It is to be remarked, that this nymph, Venus, goddess, angel, was then about sixty.

Yet five or six years after, she allowed the same language to be held to her.

Sir Henry Unton, her ambassador in France, relates to her a conversation which he had with Henry IV.

That monarch, after having introduced Unton to his mistress, the fair Gabrielle, asked him how he liked her.

"I answered sparingly in her praise," said the minister, "and told him, that if, without offence, I might speak it, I had the picture of a far more excellent mistress, and yet did her picture come far short of her perfection of beauty.