Modern architects would have been puzzled to decide whether the room had been built for the bed or the bed for the room.

Two cupids playing on the walnut headboard, wreathed with garlands, might have passed for angels; and columns of the same wood, supporting the tester were carved with mythological allegories, the explanation of which could have been found either in the Bible or Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Take away the bed, and the same tester would have served in a church for the canopy of the pulpit or the seats of the wardens.

The married pair mounted by three steps to this sumptuous couch, which stood upon a platform and was hung with curtains of green silk covered with brilliant designs called "ramages"-- possibly because the birds of gay plumage there depicted were supposed to sing.

The folds of these immense curtains were so stiff that in the semi-darkness they might have been taken for some metal fabric.