Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	blood_n	great_a	shed_v	3,370	5	9.1200	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13085	A true discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked sorcerer who in the likenes of a woolfe, committed many murders, continuing this diuelish practise 25. yeeres, killing and deuouring men, woomen, and children. Who for the same fact was taken and executed the 31. of October last past in the towne of Bedbur neer the cittie of Collin in Germany. Trulye translated out of the high Duch, according to the copie printed in Collin, brought ouer into England by George Bores ordinary poste, the xi. daye of this present moneth of Iune 1590. who did both see and heare the same.		1590 (1590)	STC 23375; ESTC S101735	7,428	22

and two goodly yong women bigge with Child tearing the Children out of their wombes in most bloody and sauedge sorte and after eate their hartes panting hotte and rawe which he accounted dainty morsells best agreeing to his Appetite Moreouer he vsed many times to kill Lambes and Kiddes and such like beastes feeding on the same most vsually raw and bloody as if he had béene a naturall Woolfe indeed so that all men mistrusted nothing lesse then this his diuelish Sorcerie He had at that time liuing a faire yong Damosell to his Daughter after whom he also lusted most vnnaturallye and cruellye committed most wicked inceste with her a most groce and vilde sinne far surmounting Adultrye or Fornication though the least of the thrée dooth driue the soule into hell fier except hartye repentance and the great mercy of God This Daughter of his he begot when he was not altogither so wickedlye giuen who was called by the name of Stubbe Beell whose beautye and good grace was such as deserued commendacions of all those that knewe her And such was his inordinate lust and filthye desire toward her that he begat a Childe by her dayly vsing her as his Concubine but as an insaciate and filthy beast giuen ouer to woork euil with greedines he also lay by his owne Sister frequenting her company long time euen according as the wickednes of his hart lead him Moreouer being on a time sent for to a Gossip of his there to make merry and good chéere ere he thence departed he so wunne the woman by his faire and flattering spéech and so much preuailed y t ere he departed the house he lay by her and euer after had her companye at his commaund this woman had to name Katherine Trompin a woman of tall and comely stature of excéeding good fauour and one that was well esteemed among her neighbours But his lewde and inordinat lust being not satisfied with the company of many Concubines nor his wicked fancye contented with the beauty of any woman at length the deuill sent vnto him a wicked spirit in the similitude and likenes of a woman so faire of face and comelye of personage that she resembled rather some heauenly Hellin then any mortall creature so farre her beauty excéeded the cheifest sorte of women and with her as with his harts delight he kept company the space of seuen yeeres though in the end she proued and was found indeed no other then a she Deuil notwithstanding this lewd sinne of lecherye did not any thing asswage his cruell and bloody minde but continuing an insatiable bloodsucker so great was the ioye he took therin that he accoūted no day spent in pleasure wherin he had not shed some blood not respecting so much who he did murder as how to murder and destroy them as the matter ensuing dooth manifest which may stand for a speciall note of a cruell and hard hart For hauing a proper youth to his sonne begotten in the flower and strength of his age the firste fruite of his bodye in whome he took such ioye that he did commonly call him his Hartes ease yet so farre his delight in murder excéeded the ioye he took in his only Sonne that thirsting after his blood on a time he inticed him into the feeldes and from thence into a Forrest hard by where making excuse to stay about the necessaries of nature while the yong man went on forward incontinent in the shape and likenes of a Walfe he encountred his owne Sonne and there most cruelly slewe him which doon he presently eat the brains out of his head as a most sauerie and dainty delycious meane to staunch his greedye apetite the most monstrous act that euer man heard off for neuer was knowen a wretch from nature so far degenerate Long time he continued this vilde and villanous life sometime in the likenes of a Woolfe sometime in the habit of a man sometime in the Townes and Citties and sometimes in the Woods and thickettes to them adioyning whereas the duche coppye maketh mention he on a time mette with two men and one woman whom he greatly desired to murder and the better to bring his diuelish purpose to effect doubting by them to be ouermatched and knowing one of them by name he vsed this pollicie to bring them to their end In subtill sorte he conuayed himselfe far before them in their way and craftely couched out of their sight but as soone as they approched néere the place where he lay he called one of them by his name the partye hearing him selfe called once or twice by his name supposing it was some familier friend that in iesting sorte stood out of his sight went from his companye towarde the place from whence the voice procéeded of purpose to see who it was but he was no sooner entred within the danger of this transformed man but incontinent he was murdered in y t place the rest of his company staying for him expecting still his returne but finding his stay ouer long the other man lefte the woman and went to looke him by which means the second man was also murdered the woman then séeing neither of both returne againe in hart suspected that some euill had fallen vpon them and therfore with all the power she had she sought to saue her selfe by flight though it nothing preuailed for good soule she was also soone ouertaken by this light footed Woolfe whom when he had first deflowred he after most cruelly murdered the men were after found mangled in the wood but the womans body was neuer after séene for she the caitife had most rauenoullye deuoured whose fleshe he estéemed both swéet and dainty in taste Thus this damnable Stubbe Peeter liued the tearme of fiue and twenty yeeres vususpected to be Author of so many cruell and vnnaturall murders in which time he had destroyed and spoyled an vnknowen number of Men Women and Children shéepe Lambes and Goates and other Catttell for when he could not through the warines of people drawe men Women or Children in his danger then like a cruell and tirannous beast he would woorke his cruelty on brut beasts in most sauadge sort and did act more mischeefe and cruelty then would be credible although high Germany hath been forced to taste the trueth thereof By which meanes the inhabitantes of Collin Bedbur and Cperadt seeing themselues so gréeuously endaungered plagued and molested by this greedy cruel Woolfe who wrought continuall harme and mischeefe insomuch that few or none durst trauell to or from those places without good prouision of defence and all for feare of this deuouring and fierce woolf for oftentimes the Inhabitants found the Armes legges of dead Men Women and Children scattered vp and down the feelds to their great greefe and vexation of hart knowing the same to be doone by that strange and cruell Woolfe whome by no meanes they could take or ouercome so that if any man or woman mist their Childe they were out