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A NEW SAVIOUR, 1583 - topics: travel,court_patronage,household_family

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2 July. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, household family: Tuesday, a meridie, circa horam 2.

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Records travel, court patronage, household family: Tuesday, a meridie, circa horam 2. While I was writing of letters to Mr Adrian Gilbert, into Devonshire, Madimi appeared by me in the study before E.K. sitting in the chair. And I said: 'How is the mind of Mr Secretary toward me? Methinketh it is alienated...

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A NEW SAVIOUR, 1583

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travel,court_patronage,household_family

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Tuesday, a meridie, circa horam 2. While I was writing of letters to Mr Adrian Gilbert, into Devonshire, Madimi appeared by me in the study before E.K. sitting in the chair. And I said: 'How is the mind of Mr Secretary toward me? Methinketh it is alienated marvellously.' MADlMI: 'The Lord Treasurer and he are joined together, and they hate thee. I heard them when they both said thou wouldst go mad shortly. Whatsoever they can do against thee, assure thyself of. They will shortly lay a bait for thee; but eschew them.': 'Lord have mercy upon me: what bait (I beseech you) and by whom?' MADIMI: 'They have determined to search thy house: but they stay until the Duke be gone.': 'What would they search it for?' MADIMI: 'They suspect the- Duke is inwardly a traitor.': 'They can by no means charge me, no not so much as of a traitorous thought.' MADIMI: 'Though thy thoughts be good, they cannot comprehend the doings of the wicked. In sum, they hate thee. Trust them not: they shall go about shortly to offer thee friendship: but be thou a worm in a heap of straw.': 'I pray you, expound that parable.' MADIMI: 'A heap of straw being never so great, is no weight upon a worm, notwithstanding every straw hindreth the worm's passages. See them, and be not seen of them, dost thou understand it?': 'When, I pray you, is the Duke likely to go away?' MADIMI: 'In the middle of August.': 'If in the midst of August he will go, and then our practices be yet in hand, what shall be done with such our furniture as is prepared and standing in the chamber of practice?' MADIMI: 'Thou hast no faith. His going standeth upon the determinated purpose of God.': 'As concerning Adrian Gilbert, what pleaseth you to say of him and his intended voyage?' MADIMI: 'He is not in the true faith.': 'How hath it been said, then, that he should be the setter forth of God his faith and religion among the infidels?' t;. 96 t;.

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Tuesday, a meridie, circa horam 2. While I was writing of letters to Mr Adrian Gilbert, into Devonshire, Madimi appeared by me in the study before E.K. sitting in the chair. And I said: 'How is the mind of Mr Secretary toward me? Methinketh it is alienated marvellously.' MADlMI: 'The Lord Treasurer and he are joined together, and they hate thee. I heard them when they both said thou wouldst go mad shortly. Whatsoever they can do against thee, assure thyself of. They will shortly lay a bait for thee; but eschew them.': 'Lord have mercy upon me: what bait (I beseech you) and by whom?' MADIMI: 'They have determined to search thy house: but they stay until the Duke be gone.': 'What would they search it for?' MADIMI: 'They suspect the- Duke is inwardly a traitor.': 'They can by no means charge me, no not so much as of a traitorous thought.' MADIMI: 'Though thy thoughts be good, they cannot comprehend the doings of the wicked. In sum, they hate thee. Trust them not: they shall go about shortly to offer thee friendship: but be thou a worm in a heap of straw.': 'I pray you, expound that parable.' MADIMI: 'A heap of straw being never so great, is no weight upon a worm, notwithstanding every straw hindreth the worm's passages. See them, and be not seen of them, dost thou understand it?': 'When, I pray you, is the Duke likely to go away?' MADIMI: 'In the middle of August.': 'If in the midst of August he will go, and then our practices be yet in hand, what shall be done with such our furniture as is prepared and standing in the chamber of practice?' MADIMI: 'Thou hast no faith. His going standeth upon the determinated purpose of God.': 'As concerning Adrian Gilbert, what pleaseth you to say of him and his intended voyage?' MADIMI: 'He is not in the true faith.': 'How hath it been said, then, that he should be the setter forth of God his faith and religion among the infidels?' t;. 96 t;.