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A55138	A pleasant treatise of witches their imps, and meetings, persons bewitched, magicians, necromancers, incubus, and succubus's, familiar spirits, goblings, pharys, specters, phantasms, places haunted, and devillish impostures : with the difference between good and bad angels, and a true relation of a good genius / by a pen neer the covent of Eluthery.	Pen neer the Covent of Eluthery.	1673 (1673)	Wing P2564; ESTC R9332	44,947	136

strength that he kild two of them and then being wounded in divers places he leapt out of the window into the Garden But fell by misfortune upon a pole that prop't up a Vine and there stuck fast by the Breeches which the Conspirators perceiving ran down and made an end of him there The Negromancer according to the Kings promise had his pardon and being asked by the King how many Witches he thought were in his Dominions answered above a hundred thousand which he knew and of whom he was Master Mr. Baudovain de Ronssey in his Epistles gives us this Relation that in Ostbrook neer Utrect a place in Holland dwelt a certain Negromancer whose servant observing that his Master went constantly on certain nights into the Stable and laid hold on the Rack resolved to do the same unknown to his Master and see what would be the event Thus following his Master who was gone half an hour before into the stable and returned no more he laid hold on that part of the Rack and was posted immediately he knew not how through the aire till at last he found himself in a large Cave amongst an Assembly of Witches His Master astonished and angry at his coming fearing also least by this means their nocturnal meetings might be discovered asked the counsel of the rest concerning him 't was agreed upon at last to receive him and make him swear secrecy This the poor fellow out of fear did and promised whatsoever else they desired at last when the time of departure came they resolved he-should be carryed back because he had sworn to be of the Society and to that end his Master took him upon his back but in their way through the air as they came over a Lake his Master fearing to be discovered by him and finding this opportunity let him fall hoping therein to have drowned him and stifled him in the mudd yet Providence permitted not the youth to be drowned or his fall to be deadly for the abundance of Rushes and Sedge saved its violence and there he lay with no great harm done to his body The next day as he cry'd for help he was heard by some Travellers and by his voice found and holpen out the occasion of his coming thither being examined he was conducted to the Burgomaster of Utrect named Iohn of Cullenburg who making farther inquiry into this extraordinary accident with intention to prosecute the Negromancer sent for him to the place of his habitation but whether advised by his Spirit or warned by the Report he was fled and could no where be heard of Iohn Theuteme Canon D' Albestan being oftimes reproached to be a Bastard and that he merited not to be a Canon which belonged only to those of better Extract invited his revilers one day to Dinner and after the Table was taken away asked them if they would see their Fathers to which they answered they all were willing then caused he his Familiar Spirits to appear in their likenesses one like a Cook another like a Groom a third like a Pesant but his own Father came in the form of a Canon cloathed in a long gown at which sight the company was much amazed and never after reproached him of his Extract since their own was no more honourable CHAP. V. Of Incubus and Succubus's FLegon Trallian made free from slavery by the Emperor Adrian writes in his Book of admirable things that Philinion Daughter to a Vintener fell in Love with Machates a young Forrester but crost by her friends took it so to heart that she dyed suddenly after and was buryed publickly Not long after this sad Funeral Machates passing by came and lay at the house to whom Philinion appeared being alone in his chamber asserting she was not dead but had raised that report to deceive her friends insomuch that they both lay that night together and he gave her towards morning at her departure his Ring in token of his love and in recompence she gave him another while these things thus passed a servant that lay in the next Chamber hearing Philinions voice supposed really that her Masters daughter was alive which she constantly affirmed for truth her Master desirous to know the certainty of it found means to get the young man to stay longer at his House and caused persons to watch every night in the next chamber at last hearing her voice they went into the chamber and ran towards the bed where she lay to embrace their daughter but the Spirit said O cruel Father and Mother since you hindred me to enjoy this youth in life you can expect no kindess from me and lo now I leave you At which words the spirit went out of her and her carcass fell down in the bed Her tomb was immediately after opened but nothing found there save the ring the Forrester gave her which the spirit had left Her body was seen as likewise the tomb by thousands of people that came to see the truth of this admirable accident And at last by the councel of the Divine Hillo the dead body was carryed out of Town and buryed But Machates by this accident was so frightned that he fell shortly after into despair and killed himself Another no less admirable History we find of an Incubus who in the shape of Policrates was created Prince of the Aetolians and was marryed to a young Lady of Locres with whom after he had lain three nights he vanished and was no more seen by the people The Lady brought forth for her Child a monstrous Hermophrodite at which her Parents being astonished assembled the people the Priests and Diviners to consult what should be done with the Child or rather Divelish off-spring and at last it was concluded it should be burnt But then Policrates the Father appeared again in a mourning garment and with threats demanded his Son which being denyed he rushed upon him and toar him to pieces and then devoured all his members excepting the head and vanisht The people resolved to send to the Oracle at Delphos to enquire concerning this matter but the head that was left on the ground began to speak and with a loud voice and eloquent Oration informed the multitude of all the evil that 's threatned them which came to pass the Year after in the War they had with the people of Acarnania Boethius the Historian writes lib. hist. Scot. That a young maid very beautiful and one that had refused the marriage of many Noble Persons fell into strange familiarity with a Devil Till at last her big swelling belly declared what she had done and forced her to disclose the matter to her Parents how a handsome young man came constantly by night and lay with her but from whence or whither he went she knew not Her friends though they gave little credence to these words yet resolved to search into the matter more narrowly and about three days after being informed by her maid that the man was with her

manner of life they followed adding that he was not ignorant how their Order was hated by many because of their Dr. St. Thomas whom they followed in that Opinion that the Virgin Mary was conceived in Original Sin Nevertheless many of their Enemies were grievously tormented by the vengeance of God and the Town of Berne would perish if it did not expell the Franciscan Friars who were of opinion that the Virgin was conceived without And that particularly Dr. Alexander Dr. Ales and Iohn Scotus the subtil Doctor both Franciscan Fryers were grievously tormented in Purgatory for inducing the people to hold that opinion At last the said spirit did counterfeit the Virgin Mary herself assuring him she was conceived with sin and certified him also in many other things he desired to know from her She made also in his right hand a mark of her Son Jesus Christ by peircing his hand with a very sharpe Naile then to appease the pain she put Lint into it made of the clouts she wrapped her Child with in Aegypt But not contented alone with this the said Friers gave him to drink a certain Magick Liquor by which he lost his sence and understanding and then with Aquafoŕtis made four more wounds upon him Afterwards when by means of a second Liquor he came to himself he was much astonished at his wounds but they perswaded him they came from God and put him afterwards into a little Cell all hung with the Pictures of the passions of Christ they gave him also a drink that made him froath at the mouth and perswaded him that he was then fighting against death as Christ had done To conclude they play'd so many pranks with this poor Monk that at last he began to perceive the delusion and escaping out of their hands discovered all their devillish practises Whereupon the actors of this wickedness Iohn Vetter Prior Steven Boltzhorst Preacher Francis Ulchi under-Prior and Henry Steniecker receiver of the Rents were condemned to be burnt alive in a field before the company of the Franciscans There is a pleasant relation amongst the Narrations Mundi Fortuitas which I shall not omit in this place how in a Village of France inhabited by rude country Boors a Man fitter for the Cart than a Pulpit yet as being the best Scholler in the Town was made Vicar and according to custome nothing was done nothing thought upon but the Vicar was ever present among the good women Insomuch that by such frequent familiarily he grew to be well acquainted with one Lisetta a Parishioners wife Her Husband was not so blind but he could perceive his horn a growing and from that time permitted not the Vicar to come any more to his house Thus was all the fat in the fire and their hopes cancelled had not love found out another way for according to the Vicars instruction Lisetta counterfeited her self possessed with the Devil turning her eyes arms and legs in strange postures froathing at the mouth and ratling in her throat The simple neighbourhood astonished at these actions cry'd she was possessed and her poor Husband not a little troubled at it forgot what was past and goes for the Vicar to exorcise the Spirit Alas my friend saith the other thy Jealousy and suspition I fear of our holy Order hath been the cause of this misfortune for asmuch as the Chastest Matrons have ran mad and have been possessed upon this account Then taking his Robes Book and what was fitting on this account he goes along with him to his wife and the usual ceremony in such cases being performed he askes the spirit who it was Lisetta as she was before instructed answered in a small voice I am the father of this young woman who am to do Penance for ten years space in one body or other Her Husband thinking it to be her Fathers spirit my Father said he I desire thee for Gods Sake to come out of her Then the spirit reply'd I will indeed come out of her but I shall enter into thee to compleat the rest of my time alloted for my Penance The poor man was so terrified at this that falling at the Parsons feet my friend said he do you not know some way to avert this heavy Judgement either by Prayers Fastings Alms or other Charitable deeds then Lisetta perceiving all things to succeed according to her desire thou art too poor said she to hinder thy fate by Alms or charitable Deeds and instead of these thou must go visit forty Religious places and pray in every one and entreat God to forgive thee thy sins otherwise never look to escape what Heaven hath ordained Moreover the spirit went on concerning his false Jealousy and suspition of Holy Men insomuch that he fell at the Vicars feet asking forgiveness and shortly after began his Pilgrimage In the mean time the Vicar was always with his wife under pretence to lay the spirit but 't is questionable whether he raised not a worse In the year 1534. The Praetors wife Aurelia had taken care before she dyed that she might be buried privately without Pompe and Ceremonies for then it was a custome in Erance that when any Noble person dyed the Heralds should call the people together by Cymbals and such like instruments and then rehearse the Nobility and worth of the person deceased desiring the people to pray for them many mendicant Fryars also attended the Corps with an infinite company of lights So that by a kind of emulation the more the Pompe was and the greater the concourse of people the nobler the Family was esteemed But her Husband obeying her last desire gave no more to the Franciscans that buryed her than six Crowns whereas much more was expected and afterward when he cut down wood and denyed them some they were so incensed that they resolved in revenge to make the people believe his wife was damned in Hell To which purpose they placed a youth upon the roof of the Church who at night in Prayer-time made a great noise there and notwithstanding their exorcisms and conjurations would answer nothing then being commanded to give some sign that he were a dumb spirit for a sign he made a great noise the next day the Franciscans related to the people what hapned but desired them not in any wise to absent themselves for that So the next night when Prayers began the spirit also made a noise in the former manner but being asked what he was made a sign that he was not to speak he was commanded therefore to answer by signs for there was a hole made where the youth could hear what the exorcists said and he had a Tablet in his hand by striking upon which he gave signs that could be heard beneath first therefore being asked if he were any of those that had been buryed there he made a sign he was then many names being recited of all the persons buryed there when they came to the Praetors wife he knoc'd for a sign

Lucifer takes his place in his Throne as King do make their accustomed homage Adoring and Proclaiming him their Lord and rendring him all Honour This Solemnity being finished they fit to Table where no delicate meats are wanting to gratifie their Appetites all dainties being thither brought in the twinckling of an Eye by those spirits that attend the Assembly This done at the sound of many pleasant Instruments for we must expect no Grace in the company of Devils the table is taken away and the pleasant consort invites them to a Ball but the dance is strange and wonderful as well as diabolical for turning themselves back to back they take one another by the arms and raise each other from the ground then shake their heads to and fro like Anticks turn themselves as if they were mad Then at last after this Banquet Musick and Ball the lights are put out and their sleeping Venus awaks The Incubus's in the shaps of proper men satisfy the desires of the Witches and the Succubus's serve for whores to the Wizards At last before Aurora brings back the day each one mounts on his spirit and so returns to his respective dwelling place with that lightness and quickness that in little space they find themselves to be carryed many hundred miles but are charged by their spirit in the way not to call in any wise on the name of God or to bless themselves with the sign of the Cross upon pain of falling with peril of their lives and being greivously punisht by their Demon. Sometimes at their solemn assemblies the Devil commands that each tell what wickedness he hath committed and according to the hainousness and detestableness of it he is honoured and respected with a general applause Those on the contrary that have done no evil are beaten and punished at last when the assembly is ready to break up and the Devil to dispatch them he publisheth this law with a loud voice Revenge your selves or else you shall dye then each one kissing the Posteriors of the Devil a sweet bit no doubt returns upon their aiery Vehicles to their habitations These meetings are made commonly towards midnight when the earth is covered with darkness yet Cardan writes that a friend of his a Bookseller returning from Alemagne where he had newly been saw several assemblies met near a mountain both Wizards and Witches dancing some on Horseback some on Goats others on Dragons some on other Phantasms but drawing n●…er within a stones throw they all vanished and were no longer seen The places of these Meetings are in some desart either in a fair plain or under some large tree of which Pomp. Mela writes that on the side of the Mountain Atlas in Mauritania are seen by night certain lights and noises are heard of Cimbals and almost all sorts of Musical Instruments which in the day time cease and the Phantasms vanish and disappear Solin and Olaus affirm the same that the Shepherds living neer this place are often frighted by the Troops of Spirits that go dancing and brawling toward this Mountain esteem'd by the common people to be Aegyptians Valderama speaks farther concerning these meeting places which ought in no wise to be omitted that by t●…e new Castle belonging to the Earle of Francesquin he saw under a high Chesnut-Tree hard by a little wood a circle of the breadth of twenty foot being made so round that it seemed to be made by a Geometrical compass where he imagined these Witches and Spirits to have been and what most astonished him was that upon this round circle grew no flower nor grass although in the middle and round about abundantly Suspecting therefore that the earth was consumed by the quality of some ill humour which hindred the Herbs to grow he caused it to be dug up and diligently lookt upon but found the earth of the very same quality and goodness with the rest ad joyning Paul Grillaud a most famous Doctor of the Law reports that a certain Pesant had a wife accustomed to go to such meetings with her other companions which her Husband suspecting often taxed her with it which still she denyed as obstinately till at last resolving to know the truth he feigned himself one night drunk and in a sound sleep which hapned to be the time she was advised by her Spirit to go to the Assembly So that looking round about her that all things were sure her doors fast and her husband to appearance dead drunk she retired into a private corner of the room strip't her self naked and ano●…ted her body then in an instant as if she had wings she flew up the Chimney This her husband perceiving rose and hid the box of Oyntment till the next morning when examining her where she had been that night he could neither by fair nor foul means bring her to confess that she had been out of the house till ●…hewing her the box of Oyntment see here said he the witness that will so convince thee that thou shalt be no longer able to deny thy wickedness and unless thou resolve to tell me immediately whither and by what means thou wen●…'st expect not to go out of my hands alive Then did he W●… ●…mbling at her husbands threats an●… convicted of what she had done confess the truth and all the things committed in their impure Society above all she se●… forth the pleasures of it with such cunning fla●…tery that the lusty young Pesant had a mind presently to be partaker of those delights and promised her pardon for what she ●…ad done if she would conduct and bring ●…im also to the place This she promised willingly and the time being come after she had asked leave of her spirit to bring her husband with her she caused him to strip himself naked as she was and both being anointed they mounted the spirit attending on them in the form of a Sheep which flying softly through the Air carryed them to the designed meeting place The poor man seeing so many men and women so richly cloathed as to him they appeared such preparations for a Feast such strange Musick and so many lighted Torches around him stood long time amazed But at last after they were all set at the table by the commandment of the Devil the Country man not loosing time but finding the meat unsavoury and without ●…ast for according to the Proverb the Devils were the Cooks he began to ask for Salt and at last a spirit waiting there in form of a youth brought him some which receiveing he said God be praised for this good Salt At which words in a moment the Table Meat Servants Guests Men and Women Musick Lights Spirits and all vanisht away from ●…im who found himself next morning naked in the Countrey of Bene●…ent under a great Walnut-Tree almost a hundred miles from his own home whither with must distress at last became accused his wife and many o●… of the company who after confession on the

blew Cap to be his Advocate the Souldier accepted this offer and being called to the Bar and indicted there of Fellony presently desired to have his Attorney who was there present to plead for him then began the fine and crafty Doctor to plead and defend his Client very cunningly affirming him to be falsly accused and unjustly condemned and that his Host did withhold his money and offered him violence and to prove the Assertion he reckoned up every circumstance in the Action yea the very place where they had hid the money The Host on the other side stood in denial very impudently wishing the Devil might take him if he had it at these words for the subtil Lawyer waited for this advantage the Devil laid hold on the Host and carrying him out of the Sessions house hoisted him into the air so high that he was never after seen or heard of A Gentleman neer the City of Torga who got his living by ro●…bing and ranging the fields met one day with a Spirit in form of a horseman who saluted him and profered him his service the other accepting of it made him his Groom and ever when he went out gave him special charge of a certain horse which he esteemed very much of the Devil finding he could never please his Master concerning this matter and that notwithstanding all his double diligence his Master never thought him well enough look't after took the horse one day when ●…is master was abroad and carryed him to the top of a high Tower put his head out of the window The horse seeing his Master come home began to neigh and stomp as though joyful of his return but the servant never came again to fetch him down and left all the neighbourhood in great admiration Froissard reports that a certain Priest going to Law with a Parishioner was cast by him and that resolving not to stop there for he had skill in Magick he raised a Spirit whom he sent to torment him upon promise of such a reward The spirit posts immediately to the Gentlemans house and there by his noise and the pranks he play'd soon manifested what he was The gentleman upon this strange vexation got his neighbours good Religious men to watch with him and when at midnight the spirit came it was resolved he should speak to it The Devil according to his agreement with the Priest never mist his hour but came as he used to do that night throwing the chairs and stooles up and down the house making a noise and great disturbance Whereupon the gentleman boldly asked in Gods Name what he was Ah quoth the Devil and laught do you not yet know that I am a spirit yes said the Gentleman again but who sent thee hither the Priest said the Spirit because thou overthrewst him at Law and hath promised me also ten Crowns for my pains Away said the Gentleman for shame art thou so bare as to serve such a pittyful Rascal for so little money I will give thee forty Crowns to serve me and all thy business shall be only to bring me News from all parts of the World I 'le do 't said the Devil but if ever you desire to see me you shall certainly lose me Thus did this Gentleman know before any Post could come of all the Transactions in the World and had news from the remotest parts of it insomuch that he began to be sought after by every one for News since nothing in the whole world was done of which he had not intelligence But at last perceiving this familiarity would bring him into the trouble and strict inquiry of the Law and fearing least the Spirit might shew him some slippery trick for his forty Crowns he resolved to put him away And thereupon the next time he came Artan said he for so the spirit called himself since thou hast been so punctual hitherto in thy service I would now ●…ain see thee in some shape or other You shall replyed he and the first thing you see upon the floor of your Chamber to morrow morning shall be me The morning being come the Gentleman lookt on his floor but could see no body Wherefore when he heard the spirit next did you not promise said he to appea●… to me in some shape this morning in my chamber well and did you not see reply'd the Devil two Straws tumbling over each other that was I. But I minded them not said the Gentleman and have not as yet seen thee as I desire Mind better then answered he and the first creature you see to morrow out of your window shall be me So the next morning when the Gentleman rose to the window he could see nothing in his yard but a great leaner and uglier Sow then can be described insomuch that calling to his servants he commanded them to hunt that ugly creature out of the yard which as they were doing it vanished in a tempest and the house was troubled no more Olaus relates that a Gentleman passing by a Forrest with his servants was belated in the way and forced to stay in the Woods all night having nothing to eat at which he said merrily to his Retinue would Sir Hubert of whom so many stories pass would provide us some food in this solitary Wood. Which words he had no sooner spoken but a great Wolfe rushed by them and returned immediately with Sheep on his back which he let fall in their sight and vanisht leaving them to dress the meat the Devil had sent them Alexander ab Alexandro writes that a Monk of the Monastery of Ardens going early in the morning through the Forrest to a Town thereby overtook a man of a stern countenance loose kind of vesture and very tale stature with whom he travelled till at last they came ●…o a great wash where the man profered the Monk being a Religious person and of lesser stature to carry him over on his back The Monk gl●…d of this profer got up but casting his Eyes down toward the water that was very clear and seeing his Porters feet of a strange and deformed shape he blessed himself with the sign of the Cross at which the Devil hasted so fast away in a whirlwind that it toar up a great Oak by the roots which gave the poor Monk cause to think that if he had not in time perceived the Devil to be his Porter he should have been stifled in the waters by him Fincelius reports that in the year 1532. a certain Gentleman to torment a poor Tenant that owed him rent commanded him with threats to bring to his house that night for fuel it being the Christmas tide a certain great Oak out of such a wood which if he failed to do he would turn him out of his House The poor man although the thing was impossible nevertheless to shew his willingness went with his Ax towards the Wood much afflicted at the hard commands of his Lord. Thus as he is going he is

treachery Many such like services did the young Blackmoor to Siarra and his companion the last was as followeth As these two with four more were travelling up a certain Mountain to view the subjacent places they perceived a man of prodigious stature walking up and down very melancholy who often cast such terrible looks upon them that as well by a certain fear caused by the extenuation of the air when Spirits are near as by a conception they had that he was so they were much astonished and afraid whereupon the young Blackmoor that served Siarra's companion ran towards him and kneeled down and as it were entreated him whereupon he immediately flew up into the air out of their sight This caused greater astonishment then what ever had hapned before and therefore his Master never left examining his boy what he was till at last he confessed after this manner I am though otherwise I have appeared to you in form of a boy a Spirit of this Region subject to the great Master Agnan whom you just now saw ascend into the air after he seemed to bewail the loss of his people and his Worship which the Spaniards have destroyed he was certainly come to do you mischief as formerly he had done to some of your company but my intreaties disswaded him having told upon what account I served you nor shall any of his ministers torment you as long as you stay in this place as you may beleive by what is already past For when the Five hundred set upon you I caused above a Thousand Spaniards to appear before their sight which was the cause of their suddain flight Now the reason why I serve you for according to the charge laid upon me I was to declare it before I left you is because you spared formerly a Moor whom you took with your own hand in flight a tall person with a Hawks nose the same was a Priest to our great Master and had a Spirit granted him to attend on him by his charge I was sent to protect you as long as you stay in this Countrey for the favour you shewed him in sparing his life Having thus said he ran a little from them and beating the ground thrice with his foot he was carryed into the Air out of their sight Not long after as they returned to Spain a great storm arose during which it was so dark that none of the Heavenly light appeared and all hopes of safety were taken away till at last Siarra perceived as he thought the young Moor in the Shrouds after which that dismal Storm ceased and their Voyage became Calme and pleasant Pharies OF Pharies also those little Mimick Elves that appear alwayes very small of stature and busy themselves chiefly in imitating the operations of men we read in Georgius Agricola that great searcher of Subterraneal mines that they appear frequently in those places whence precious Metals are dug and from their manners are called Cobali or Imitators of men these seem to laugh to be cloathed like the workmen to dig the earth and to do many things that really they do not mocking sometimes the workmen but seldome or never hurting them The Latins have called them Lares and Larvae frequenting as they say Houses delighting in neatness pinching the Slut and rewarding the good housewife with money in her shoe Siarra hath left us this notable Relation that there lived in his time in Spain a table and beautiful Virgin but far more famous for her excellence at her Needle insomuch that happy did that Courtier think himself that could wear the smalest piece of her work though at a price almost invaluable It hapned one day as this admirable Semstress sate working in her Garden that casting aside her Eye on some fair Flower or Tree she saw as she thought a little Gentleman yet one that shew'd great Nobility by his cloathing come riding towards her from behind a bed of Flowers thus surprised how any body should come into her Garden but much more at the stature of the person who as he was on Horseback exceeded not a foots length in height she had reason to suspect that her eyes deceived her But the Gallant spurring his Horse up the Garden made it not long though his Horse was little before he came to her then greeting the Lady in most decent manner after some Complements past he acquaints her with the cause of his bold Arival that forasmuch as he was a Prince amongst the Pharies and did intend to celebrate his Marriage on such a day he desired she would work him Points for him and his Princess against the time he appointed The Lady consented to his demands and he took his leave but whether the multitude of business caused the Lady to forget her promise or the strangeness of the thing made her neglect the work thinking her sight to have been deceived I know not yet so it fell out that when the appointed time came the work was not ready The hour wherein she had promised the Phary Prince some fruits of her Needle hapned to be one day as she was at dinner with many Noble persons having quite forgot her promise when on a suddain casting her eye to the door she saw an infinite train of Pharies come in so that fixing her eyes on them and remembring how she neglected her promise she sate as one amazed and astonished the whole company But at last the train had mounted upon the Table and as they were prancing on their Horses round the brims of a large dish of white-broth an Officer that seemed too busy in making way before them fell into the dish which caused the Lady to burst into a suddain fit of laughter and thereby to recover her sences When the whole Phary company was come upon the Table that the brims of every dish seemed fill'd with little Horsemen she saw the Prince coming towards her hearing she had not done what she promised seemed to go away displeased The Lady presently fell into a fit of Melancholly and being asked by her friends the cause of these alterations and astonishments related the whole matter but notwithstanding all their consolations pined away and dyed not long after 'T is reported likewise of a countrey girl being sent out dayly by her Mother to look to a Sow that was then big with pigs that the Sow alwayes stray'd out of the girls sight and yet alwayes came safe home at night this the maid often observing resolved to watch her more narrowly and followed her one day so close till they both came to a fair green Valley where was layd a large bason full of milk and white bread the Sow having eaten her Mess returned home and that night pigg'd eleven pigs the good wife rising early the next morning to look to her beast found on the threshold of the stye ten half Crowns and entring in saw but one pig judging by these things that the Pharies had fed her fow and bought