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to see S. Peters Church and Pallace, look like a town under us, which we knew to be but one Church and house.
Praise of S. Peters. Church.You will wonder perchance too, when you shall hear that this church is the eight wonder of the world, that the Pyramids of Egypt, the walls of Babylon, the Pharos, Colossus, &c. were but heaps of stones compared to this fabrick: that it hath put all antiquity to the blush, and all posterity to a Non plus: that its several parts are all incomparable Master-peices: its pictures all originals: its statues perfect models: The revenue of S. Peters Church.That it hath a revenue of above twenty thousand pounds a year only for the fabrick: that it hath cost till the year 1654, (The accounts being then summed up) Forty millions of crownes: that most of the Popes since Julius the II his time (and they have been twenty three in all) have heartened and advanced this work: that the prime Architects of the world, Sangalla, Bramante, Baldassere, Buonarota, Giacomo della Porta, Giovanni Fontana,
