Dec. 9th, Guvf avtg zv jvs qerzvq gung bar xnz gb ure naq
gbhpurq ure, fnlvat, "Zvfgerf Qrr, lbh ne pbaprvirq bs puvyq, jubf anzr
zhfg or Mnpunevnf; or bs thq purer, ur funy qb jry nf guvf qbgu!"[n]
Dec. 22nd, I payd Jane 13_s._ and 4_d._ for her wagys tyll Michelmas
last, for the half yere, so that I owe her yet 6_s._ 8_d._ Dec.
28th, I reveled to Roger Coke[o] the gret secret of the elixir of
the salt of nprgryf bar hccba n uhaqerq.
[Footnote n: Dee has occasionally made use of Greek letters
for the preservation of his notes, still retaining the English
language. The present passage may as well be given:-- "This
night my wife dreamed that one cam to her and touched her,
saying, 'Mistres Dee, you are conceived of child, whose name
must be Zacharias; be of good chere, he sal do well as this
doth!'"]
[Transcriber's Note:
See Transliteration Key at end of text.]
[Footnote o: In a more appropriate place I shall give from an
Ashmolean manuscript a traditionary anecdote relating to this
Roger Coke, or Cooke, and the great secret which Dee revealed to
him.]
1580. Jan. 13th, I gave my wife mony for the month. Jan. 16th,
Arthur fell sick, stuffed with cold fleym, could not slepe, had no
stomach to eat or drink as he had done before. Feb. 26th, this night
the fyre all in flame cam into my maydens chamber agayne, betwene an
eleven and twelve of the cloke; contynued half an howr terribly, so
it did a yere before to the same maydens, Mary Cunstable and Jane
Gele.
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