August 8, 1642
August 8, 1642
The story as it unfolds:

Edmund, in Huntingdon, after uneasy dreams, attends a Lecture; Syd about his various Businesses; the Earl of Warwick blockades Portsmouth; ; Richard Gurney, the Mayor of London, arrested and held in the Tower; Portsmouth surrounded!



 

From the section: Histories

Huntingdon -- Sleep comes furtively, it creeps noiselessly, like temptation though without the wretched relief surrender to such brings, even if it be for a moment; and brings not rest. I sink to peculiar dreams. In Winthrop’s study, where there was a chair, with red cushions, and he said I may sleep on it if I wish. That a godly man, a brushmaker, threw a stone at a cross, and a drunken cavalier made him kneel before it and say a prayer for the pope. That I stood on the banks of the Ouse, and there is a great roaring, of wind and water, as in the forests of America,  and this a comfort. I can only think this is because this dream Sarah is alive and though I am alone in darkness she waits for me. I am vile vile vile vile vile, there are many songs she would sing.

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From the section: Letters

Dear Sir, I greet you from Petersfield, where I wait a fresh horse, having this morning bid farewell to that jewel of the coast Portsmouth, though I shall for a time carry the lice of the Three Fauns in my scalp, in my belly a distemper from that inn’s rancid bacon, and putrid beer. The lice shall die, truly, and the stomach settle, but the Memories of that place shall be with me until such time as time shall be no more.

 

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