Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland

Couverture
Chatto & Windus, 1889 - 428 pages
 

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Page 106 - (quoth she) ' bury you or no?' ' Oh Trunco,' for so he called her, 'thou wilt bury me, but thou wilt much repent it.' 'Yea, but how long first?' 'I shall die,' said he, 'ere Thursday night.
Page 29 - Do you think I fable with you ? I assure you, He that has once the flower of the sun, The perfect ruby, which we call elixir, Not only can do that, but, by its virtue, Can confer honour, love, respect, long life ; Give safety, valour, yea, and victory, To whom he will. In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of fourscore, a child.
Page 173 - Quoth RALPH, Not far from hence doth dwell A cunning man, hight SIDROPHEL, That deals in destiny's dark counsels, And sage opinions of the Moon sells; To whom all people, far and near, On deep importances repair; When brass and pewter hap to stray, And linen slinks out of the way; When geese and pullen are seduc'd, And sows of sucking-pigs are chows'd; When cattle feel indisposition, And need th' opinion of physician; When murrain reigns in hogs or sheep.
Page 410 - The displaying of supposed Witchcraft wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the Witch...
Page 37 - England, bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities. This (after great study) hee found could be no way so well done as one ; which was to make a head of brasse, and if he could make this head to speake (and heare it when it speakes) then might hee be able to wall all England about with brasse.
Page 209 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both, of the Old and New Testament...
Page 176 - s but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war, A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave...
Page 328 - The fearful abounding at this time in this country of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches' or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch in post, this following treatise of mine...
Page 53 - Phoebus' flower, And overshadow Albion with her leaves. Till then Mars shall be master of the field, But then the stormy threats of wars shall cease : The horse shall stamp as careless of the pike, Drums shall be...
Page 169 - Sir Robert Brooke spoke to this purpose : — " ' Mr. Lilly, this Committee thought fit to summon you to appear before them this day, to know, if you can say anything as to the cause of the late fire, or whether there might be any design therein.

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