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peaked: but when he made his public entry into Paris as em-
baifador, his cloak and hofe were of white beaver, richly embroidered
with gold and filver. His cloak had no other lining
than embroidery, the doublet cloth of gold richly worked, and
his white beaver hat brimful of embroidery. His horfe was ihod
with filver fhoes, flightly tacked on, fo that every curvet flung off
one to be fcrambled for by the populace ; and that was inftantly
reblaced by a farrier, who attended for the purpofe*.
■fSumptuous as his apparel was on this occafion, it fell ihort of
the drefs in which he and the Earl of Holland appeared when they
efpoufed, by proxy, Henrietta Maria; for they received her, clad
in beaten filver. They certainly did not confult the Graces in this
ftpnefs of fplendor.
In his embafly into Germany the fame pomp followed him. A t
the Hague he met with his contrail in the frugal Maurice, Prince
of Orange -, who being told he ought to give an entertainment to
the great Englijh embaflfador, “ Let him come” , fays his highnefs ;
and looking over his Ample bill of fare, feeing only one pig, ordered
a couple -f, by way of making the treat more fumptuous,
nor could he be prevailed on to alter it. What a feaft was this to
him, who feemed to have realized the entertainments of Sir Epicure
iwkmmon! who ufed to have the board covered, at the entrance of
his guefts, with diihes as high as a tall man could reach, filled
with the greateft delicacies ; and, after they had feafted their eyes,
would caufe them to be removed for a frelh fervice; who once
permitted one perfon to carry off in his cloak-bag forty pounds
* W ilfrn, 92, 93. t Wilf<m, 154.
worth