252 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. Lethington (a pleasant little twinkle of interest to secular readers) ; and the elder Lethington, though not himself a declared Protestant, had been hospitably good and gracious to Wishart. The third day he was again appointed to preach ; hut, says Knox, * before his passing to the sermon
- there came to him a boy with ane letter from the
'West land,' — Ayr and the other zealous shires in that quarter, in which he had already been preaching, — * sayiug that the gentlemen there could not keep
- diet with him at Edinburgh, as they had formerly
- agreed ' (Hope that there might have been some
Bond or engagement for mutual protection on the part of these "Western Gentlemen suddenly falling yain for poor Wishart). Wishart's spirits were naturally in deep depression at this news, and at such a silence of the old zeal all round him; — all the world seeming to forsake him, and only the Cardinal's assassin tracking him with continual menace of death. He called for Knox, * who had awaited upon him
- carefully from the time he came to Lothian ; with
- whom he began to enter in purpose ' (to enter on
discourse), 'that he wearied of the world; for
