VIII. EENIGE CIJFERS EN SLOT. „nificent M. Lopez, a Jew, was the Person, who conceived, and „actually executed, the vast Design of entertaining the Town with „a kind of Opera. With that view he brought from foreign countries „the finest voices and best Performers that were to be had, with „every Thing else that could contribute to the Perfection and „Grandeur of the Entertainement. The most illustrious strangers, „the ministers of State, the foreign Ministers and others of the „highest quality resorted to his House, to partage of the elegant „Pleasure that generous Person at infinite Expences provided for „them. They were received there in a Hall, or large Room, magni- „ficently adorned and illuminated. The music was judiciously „disposed in an adjoining Apartment, scarse inferior tho the other „in Beauty. Refreshments of all kinds were served about by footmen „in splendid Liveries. Whole Operas were not sung; but only select „Parts, and French Cantates. This new Entertainement, whilst it „easted, so interely ruined the Play-House, that it was shut up „and the actors were reduced to seek their Bread elsewhere. The „nobility had lost all Taste for any Diversion except that given „them once a week by the magnificent Jew. But as the Palate is „soonest cloy’d with the richest meats, the Mind of Man presently „forfeits with the most exquisite Pleasures. The Taste of the „Assembly changed, and the Number that went to the Entertainement, „decreased exceedingly. Loper’s spirit was too great to stay till „he saw himself quite abandoned; and with the Politenefs, which „accompanies all his actions, he did that, which the company in „general ought in Gratitude to have done in regard to him. He „thanked the remaining few for the Honour they had done him, „and closed the Scene”. Behalve in het dossier No. 5162 van het Rijksarchief hebben wij in het notarieele archief nog verschillende stukken gevonden, die ons inlichten omtrent den boedel en over sommige transactiën, die Francesco de Liz voor zijn onder curateele stelling deed. Wij zullen het en ander daaruit mededeelen. EPISODEN UIT HET LEVEN VAN FRANCESCO LOPES DE LIZ. 221

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