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A07723 The famous & renowned history of Morindos a king of Spaine who maryed with Miracola a Spanish witch: and of their seauen daughters, (rightly surnamed ladies with bleeding hearts:) their births, their liue and their deaths. A history most wonderfull, strange, and pleasant to the reader. 1609 (1609) STC 18108; ESTC S120699 28,007 47

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Then she beheld her third sister called Wrath wading into a boyling caldron of fire brimstone vp to the very chin and in brazen ladels casting the same vp and downe in great fury Then fixt the her eye vpon her fourth sister named Couetousnes feeding on melted gould and euery part of her bodie behung with burning pearles saphirés diamonds which seemed to seare the verry flesh from her bones After this she beheld her fist sister which was Gluttony sitting in a flaming chaire at a table of red hotte yorne serued by deuils with broiled loads vppon grid-yorns and drinking downe challices of boyling mettles The next vision was her sixt sister named Letchery lying in a bed of smoking sulpher deliuered of a brood of vipers who with their fiery teeth fed vppon her bowels and as it were had her bodie spread all ouer with vile leaprosie These were her scarefull dreames and continuall apparitions in which vnquiet sleepe she remained without waking till her bodie grew shapeles hauing no proportion as then made the shelter for toads frogs and venemous wormes to breed in the excrements of the earth and the deformities of nature thus vanished her life away in sleepe being no way able to withstand the scuaere indignation of heauen Of the inchanted queenes dispaire and how she was caried away aliue by deuils CHAP. 9. IFter the death of all these seauen deadly sisters now brought to confusion by the blacke doome of mortallitie our tragick story bids vs returne to the inchaunted queene lying all this while in childbed fightles and lame hauing no feeling in any part of her members which miracle of misery after she had intelligence of her seauen daughters tragicall ends asuredly beleeued that then her life was at the last period and the time of fearefull death drew néere according to her conditions made to the deuil who promised she should liue till the seauen daies of the weeke were forgotten which she aluded to her seauen daughters so named now feare terror and pining dispaire assailed her on all sides now dreaded she euery minute her soules departure to that burning furnace whose fire is ten times more hotte then this earthly fire and now euery small noise she heard she supposed to be the hurring of deuils that came to take possession both of soule and bodie euery minute wished she now to be whole yeares howers millions and daies endles time to stand still or the world to end now she repented her ambition her aspiring dignities and all those desires of a kingdome now repented she the selling of her soule her bands sealing with her owne blood and all her agreements with blacke hell euery time the clocke struck put her in minde of eternall damnation and how that hels gaping mouth stood readie to receiue her cursing the begetters and causers of her creation thus in deepe remorse of conscience suent she out the tiresome day the last day of her worldly life till the clowdy euening with her pitchy manlie aproached the onely comparatiue of gloomy hell the which had no sooner shut vp the bright eye of heauen but clowdes more darke then darknes itselfe checked the world with motions of pale death such tempests of lightning and thunder broake from heauens christall portalls that it euen blasted the beautie of the earth and atired both trees hearbes and flowers in a mournfull liuery this night so al mankind was a night of feare a night of relentles terror a night of confused desolation in which extremitie of horror it continued till the mid-nights hower at which instant time with a clamorous roaring that seemd to shake both heauen and earth the wrathfull powers of blacke hell fetcht away both her bodie and soule the which being done the heaues cleared the earth replenished and after followed a time of plentie peace and prosperitie FINIS