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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 145
with rare tapistries, and hung about with paintings ; but Autoris
above all things I was delighted in my Page, who was so
excellently spoken, and experienced in the arts, that he yet
spent me another hour, and it was half an hour after three
when I fell asleep. This was the first night that I slept in
quiet, and yet a scurvy dream would not suffer me to rest,
for I was troubled with a Door which I could not get open,
though at last I did so. With these phantasies I passed Somnium
the time, till at length, towards day, I awaked. difflciu.
The Fourth Day.
I still lay in my bed, and leisurely surveighed the noble Autor
images and figures about my chamber, during which, on a dormiens
sudden, I heard the musick of coronets, as if already they had
been in procession. My Page skipped out of the bed as if he
had been at his wits' end, and looked more like one dead
than living.
" The rest are already presented to the King,"
said he. I knew not what else to do but weep outright,
and curse my own sloathfulness. I dressed myself, but my
Page was ready long before me, and ran out of the chamber
to see how affairs might yet stand. He soon returned with
the joyful news that the time was not past, only I had
over-slept my breakfast, they being unwilling to waken me Jentacuio
because of my age, but that now it was time for me to go
with him to the Fountain, where most were assembled.
With this consolation my spirit returned, wherefore I was
soon ready with my habit, and went after the Page to the
Fountain in the Garden, where I found that the Lyon, in-
stead of his sword, had a pretty large tablet by him. Leonis
Tabula
Having well viewed it, I found that it was taken out of the
ancient monuments, and placed here for some especial
honour. The inscription was worn with age, and, therefore,
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