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" And hated like a sickness : made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of Familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets, weasels, and I wot not what, That have appear'd ; and suck'd, some say, their blood. "
Dramatic Works of John Ford ... - Page 472
by John Ford - 1827
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Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster

Thomas Potts - Witchcraft - 1845 - 356 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness ; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...I am now ignorant. Would some power, good or bad, Instruct me which way I might be revenged Upon this churl, I'd go out of myself, And give this fury...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ...

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1845 - 492 pages
...shunn'd And haled like a sickness : made a SCOHI To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of Familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...But by what means they came acquainted with them, I'm now ignorant. Would some power good or bad Instruct me which way I might be reveng'd Upon this...
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine ..., Volume 6

Cheshire (England) - 1845 - 348 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness ; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...But by what means they came acquainted with them, 1 am now ignorant. Would some power, good or bad, Instruct me which way I might be revenged Upon this...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of ..., Volumes 1-2

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1845 - 484 pages
...shunn'd And haled like a sickness : made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of Familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...But by what means they came acquainted with them, I'm now ignorant. Would some power good or bad Instruct me which way I might be reveng'd Upon this...
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Pott's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster

Thomas Potts - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1845 - 344 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness ; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldam* Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...what, That have appear'd, and suck'd, some say, their hlood ; But by what means they came acquainted with them, I «m now ignorant. Would some power, good...
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Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine ..., Volume 6

Cheshire (England) - 1845 - 348 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets, weasels, and I wot not what, That have appealed, and suck'd, some say, their blood; But by what means they came acquainted with them, I am...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness ; made a scorn To all degrees and eexcs. 1 have heard old beldams Talk ! appcar'd; and suck'd, some say, tin ir blood. But by what means they came acquainted with them, I'm...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets, weaoels, and 1 wot not what, That hare % % I'm now ignorant. Would some power, good or bad, Instruct me which way I might be reveng'd Upon this...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness ; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...But by what means they came acquainted with them, I'm now ignorant. Would some power, good or bad, Instruct me which way I might be reveng"d Upon this...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...shunn'd And hated like a sickness ; made a scorn To all degrees and sexes. I have heard old beldams Talk of familiars in the shape of mice, Rats, ferrets,...But by what means they came acquainted with them, I'm now ignorant. Would some powers, good or bad, Instruct me which way I might be reveng'd Upon this...
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