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A COMMUNION OF WIVES, 1587 - topics: travel,household_family,angelic_spiritual

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22 May. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, household family, angelic spiritual: Friday afternoon, about 4 of the clock.

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Records travel, household family, angelic spiritual: Friday afternoon, about 4 of the clock. & I and E.K. walked out at the new stairs, into the new orchard-ward along the little river to view the small fish, and returning toward the foresaid stairs again, E.K. saw twain as high as my son Arthur fighting by the...

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A COMMUNION OF WIVES, 1587

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travel,household_family,angelic_spiritual

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Friday afternoon, about 4 of the clock. & I and E.K. walked out at the new stairs, into the new orchard-ward along the little river to view the small fish, and returning toward the foresaid stairs again, E.K. saw twain as high as my son Arthur fighting by the riverside with swords; and the one said to the other: 'Thou hast beguiled me.' Then I at length said unto them: 'Can I take up the matter betwe.en you?' One said: 'Yea, that you can.' 'In what is it?' quoth I. Then said he: 'I sent a thing to thy wife by my man, and this fellow hath taken it from him.' They fought sore, and at length he that had it was wounded in the thigh, and it seemed to bleed. Afterward he that was wounded did bring a yellow square thing out of his bosom; then I guessed it to be my Stone that was taken away. The other said unto him: 'Let it be carried;' Suddenly he seemed to have been out of sight, and to be come again. He threatened the other that had wounded him, and said he would be even with him. The other said: 'Hast thou laid it under the right pillow of the bed where his wife lay yesternight?' At length they both went (one after another) into a little willow tree body on the right hand next the new stairs into the garden. The tree seemed to cleave, or open, and they to go in. Hereupon we went away: and I, coming to my chamber, found my wife lying upon her bed (where I lay yesternight) and there I lifted up the right pillow, upon which she lay resting herself (being not well at ease). And in manner under her shoulders there I found my precious Stone that was taken away by Madimi: whereat E.K. greatly wondered, doubting the verity of the show. But I and my wife rejoiced, thanking God.

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Friday afternoon, about 4 of the clock. & I and E.K. walked out at the new stairs, into the new orchard-ward along the little river to view the small fish, and returning toward the foresaid stairs again, E.K. saw twain as high as my son Arthur fighting by the riverside with swords; and the one said to the other: 'Thou hast beguiled me.' Then I at length said unto them: 'Can I take up the matter betwe.en you?' One said: 'Yea, that you can.' 'In what is it?' quoth I. Then said he: 'I sent a thing to thy wife by my man, and this fellow hath taken it from him.' They fought sore, and at length he that had it was wounded in the thigh, and it seemed to bleed. Afterward he that was wounded did bring a yellow square thing out of his bosom; then I guessed it to be my Stone that was taken away. The other said unto him: 'Let it be carried;' Suddenly he seemed to have been out of sight, and to be come again. He threatened the other that had wounded him, and said he would be even with him. The other said: 'Hast thou laid it under the right pillow of the bed where his wife lay yesternight?' At length they both went (one after another) into a little willow tree body on the right hand next the new stairs into the garden. The tree seemed to cleave, or open, and they to go in. Hereupon we went away: and I, coming to my chamber, found my wife lying upon her bed (where I lay yesternight) and there I lifted up the right pillow, upon which she lay resting herself (being not well at ease). And in manner under her shoulders there I found my precious Stone that was taken away by Madimi: whereat E.K. greatly wondered, doubting the verity of the show. But I and my wife rejoiced, thanking God.