about seven o'clock in the evening
I have , I am afraid , given but a very imperfect idea of the character of my kind and noble patron . I had met him in the afternoon at the Exchange on the 21st of November , 1579 , being Saturday . Parting from him , I returned to Lombard Street . While sitting with my wife and children about seven o'clock in the evening , a serving-lad came running to say that Sir Thomas had suddenly fallen down in the kitchen soon after he came home , and was then speechless . I hastened off . When I arrived , I found my kind friend laid on a bed . A glance at his countenance told me too truly what had happened .