pleased, or would have any thing done, &c.

In this posture he continued for the space of half a year, or
thereabouts, all the while otherwise well, and could go about his
business, save once that he had a fall from the Bell as it hangs in
our Steeple, which 'twas a wonder it did not kill him: But after
that he also walked about, till God had made him a sufficient
spectacle of his Judgment for his sin, and then on a sudden he was
stricken and dyed miserably: and so there was an end of him and
his doings.

I will tell you {87a} of another. About four miles from St. Neots,
there was a Gentleman had a man, and he would needs be an Informer,
and a lusty young man he was. Well, an Informer he was, and did
much distress some people, and had perfected his Informations so
effectually against some, that there was nothing further to do, but
for the Constables to make distress on the people, that he might
have the Money or Goods; and as I heard, he hastened them much to
do it. Now while he was in the heat of his work, as he stood one
day by the Fire-side, he had (it should seem) a mind to a Sop in
the Pan, (for the Spit was then at the fire,) so he went to make
him one; but behold, a Dog (so say his own Dog) took distaste at
something, and bit his Master by the Leg; the which bite,
notwithstanding all the means that was used to cure him, turned (as
was said) to a Gangrene; however, that wound was his death, and
that a dreadful one too: for my Relator said, that he lay in such
a condition by this bite, (as the beginning) till his flesh rotted
from off him before he went out of the world. But what need I
instance in particular persons, when the Judgement of God against
this kind of people was made manifest, I think I may say, if not in