So spoke the primate; and misfortune with the experience of recent times had changed his hearers in such a degree that no man protested, for all saw clearly that either the power of the king must be strengthened, or the Commonwealth must perish without fail. They began therefore to consider in various ways how to bring the counsels of the primate into practice. The king and queen listened to them eagerly and with joy, especially the queen, who had labored long and earnestly at the introduction of order into the Commonwealth.
The king returned then to Glogov glad and satisfied, and summoning a number of confidential officers, among whom was Kmita, he said,—
“I am impatient, my stay in this country is burning me, I could wish to start even to-morrow; therefore I have called you, as men of
