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 errand to the Sea, it seems to be so taken with those sweet beds of flowers, and so desirous of resting upon them, after so many miles running, that it offers to turn it self into any posture, rather then be turned out of this sweet place.

From Yssonne I came to Fontainbelleau, where I saw that Kingly house, the Nonsuch of France. It stands in the midst of a great Forrest full of Royal Game, and the place of delight of Henry the Fourth, The house is capable of lodging four Kings with their several Courts. The Court of the Cheval Blanc is a noble square of Buildings: but the lowness of the Buildings and Lodgings shews, they are for the Lower Sort of people, and the Servant-Lodgings to the Royal Appartiments. The Oval Court is a good old Building. The Kings and Queens Lodgings with their Cabinets groan under their rich guilt roofs. The Gallery of Staggs heads is a stately room, then which nothing can be more Cavalierly furnished; excpt such an other gallery hung with Turkish standards won in