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.