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A Man of Quality, travelling in Spain, went to see the Escurial, and as he view’d the Rich and Magnificent Convent of the Monks of the order of St. Jerom, call’d the Cloister of St. Laurence, the Superiour, who Conducted him, told him the Particulars of its foundation, and how King Philip II. had caus’d it to be built to perform the Vow he made on that Day the Battle of St. Quentin was fought, which was on St. Laurence’s Day, in case he should come off Victorious; whereupon the Traveller, admiring the Magnificence of that Building, said: Father, that King must needs he be in great Fear, when he made so great a Vow.
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Un homme de Qualité, voyageant en Espagne, alla voir l’Escurial, & comme il visitoit ce riche & magnifique Convent de Religieux de l’ordre de S. Jerome, qu’on nomme le cloitre de S. Laurent, le Superieur qui le conduisoit lui raconta les particularitez de sa fondation; il lui dit comme le Roy Philippe II. l’avoit fait batir pour satisfaire au voeu qu’il en fit le jour de la bataille de S. Quentin, qui fut donnée le jour de S. Laurent, en cas qu’il en sortit victorieux: là dessus le Voyageur lui dit en admirant la Magnificence de ce Batiment: Mon Pere, il faloit que ce Roy eut grand peur, lors qu’il fit un si grand voeu.