sleeves, pelicans and mortars ; without the door were piles of 

 charcoal. 



"And sundry vessels made of earth and glass, 



Our urinals and our descensories ; 



Phials and crosslets and subllmatories, 



Cucurbits and alembikes eke 



And other such, dear enough a leek." 



In the upper room was kept a large stock of dried herbs, 

 also casks of wine and small kegs of oil. In one corner, on 

 a table under a window, lay several herbals and a good 

 selection of the most valuable pharmacopoeias ; these included 

 Otto Brunfels' "Reformation of Pharmacy" (Mayence, 1536), 

 Ryffs "Book of Confections" (Strassburg, 1548), and the 

 latest edition of the admirable work by Valerius Cordus, 

 published at Antwerp in 1580 under the title "Pharmacorum 

 conficiendorum ratio, vulgo vocant Dispensatorium." 



All day and late into the night the apprentices labored 

 mightily with mortar and pestle, with coals and bellows, 

 cucurbits and stillatories, preparing the monstrous remedies 

 dispensed in the front shop ; to the upper room repaired also 

 Christian himself when he was engaged in uroscopy, another 

 regular and lucrative source of income. 



When alone Carlo Malombra brooded over unrequited 

 love for his master's lovely daughter, and cursed the day 

 that brought Lieutenant Maximilian Swoboda into the family 

 circle of the Horcickys ; he, Carlo, was well born, being the 

 nephew of the Venetian artist Pietro Malombra, and he felt 

 indignant at the menial position he filled. He had been clerk 

 to one of the Professors of medicine at the University of 

 Padua, but an awkward event, in which the deadly Aqua 

 Toffniria had been too freely used and with which his name 

 was connected, caused him to bury himself, as he thought, 

 in the wilds of unpolished Bohemia. 



On a beautifully, clear, refreshing morning in the month 



