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 268 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. ' the second time that the gallayis returned to Scot- ' land, the said John being so extremely seak ' (sick) 'that few hoped his life, the said Maister James ' willed him to look to the land, and asked if he knew ' shall glorifie his godlie name in the same place." ' many famous witness, many years before that ever Knox sat nineteen months, chained, as a galley slave in this manner; or else, as at last for some months, locked up in the prison of Rouen; and of all his woes, dispiritments and intolerabilities, says no word except the above * miserable entreated.' But it seems hope shone in him in the thickest darkness, refusing to go out at all. The remem-
 * them from that bondage, to his glorie, even in this
 * lyef/' And lying betwixt Dundee and St. Andrews,
 * it ? Who answered, " Yes : I knaw it weel ; for I see
 * the stepiU " (steeple) " of that place, where God first
 * in public opened my mouth to his glorie, and I am
 * fully persuaded, how weak that ever I now appear,
 * that I shall not depart this lyeff, till that my tongue
 * This reported the said Maister James, in presence of
 * the said John set futt in Scotland, this last time to
 * preache/