he had done his own devotions to [1]send for him into his traverse, and there sometimes in matters of astronomy, geometry, divinity, and such other faculties, and sometimes of his worldly affairs, to sit and confer with him. And otherwhiles in the night would he have him up into the leads, there to consider with him the diversities, courses, motions and operations of the stars and planets. And because he was of a pleasant disposition, it pleased the king and queen after the council had supped, at the time of their supper, for their pleasure commonly to call for him to be merry with them. When he perceived them so much in his talk to delight that he could not once in a month get leave to go home to his wife and his children, ([2]whose company he most desired) and to be absent from the court two days together but that he should be thither sent for again: he much misliking this restraint of his liberty, began thereupon somewhat to dissemble his nature, and so by little and little from his former mirth to disuse himself, that he was of them from thenceforth at such seasons no more so ordinarily sent for.
- ↑ Morum in primis accivit Rex, quem sic in intimis habet ut a se nunquam patiatur discedere, sive serijs utendum est, nihil illo consultius, sive visum est Regi fabulis amænioribus laxare animum, nullus comes festivior.—Erasmi Epist.
- ↑ Thus he represents to his friend Peter Giles the manner of his treating them: Nempe reverso domum, cum uxore fabulandum est, garriendum cum liberis.
