the furniture. Idler, No. 10. Pope, in Windsor Forest, a poem
which has a stronger tinge of Toryism than anything else that he
ever wrote, predicts the speedy restoration of the fallen palace.

"I see, I see, where two fair cities bend
their ample bow, a new Whitehall ascend."

See Ralph's bitter remarks on the fate of Whitehall.

FN 10 As to the Czar: London Gazette; Van Citters, 1698; Jan.
11/21. 14/24 Mar 11/21, Mar 29/April 8; L'Hermitage 11/21, 18/28,
Jan 25/Feb 4, Feb 1/11 8/18, 11/21 Feb 22/Mar 4; Feb 25/Mar 7,
Mar 1/4, Mar 29/April 8/ April 22/ May 2 See also Evelyn's Diary;
Burnet Postman, Jan. 13. 15., Feb. 10 12, 24.; Mar. 24. 26. 31.
As to Russia, see Hakluyt, Purchas, Voltaire, St. Simon. Estat de
Russie par Margeret, Paris, 1607. State of Russia, London, 1671.
La Relation des Trois Ambassades de M. Le Comte de Carlisle,
Amsterdam, 1672. (There is an English translation from this
French original.) North's Life of Dudley North. Seymour's History
of London, ii. 426. Pepys and Evelyn on the Russian Embassies;
Milton's account of Muscovy. On the personal habits of the Czar
see the Memoirs of the Margravine of Bayreuth.

FN 11 It is worth while to transcribe the words of the engagement
which Lewis, a chivalrous and a devout prince, violated without
the smallest scruple. "Nous, Louis, par la grace de Dieu, Roi
tres Chretien de France et de Navarre, promettons pour notre
honneur, en foi et parole de Roi, jurons sue la croix, les saints
Evangiles, et les canons de la Messe, que nous avons touches, que
nous observerons et accomplirons entierement de bonne foi tous et