you see a Vast long Room made like an L: on the left hand of this Gallery, there runs a perpetual glass window; on the other side are set a row of Pictures in great, of those of the Medicean Family: under the windows, and also under the said Pictures stand a row of curious Marble statues, ancient ones all, and of prime hands. Over the said windows and Pictures runs a close row of less Pictures, representing to the life the most famous men of later times for learning, and Armes; the Souldiers being on the right hand, and the Schollers on the left. The Statues aforesaid are well nigh a hundred in all, but all rare ones: Some whereof I yet remember, and they are these: That of Leda, of Diana, of Bacchus, of Hercules, of the Gladiator standing on his guard, of Scipio Africanus in Brass, shewing the ancient habit and dress of the old Romans, farr different from our modes: that of a little young youth in brass, with his Sword in his hand: that of a little boy sleeping upon atouchstone:
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