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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
mistress Euterpe to publish. Be, therefore, gentle reader,
admonished, that with me you do earnestly pray to God,
that it please Him to open the hearts and ears of all ill-
hearing people, and to grant unto them His blessing, that
they may be able to know Him in His omnipotency, with
admiring contemplation of Nature, to His honour and
praise, and to the love, help, comfort, and strengthening of
our neighbours, and to the restoring of all the diseased by
the medecines above taught.
I had given you a more large account of the mysteries of
Nature and the Rosie Cross, but whilst I studyed medecines
to cure others, my deare sister Anne Heydon dyed, and I
never heard she was sick (for she was one hundred miles
from mee), which puts an end to my writings,
and thus I
take my leave of the world. I shall write no more ; you
know my books by name, and this I write that none may
abuse me by printing books in my name,
peper's.
1 return to my first happy solitudes.
Voyage to tlie Land of the Rosicrucians.
as Cole does Cul-
We travelled from Sydmouth for London and Spain by
the south sea, taking with us victuals for twelve moneths,
and had good winds from the East, though soft and weake,
for five moneths' space and more. But then the winds came
about into the West, so as we could make little way, and
were sometimes in purpose to turn back. Then again there
arose strong and great winds from the South, with a point
East, which carried us up towards the North, by which
time our victuals failed us, and we gave ourselves for lost
men, and prepared for death. We did lift up our hearts
and voices to God, beseeching Him of His mercy that He
would discover land to us, that we might not perish. The