Thurneisser, having indiscretly shown his skill in transmuta- 

 tion before "lewd fellows of the baser sort," was murdered 

 in a shocking manner and robbed of his treasure ; and Anna 

 Maria Ziegler, whose sex did not save her, was executed in 

 a horrible way by the cruel Duke Julius of B runs wick- Lune- 

 burg, being roasted alive in an iron arm-chair. 



"Sechs Stuck thun aus Alchemy folgen, 



Muh, Rauch, Hunger, Gestanck, Frost und Galgen!" 



73 



