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8 May.

HOW PITIFUL IS IT, WHEN THE WISE ARE DELUDED, 1583 - topics: weather,travel,court_patronage,household_family,money_legal,letters_books,angelic_spiritual

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8 May. - Daybook Entries. Records weather, travel, court patronage, household family, money legal: After dinner hora circiter 4.

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Records weather, travel, court patronage, household family, money legal: After dinner hora circiter 4. Being desirous to further all things on my part to be performed, and to lack the company of E.K. going for the earths (before spoken of) and to be away ten or twelve days: and forasmuch as the book was to be written in 40 days...

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HOW PITIFUL IS IT, WHEN THE WISE ARE DELUDED, 1583

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weather,travel,court_patronage,household_family,money_legal,letters_books,angelic_spiritual

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Wednesday. After dinner hora circiter 4. Being desirous to further all things on my part to be performed, and to lack the company of E.K. going for the earths (before spoken of) and to be away ten or twelve days: and forasmuch as the book was to be written in 40 days before August next, and uncertain of those days when they should begin, and also for that I would do all things (gladly) by warranty of counsel of our instructor: I was desirous to know whether the book were to be written in paper or parchment: in what colour the lines were to be ruled, green or blue &c., and of divers other doubts necessary to be dissolved, I was careful to have had some advertisement. Then it came in my head to set forth the Stone. E.K. said that there appeared in the Stone a fair palace: and out of the palace came a tall well favoured man, very richly apparelled with a brave hat and a feather on his head: and after him followed a great number, all like courtiers. And this brave man said: 'How pitiful a thing is it, when the wise are deluded.' After I perceived evidently that it was a wicked tempter, I began with some zeal and eagerness to rebuke and to charge him. But he stiffly and stoutly did contemn me a good while, mock me, and at length threaten to destroy me, my wife and children &c.. I thereupon made my earnest prayers to God against this spiritual enemy: but he in the middle of my prayers said thus: 'As truly as the Lord liveth, all that is done, is lies.': 'That, thy sentence, will I record against thee, to be laid to thy charge at the dreadful day.' After this great turmoil passed, all went suddenly out of sight, prince and palace and all: and the chair and table and Uriel appeared. URIEL: 'Arm yourselves; for great shall be the temptation following. You shall be hindered in all that may be. Fulfil those things that are commanded. Form and write the book after thine own judgement.': 'Forasmuch as expedition is to be made for the earths' fetching and divers other things: and we have made assay to get an horse, but we could get none as we would: and without some better provision of money than we have, we cannot redress the case. Therefore, if it might please God, that of the ten places noted, we might have but the possession of the smallest of them delivered here unto us, at this pinch, it might greatly pleasure us.' URIEL: 'Will these worldlings hold on in their iniquity?' E.K.: 'They pull the legs of the table away, and seem to carry all away in a bundle like a cloud: and so disappeared utterly.' Hereupon I was exceeding sorrowful, and betook myself to a lamentable pang of prayer.

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Wednesday. After dinner hora circiter 4. Being desirous to further all things on my part to be performed, and to lack the company of E.K. going for the earths (before spoken of) and to be away ten or twelve days: and forasmuch as the book was to be written in 40 days before August next, and uncertain of those days when they should begin, and also for that I would do all things (gladly) by warranty of counsel of our instructor: I was desirous to know whether the book were to be written in paper or parchment: in what colour the lines were to be ruled, green or blue &c., and of divers other doubts necessary to be dissolved, I was careful to have had some advertisement. Then it came in my head to set forth the Stone. E.K. said that there appeared in the Stone a fair palace: and out of the palace came a tall well favoured man, very richly apparelled with a brave hat and a feather on his head: and after him followed a great number, all like courtiers. And this brave man said: 'How pitiful a thing is it, when the wise are deluded.' After I perceived evidently that it was a wicked tempter, I began with some zeal and eagerness to rebuke and to charge him. But he stiffly and stoutly did contemn me a good while, mock me, and at length threaten to destroy me, my wife and children &c.. I thereupon made my earnest prayers to God against this spiritual enemy: but he in the middle of my prayers said thus: 'As truly as the Lord liveth, all that is done, is lies.': 'That, thy sentence, will I record against thee, to be laid to thy charge at the dreadful day.' After this great turmoil passed, all went suddenly out of sight, prince and palace and all: and the chair and table and Uriel appeared. URIEL: 'Arm yourselves; for great shall be the temptation following. You shall be hindered in all that may be. Fulfil those things that are commanded. Form and write the book after thine own judgement.': 'Forasmuch as expedition is to be made for the earths' fetching and divers other things: and we have made assay to get an horse, but we could get none as we would: and without some better provision of money than we have, we cannot redress the case. Therefore, if it might please God, that of the ten places noted, we might have but the possession of the smallest of them delivered here unto us, at this pinch, it might greatly pleasure us.' URIEL: 'Will these worldlings hold on in their iniquity?' E.K.: 'They pull the legs of the table away, and seem to carry all away in a bundle like a cloud: and so disappeared utterly.' Hereupon I was exceeding sorrowful, and betook myself to a lamentable pang of prayer.