Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Thomas Potts
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_Dough._ Ah Rogue!
_Boy._ But it was in a quarrelsome way; Whereupon I was as stout, and ask'd him who made him an examiner? _Dough._ Ah good Boy. _Mil._ In that he was my Sonne. _Boy._ He told me he would know or beat it out of me, And I told him he should not, and bid him doe his worst; And to't we went. _Dough._ In that he was my sonne againe, ha boy; I see him at it now. _Boy._ We fought a quarter of an houre, till his sharpe nailes made my eares bleed. _Dough._ O the grand Divell pare 'em. _Boy._ I wondred to finde him so strong in my hands, seeming but of mine owne age and bignesse, till I looking downe, perceived he had clubb'd cloven feet like Oxe feet; but his face was as young as mine. _Dought._ A pox, but by his feet, he may be the Club-footed Horse-coursers father, for all his young lookes. _Boy._ But I was afraid of his feet, and ran from him towards a light that I saw, and when I came to it, it was one of the Witches in white upon a Bridge, that scar'd me backe againe, and then met me the Boy |
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