Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	blessing_n	child_n	parent_n	2,068	5	9.3978	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03207	The hierarchie of the blessed angells Their names, orders and offices the fall of Lucifer with his angells written by Tho: Heywood	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 13327; ESTC S122314	484,225	642

comming towards the bed with purpose as I thought to kill this my young Nephew pointing to a childe in the cradle but shee was hindred by finding mee here Who no sooner saw mee but shee began grieuously to threat me and came neere to strike me In which feare I began to call vpon God to helpe me whose name I had no sooner vttered but she vanished instantly and I am left here euen as you found me Whereupon her kinseman the Master of the house writ downe and keeping the Maid still with him sent to the Father Inquisitor of the place where the mother of the Guirle his Kinswoman liued in good reputation and no way suspected before whom shee was called and questioned and as the manner of that Countrey is vpon the like probabilitie and suspition put to the mercy of the Tormentor and at length shee confessed euerie particular before mentioned To which she added That she had no lesse than fifty sundry times been transported by the Diuel only with a malicious intent to kil that yong childe but she found him alwayes at her arriuall so protected by the blessings prayers of his deuout and religious Parents that she had no power at all ouer him c. To this story the Author addeth a second of one Antonius Leo a Collier by profession and dwelling in the city of Ferrara who greatly suspecting his wife to be a Witch by reason that diuers of his Neighbours informed him That she was reputed to be one of those who had nightly conuentions with the Diuel he therefore kept all to himselfe and one night aboue the rest snorting and counterfeiting a deepe and profound sleepe with which his wife being deluded rose softly from the bed and as in the former discourse daubing her selfe with an vnguent leapt out at the easement which was some three stories high and he could set no more sight of her At which he grew first strangely amased as fearing shee had desperately done it to breake her necke but hearing no cry nor apprehending any noise by her fall he then began to confirme his former suspition and in a foolish curiositie tooke the same box and did to himselfe in all respects as hee had seene her to practise before him and was immediately in the same manner hurried out at the window and in an instant found himselfe in a Noble Counts Wine-sellar where hee saw his wife with diuerse others of that Diuellish sister hood merrily gossipping and carousing deepe healths one to another who no sooner beheld so vnexpected a guest but they all suddenly vanished and the poore Collier was left alone with the cellar dore fast locked vpon him and early in the morning being found there by the Butler hee called other his fellow seruants who apprehended him as an House-breaker and Felon and brought him before their Lord. Who at length by great importunitie obtaining libertie to speak for himselfe he opened vnto the Count all the manner of the particular circumstances before related which though at first they appeared incredible yet vpon more mature consideration hee was dismissed but conditionally That he call his wife in publique question with the rest of her Associats Which he accordingly did and brought them before the Inquisitor to whom after examination they confessed not onely that but many other more notorious and diabolical acts the least of them sufficient to bring them to the stake and faggot Barthol Ronfaus telleth a strange story of a Witch in Osburch Antonius Torquinada deliuereth the like who was by Nation a Spaniard and Paulus Grillandus in his Book De Sortilegis remembreth diuers to the same purpose one of which I thought good to transferre from him and expose to your free view and censure In the yeare of Grace saith he 1524 when I was chiefe Inquisitor many of these Inchantresses and Witches were brought before me Amo●gst whom a certaine woman Dioecis Sabensis was a practiser of that diabolicall art of which her husband had been long suspitious and watched her so narrowly that he took her in the manner when she was busie about her infernall exercise Notwithstanding which she impudently denied it and out-faced him that she was no such woman But he as obstinat on the contrary and resolued withall not to be so deluded with a good sound cudgell fell vpon her and so be laboured her sides and shoulders till with incessant beating hee forced the truth from her and brought her vpon her knees most submissiuely to intreat his pardon which after some entreaty he seemed willingly to grant but vpon condition That she would b●ing him to be present and an eye-witnesse of their abhominable ceremonies vsed in their nightly Conuentions which shee faithfully promised and so they were reconciled At the next night of their meeting hee hauing ingaged his word for secrecie she brought him to the place appointed where he freely beheld the manner of their adoration done to the Diuell their sports and their dances full of many beastly postures and figures with many other strange pastimes and merriments there practised All which being ended there was a long Table couered and furnished with sundry dishes and he seated amongst them and as he saw the rest do he began to fall heartily to his victuals which somwhat distasted him as not being wel seasoned therefore looking about him for salt but spying none vpon the table he called to one that attended to fetch him a little salt But he not seeming to regard him he began to grow importunate and somewhat loud at length he brought him a small quantitie vpon the corner of a trencher which hee seeing and seeming glad thereof Mary God be thanked said he for I haue now got some salt Which words were no sooner vttered but the Table Meat Dishes Diuels Witches and Lights all vanished and hee was left there naked and alone in a desolate place But in the morning spying certaine Shepheards and demanding of them what countrey hee was in they told him In the prouince of Beneventanus belonging to the kingdome of Naples which was more than an hundred miles distant from his owne house The man though he was of a faire reuenue yet was forced to beg all the way homeward But after his tedious and difficult journey arriuing at his owne village he summoned his wife before the Magistrate with others whom he had espied and knowne at the Feast Who vpon his testimonie were conuicted and suffered according to the extremitie of the Law prouided for offences of that execrable nature I haue read of another guilty of the like curiositie who was hurried so far in one night that it cost him three yeares tedious trauell before hee could come to see the smoke of his owne Chimney To shew that these Magicall sorceries haue beene from great antiquitie and not lately crept into the world by the proditious insinuation of the Diuel me thinks I heare Medaea thus speaking Ovid Metam lib. 7. 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