There a temporary palace of art had been erected, the splendour of which is inadequately set forth in pages upon pages of contemporary descriptions.

One Italian likened it to the palaces described in Boiardo's _Orlando Innamorato_ and Ariosto's _Orlando Furioso_; another declared that it could not have been better designed by Leonardo da Vinci himself.[387] Everything was in harmony with this architectural pomp.

Wolsey was (p.

141) accompanied, it was said in Paris, by two hundred gentlemen clad in crimson velvet, and had a body-guard of two hundred archers.

He was himself clothed in crimson satin from head to foot, his mule was covered with crimson velvet, and her trappings were all of gold.
Henry, "the most goodliest prince that ever reigned over the realm of England," appeared even to Frenchmen as a very handsome prince, "honnete, hault et droit,"[388] in manner gentle and gracious, rather fat, and--in spite of his Queen--with a red beard, large enough and very becoming.