The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. “Annabel?” he exclaimed. But it is the truth. The
Widgetts talked with a remarkable absence of external coverings; the
Palsworthys found all the meanings of life on its surfaces. It was painted in the early seventeenth century
by a minor artist named DuPre. She thrust at him, following, almost spitting him as he
crashed against the altar, rocking the huge candlesticks and the vessels that stood
on it.
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