WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

55 was encompafs'd, with about eighty fair armci Velvet Chairs, which touch'd one another ; only between every four, there was place left for a Carver, and over againfl: him, for a Sewer • So that each eight Perfons, had thefe two Officers to attend them as to the Eating Part; and behind, every one had a Servant, to bring whatibever he wanted, or defired. The breadth of the faid Table was eight foot ( which might eafily be allow'd, the Room being 24. wide ) and thro' the middle of it, from one end to the other, ran a Range of Historical Figures (fome almoft half as big as the Life) which the Italians, call Trionfi: They ar*e made of a kind of Sugar-Pafte, but model- led, to the utmoft skil of a Statuary ; So that they are afterwards, lent as Prefents to the great- eft Ladies; and their ufe at Entertainments, is to gratifie the Eye, as the Meat, Mufique, and Perfumes, do the other Senfes. Between thefe, flood great Vafes of Artificial