Thy various tints unite,
And form in heaven's sight
One arch of peace!"
Thomas Moore.
[46] Isaiah, chap. 23, ver. 8.
[47] Sir Thomas Gresham took the model, or plan, of the Royal Exchange, London, from La Bourse of Antwerp.
[48] Rubens was born at Cologne, but his parents were natives of Antwerp, whom civil war had caused to retire from Brabant to Cologne.
[49] "Omnis Aristippum, decuit color, et status et res."—Horace.
[50] This ancient castle was destroyed in 1784.
[51] See Buffon, vol. IX. p. 1.