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Why, man, he lodged next door to you, with Mrs. Lyon at the Scouring Burn." "The black man the boys used to run after?" "The very same. He returned with Ady, and was at the court of the Nawab and told all, ay, and more than we knew that Fletcher would be obliged to visit Bombay again ere long after. He had got this from some of the authorities in England.
Carter, my old Cambridge friend, came to give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. So to the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at the Hoop Tavern, where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin and Osborne, and our dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, the King's fishmonger. Good sport with Mr.
King James, whose book he persistently refused to believe the king's own handiwork, Cooper, who was a "bloudy persecutor," Gifford, who "had more of the spirit of truth in him than many," Perkins, the arch-enemy, Gaule, whose "intentions were godly," but who was too far "swayed by the common tradition of men," all of them were one after another disposed of. Ady stood eminently for good sense.
He had seen Ady, he told me, with eagerness, and she had kissed him, and tied a string of beads about his neck red ones which he displayed; and "Ady had a comb in her head, and her toof was broke" touching one of his own front teeth lightly, so that I knew he was not pointing out any deficiency in the afore-mentioned comb.
None of the servants go there save me; and even Ady, if she goes, it is by stealth. Ah, you know something now; but there's one thing you don't know, and that is, that rich men can pay watchers to discover those who search into their iniquities."
McNab, who had followed close on their footsteps, when they reached the door, drew Adèle aside and said, "Naw, Miss Ady, I want the preevaleege o' trying to resoositate that puir gentelman. It wad be like rasin' the dead, but there'll be nae harm in tryin', to be sure". "He is dead. The doctor says so, Aunt Patty". And Adèle turned away quickly. But Mrs. McNab caught her shawl and held it.
"Hush, hush, man. Our servants are all in terror. They say that Ady is right, for that they have seen him in about the skirts of Balgay woods, and down in the hollow of the ravine, moving about like a spirit of darkness, with something white round his head, and a wide cloak wrapped about him."
Again the rapid whisperings, so sharp and intense as sometimes to appear like hissing of strange foreign creatures. It seemed as if his soul was on fire, and urged him he knew not whither. At that instant the door of the Cradle opened altogether, and Janet came out with the light. Ady darted forward like a moonbeam in the midst of another moonbeam, and seen by its superior whiteness.
He had innumerable friends, among whom three should be specially recalled: Stephen Fremantle and R. L. Nettleship, both of Balliol, and W. H. Ady, of Exeter. In short, he lived the life of the model undergraduate, tasting all the joys of Oxford, and finding time to spare for his prescribed studies. His first encounter with the examiners, in "Classical Moderations," was only partially successful.
On the conservative side three names deserve mention, two of them not unknown in other connections, Henry More and Meric Casaubon. For the defence of the accused witches appeared two men hardly so well known in their time, Robert Filmer and Thomas Ady. More was a young Cambridge scholar and divine who was to take rank among the English philosophers of the seventeenth century.
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