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MARRIAGE OF CHRISTIAN ROSENCREUTZ. 195
possible for him to transgress his ancient usages,
he knew
not how else to absolve me but that the other must be at
liberty and I placed in his stead ; yet he would hope that
some other would soon be apprehended, that so I might be
able to go home again. However, no release was to be
hoped for till the marriage feast of his future son. This Audit
sententiam.
sentence near cost me my life, and I first hated myself
and my twatling tongue in that I could not hold my
peace ; yet at last I took courage, and, because T con-
sidered there was no remedy, I related how this porter
had bestowed a token on me and commended me to the
other, by whose assistance I stood upon the scale, and so
was made partaker of all the honour and joy already re-
ceived. And therefore now it was equal that I should show Laus
benencn
myself grateful to my benefactor, and was poi >fcitOTis -
willing gently
to sustain inconvenience for his sake, who had been helpful
to me in coming to so high place ; but if by my wish any-
thing might be effected, I wished myself at home again,
and that so he by me, as I by my wish, might be at liberty.
Answer was made me, that the wishing stretched not so far, Laudatur
'
aRege
yet it was very pleasing to his Eoyal Majesty that I had
behaved myself so generously, but he was affraid I might
still be ignorant into what a miserable condition I had
plunged myself through this curiosity. Hereupon the
good man was pronounced free, and I, with a sad heart,
was fain to step aside. The rest were called for after me, Reiiqui
laeti evadunt
and came jocundly out again, which was still more to my
smart, for I imagined no other but that I must finish my
life under the gate.
I had also many pensive thoughts
running in my head as to what I should yet undertake, and
wherewith to spend the time. At length I considered that Spes.
Metus t
I was now old, and, according to the course of Nature, had