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Hospites
maerent.
Solatium.
Cura
nocturna
mortuorum.
Cubiculum.
Visio
nocturna.
Cadavera
avehuntur
trans Lacum,
i6o HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
I could not tell what the event would be, I was fain to
captivate my understanding until I were further resolved.
The Virgin, seeing that some of us were faint-hearted and
" The life of these
wept, bid us be content, saying :
standeth now in your hands, and in case you follow me,
this death shall make many alive."
Herewith she intimated we should go sleep and trouble
ourselves no further, for they should have their due right.
She bade us all good night, saying that she must watch the
dead corps.
We then were conducted by our Pages into
our lodgings. My Page talked with me of sundry matters,
and gave me cause enough to admire his understanding,
but his intention was to lull me asleep, which at last I
observed, whereupon I made as though I was fast asleep,
but no sleep came to my eyes, and I could not put the
beheaded out of my mind. Now my lodging was directly
over against the great lake, so that I could look upon
it, the windows being nigh the bed. About midnight I
espied on the lake a great fire, wherefore I quickly opened
the window to see what would become of it. Then from
far I saw seven ships making forward all full of lights.
Above each of them hovered a flame that passed to and
fro, and sometimes descended, so that I could lightly judge
that it must needs be the spirits of the beheaded. The
ships gently approached to land, and each had no more
than one mariner. When they were gotten to shore, I
espied our Virgin with a torch going towards them, after
whom the six covered coffins, together with the little
chest, were carried, and each was privily laid in a ship.
Wherefore I awaked my Page, who hugely thanked me,
for having run much up and down all day, he might
quite have over-slept this, though he well knew it. As