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First, therefore, I say you cannot have a perfect palace except you have two several sides;  a side for the banquet, as it is spoken of in the book of Hester, and a side for the household;  the one for feasts and triumphs, and the other for dwelling.  I understand both these sides to be not only returns, but parts of the front;  and to be uniform without, though severally partitioned within;  and to be on both sides of a great and stately tower, in the midst of the front, that, as it were, joineth them together on either hand.  I would have on the side of the banquet, in front, one only goodly room above stairs, of some forty foot high;  and under it a room for a dressing, or preparing place, at times of triumphs.  On the other side, which is the household side, I wish it divided at the first, into a hall and a chapel (with a partition between);  both of good state and bigness;  and those not to go all the length, but to have at the further end, a winter and a summer parlor, both fair.  And under these rooms, a fair and large cellar, sunk under ground;  and likewise some privy kitchens, with butteries and pantries, and the like.  As for the tower, I would have it two stories, of eighteen foot high apiece, above the two wings;  and a goodly leads upon the top,railed with statuas interposed;  and the same tower to be divided into rooms, as shall be thought fit.  The stairs likewise to the upper rooms, let them be upon a fair open newel, and finely railed in, with images of wood, cast into a brass color;  and a very fair landing-place at the top.  But this to be, if you do not point any of the lower rooms, for a dining place of servants.  For otherwise, you shall have the servants' dinner after your own:  for the steam of it, will come up as in a tunnel.  And so much for the front.  Only I understand the height of the first stairs to be sixteen foot, which is the height of the lower room.

Beyond this front, is there to be a fair court, but three sides of it, of a far lower building than the front.  And in all the four corners of that court, fair staircases, cast into turrets, on the outside, and not within the row of buildings themselves.  But those towers, are not to be of the height of the front, but rather proportionable to the lower building.  Let the court not be paved, for that striketh up a great heat in summer, and much cold in winter.  But only some side alleys, with a cross, and the quarters to graze, being kept shorn, but not too near shorn.  The row of return on the banquet side, let it be all stately galleries:  in which galleries let there be three, or five, fine cupolas in the length of it, placed at equal distance;  and fine colored windows of several works.  On the household side, chambers of presence and ordinary entertainments, with some bed-chambers;  and let all three sides be a double house, without thorough lights on the sides, that you may have rooms from the sun, both for forenoon and afternoon.  Cast it also, that you may have rooms, both for summer and winter;  shady for summer, and warm for winter.  You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the sun or cold.  For inbowed windows, I hold them of good use (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of the uniformity towards the street);  for they be pretty retiring places for conference;  and besides, they keep both the wind and sun off;  for that which would strike almost through the room, doth scarce pass the window.  But let them be but few, four in the court, on the sides only.

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