Series 1 > Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with his observations on public affairs and other memoranda, 1665-1676

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would dazell any mans eyes. But calling away your eyes from
this we deschended to the walls of the chamber, wheir ye have
standing in one broad Justice, a martiall like woman wt a
sword in hir one hand, and the balance in the other. On her
right stands Verity, a woman painted naked to show that the
truth most be naked since it demands no coverture. On the
other stands Magnanimity, a woman of a bravadoing counte¬
nance. In another broad stands Prudence. In a 3d (la
chambre de Lucresse) as a emblem of Chastity we have the
story of Lucretias rapture by Tarquinius Superbus sone : first ye
have him standing at hir chamber door wt his men at his back
looking thorow the lock whither she was their or not; in the
same broad1 ye have represented the violence he used to hir;
then as the epiloge of the tragaedy ye have hir killing herselfe.
In another broad ye have to the life don the story of Judith
bringing away the head of Holofernes.
In another chamber ye have Lewis the 13 portraicts wt those
of all the rest of the royall family and the most part of the
courtiers, counsellers and statesmen of that tyme, togither
wt a embleme of the joy of the city of Paris at the nativity
of this King.
Of this chamber goes a pitty but pretty litle cabinet for
Devotion. Their stands a large crucifix of marble wonderously
weill done, round about hings the 12 Apostles wt the sufferings
they ware put to. Their may ye sie the barbarous Indians
knocking Bartholemew, who was spreading the gospell among
them, wt clubs to death ; and so of the rest.
In another chamber on the cielery we have panted Thetis
dipping hir sone Achilles in the Ocean to render him immortall.
She hath him by the foot, whence in all his parts he becames
immortal and impatible, save only in the sole of his feet, which
ware not dippt. Next ye have him slain by Paris whiles he is
busy on his knees at his devotion in the temple; Paris letting
a dart at him thorow a hole of the door, which wounding him
in the sole of his foot slow him. Nixt ye have Achilles
dragging Hectors dead body round about the walls of Troy.
Then ye have Priamus coming begging his sones body. Ye
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