John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations.

  • Fell-Smith, Charlotte, 1851-1937.
Date:
1909
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Credit: John Dee, 1527-1608 / / by Charlotte Fell Smith ... with portrait and illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    bearing ways had already begun to appear. There was an outbreak at supper one night because Charles Sled had done him an injurie in speeche at my table. Probably some story of his early career had been raked up. A voice next morning says to him appro- priately : Serve God and take hold of nettles. The manuscript in crabbed signs puzzled the astro- loger desperately, and he was unhappy at the delay. An angel tells him they are to be rocks in faith. While sorrow be measured thou shalt bind up thy fardell. He is not to seek to know the mysteries till the very hour he is called. Can you bow to Nature and not honour the workman ? A new spirit visits them, II, a merie creature, apparelled like a Vyce in a [morality] play. He skipped here and there. Dee asks where is his Arabic book of tables that he has lent and lost. II says it is in Scotland and is nothing worth. Then Dee asks about the Lord Treasurer's books, for he had not seen Burleigh's library, and had all the rival collector's jealousy over his own treasures. He was never quite sure that Burleigh was his friend; there seemed always a suspicion in his mind where the Lord Treasurer was concerned. The feeling was reflected in a curious dream that he had soon after the begin- ning of his partnership with Kelley : I dreamed on Saturday night that I was deade, and afterwards my bowels wer taken out. I walked and talked with divers, and among other with the Lord Thresorer, who was com to my howse to bum my bookes when I was dead. I thought he looked sourely on me. Now, II tells him that Burleigh has no books