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 Vaulted Caves called in Latin, Fornices, were lewd women prostituted themselves for money, and so from these Fornices came the word Fornication.

Going from hence to S. Georges Church, I saw on my right hand, the goodly ruines of the Emperors pallace, called Palazzo Maggiore. It possessed almost all the Palatin hill, as the ruines shew. Stately ruines I confess: but ruines, and imperial ruines. And here I could not but wonder to see, the pallace of the persecuting Emperors ruined quite, and the Church of the poor Fisherman standing still, more glorious than ever.

Before I came to S. Georges Church I stept into S. Anastasias Church, which was anciently the Temple of Neptune: and from thence to the old square Temple, commonly held to be the Temple of Janus Quadriforis: and with some reason, because it hath four doors in it, and twelve Niches upon every side of the square out side. The four doors represented the four seasons of the