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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 153
he courteously put off to us, thereby to signify his favour
towards us. To him we bowed,
as we had been before
instructed. After the Kings came the three Queens, two
whereof were richly habited ; she in the middle went like-
wise all in black, and Cupid held up her train. Intimation
was given us to follow, and after us the Virgins, old Atlas
walks we
bringing up the rear. Through many stately
came to the House of the Sun, there next to the King and
Queen, upon a richly furnished scaffold,
to behold the fore-
ordained comedy. "We, though separated, stood on the statio
right hand of the Kings, but the Virgins on the left, except SI
those to whom the Eoyal Ensignes were committed. To
them was allotted a peculiar standing at top of all, but the
rest of the attendants were content to stand below between
the columns. Now because there are many remarkable A Precipua
passages in this Comedy, I will in brief run it over. Cur. e~
First of all came forth a very antient King with some Actus i.
servants ; before his throne was brought a little chest, with
mention that it was found upon the water. Being opened,
there appeared in it a lovely babe, together with certain
jewels, and a small parchment sealed, and superscribed to
the King. This the King presently opened, and having
read it, he wept and declared to his servants how in-
juriously the King of the iKOOX'f J3 had deprived his aunt
of her country, and had extinguished all the royal seed even
to this infant, with the Daughter of which country he had
purposed to match his Son. Hereupon he swore to main-
tain perpetual enmity with the Moore and his allies, and to
revenge
this on him. He commanded that the Child
should be tenderly nursed, and to make preparations against
the Moore. This provision, and the discipline of the
young lady (who after she was a little grown up
was com-