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AN AUDIENCE OF THE EMPEROR, 1584 - topics: travel,court_patronage,household_family,letters_books,angelic_spiritual

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25 Sept. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, household family, letters books, angelic spiritual: Praga:.

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Records travel, court patronage, household family, letters books, angelic spiritual: Praga:. Note: I went to dinner to the Spanish Ambassador, and carried with me the Stone brought me by an angel; and the fourth book, wherein the manner of the bringing of it is expressed. And also I carried with me 'Librum Sextum Sanctum Mysticum'. After...

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AN AUDIENCE OF THE EMPEROR, 1584

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travel,court_patronage,household_family,letters_books,angelic_spiritual

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Tuesday. Praga:. Note: I went to dinner to the Spanish Ambassador, and carried with me the Stone brought me by an angel; and the fourth book, wherein the manner of the bringing of it is expressed. And also I carried with me 'Librum Sextum Sanctum Mysticum'. After dinner, when I had showed him these things, his final answer was that verily he took the doing to be by good angel: marry, the matters to be too great. 'Therefore,' said I, 'they are for the service of God, and not only man.' He said he was a sinner, and not worthy to be privy, much less to be a doer in them: notwithstanding, whatsoever he can do therein acceptable to God, he would be most obedient thereto. He desired a copy of the Emperor his foresaid letters, that he might consider circumspectly of the contents before he should deliver them; whereunto I consented. Rendering his Honour thanks, I departed. After my return home, I found E.K. resolved to go from hence tomorrow for his wife, and so straightway into England: which was to me a grief. But what can I do, but refer all to the mercies of God, whom I have called upon for wisdom to serve him withal? I have put my trust in the Lord, I have not murmured at in any such pangs and temptations hitherto. The mercies of the Highest be upon me, as I have put my trust in him. Amen. Now we were (all) brought to great penury: not able without the Lord Laski's or some heavenly help to sustain our state any longer. Besides this, I understood of the Queen's displeasure for my departure, and of the Bishop of London his intent to have begun to have accused me of conjuration, 23 and so to have had the secret assistance of you know whom.

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Tuesday. Praga:. Note: I went to dinner to the Spanish Ambassador, and carried with me the Stone brought me by an angel; and the fourth book, wherein the manner of the bringing of it is expressed. And also I carried with me 'Librum Sextum Sanctum Mysticum'. After dinner, when I had showed him these things, his final answer was that verily he took the doing to be by good angel: marry, the matters to be too great. 'Therefore,' said I, 'they are for the service of God, and not only man.' He said he was a sinner, and not worthy to be privy, much less to be a doer in them: notwithstanding, whatsoever he can do therein acceptable to God, he would be most obedient thereto. He desired a copy of the Emperor his foresaid letters, that he might consider circumspectly of the contents before he should deliver them; whereunto I consented. Rendering his Honour thanks, I departed. After my return home, I found E.K. resolved to go from hence tomorrow for his wife, and so straightway into England: which was to me a grief. But what can I do, but refer all to the mercies of God, whom I have called upon for wisdom to serve him withal? I have put my trust in the Lord, I have not murmured at in any such pangs and temptations hitherto. The mercies of the Highest be upon me, as I have put my trust in him. Amen. Now we were (all) brought to great penury: not able without the Lord Laski's or some heavenly help to sustain our state any longer. Besides this, I understood of the Queen's displeasure for my departure, and of the Bishop of London his intent to have begun to have accused me of conjuration, 23 and so to have had the secret assistance of you know whom.