T H E P H O E N I X. The Phoenix is a mythical bird that burns to ashes and is reborn, symbolizing the restoration of the state after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War.

From these most unhappy times,

This is the one source of happiness,

That they are submerged in the Beautiful Fountain,

original: "Fonte Pulchro." This is a Latin pun on the name of the patron, von Schönborn (Schön = Beautiful, Born = Fountain/Spring).

In which, unless they are completely submerged,

They will never emerge

More fortunate.

And this will be the highest glory

OF THE BEAUTIFUL FOUNTAIN,

To have arrived in these times,

In which, if it had not arrived,

The times would be altogether

Ruined.

What more shall I say of the Beautiful Fountain?

Other fountains are either dried up by favorable heat,

Or frozen by unlucky cold,

So that they stop their flow:

All the good Muses, who are

vow and pray for this along with me.

Father Nicolaus Mohr of the Society

of Jesus.

Nicolaus Mohr was a contemporary of Gaspar Schott and a fellow Jesuit scholar.

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