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both of these engravings Brahe is represented with a cap on 
his head and wearing, suspended by a double chain, the 
Danish Order of the Elephant and Castle, but without the 
portrait of the king, and without the letters on Dr. C.’s 
portrait. 
Dr. C. proceeded to show from Gassendi, page 71, that 
King Frederick had given him the Order; and that subse- 
quently his son. King Christian (Gassendi, page 116), had 
given him a second badge, which he himself w^ore ; — that the 
king had taken it off his own neck and put it round Brahe’s, 
and he particularly mentions that this second badge had a 
portrait of the king upon it, as it actually is represented in 
Dr. Crompton’s portrait. Gassendi mentions an engraving 
of Brahe in which he is represented wearing both of the 
Orders so given to him. 
As the inscription on Dr. Crompton’s portrait says that it 
was painted on the completion of his 50th year, it is a 
representation of Tycho ten years later than the engraving 
by Meurs, of 1586; and the tenor of the emblems and the 
inscription seem to be conclusive that the picture was 
painted after Brahe had left Denmark, which he did 
(Gassendi, p. 112) about Midsummer, 1597, whence he went 
to Kostock, but which place he left for fear of the plague 
after the end of October, when by invitation he went to the 
Castle of Wandsburgh, near Hamburgh, to stay with his 
friend, Kanzovius. Immediately on his arrival there he 
composed a long poem in Latin, given by Gassendi at pages 
143, 1, and 5, in which he complains bitterly of his country’s 
blindness and want of appreciation of his notable services) 
which he lauds in a remarkable way, but not beyond their 
deserts. In the course of this poem are passages which 
justify the emblem on Dr. C.’s portrait and several lines 
which bear closely on the inscription on his picture. 
The following may be quoted : — 
Pro quibus, o Siiperi, mihi gratia reddita tails, 
Sex ego cum iiatis, matreque ut exsul agam ! 
