Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	great_a	sin_n	soul_n	9,439	5	5.2050	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06662	Witchcraft discovered and punished. Or, The tryals and condemnation of three notorious witches, who were tryed [at] the last assizes, holden at the castle of Exeter, in the county of Devon: where they received sentance for death, for bewitching several persons, destroying ships at sea, and cattel by land, &c. To the tune of, Doctor Faustus: or, Fortune my foe.		1682 (1682)	Wing W3138; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[531]	1,210	1

Witchcraft discovered and punished Or the Tryals and Condemnation of three Notorious Witches who were Tryed the last Assizes holden at the Castle of Exeter in the County of Devon where they received Sentance for Death for bewitching several Persons destroying Ships at Sea and Cattel by Land c. To the Tune of Doctor Faustus or Fortune my Foe Now listen to my Song good People all And I shall tell what lately did befall At Exeter a place in Devonshire The like whereof of late you nere did hear At the last Assizes held at Exeter Three Aged Women that Imprisoned were For Witches and that many had destroy'd Were thither brought in order to be try'd For Witchcraft that Old Wicked Sin Which they for long time had continued in And joyn'd with Satan to destroy the good Hurt Innocents and shed their harmless blood But now it most apparent does appear that they will now for such their deeds pay dear For Satan having lull'd their Souls asleep Refuses Company with them to keep A known deceiver he long time has been To help Poor Mortals into dangerous Sin Thereby to cut them off that so they may Be plung'd in Hell and there he made his Prey So these Malicious Women at the last Having done mischiefs were by Iustice cast For it appear'd they Children had destroy'd Lamed Cattel and the Aged much annoy'd Having Familiars always at their beck Their Wicked Rage on Mortals for to wreck It being prov'd they used Wicked Charms To Murther Men and bring about sad harms And that they had about their Bodys strange And Proper Tokens of their Wicked Change As Pledges that to have their cruel will Their Souls they gave unto the Prince of Hell The Country round where they did live came in And all at once their sad complaints begin One lost a Child the other lost a Kine This his brave Horses that his hopeful Swine One had his Wife bewitched the other his Friend Because in some things they the Witch offend For which they labour under cruel pain In vain seek remedy but none can gain But Roar in cruel sort and loudly cry Destroy the Witch and end our misery Some used Charms by Mountabanks set down Those cheating Quacks that swarm in every Town But all 's in vain no rest at all they find For why all Witches to cruelty are enclin'd And do delight to hear sad dying groans And such laments as wou'd pierre Marble Stones But now the Hand of Heaven has found them out And they to Iustice must pay Lives past doubt One of these Wicked Wretches did confess She Four Score Years of Age was and no less And that she had deserved long before To be sent packing to the Stigian shore For the great mischiefs she so oft had done And wondered that her Life so long had run She said the Devil came with her along Through Crouds of People and bid her be strong And she no hand should have but like a Lyer At the Prison Door he fled and ne're came nigh her The rest aloud crav'd Mercy for their Sins Or else the great deceiver her Soul gains For they had been lewd Livers many a day And therefore did desire that all would Pray To God to Pardon them while thus they lie Condemned for their Wicked Deeds to Die Which may each Christian do that they may find Rest for their Souls though Wicked once inclin'd FINIS