Re: VMs: sliding queen

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

> >    In Old Prage towards the South, and upon the East
> >    side of Molda, there is an old Pallace, where they
> >    shew a trap-doore, by which the Queene was wont to slide
> >    downe into a Bath, where shee used to satisfie her
> >    unlawful lust.

> The Warburg and the BL have copies of the 1617 edition, with the BL having
> a number of other copies (do an author search for Moryson, Fynes) - I'll
> try to have a look at it myself... :-)

I did look at this very edition here - and there is nothing more.
It would be more important to see the Czech edition of the
part on Bohemia:

  MORYSON, Fynes
  Cesta do Čech / [Autoři: ] Fynes Moryson, John
  Taylor ; Z angl. originálů vybral a přel. [a pozn.
  naps. ] Alois Bejblík ; Josef Polišenský: Cesty z
  Anglie do předbělohorských Čech, doslov ; Il.
  Jiří Běhounek. -- 1. vyd. -- Praha : MF, 1977. --
  216, [1] s., obr. -- (Klasické cestopisy ; sv. 8).

You will not see the characters with diacritics correctly unless
you change display to Latin-2 (CE Europe). It says
that Bejblik wrote footnotes and Polisensky wrote
afterword. The footnotes would possibly identify the
palace "sliding into a Bath" and perhaps give some
explanation. If there was anything like that in 
medieval Prague, then the VMS balneological part may
be a (foreigner's?) description of it.

Best regards,

Rafal
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