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Chap. XXIV.
CHRISTIAN IV.’S ECONOMY.
363
cannot go to them before Monday at noon, you will see
that it is already taken before that time. Tell them
that they must take it, and be pleased with it.” The
latter order appears somewhat arbitrary.
There is no detail which he considers beneath his
royal dignity to notice. On Christmas-day the prince
is to go to Fredensborg, but only one page is to
accompany him; this page is not to take his bed, but may
have one suit, and a change of linen. Dr. Jasper, the
tutor, may go where he pleases during the children’s
vacation, but must be back by New Year’s Eve. The
chamberlain is to take great care the children do not
drink cold water after playing, when they are warm.
Frederic may drive in the little carriage with the
prince. “ You will come down after church, and bring
the tailor with you ; as for the new-appointed equerry,
he can sleep in the stable to be near at hand.”
When a monarch condescends to enter into such
small details as these, there can be no doubt that his
money will go further than when he trusts everything
to the hands of others, and such was the case with
Christian.
Who was the real architect of the existing palace
none can say. It may be inferred that Christian
employed many different artists to design plans, and
adopted them according to his pleasure. In the church of
the adjoining village of Slangerup hangs the epitaphium
of John of Fribourg, which declares him to have been
the architect of Frederiksborg, followed up with a
and devilries,” may be found “ a cure for eye-sickness“ Mix up the
white of an egg with soot from the stove, and rub your eyes with it
night and morning ”—a favourite remedy still, and most efficacious, say
the old women of the country.
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