1 May.

THE BAITING OF THE TRAP, 1585-1586

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On May Day after dinner I went over the water (being brought to the waterside in the Lord Rosenberg his coach, and Jacobus Menschik with me) unto the Lord Rosenberg his gardens and lodging by the waterside,3 whither he came to me by appointment. To whom, when I had read in Latin (ex tempore) the things that concerned him, I asked him what he had done since the time of my being with him,4 that I might the better understand these words spoken to him and of him. He told that he had often prayed since unto God for the forgiveness of his sins, and to open his eyes how he might serve him: and to make it to be evident unto him whether he be to marry or no, and where, or in what stock or kindred: and if it were his divine will, that he might receive comfort and instruction by me, and somewhat earnestly he had prayed also for his Master the Emperor, that he might bend himself to enjoy God his favour; yea, for his own marriage and amending of his loose life, while he yet sat at dinner this day at the Archbishop's table, his heart and thought did run very much upon it, &c. At these his words I rejoiced much to perceive the doing of the Highest, in the hearing of his prayer faithfully prayed, and that the answer which I