Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 6Chetham Society., 1845 - Cheshire (England) |
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Page xl - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
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Page xxxviii - And Divers persons under a passive Delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a Corporeal League made betwixt the Devil and the Witch...
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Page 6 - What is the name, where, and by what art learn'd ? What spells, what charms, or invocations, May the thing call'd Familiar be purchased ? 1 am shunn'd And hated like a sickness : made a scorn To all degrees and sexes.
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Page xxxvi - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page xxxvii - Semi-Metals, and many other things pertaining to Mineral Knowledge. As also, The handling and shewing of their Vegetability, and the discussion of the most difficult Questions belonging to Mystical Chymistry, as of the Philosophers Gold, their Mercury, the Liquor Alkahest, Aurum potabile, and such like.
Page 15 - DOWNHAM, in the County of Lancaster, Esq., for part of the year 1617, and part of the year following. Interspersed with Notes from the life of his contemporary John Bruen, of Bruen, Stapelford, in the County of Chester, Esq.