Room for a player? Jesus, who would have thought I should have met you here?

 

Saturday, Octobris 26. hora 12. scil. in meridie. At Breame.

The Lord Albert being at Styckhusen behind us, with the Earl John of Embden and Friesland, etc.

Kelly - The curtain seemeth to be far backward in the stone, and the stone to be clear between the curtain and the fore-part; under the curtain, I see the legs of men up to the knees. 

Then appeared one, and said:

Il - Room for a player? Jesus, who would have thought I should have met you here?

Kelly - He is all in his ragged apparel, down from the girdle steed, but above he hath a white satin jerkin. 

Dee - By the mercies of God we are here, and by your will and propriety, and the power of God, you are here. 

Il - Tush, doubt not of me, for I am I.L.

Kelly - Me thinketh that the gravity of this action requireth a more grave gesture and more grave speeches. Bear with me, though I say so unto you.

Il - If I must bear with thee for speaking foolishly, which art but flesh and speakest of they own wisdom, how much oughtest thou to be contented with my gesture, which is appointed of him which regardeth not the outward form, but the fulfilling of his will, and the keeping of his Commandments, which is God, whose wisdom unto the world in foolishness, but unto them that fear him an everlasting joy mixed with gladness, and a comfort of life hereafter, partaking infallible joys, with him that is all comeliness and beauty. 

How say you to this, Sir, ha?

He turneth up his heels Kelly.

Kelly - I do not understand your words, for because I do only repent your sayings.

Il - It is the part of him that is a servant to do this duty, of him that watcheth to look what he seeth. For the greatest point of wisdom is reverently to consider thy calling; it is said, do that which is appointed, for he that doth more is not a true servant.

Kelly - How can that be.

Il - Speak when thy time cometh, Sir, here is money, but I have it very hardly. Bear with me, for I can help thee with no more.

Come on, Andras! Where are you, Andras?

Kelly - Now cometh one in a gown to him. The gown is bare like a prentice of London, a young man.

Il - Did not I bid thee go yonder, and fetch me money?

Andras - Whither?

Il - This is one of them that forgetteth his business so soon as it is told him.

Andras - Sir, I went half way.

Il - And how, then? Speak on! Speak on!

Andras - Then, being somewhat weary, I stayed, the rather because I met my friends. The third day I came thither, but I found him not at home; his family told me that he was newly gone forth.

Il - And you returned a coxcomb. 

Well, thus it is. I placed thee above my servants, and did what I could to promote thee, and endeavoured daily to make thee free. But I am rewarded with loitering, and have brought up an idle person. Go thy way! I will deliver thee to the officer, the officer shall deliver thee to the prison, and there thou shalt be rewarded. For such as do that they are commanded deserve freedom, but unto those that loiter and unto those as are idle, vengeance and hunger belongeth. 

Kelly - He taketh him by the arm, and delivereth him to a man with a staff in his hand, and he putteth him in at a door. 

Now, Il himself goeth into a house, which all this while appeared on the left hand. 

Il - Come on.

Kelly - Now he bringeth another by the hand.

Il - Me thinketh you should be a fit man to do my message. 

Kelly - Now he whispereth him in the ear, and pointeth out h . . . 

Il - I warrant the man, be not abashed. A strange matter.

Pointing at Kelly.

I have business in Denmark, and this fellow is afraid to go thither. Tell him, thou comest from me, and that I will come myself shortly. I know he will do so much for me, he hath had much acquaintance with me. 

A Man -  I care not, if I had some man to keep me company.

Kelly - This new man said so. He whispereth again with this man in his ear.

Il - These good fellows are not ready, or else they might go with thee. Go thy way in God's name! See that you do your business. 

I keep such servants as none in all the country keepeth. 

Kelly - He keepeth no servants.

Il - Meddle with that, you have to do with all. I pray this man and that man, and everyone deceiveth me. Good Lord! Where should a man find a true friend nowadays? I will go and tell the knave that he provide for himself, for it will be marvellous hard weather. 

You were best to do so, lest you blow your nails. 

Kelly - He speaketh to one within the house. 

Il - Thus you see me, Masters, how I am troubled with my servants. How now, what aileth thee?

Kelly - There cometh a woman round about his house, and she seemeth to pass by him. She is in English attire.

Il - I will know what aileth her to cry. What aileth thee?

A Woman - One of my children is dead.

Il - Alas, poor child! How can children resist cold? She might have kept it warmer. Cold pierceth where shot cannot enter. 

Dee - This woman is not of our company? I trust none of our children shall perish in this cold. 

Il - Ha! Ah, your children? You keep them warm; it will do them no hurt. Those that are warned, eshew danger to come, for many things are prevented by the quality of wisdom. 

Dee - I trust we shall safe arrive at the place appointed, in Cracow or elsewhere? But as concerning Vincent Seve, brother-in-law to the Lord Albert Laski, I pray you to shew us the truth of his state. 

Kelly - I see him walking in a street, and a thick man with him, and Gerlish seemeth to come after him. The thick man, his beard is somewhat like my Lord his beard; he cometh after Vincent. Vincent hath a black satin doublet on, cut with cross-cuts; he hath a ruff about his neck, along one edged with black or blue. 

Dee - I beseech you, I.L., to shew us what town that is. 

Il - Speaking to him that sheweth it, for I shew it not. 

Dee - O God.

Il - I remember not the name of any such town. Quem Deus non amat, non novit.

Whom God loves not, he can't be bothered to follow. 

Kelly - Now the town appeareth again, the sea runneth by it. There is an old rotten church standing at the town end. The town seemeth to be sixty or eighty miles off. 

It seemeth to be Embden, in my judgement. But Vincent and Gerlish seem not to be in one town or street. 

Dee - I bessech you to say unto us whether Albert Laski be furnished with money at Grave John his hand, so as may serve our turn or no. 

Il - If I have not told you already, I will. You grudge me. 

He speaketh to Kelly.

Judge my words with reason, and thou shalt find them true; touch them with understanding, and thou shalt find them profound. My words are true, because I am sent by truth.

Neither are we to speak gravely, when we take upon us the persons of buyers and sellers. Whosoever doth the will of his master truly in this world shall be laughed to scorn, but whoso speaketh worldly, and sendeth out shadows, is accounted a pillar of the earth. Happy are those which are not foolish, neither in works say, There is no God. Such request, such answer; such earthly mind, such heavenly motions. Yet heaven speaketh truth, and the earth lieth.

This is not my office which I have taken in hand; yet, because I have dealt with you as a worldling, I was the fittest to answer your worldly expectation. 

Dee - As you have dealt with us not according to your office, but according to our worldly expectation, so now we desire to understand somewhat according to our higher and heavenly expectation of our doing the determined will of the Highest. 

Kelly - He is gone, and all the stone is red as blood. 

Now, he is come again, and standeth in the fire.

Il - Thus saith the Lord, I have taught you how to live, I have set you statutes and have wished you my peace. Follow me, and I will be your God, for unto them that are wise, shall there be more wisdom given, but unto them that are become foolish, my wisdom is . . . 

These five years to come are the deliverance . . . Yea, sorrow shall bring forth her children, my honour shall be defaced, and my holy places plucked. No man hath ever seen such a world, for now shall they say unto the mountains, Come and cover us, and unto the waters, Swallow us up, for we know there is no God, neither is there any care of mankind. I will plague the people, and their blood shall become rivers; fathers will eat their own children, and the earth shall be barren; the beasts of the field shall perish, and the waters shall be poisoned; the air shall infect her creatures, and in the deep shall be roaring. Great Babylon shall be built, and the son of wickedness shall sit in judgement.

But I will reserve two kingdoms untouched, and I will root out their wickedness. Yea, thus saith the Lord, from the north shall come a whirlwind, and the hills shall open their mouths, and there shall a dragon fly out such as never was. And you shall have power such as I will be glorified by; keep, therefore, the statues which I taught you, forget not my words, for unto those that look back there is great woe. Happy are they that continue to the end. Amen. 

Kelly - Now he is gone.

Now he is come again.

Il - Thus saith Jehova, I am the beginning and the end, the root and life of all righteousness. I say by myself I am with you, and will bless you in righteousness; cease, therefore, to move me, for I am almighty, and inquire not of me what I have determined, for time groweth and I am a just God. Therefore, cease! Cease, I say! I in myself say cease! Call not upon my name in defiled places, lest the wicked ones hear what I determine. I will visit you at your journey's end, I will testify my promise to you; be in haste, therefore, and fly from sin, and fly the society of such as are accursed, for I am jealous over my people, yea, I will not suffer them to drink or taste of their vessels. Be you unto me a people, that I may behold my people, and I will be unto you both a God forever.

Kelly - I.L. saith, Amen, and falleth all in pieces as small as ashes. 

Now all is clear, and the curtain is come again. 

Dee - Deo omnipotenti si omnis laus et gloria, in secula seculorum. 

All glory, praise and honour to Almighty God, forever. 

Amen.