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Respites
nesciunt
respondere.
Atlas
respondet.
Descriptio
labatorii.
Subscellia.
1. Rex senex
Conjux
Juven.
2. Rex and
conjuxsene".
Scomna.
assessores.
Cnpide.
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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
Hereupon she laid her branch on the ground. It would
have been fitting for one of us to have spoken somewhat on
this occasion, but, seeing we were all troubled with the
falling of the uvula, old Atlas stept forward and spoke on
the King's behalf :
"
Their Eoyal Majesties most gratiously
rejoyce at your arrival, and will that their grace be assured
to all. With thy administration, gentle Virgin, they are
most gratiously satisfied, and a Royal Reward shall be
provided for thee ; yet it is their intention that thou shalt
this day also continue with them, inasmuch as they have
no reason to mistrust thee."
Here the Virgin humbly took up the branch, and we for
this first time were to step aside with her. This room was
square on the front, five times broader than it was long,
but towards the West it had a great arch like a porch, where
stood in circle three glorious thrones, the middlemost being
somewhat higher than the rest. In each throne sate two
persons in the first sate a very antient King with a gray
beard, yet his consort was extraordinarily fair and young.
In the third throne sate a black King of middle age, and
by him a dainty old matron, not crowned, but covered
with a vail. But in the middle sate the two young
persons, who though they had likewise wreaths of lawrel
upon their heads, yet over them hung a large and costly
crown. Now albeit they were not at this time so fair as I
had before imagined to my self, yet
so it was to be.
Behind them on a round form sat for the most part antient
men, yet none had any sword or other weapon about him.
Neither saw I any life-guard but certain Virgins which
were with us the day before, and who sate on the sides of
the arch. I cannot pass in silence how the little Cupid
flew to and again there, but for the most part he hovered