smoothly did the work proceed,when, alas,suddenlythe outward man collapsed, unable to sustain the fervour of the inner renewed man.
I felt a loud buzzing and roaring, like thunder, in my head, and had I would have fainted, and was useless for two days.
The machine will do no more, my head having dwindled into a short chapter,which by degreeswill shrink into a tiny paragraph,and then into a single sentence.
I sit in idleness, but the noise in my head is subsidingthrough medicine.
This accounts for the delay. The day your Satanic embassy with me, and, to make matters worse, I was quitealone, neither
Cyriac being here, so Satan remained so far master of the field,compellingme to seek society.
I impatiently await the time when I shall behold the almost sublime majestyof this spirit.
So much for our own littleconcerns, while weighty events are takingplace.
Eck along with are beginninga conflict.
What are they about in the Reichstag?
The coarse asses palaverabout importantaffairs in our churches.
We hope their downfall shall be hastened thereby.
MagisterJoachim has sent me dried figsand raisins, and writes me in Turkish, to let him have something to read which he cannot understand.
Why should he write to me in Greek Shall write more again in case of taskingmy head now.
Let us pray for each other.
Landgrave, as you advise,and also to the Elector.
Take care of your health,and do not injureyour head, as I shall request our friends to try to prevent you oversteppingthe limitations which your health demands
; spare yourself, so that you may not be a self-murderer, and then declare that