211, 212.
[98] Montfaucon, vol.v.p.

402.
[99] L'Etoile, vol.ii.pp.

534-537.
[100] _Hist.

des Reines et Regentes de France_, vol.ii.p.

28.
[101] Malherbe, the favourite poet of Marie de Medicis, profited by the tediousness of her voyage to make it the subject of an allegory, in which he represents that Neptune "Dix jours ne pouvant se distraire Au plaisir de la regarder, Il a, par un effort contraire, Essaye de la retarder." A specimen of his godship's gallantry, with which the young sovereign would, in all probability, most willingly have dispensed.
[102] L'Etoile, vol.ii.p.