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... curious . " The reason is easy , " as this sagacious monarch thinks , " for , as that sex is frailer than man is , so is it easier to be entrapped in these grosse snares of the Divell , as was over well proved to be true by the ...
... curious . " The reason is easy , " as this sagacious monarch thinks , " for , as that sex is frailer than man is , so is it easier to be entrapped in these grosse snares of the Divell , as was over well proved to be true by the ...
Pagina 7
... curious tract entitled , Round about our Coal Fire , ) " according to my nurse's account , must be a haggard old woman , living in a little rotten cottage , under a hill , by a wood - side , and must be frequently spinning at the door ...
... curious tract entitled , Round about our Coal Fire , ) " according to my nurse's account , must be a haggard old woman , living in a little rotten cottage , under a hill , by a wood - side , and must be frequently spinning at the door ...
Pagina 9
... curious . As the play is not much known , the fol- lowing is given as a specimen of his incantations : " 1 Witch . Hec . 2 Witch . Hec . 1 Witch . 2 Witch . Hec . Here's the blood of a bat . Put in that , oh put in that . Here's ...
... curious . As the play is not much known , the fol- lowing is given as a specimen of his incantations : " 1 Witch . Hec . 2 Witch . Hec . 1 Witch . 2 Witch . Hec . Here's the blood of a bat . Put in that , oh put in that . Here's ...
Pagina 15
... curious doctrine is very fully investigated in Hath- away's trial , published in the State Trials . The following passage is in Arise Evan's Echo to the Voice from Heaven , 1652 , p . 34 : " I had heard SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT . 15.
... curious doctrine is very fully investigated in Hath- away's trial , published in the State Trials . The following passage is in Arise Evan's Echo to the Voice from Heaven , 1652 , p . 34 : " I had heard SORCERY OR WITCHCRAFT . 15.
Pagina 29
... curious memorials of persons suffering death for witchcraft in Scot- land . “ 1591 , 25 of Junii , Euphane M'Kalzen ves brunt for vitchcrafte . 1529. The last of Februarii , Richard Grahame wes brunt at ye Crosse of Edinburghe , for ...
... curious memorials of persons suffering death for witchcraft in Scot- land . “ 1591 , 25 of Junii , Euphane M'Kalzen ves brunt for vitchcrafte . 1529. The last of Februarii , Richard Grahame wes brunt at ye Crosse of Edinburghe , for ...
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Pagina 396 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Pagina 303 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Pagina 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Pagina 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Pagina 312 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Pagina 315 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.
Pagina 73 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy...
Pagina 192 - CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are...
Pagina 159 - To see the phantom train their secret work prepare. (To monarchs dear, some hundred miles astray, Oft have they seen Fate give the fatal blow ! The seer, in Sky, shriek'd as the blood did flow, When headless Charles warm on the scaffold lay...
Pagina 292 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the losa of the use of the limb.