Some from sheer contradiction,
and from the well-known tendency of extremes to meet. Some, for very
idlesse; and some for very love. But in none of these modes had the boy
Cupid made arrow-holes through the heart of our illustrious hero; for,
as we before intimated, no yielding place did seem visible, as the
common discourse testified. How far this report was true the sequel of
our history will set forth.
Now, this gay gallant being the wonder and admiration of the whole
place, many were the unthrifty hours spent in such profitless discourse
by the wives and daughters of the townsfolk, to the great discomfort and
discredit of their liege lords. He was at present abiding in the
college, where John Dee had apartments distinct from the warden's house,
along with his former coadjutor and seer, Edward Kelly. Since the last
quarrel between these two confederates, they had long been estranged;
but Kelly had recently come for a season to visit his old master: when
the Doctor returned from Trebona, in Bohemia, whence he had been invited
back to his own country by Queen Elizabeth, he having received great
honours and emoluments from foreign princes.
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