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Triclinium
preciosissimum.
Cupido
iratus ob
venerem
visam ab
autore.
Etiam Rex
condolet.
Lagtitia
discumbentium
.
Post coenam
obligantur
equites
legibus suis.
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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUC1ANS.
ingenuity, but it was too sharp for me, and I could well
have endured never to have seen it. Casting in my mind
whether he might perchance be helped through my wish, I
asked the King whether he might not be released some
other way, but he replyed no, because there was special
consideration in the business, but for this night we might
gratifie his desire, so he sent one forth to fetch him in.
Mean time the tables were prepared in a spatious room, in
which we had never before been, which was so compleat
that it is not possible for me to describe it. Into this we
were conducted with singular ceremony. Cupid was not
present, for the disgrace which had happened to his mother
had somewhat angered him. In brieflf, my offence, and the
supplication which had been delivered, were the occasion of
much sadness, for the King was in perplexity how to make
inquisition amongst his guests. He caused the porter him-
self to make his strict surveigh, and showed himself as
pleasant as he was able. Howbeit, at length they began
again to be merry, and to bespeak one another with all
sorts of recreative, profitable discourses. The treatment
and other ceremonies then performed it is not necessary to
declare,
since it is neither the reader's concern nor service-
able to my design,
but all exceeded more in invention than
that we were overcharged with drinking. This was the
last and noblest meal at which I was present. After the
bancket the tables were suddainly taken away, and certain
curious chairs placed round in circle, in which we, together
with the King and Queen, both their old men, the Ladies
and Virgins, were to sit. After this a very handsom Page
opened the above mentioned glorious little book, when
Atlas, immediately placing himself in the midst, bespoke