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 something like that of Hercules in the Belvedere, described above, and of some rare Hand. And because it stands near three or four streets, whereby to escape when they have fixed the Libels, jeering wits set up here, and father upon poor Messer Pasquino, their Satyrical jests called from him, Pasquinades; which Morsorius, another statue near the Capitol, useth to answer.

From hence passing on to the Church of St Pantaleon, belonging to the Fathers of the Scholae Piae. I was willing to enter into it and see it, because four hundred years ago it was a collegiate church, and possessed by English priests, as may appear by the inscription upon a bell which was cast then.

From hence I stept into Pizza Navona, called so by corruption, from Piazza d'Agona, because this Piazza was anciently a Circus for Sports, and it was called Circus Agonalis. In the midst of it anciently stood great Egyptian pillar, with Hieroglyphics upon it; and now of late it hath gotten another such pillar set up here by Pope Innocent the X, with a rare fountain issuing forth at the foot of it, and adorned with four great statues of white marble, representing the four parts of the world. In this place also stands the new church of St Agnes, built upon the place where she was condemned to the Stews.

This church is built at the cost of Princepe Pamphilio, whose palace joins upon it. This palace overlooking the Piazza Navona, deserves hot only a glance of an eye, but also an hour's inspection within. The chambers are many and fair, and the great hall a most lovely room, if paintings