WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

no was here, wholly changd to the contrary. And now the Month of January was over, when feveral Great Perfonages, and Aca- demies in Rome, thought fit to Complement His Majeity, in (hewing perfonal Honours to his Em- ballador. The firft, was the Queen of Sweden, m who had prepar'd an elegant compofition of Ita- /w«Lyricks, inHonour of His Majeflies Acceffion to the Crown ; which being now ready, and her Palace fitted for it, Her Majeity appointed it to be celebrated on the beginning of February, and therefore invited his Excellence, to be prefent at it. It was perform'd in her great Audience Room, adorn d with extraordinary Pictures, and Lights : At the upper end, under a cloth of State, was plac't a rais'd Chair for Her Majefty and at the other, a large Theater, with rifing Benches, for the Mufick ; on either fide alfo were cover d Benches, the one for the Roman L a- dies, the other, for their Husbands, or Relati- ons :