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1 66 HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
and on them all the Virgins stuck up their Laurel branches,
and, having distributed us in the six ships, they caused us
in God's name to begin our voyage, and looked upon us as
long as we were in sight, after which they,
with all the watch-
men, returned into the Castle. Our ships had each of them a
peculiar device ; five of them, indeed, had the five regular
bodies, each a several one, but mine, in which the Virgin
too sate, carried a globe. Thus we sailed on in a singular
order, and each had only two mariners. Foremost went the
a ship a in which, as I conceive, the Moor lay. In this were
ff I! was
twelve
musitians who played excellently well, and its device
a pyramid. Next followed three abreast, b, c, and d,
in which we were disposed ; I sate in c. Behind these
came the two fairest and stateliest ships, e and/, stuck about
with many branches of lawrel, and having no passengers in
them ; their flags were the sun and moon. But in the rear
4ovirgmes was only one ship, g, and in this were forty Virgins.
Having passed over this lake, we came through a narrow
arm into the right sea, where all the sirens, nymphs, and
sea-goddesses attended us, and immediately dispatched a
Excipiuntur sea-nymph unto us to deliver their present of honour to the
a nymphis.
Wedding. It was a costly, great, set, round, and orient
pearl, the like to which hath not at any time been seen,
either in ours or in the new
\c world- The Virgins having
^> friendly received it, the nymph
intreated that audience might be
given to their divertisements,which
the Virgin was content to give, and
commanded the two great ships to
stand into the middle, and to the rest to incompass them in
pentagon, after which the nymphs fell into a ring about them,
and with a most delicate sweet voice began thus to sing :