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168 HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
v.
Then let our song sound,
Till its eccho rebound,
To Love's honour and praise ;
May
it ever increase
With our noble Princes, the King and the Queen,
The soul is departed, their body's within.
VI.
And as long as we live
God gratiously give,
That as great love and amity
They bear each other mightily,
So we, likewise, by love's own flame
May reconjoyn them once again.
VII.
Then this annoy Into great joy
(If many thousand younglings deign)
Shall change, and ever so remain.
Autori These having, with most admirable concent and melody,
perplacent
nymphae and finished this song, I no more wondred at Ulisses for
cantus.
stopping the ears of his companions ; I seemed to myself
the most unhappy man alive that Nature had not made me
too so trim a creature. But the Virgin soon dispatched
The nymphs them, and commanded to set sail : wherefore the nymphs,
rewarded.
having been presented with a long red scarff for a gratuity,
dispersed themselves in the sea. I was at this time sensible
that Cupid began to work with me too, which tended little
Autori to my credit ; but as my giddiness is likely to be nothing
desunt adhuc
Qu- beneficial to the reader, I am resolved to let it rest. This
was the wound that in the first book I received on my head
in a dream. Let every one take warning by me of loitering
about Venus' bed, for Cupid can by
no means brook it.
Tun-is After some hours, we came within ken of the Tower of
Olympi.