time with him shee was allowed to fetch the other; and by his advice,
ment into the Witches own Garden, and gathered that quantity her
Mistresse sent her for, and gave it to her hands, which that ni[unr]ht she
chopped and strewed about, to injure her Neighbor; but it proved otherwise;
For in the morning all her own Cattel were dead; so
will it prove with Rebels in the process of time, what harm they
intend to others, will light heavily upon themselves: Another
witch pleading Poverty to be the occasion of her Combination
with the Devil: her Judge asked her what she could get by him?
She answered, That for a yeer past, she had received 10.s.a week,
but that for 18 weeks she had not received a penny: he asking
her the reason she said, her Familiar told her, That the Devil
had disburssed of his Money for the Service of his beloved Son Cromwel;
holding it meet in his Diabollical wisdome, to furnish him
where in was his greatest INTEREST; so that it seems
REBELLION is in more request with Devil, then
Witch craft.
Rebels and Witches do not dis-agree
Because their Tenants hold a sympathee;
Both have their Will, and 'tis against all reason,
Witches should hang, when Rebels thrive by treason:
The Devil's base to keep the Witch so poor,
And give the Rebel daily more and more:
Why should the Devil leave the Witch i' th'end,
And no the Rebel be so good a friend?
Since Rebel. Devil, Witch, joyn to dis throne
Heavens powerful king, as these have done their own:
But Devil, Rebel Witch, in ch[unr] must lie,
Bound fast in H[unr]; let loose in Monarshy,
There Fairfax Cromwel, Coak, Bradshaw, Steel,
Shall (drunk with blood) into perdition reel.
Good fiends prepare fresh sulphur for them all,
Tis CHARLES his BLOOD doth loud for vegance call.
Tom Laddle sent one of the deadly has (vulgarly called Pryde by
his Fathers [unr]; but his right name being Bride from his Mothers
leaving him being a Bastard, in Saint Brides Parish)
with a Petition, with certain Proposals, for a Tolleration of more