you of the same.

Wise. In {86a} our Town {86b} there was one W. S. a man of a very
wicked life; and he, when there seemed to be countenance given to
it, would needs turn Informer. Well, so he did, and was as
diligent in his business as most of them could be; he would watch a
nights, climb Trees, and range the Woods a days, if possible, to
find out the Meeters, for then they were forced to meet in the
Fields: yea, he would curse them bitterly, and swear most
fearfully what he would do to them when he found them. Well, after
he had gone on like a Bedlam in his course a while, and had done
some mischiefs to the people, he was stricken by the hand of God,
and that in this manner.

1. Although he had his tongue naturally at will, now he was taken
with a faultering in his speech, and could not for weeks together
speak otherwise, than just like a man that was drunk.

2. Then he was taken with a drauling, or slabbering at his mouth,
which slabber sometimes would hang at his mouth well nigh half way
down to the ground.

3. Then he had such a weakness in the back sinews of his Neck,
that oft times he could not look up before him, unless he clapped
his hand hard upon his forehead, and held up his head that way, by
strength of hand.

4. After this his speech went quite away, and he could speak no
more than a Swine or a Bear. Therefore, like one of them, he would
gruntle and make an ugly noyse, according as he was offended, or