiment, and found them most sumptuous, both for contrivance and furniture. Some of them are painted over head by Pietro di Cortona the prime Painter now living: others expect his return again from Rome, and scorne to be Painted by any hand but his: in another Chamber we were shown the History of Seleucus, giving to his onely son Antiochus (languishing and pining away with the love of his Mother