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TYCHO BRAHE.
Chap. XX.
king, the stars were already out of fashion; not one of
the notabilities who visited Copenhagen made the
accustomed pilgrimage to Hveen, and now the influence of
Walkendorf became visible. Tycho was pronounced
“a bad Christianfor eight years had elapsed since
lie had received the Holy Communion, and, worse still,
he lived on with a woman of low extraction, who
was not his wife. The University (always a body of
sycophants) scoffed at his treatises; his revenues were
no longer paid, and he was compelled to quit Denmark.
He wrote from Rostock a suppliant letter to Christian IV.,
imploring his aid, to which the king replied harshly.
Tycho then went to his friend Henry Count Rantzau,
known in liis time as “ Rantzau the learned,” and passed
a year with him in his chateau of Wansbek, near
Hamburg. Here it was he wrote in the album of his
host those beautiful Latin verses known as ‘ Tycho’s
Lament/ * which on reading in later years caused
Christian to shed tears of remorse. While at Wansbek he
received an invitation from the Emperor Rodolph to
visit his dominions, and, after lingering on in hope of a
recall to Copenhagen, he, in 1599, proceeded to Prague,
where he was given the choice of three palaces and a
pension of 3000 gulden.
Tycho did not long survive his exile. Two years later,
when at a party at Count Rosenborg’s, he was suddenly
* Tycho Brahe’s Elegia de Exilio süo.
Dania quid merui ? quo te patria, læsi
Usque ades, ut rebus sit minus acqua meis,
Scilicet illud erat, tibi quo nocuisse reprendar
Quo majus per me nomen in orbe geras.
Dei age, quis pro te tot tantaque fecerat ante
Ut retreat famam cuncta per astra tuam.
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