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268 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX.
- them from that bondage, to his glorie, even in this
- lyef/' And lying betwixt Dundee and St. Andrews,
' 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
- 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
' shall glorifie his godlie name in the same place."
- This reported the said Maister James, in presence of
' many famous witness, many years before that ever
- the said John set futt in Scotland, this last time to
- preache/
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-
