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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 177
On the second side were these three words
SANITAS. Nix. HASTA.
The third had but this one word
F.I.A.T.
But on the hindmost part stood an entire inscription,
running thus
Tgnis Aqua
QUOD
: Aer : : Terra :
SANCTIS EEGUM BT KEGI-
NARUM NOSTR :
Cineribus
Eripere non potuerunt.
Fidelis Chymicorum Turba
IN HANC URNAM
Contulit.
Ao
Now, whether the sand or egg were hereby meant I leave
the learned to dispute. Our egg, being ready, was taken
out, but it needed no cracking, for the Bird soon freed him-
self, looking very jocond, though bloody and unshapen.
We first set him on the warm sand, the Virgin commanding Puiius
implumis.
that before we gave him anything to eat we should be sure
to make him fast, otherwise he would give us all work
enough. This being done, food was brought him, which vindtur.
surely was nothing
but the blood of the beheaded deluted Pascitur
sanguine
with prepared water, by which the Bird grew so fast under decaiiatomm
our eye that we well saw why the Virgin gave such
warning of him. He bit and scratched so devilishly that,
could he have had his will upon any of us, he would soon
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