The life and times of Dr John Dee

Afternone somwhat, Mr. Ed. Keley his lamp overthrow, the spirit of wyne long spent to nere, and the glas being not stayed with buks abowt it, as it was wont to be ; and the same glas so flitting on one side, the spirit was spilled out, and burnt all that was on the table where it stode, lynnen and written bokes, — as the bok of Zacharius with the Alkanor that I translated out of French for som by spirituall could not ; Rowlaschy his thrid boke of waters philosophicall ; the boke called Angelicum Opus, all in pictures of the work from the beginning to the end ; the copy of the man of Badwise Conclusions for the Transmution of metalls ; and 40 leaves in 4°, intitled, Extractiones Dunstani, which he himself extracted and noted out of Dunstan his boke, and the very boke of Dunstan was but cast on the bed hard by from the table.