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visiting Denmark, the King and the wealthy Christian Skeel
of Sostrup would make it worth his while.
When Ulrik Frederik arrived in Amsterdam, he therefore
asked Ole Borch, who was studying there and knew
Burrhi well, to conduct him to the alchemist. They found him a
man in the fifties, below middle height, and with a tendency
to fat, but erect and springy in his movements. His hair and
his narrow moustache were black, his nose was hooked and
rather thick, his face full and yellow in color; from the
corners of his small, glittering black eyes innumerable furrows
and lines spread out like a fan, giving him an expression at
once sly and goodhumored. He wore a black velvet coat
with wide collar and cuffs and crape-covered silver buttons,
black knee-breeches and silk stockings, and shoes with
large black rosettes. His taste for fine lace appeared in the
edging on his cravat and shirt bosom and in the ruffles that
hung in thick folds around his wrists and knees. His hands
were small, white, and chubby, and were loaded with rings
of such strange, clumsy shapes that he could not bring the
tips of his fingers together. Large brilliants glittered even
on his thumbs. As soon as they were seated, he remarked
that he was troubled with cold hands and stuck them in
a large fur muff, although it was summer.
The room into which he conducted Ulrik Frederik was
large and spacious, with a vaulted ceiling and narrow Gothic
windows set high in the walls. Chairs were ranged around
a large centre table, their wooden seats covered with soft
cushions of red silk, from which hung long, heavy tassels.
The top of the table was inlaid with a silver plate on which
the twelve signs of the zodiac, the planets, and some of the
more important constellations were done in niello. Above
it, a string of ostrich eggs hung from the ceiling. The floor
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