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lucianusWednesday 1. December
I stirred not from here all this day; on account of the great mist, the enemy did try to draw us out but none of ours would budge; M. du Lac came at about 2 hours after dinner and we played at cards the rest of the day until night and I did sing some songs but having not my lute here could not play for our amusement, he did sup here and did lay here as well it being very late.
This was a slow day for both Luke and Coningsby. Along with the mist across the area, Coningsby speaks of a little field trip he and some other gentlemen take to visit a nunnery. There they are fed dishes of sweetmeats and are treated to good classy conversation. The abbess and the nuns there are all gentlewomen and he and his “so behaved ourselves that we receyved very kynd welcomes.” From his description it would seem that this is really a visit to real nuns and not that they had gotten themselves to a nunnery, to paraphrase Shakespeare, for a very different set of activities!
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 53-54. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
I stirred not from here all this day; on account of the great mist, the enemy did try to draw us out but none of ours would budge; M. du Lac came at about 2 hours after dinner and we played at cards the rest of the day until night and I did sing some songs but having not my lute here could not play for our amusement, he did sup here and did lay here as well it being very late.
This was a slow day for both Luke and Coningsby. Along with the mist across the area, Coningsby speaks of a little field trip he and some other gentlemen take to visit a nunnery. There they are fed dishes of sweetmeats and are treated to good classy conversation. The abbess and the nuns there are all gentlewomen and he and his “so behaved ourselves that we receyved very kynd welcomes.” From his description it would seem that this is really a visit to real nuns and not that they had gotten themselves to a nunnery, to paraphrase Shakespeare, for a very different set of activities!
Coningsby, Thomas, Jornall of Cheife Thinges Happened in Our Jorney from Deape the 13. of Auguste, Untyll, MS.- Harl. 288. f. 253279, p. 53-54. Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), published by Camden Society, 1847 Item notes: v.1 (1847)
