"Dee and Kelly being on the confines of the emperor's dominions, in a
city where resided many English merchants, with whom they had much
familiarity, there happened an old friar to come to Dr Dee's lodging,
knocking at the door. Dee peeped down the stairs:--'Kelly,' says he,
'tell the old man I am not at home.' Kelly did so. The friar said, 'I
will take another time to wait on him.' Some few days after, he came
again. Dee ordered Kelly, if it were the same person, to deny him again.
He did so; at which the friar was very angry. 'Tell thy master I came to
speak with him and to do him good, because he is a great scholar and
famous;--but now tell him, he put forth a book, and dedicated it to the
emperor. It is called '_Monas Hieroglyphicas_.' He understands it not. I
wrote it myself. I came to instruct him therein, and in some other more
profound things. Do thou, Kelly, come along with me; I will make thee
more famous than thy master Dee. Kelly was very apprehensive of what the
friar delivered, and thereupon suddenly retired from Dee, and wholly
applied unto the friar, and of him either had the elixir ready made, or
the perfect method of its preparation and making.
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