Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 8Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 - English literature |
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... hundred . Moreover , the divels be spirits , they have no bodily shape or likenesse , but yet can make an appearance of a shape , as appeareth by the inchaunters before Pharao , when their rods were turned into serpents in shew . ( Exod ...
... hundred . Moreover , the divels be spirits , they have no bodily shape or likenesse , but yet can make an appearance of a shape , as appeareth by the inchaunters before Pharao , when their rods were turned into serpents in shew . ( Exod ...
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... hundred ) even upon the dying of the hennes , that so it might seeme they were bewitched . But you say then , how could it bee that upon the burning of an henne , there dyed no more , if the divell did not kill them ? Nay how can you ...
... hundred ) even upon the dying of the hennes , that so it might seeme they were bewitched . But you say then , how could it bee that upon the burning of an henne , there dyed no more , if the divell did not kill them ? Nay how can you ...
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... hundred to one hee never had power for to touch them . Let Sam . But what can you say to the other : the man which could not chuse but kisse under his cowes tayle ? Dan . I say he was farre in love with his cow . such men learne to know ...
... hundred to one hee never had power for to touch them . Let Sam . But what can you say to the other : the man which could not chuse but kisse under his cowes tayle ? Dan . I say he was farre in love with his cow . such men learne to know ...
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