THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 273 of disdain, in reference to liis own poor wants and troubles : ' I will not mak you privy how rich I am, but off' {from) * London I departit with less money than ten
- groats; but God has since provided, and will
- provide, I doubt not, hereafter abundantly for this
' life. Either the Queen's Majesty ' {of England) * or « some Treasurer will be XL pounds richer by me, for
- so meikle lack I of duty of my patents ' {year's salary
as Royal Chaplain). *But that little troubles me.' From Dieppe, in about a month, poor Knox wan- dered forth, to look into the churches of Switzerland, — French Huguenots, Good Samaritans, it is like, lodging and furthering him through France. He was, for about five months. Preacher at Frankfort-on- Mayn, to a Church of English exiles there; from which, by the violence of certain intrusive High- Church parties, as we may style them, met by a great and unexpected patience on the part of Knox, he felt constrained to depart, — followed by the less ritual portion of his auditory. He reached Geneva (April 1555) ; and, by aid of Calvin and the general willing mind of the city magistrates, there was a spacious
