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The hermetick romance, or, The chymical wedding written in High Dutch by Christian Rosencreutz ; translated by E. Foxcroft ...; Chymische Hochzeit. English. 1690
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Rosencreutz, Christian.; Foxcroft, E.
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1690
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Wing A3114; ESTC R8341
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the middle went likewise all in black and Cupid held up her Train after this intimation was given to us to follow and after us the Virgins till at last old Atlas brought up the rear In such Procession through many stately Walks we at length came to the House of the Sun there next to the King and Queen upon a richly furnished Scaffold to behold the fore-ordained Comedy We indeed though Separated stood on the right Hand of the Kings but the Virgins on the left except those to whom the Royal Ensignes were committed To them was allotted a peculiar standing at top of all But the rest of the attendants were fain to stand below between the columns and therewith to be content Now because there are many remarkable Passages in this Comedy I will not omit in brief to run it over First of all came forth a very ancient Ring with some Servants before whose Throne was brought a little Chest with mention that it was found upon the Water Now it being opened there appeared in it a lovely Babe together with certain Jewels and a small Letter of Parchment sealed and superscribed to the King Which the King therefore presently opened and having read it wept and then declared to his Servants how injuriously the King of the Moores had deprived his Aunt of her Country and had exstinguished all the Royal Seed even to this Infant with the Daughter of which Country he had now purposed to have matched his Son Hereupon he Swore to maintain perpetual enmity with the Moore and his Allies and to reuenge this upon him and therewith commanded that the Child should be tenderly nursed and to make preparation against the Moore Now this provision and the discipline of the young Lady who after she was a little grown up was committed to an antient Tutor continued all the first Act with many very fine and laudable sports besides In the interlude a Lyon and Griffon were set at one another to fight and the Lyon got the victory which was also a pretty fight In the second Act the Moore a very black treacherous Fellow came forth also who having with vexation understood that his Murder was discovered and that too a little Lady was craâ—â—â—â—ly stollen from him began thereupon to consult how by stratagem he might be able to encounter so powerful an adversary whereof he was at length advised by certain Fugitives who by reason of Famine fled to him So the young Lady contrary to all mens expectation fell again into his Hands Whom had he not heen wonderfully deceived by his own Servants he had like to have caused to be slain Thus this Act too was concluded with a mervelous triumph of the Moore In the third Act a great Army on the King's party was raised against the Moore and put under the conduct of an antient valiant Knight who fell into the Moores Country till at length he forceably rescued the young Lady out of the Tower and Apparrelled her a new After this in a trice they erected a glorious Scaffold and placed their young Lady upon it presently came twelve Royal Embassadors amongst whom the fore-mentioned Knight made a Speech alledging that the King his most gracious Lord had not only heretofore delivered her from death and even hitherto caused her to be royally brought up though she had not behaved her self altogether as became her But moreover his Royal Majesty had before others elected her to be a Spouse for the young Lord his Son and most gratiously desired that the said espousals might be really executed in case they would be sworn to his Majesty upon the following Articles Hereupon out of a Patent he caused certain glorious conditions to be read which if it were not too long were well worthy to be here recounted In brief the young Lady took an Oath inviolably to observe the same returning thanks withal in most seemly sort for this so high a Grace Whereupon they began to sing to the Praise of God of the King and the young Lady and so for this time departed For sport in the mean while the four Beasts of Daniel as he saw them in the Vision and hath at large described them were brought in all which had its certain signification In the fourth Act the young Lady was again restored to her lost Kingdom and Crowned and for a space in this array conducted about the place with extraordinary joy after this many various Embassadors presented themselves not only to wish her prosperity but also to behold her Glory Yet it was not long that she preserved her integrity but soon began again to look want only about her and to wink at the Embassadors and Lords wherein she truly acted her part to the Life These her manners were soon known to the Moore who would by no means neglect such an opportunity and because her Steward had not sufficient regard to her she was easily blinded with great promises so that she had no good confidence in her King but privily submitted her self to the intire disposal of the Moore Hereupon the Moore made haste and having by her consent gotten her into his Hands he gave her good words so long till all her Kingdom had subjected it self to him After which in the third Scene of this Act he caused her to be led forth and first to be stript stark naked and then upon a scurvy wooden Scaffold to be bound to a Post and well scourged and at last sentenced to Death This was so woful a Spectacle that it made the Eyes of many to run over Hereupon thus naked as she was she was cast into Prison thereto expect her Death which was to be procured by Poyson which yet killed her not but made her Leprous all over Thus this Act was for the most part lamentable Between they brought forth Nebuchadnezzar's Image which was adorn'd with all manner of Arms on the Head Breast Belly Legs and Feet and the like of which too more shall be spoken in the future explication In the fifth Act the young King was acquainted with all that had passed between the Moore and his future Spouse who first interceeded with his Father for her intreating that she might not be left in that condition which his Father having agreed to Embassadors were dispatched to comfort her in her Sickness and Captivity but yet withal to give her notice of her inconsideratedness But she would not yet receive them but consented to be the Moore 's Concubine which was also done and the young King was acquainted with it After this comes a band of Fools each of which brought with him a Cudgel where with in a trice they made a great Globe of the World and as soon undid it again It was a fine sportive Phantsie In the sixth Act the young King resolved to bid battle to the Moore which also was done And albeit the Moore was discomfitted yet all held the young