Some more promises he used, though I
could not well understand them, he spake so low. Perceiving, now, that
he wished to make an end for this time, I made my obeisance and
departed. But mark the favour of princes!--through the cabals of some,
and the intrigues of his favourite and physician, one Doctor Curtz, who
was fearful of my displacing him,--in the end I was not only prevented
from further access to his Majesty, but banished the empire! Go to, go
to," said Dee, much troubled at these thoughts, "I am something too much
affected of these vain impressions, and the pomp of these earthly ones."
He arose, lifting an ebony cabinet on the table, which he unlocked with
great solemnity. During this operation he fell to muttering many
prayers; and with an air of great reverence he took out a
richly-embossed casket, which being opened, there was displayed a fair
crystal of an egg-shaped form, on which he gazed with a long and silent
delight.
"A treasure beyond all price," said Bartholomew, eyeing it with rapture.
"Even so," said Dee, "and, by the grace of the Giver, I do hope to
profit by it. Once it was removed from me.
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