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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 179
coloured with a fine white powder that it had the appear-
ance of milk. It was cool when the Bird was set into
it, and he was mighty well pleased with it, drinking of
it, and pleasantly sporting in it. But after it began to heat,
by reason of the lamps placed under it, we had enough to
do to keep him in the bath. We, therefore, clapt a
cover on the kettle, and suffered him to thrust out
his head through a hole, till he had lost all his feathers
in this bath, and was as smooth as a new-born babe,
yet
the heat did him no further harm. In this bath the
feathers were quite consumed, and the bath was thereby
turned into blew. At length we gave the Bird air, who of
himself sprung out of the kettle, and was so glitteringly
smooth that it was a pleasure to behold him. But because
he was still somewhat wild, we were fain to put a collar,
with a chain, about his neck, and so led him up and down vincitur.
the room. Meantime a strong fire was made under the
kettle, and the bath sodden away
till it all came to a blew
stone, which we took out, and, having pounded it, we Balneum
ground it on a stone, and finally with this colour painted
the Bird's whole skin over, who then looked much more
strangely, for he was all blew except the head, which
remained white. Herewith our work in this story was
performed, and we, after the Virgin with her blew Bird
was departed from us, were called up a hole to the sixth
story, where we were mightily troubled, for in the midst a
little altar, every way like that in the King's hall, was
placed. Upon it stood the six forementioned particulars,
and he himself (the Bird) made the seventh. First of all
the little fountain was set before him,
out of which he
drunk a good draught j afterwards he pecked upon the
white serpent till she bled mightily. This blood we re-
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6 - Conclave.