122 JEROME CARDAN 



from the Archbishop himself, who wrote word that, though 

 he had fully determined in the first instance to repair to 

 Paris, or even to Lyons, to meet Cardan, he found him- 

 self at present mastered by the turn of circumstances, 

 and compelled to stay at home. He promised Cardan 

 a generous reward, and a reception of a nature to 

 convince him that the Scots are not such Scythians as 

 they might perchance be deemed in Milan. 1 Cardan's 

 temper was evidently upset by this turn of affairs, and 

 his suspicions aroused ; for he sets down his belief that 

 patient and physician had from the first worked with 

 the intention of dragging him all the way to Scotland, 

 but that they had waited till he was across the Alps 

 before showing their hand, fearing lest if the word 

 Scotland should have been used at the outset, he would 

 never have moved from Milan. 2 In describing his 

 journey he writes: "I tarried in Lyons forty-six days, 

 seeing nothing of the Archbishop, nor of the physician 

 whom I expected, nevertheless I gained more than I 

 spent. I met there Ludovico Birago, a gentleman of 

 Milan, and commander of the King's foot-soldiers, and 

 with him I contracted a close friendship, so much so 

 that, had I been minded to take service under Brissac, the 

 King's lieutenant, I might have enjoyed a salary of one 

 thousand crowns a year. Shortly afterwards Guglielmo 

 Cassanate, the Archbishop's physician, arrived in Lyons 

 and brought with him three hundred other golden 

 crowns, which he handed to me, in order that I might 

 make the journey with him to Scotland, offering in 

 addition to pay the cost of travel, and promising me 

 divers gifts in addition. Thus, making part of our 



1 " Difficillimis causis victus venire non potui." The Archbishop's 

 letter is given in Opera, torn. i. p. 137. 



2 Geniturarum Exempla, p. 469. 



