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 coloured windows of several works. On the household side, chambers of presence[1] 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[2] 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[3] to be out of the sun or cold. For inbowed[4] windows, I hold them of good
- ↑ Chamber of presence, or presence-chamber. The room in which a great personage receives company.
- ↑ Cast. To plan; to devise.
"Therefore to cherish him with diets daint,
She cast to bring him, where he chearen might,
Till he recovered had his late decayed plight."
Spenser. The Faery Queene. Book I. Canto x. Stanza 2.
- ↑ Become. To come to a place, to arrive; passing, later, into to betake one's self, to go.
"I cannot joy, until I be resolved
Where our right valiant father is become."
Shakspere. III. King Henry VI. ii. 1.
- ↑ Inbowed. Embowed; a bow-window or bay-window is a window that 'bows' or projects outwards, on the ground floor, forming a kind of 'bay' within. Bacon probably refers here to oriel windows, which are bow-windows projecting from an upper story.
