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

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27 Sept. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, household family, health illness, money legal: Prag:e.

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Records travel, court patronage, household family, health illness, money legal: Prag:e. Mane: about 7 of the dock came Dr Curn his servant from his master to tell me, that his master would come unto me at 9 of the dock. At 9 of the dock came Dr Curtz on horseback to me, to my lodging (at Dr Hageck his house by Bethlehem), my wife he...

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AN AUDIENCE OF THE EMPEROR, 1584

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travel,court_patronage,household_family,health_illness,money_legal,angelic_spiritual

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Thursday. Prag:e. Mane: about 7 of the dock came Dr Curn his servant from his master to tell me, that his master would come unto me at 9 of the dock. At 9 of the dock came Dr Curtz on horseback to me, to my lodging (at Dr Hageck his house by Bethlehem), my wife he saluted, and little Katharin my daughter. Mr Kelly had gotten him into his chamber, not willing to be seen. After he was come up into my little study, and there set, in Mr Kelly his usual place, and I in mine, I began to complain of the great injury done unto me here; for 1 came as a sincere and faithful servitor of the Emperor his Majesty, intending all goodness and honour unto him: no hindrance, loss or hurt: neither came I to take the Emperor's riches, as 1 said expressly unto his Majesty. 'I was, before I came hither, of good name and fame, both in this Court, and all Europe over: as you yourself, Mr Doctor,' quoth I, 'can bear me witness: and other in this Court divers: and that here my good name and fame should suffer shipwrack, where 1 thought I had been in a sure haven of my principal patron: my thinketh that great injury is done unto me. 1 know no means how to help it, but to give you warning of the envious malicious backbiters that also are about this Court, that as you find occasion, you might rencounter with this evil and foul monster, in so mighty a prince's cause intruding itself' The Doctor seemed not to know what 1 meant. I told him that at a nobleman's table there was one of great account who said that there was an Englishman come to the Emperor's-'A bankrupt alchemist, a conjuror and necromantist, who had sold his own goods and given the Lord Laski the money: and that he had beguiled him: and that now he would fain get some of the Emperor his money from him, &c.' The Doctor seemed greatly to mislike these slanderous words, and said that he never heard of any such; with some few words more of the wicked manner of backbiters. After this, as concerning the report making to the Emperor of that 1 had showed unto him at his house (as before is noted), he said that he had made a plain and sincere report. Whereunto the Emperor's Majesty had (as yet) given no answer. 'And to be plain with you,' said he, 'his Majesty thinketh them almost

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Thursday. Prag:e. Mane: about 7 of the dock came Dr Curn his servant from his master to tell me, that his master would come unto me at 9 of the dock. At 9 of the dock came Dr Curtz on horseback to me, to my lodging (at Dr Hageck his house by Bethlehem), my wife he saluted, and little Katharin my daughter. Mr Kelly had gotten him into his chamber, not willing to be seen. After he was come up into my little study, and there set, in Mr Kelly his usual place, and I in mine, I began to complain of the great injury done unto me here; for 1 came as a sincere and faithful servitor of the Emperor his Majesty, intending all goodness and honour unto him: no hindrance, loss or hurt: neither came I to take the Emperor's riches, as 1 said expressly unto his Majesty. 'I was, before I came hither, of good name and fame, both in this Court, and all Europe over: as you yourself, Mr Doctor,' quoth I, 'can bear me witness: and other in this Court divers: and that here my good name and fame should suffer shipwrack, where 1 thought I had been in a sure haven of my principal patron: my thinketh that great injury is done unto me. 1 know no means how to help it, but to give you warning of the envious malicious backbiters that also are about this Court, that as you find occasion, you might rencounter with this evil and foul monster, in so mighty a prince's cause intruding itself' The Doctor seemed not to know what 1 meant. I told him that at a nobleman's table there was one of great account who said that there was an Englishman come to the Emperor's-'A bankrupt alchemist, a conjuror and necromantist, who had sold his own goods and given the Lord Laski the money: and that he had beguiled him: and that now he would fain get some of the Emperor his money from him, &c.' The Doctor seemed greatly to mislike these slanderous words, and said that he never heard of any such; with some few words more of the wicked manner of backbiters. After this, as concerning the report making to the Emperor of that 1 had showed unto him at his house (as before is noted), he said that he had made a plain and sincere report. Whereunto the Emperor's Majesty had (as yet) given no answer. 'And to be plain with you,' said he, 'his Majesty thinketh them almost