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men and women's bodies, they have a more civil way; for they have near every town a couple of pools (which they
call Adam and Eve's pools), where it is permitted to one of the friends of the man, and another of the friends of the
woman, to see them severally bathe naked."
And as we were thus in conference, there came one that seemed to be a messenger, in a rich huke, that spake with
the Jew; whereupon he turned to me, and said, "You will pardon me, for I am commanded away in haste." The next
morning he came to me again, joyful as it seemed, and said: "There is word come to the governor of the city, that
one of the fathers of Salomon's House will be here this day seven-night; we have seen none of them this dozen
years. His coming is in state; but the cause of this coming is secret. I will provide you and your fellows of a good
standing to see his entry." I thanked him, and told him I was most glad of the news.
The day being come he made his entry. He was a man of middle stature and age, comely of person, and had an
aspect as if he pitied men. He was clothed in a robe of fine black cloth and wide sleeves, and a cape: his under-
garment was of excellent white linen down to the foot, girt with a girdle of the same; and a sindon or tippet of the
same about his neck. He had gloves that were curious, and set with stone; and shoes of peach-colored velvet. His
neck was bare to the shoulders. His hat was like a helmet, or Spanish montero; and his locks curled below it
decently; they were of color brown. His heard was cut round and of the same color with his hair, somewhat lighter.
He was carried in a rich chariot, without wheels, litter-wise, with two horses at either end, richly trapped in blue
velvet embroidered; and two footmen on each side in the like attire. The chariot was all of cedar, gilt and adorned
with crystal; save that the fore end had panels of sapphires set in borders of gold, and the hinder end the like of
emeralds of the Peru color. There was also a sun of gold, radiant upon the top, in the midst; and on the top before a
small cherub of gold, with wings displayed. The chariot was covered with cloth-of-gold tissued upon blue. He had
before him fifty attendants, young men all, in white satin loose coats up to the mid-leg, and stockings of white silk;
and shoes of blue velvet; and hats of blue velvet, with fine plumes of divers colors, set round like hat-bands. Next
before the chariot went two men, bare-headed, in linen garments down to the foot, girt, and shoes of blue velvet,
who carried the one a crosier, the other a pastoral staff like a sheep-hook; neither of them of metal, but the crosier of
balm-wood, the pastoral staff of cedar. Horsemen he had none, neither before nor behind his chariot; as it seemeth,
to avoid all tumult and trouble. Behind his chariot went all the officers and principals of the companies of the city.
He sat alone, upon cushions, of a kind of excellent plush, blue; and under his foot curious carpets of silk of divers
colors, like the Persian, but far finer. He held up his bare hand, as he went, as blessing the people, but in silence. The
street was wonderfully well kept; so that there was never any army had their men stand in better battle-array than the
people stood. The windows likewise were not crowded, but everyone stood in them, as if they had been placed.
When the show was passed, the Jew said to me, "I shall not be able to attend you as I would, in regard of some
charge the city hath laid upon me for the entertaining of this great person." Three days after the Jew came to me
again, and said: "Ye are happy men; for the father of Salomon's House taketh knowledge of your being here, and
commanded me to tell you that he will admit all your company to his presence, and have private conference with
one of you, that ye shall choose; and for this hath appointed the next day after to-morrow. And because he meaneth
to give you his blessing, he hath appointed it in the forenoon." We came at our day and hour, and I was chosen by
my fellows for the private access. We found him in a fair chamber, richly hanged, and carpeted under foot, without
any degrees to the state; he was set upon a low throne richly adorned, and a rich cloth of state over his head of blue
satin embroidered. He was alone, save that he had two pages of honor, on either hand one, finely attired in white.
His under-garments were the like that we saw him wear in the chariot; but instead of his gown, he had on him a
mantle with a cape, of the same fine black, fastened about him. When we came in, as we were taught, we bowed low
at our first entrance; and when we were come near his chair, he stood up, holding forth his hand ungloved, and in
posture of blessing; and we every one of us stooped down and kissed the end of his tippet. That done, the rest
departed, and I remained. Then he warned the pages forth of the room, and caused me to sit down beside him, and
spake to me thus in the Spanish tongue:
"God bless thee, my son; I will give thee the greatest jewel I have. For I will impart unto thee, for the love of God
and men, a relation of the true state of Salomon's House. Son, to make you know the true state of Salomon's House, I
will keep this order. First, I will set forth unto you the end of our foundation. Secondly, the preparations and
instruments we have for our works. Thirdly, the several employments and functions whereto our fellows are
assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe.
"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the
bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
"The preparations and instruments are these: We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk
600 fathoms; and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains; so that if you reckon together
the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are, some of them, above three miles deep. For we find that the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
