His notes show that he only used it on certain special occasions, and it was no doubt for its better protection that he devised the; hidden cupboard where Sir John eventually found it.
The later years of Temple's life were spent for the most part in Italy.
On the Scoglio di Venere, near Naples, he built the Villa de Angelis, and there henceforth passed all except the hottest months of the year.
Shortly after the completion of the villa Jocelyn left him suddenly, and became a Carthusian monk.

A caustic note in his diary hinted that even this foul parasite was shocked into the austerest form of religion by something he had seen going forward.

At Naples Temple's dark life became still darker.

He dallied, it is true, with Neo-Platonism, and boasts that he, like Plotinus, had twice passed the circle of the _nous_ and enjoyed the fruition of the deity; but the ideals of even that easy doctrine grew in his evil life still more miserably debased.

More than once in the manuscript he made mention by name of the _Gagliarda_ of Graziani as having been played at pagan mysteries which these enthusiasts revived at Naples, and the air had evidently impressed itself deeply on his memory.