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The world possessed with devils containing three dialogues. 1. Of the Devil let loose.…The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose.…
The world possessed with devils containing three dialogues. 1. Of the Devil let loose. 2. Of black devils. 3. Of white devils. And of the coming of Jesus Christ to judgement, a very necessary and comfortable discourse for these miserable and dangerous days.The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose. 2. Of blacke deuils. 3. Of white deuils. And of the commyng of Iesus Christe to iudgement, a verie necessarie and comfortable discourse for these miserable and daungerous daies.
London: printed by John Kingston for John Perin, 1583London: printed by John Kingston for Ihon Perin, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Tob. Is this the cause, why we also commonly call this disease,1 the hie evil, and that we term them which are subject there to, to fall into the hie evil?
Tob. Is this the cause, why wee also commonly call this disease,1 the hie euil, and that we terme them which are subiect there to, to fall into the hie euill?
- 1The hi• evil.The hi• euill.
Theo. That may be one cause thereof. For it cannot take a man higher, then by the head, or brain, when it taketh him in the ⟨image 109⟩head and brain, as that he falleth to the ground, as a Butcher knocketh an ox in the head. It is also said of this Lunatic infant, that the Devil cast him, and made him sometimes fall into the fire, and sometimes into the water, in such sort, as that it was marvel that he had not been killed a thousand times. It is likewise written, that he foamed at the mouth, and tare himself horribly.
Theo. That may bee one cause thereof. For it cannot take a man hier, then by the head, or brain, when it taketh him in the ⟨image 109⟩head and braine, as that he falleth to the grounde, as a Butcher knocketh an oxe in the head. It is also said of this Lunaticke infant, that the Diuell cast him, and made him sometimes fall into the fire, and sometimes into the water, in such sort, as that it was maruaile that hee had not beene kild a thousand times. It is likewise written, that he fomed at the mouth, and tare himself horribly.