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 THE PORTKAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 253 (^ perceived that men began to weary of God.' wiox, * wondering that he desired to keep any iccustomed use before), said, "Sir, the time of rmon approaches : I will leave you for the present • your meditation " ; and so took the letter foresaid, ^should have begun to have entreated the Second ' Lord how long shall it be, that thy holy word shall "*be despised, and men shall not regard their own ' {Mystery Play) *' two or three thousand people ; and ' now to hear the messenger of the Eternal God, of
 * •;)urpose before Sermon (for that was never his
 * >iiiJ left him. The said Maister George spaced up
 * and down behind the high altar more than half an
 * hour : his very countenance and visage declared the
 * grief and alteration of his mind. At last he passed
 * io the pulpit, but the auditure was small. He
 * Table of the Law ; but thereof in that sermon, he
 * spake very little, but began on this manner: "0
 * salvation. I have heard of thee, Haddington, that
 * in thee would have been at ane vain Clerk Play "
 * aU thy town or parish, can not be numbered a
 * hundred persons. Sore and fearful shall the plagues
 * be that shall ensue this thy contempt : with fire and