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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 117
he. " is now resolved to be cheated, and will give no ear to Mimdus vait
those who intend its good. Seest thou that Cock's-comb,
with what whimsical figures and foolish conceits he allures
others. There one makes mouths at the people with un-
heard-of mysterious words. Yet the time is now coming
when those shameful vizards shall be plucked off, and the
world shall know what vagabond imposters were concealed
behind them. Then perhaps that will be valued which at
present
is not esteemed."
While he was thus speaking, and the clamour was still
increasing, all on a sudden there began in the hall such ex-
cellent and stately musick of which, all the days of my life, I Mnsica.
never heard the like. Every one held his peace,
and at-
tended what would come of it. There were all stringed
instruments imaginable, sounding together in such har-
mony that I forgot myself, and sate so unmovably that
those by me were amazed. This lasted nearly half an hour,
wherein none of us spake one word, for as soon as anyone
was about to open his mouth, he got an unexpected blow. Mulct* &b
After that space this musick ceased suddenly, and presently
before the door of the hall began a great sounding and
beating of trumpets, shalms, and kettle - drums,
all so
master-like as if the Emperor of Rome had been entring.
The door opened of itself, and then the noise of the trum-
pets was so loud that we were hardly
able to indure it.
Meanwhile, many thousand small tapers came into the hall, Facuise ad
marching of themselves in so exact an order as amazed us,
till at last the two fore-mentioned pages with bright
torches entred lighting in a most beautiful Virgin, drawn virgo iuci-
on a gloriously gilded, triumphant self-moving throne.
She seemed to me the same who on the way kindled and The Lady
Chamberlain
put out the lights, and that these her attendants were the
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