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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 165
all in black velvet, yet she and her Virgins still bare their
branches of lawrel. All things being in readiness, she bid iugubris.
us first drink somewhat, and then presently prepare for the
procession, wherefore we made no long tarrying, but
followed her out of the hall into the court, where stood six
coffins, and my companions thought no other but that the
six Royal Persons lay in them, but I well observed the
device, though I knew not what was to be done with these
other. By each coffin were eight muffled men. As soon as
the musick went, it was so doleful a tune that I was
astonished at it, they took up the coffins, and we followed
them into the Garden,
in the midst of which was erected a
wooden edifice, have round about the roof a glorious crown,
and standing upon seven columns. Within it were formed
six sepulchers ; by each of them was a stone, but in the
middle it had a round hollow rising stone. In these graves
the coffins were quietly, and with many ceremonies, laid ;
the stones were shoved over them, and they shut fast, but
the little chest was to lie in the middle. Herewith were
my companions deceived, for they imagined
that the dead
corps were there. On the top of all was a great flag, having
a Phcenix painted on it, perhaps the more to delude us.
After the funerals were done, the Virgin, having placed
herself upon the midmost stone, made a short oration, Respites
vocantur
exhorting us to be constant to our ingagements, not to ad labore
pro vita
repine at the pains we must undergo, but be helpful in
restoring the buried Royal Persons to life, and therefore,
without delay, to rise and make a journey with her to the
Tower of Olympus, to fetch thence the medicines necessary
for this purpose.
This we soon agreed to, and followed her through another
little door to the shore, where the seven ships stood empty,
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