CHAPTER IV

THE EMBROIDERY OF LIFE

The science of dining—Table-talk—Balls and dancing: custom of kissing—Protests of the Reformers—Church—Pilgrimages—Gardens and country life—Flowers—Pugs and parrots—The horse—Hunting, Roman and platonist—Hunting philosophised; Budé and Blondo—Park animals—Nature—Life at watering-places; pure water; gravity and fun. Pages 228-260