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Virgo
lucifera
gratiositas.
^Enigma
de Nomine.
60, Sc. quot
virgines.
142
HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
with which he warmed himself all winter long ; but as soon
as spring returned he sold the very same wood again, and
so had
"
the use of it for nothing. Here must needs be
skill," said the Virgin, " but the time is now past."
" Yea," replyed my companion, " whoever understands how
to resolve all the riddles may give notice of it by a proper
messenger; I conceive he will not be denied." At this
time they began to say grace, and we arose altogether
from the table rather satisfied and merry than glutted ; it
were to be wished that all invitations and f eastings were
thus kept. Having taken some few turns up and down
the hall, the Virgin asked us whether we desired to begin
the wedding.
"
Yes," said one,
"
noble and vertuous
lady;" whereupon she privately dispatched a Page, and,
meantime, proceeded in discourse with us. In brief, she
was become so familiar that I adventured and requested
her Name. The Virgin smiled at my curiosity, and
replyed :
" My name contains five and fifty, and yet hath
only eight letters ; the third is the third part of the fifth,
which added to the sixth will produce a number, whose
root shall exceed the third itself by just the first, and it is
the half of the fourth. Now the fifth and seventh are
equal, the last and first also equal,
and make with the
second as much as the sixth hath, which contains four
more than the third tripled. Now tell me, my lord, how
am I called 1 "
The answer was intricate enough, yet I left not off, but
said: "Noble and vertuous Lady, may I not obtain one
only letter 1 " " Yea," said she, " that may
well be done.
1 '
What, then," I 1
proceeded, "may the seventh contain ?"
" "
It contains," said she, as many as there are lords here."
With this I easily found her Name, at which she was well