house be build to live in and not to look on therefore let use be prefer  before uniformity except where both may be have leave the goodly fabric of  house for beauty only to the enchant palace of the poet who build they with  small cost he that build a fair house upon a ill seat commit himself to prison  neither do I reckon it a ill seat only where the air be unwholesome but  likewise where the air be unequal as you shall see many fine seat set upon a  knap of ground environ with high hill round about it whereby the heat of the  sun be pen in and the wind gather as in trough so as you shall have and that  sudden as great diversity of heat and cold as if you dwell in several place  neither be it ill air only that make a ill seat but ill way ill market and if  you will consult with Momus ill neighbour I speak not of many more want of  water want of wood shade and shelter want of fruitfulness and mixture of  ground of several nature want of prospect want of level ground want of place  at some near distance for sport of hunt hawk and race too near the sea too  remote have the commodity of navigable river or the discommodity of their  overflow too far off from great city which may hinder business or too near  they which lurch all provision and make everything dear where a man have a  great live lie together and where he be scant all which as it be impossible  perhaps to find together so it be good to know they and think of they that a  man may take as many as he can and if he have several dwell that he sort they  so that what he want in the one he may find in the other Lucullus answer  Pompey well who when he see his stately gallery and room so large and  lightsome in one of his house say sure a excellent place for summer but how do  you in winter Lucullus answer why do you not think I as wise as some fowl be  that ever change their abide towards the winter to pass from the seat to the  house itself we will do as Cicero do in the orator be who write book de  a speaker and a book he entitle orator whereof the former deliver the precept  of the be and the latter the perfection we will therefore describe a princely  palace make a brief model thereof for it be strange to see now in Europe such  huge building as the Vatican and escurial and some other be and yet scarce a  very fair room in they first therefore I say you can have a perfect palace  except you have two several side a side for the banquet as it be speak of in  the book of Hester and a side for the household the one for feast and triumph  and the other for dwell I understand both these side to be not only return but  part of the front and to be uniform without though several partition within  and to be on both side of a great and stately tower in the amid of the front  that as it be join they together on either hand I will have on the side of the  banquet in front one only goodly room above stair of some forty foot high and  under it a room for a dress or prepare place at time of triumph on the other  side which be the household side I wish it divide 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  parlour both fair and under these room a fair and large cellar sink under  ground and likewise some privy kitchen with buttery and pantry and the like as  for the tower I will have it two story of eighteen foot high apiece above the  two wing and a goodly lead upon the top rail with statue interpose and the  same tower to be divide into room as shall be think fit the stair likewise to  the upper room let they be upon a fair open newel and fine rail in with image  of wood cast into a brass colour and a very fair land place at the top but  this to be if you do not point any of the low room for a dine place of servant  for otherwise you shall have the servant 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 stair to be sixteen foot which be the height of the  low room beyond this front be there to be a fair court but three side of it of  a far low building than the front and in all the four corner of that court  fair staircase cast into turret on the outside and not within the row of  building themselves but those tower be not to be of the height of the front  but rather proportionable to the low building let the court not be pave for  that strike up a great heat in summer and much cold in winter but only some  side alley with a cross and the quarter to graze be keep shear but not too  near shear the row of return on the banquet side let it be all stately gallery  in which gallery let there be three or five fine cupola in the length of it  place at equal distance and fine colour window of several work on the  household side chamber of presence and ordinary entertainment with some  bedchamber and let all three side be a double house without through light on  the side that you may have room from the sun both for forenoon and afternoon  cast it also that you may have room both for summer and winter shady for  summer and warm for winter you shall have sometime fair house so full of glass  that one can tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold for inbowed  window I hold they of good use in city indeed upright do better in respect of  the uniformity towards the street for they be pretty retire place for  conference and beside they keep both the wind and sun off for that which will  strike almost through the room do scarce pass the window but let they be but  few four in the court on the side only beyond this court let there be a inward  court of the same square and height which be to be environ with the garden on  all side and in the inside cloister on all side upon decent and beautiful arch  as high as the first story on the under story towards the garden let it be  turn to a grotto or a place of shade or estivation and only have open and  window towards the garden and be level upon the floor no whit sink under  ground to avoid all dampishness and let there be a fountain or some fair work  of statue in the amid of this court and to be pave as the other court be these  building to be for privy lodging on both side and the end for privy gallery  whereof you must foresee that one of they be for a infirmary if the prince or  any special person shall be sick with chamber bedchamber antecamera and  recamera join to it this upon the second story upon the ground story a fair  gallery open upon pillar and upon the three story likewise a open gallery upon  pillar to take the prospect and freshness of the garden at both corner of the  further side by way of return let there be two delicate or rich cabinet dainty  pave rich hang glaze with crystalline glass and a rich cupola in the amid and  all other elegancy that may be think upon in the upper gallery too I wish that  there may be if the place will yield it some fountain run in diverse place  from the wall with some fine avoidances and thus much for the model of the  palace save that you must have before you come to the front three court a  green court plain with a wall about it a second court of the same but more  garnish with little turret or rather embellishment upon the wall and a three  court to make a square with the front but not to be build nor yet enclose with  a naked wall but enclose with terrace lead aloft and fair garnish on the three  side and cloister on the inside with pillar and not with arch below as for  office let they stand at distance with some low gallery to pass from they to  the palace itself