aetas tam celebria festa viderit aut audieriti, no age ever saw the like.  So infinitely pleasant are such shows, to the sight of which oftentimes they will come hundreds of miles, give any money for a place, and remember many years after with singular delight.  Bodine, when he was ambassador in England, said he saw the noblemen go in their robes to the parliament house, summa cum jucunditate vidimus, he was much affected with the sight of it.  Pomponius Columna, saith Jovius in his life, saw thirteen Frenchmen, and so many Italians, once fight for a whole army:  Quod jucundissimum spectaculum in vita dicit sua, the pleasantest sight that ever he saw in his life.  Who would not have been affected with such a spectacle?  Or that single combat of [3261] Breaute the Frenchman, and Anthony Schets a Dutchman, before the walls of Sylvaducis in Brabant, anno 1600.  They were twenty-two horse on the one side, as many on the other, which like Livy’s Horatii, Torquati and Corvini fought for their own glory and country’s honour, in the sight and view of their whole city and army. [3262]When Julius Caesar warred about the banks of Rhone, there came a barbarian prince to see him and the Roman army, and when he had beheld Caesar a good while, [3263]"I see the gods now” (saith he) “which before I heard of,” nec feliciorem ullam vitae meae aut optavi, aut sensi diem:  it was the happiest day that ever he had in his life.  Such a sight alone were able of itself to drive away melancholy; if not for ever, yet it must needs expel it for a time.  Radzivilus was much taken with the pasha’s palace in Cairo, and amongst many other objects which that place afforded, with that solemnity of cutting the banks of the Nile by Imbram Pasha, when it overflowed, besides two or three hundred gilded galleys on the water, he saw two millions of men gathered together on the land, with turbans as white as snow; and ’twas a goodly sight.  The very reading of feasts, triumphs, interviews, nuptials, tilts, tournaments, combats, and monomachies, is most acceptable and pleasant. [3264] Franciscus Modius hath made a large collection of such solemnities in two great tomes, which whoso will may peruse.  The inspection alone of those curious iconographies of temples and palaces, as that of the Lateran church in Albertus Durer, that of the temple of Jerusalem in [3265]Josephus, Adricomius, and Villalpandus:  that of the Escurial in Guadas, of Diana at Ephesus in Pliny, Nero’s golden palace in Rome, [3266]Justinian’s in Constantinople, that Peruvian Jugo’s in [3267]Cusco, ut non ab hominibus, sed a daemoniis constructum videatur; St. Mark’s in Venice, by Ignatius, with many such; priscorum artificum opera (saith that [3268]interpreter of Pausanias), the rare workmanship of those ancient Greeks, in theatres, obelisks, temples, statues, gold, silver, ivory, marble images, non minore ferme quum leguntur, quam quum cernuntur, animum delectatione complent, affect one as much by reading almost as by sight.