She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots, a white blouse topped heavily with moth-eaten lace, a long coat of well-worn tusser, and a purplish black silk hat […]

I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe.

Neither the one nor the other may be founde ſo happy and permanent, but at the laſt, with the apple in his fulripenes, they fall with their owne weight and poyſe to the ground; the one by diſcord and mutinies of the ſoldiours, for that their citizens are rendred bold by the continual vſe and trayning in military diſcipline; the other by effeminacie, eaſe, reſt, and ſecurity, haſteneth in like maner vnto mutinies and diſcords, as to his laſt ruine; ſo as either by a fatall deſtinie (as it were) imbraceth there owne confuſion: but not after one manner; for the one like vnto a flowre, or the pride of youth, in the height of his glory, vaniſheth, away, and leaveth the image of true glory, as a lively picture, to inveſt a perpetuall memory of a worthy and excellent Inſtitution. But the common-weale which in his firſt Inſtitution aymeth only at peace and permanency, with effæminacy, diſcorde, and mutinies, bredde by long eaſe, reſt, and ſecurity, embraceth with the other his final & laſt deſtruction, but leaveth not the like memory of his Inſtitution.

Façade of the Benedictines' convent and church wonderfully crowded with ornaments, as likewise the altars generally adorned with twisted pillars flourished all over, and loaden with little puttini, birds, and the like in clusters on the chapiters and between the wreaths along the fusts of the columns.