The deuill him gnawe, both body, bloud, and bones.

30.

The spitefull prieste would needes make mee a witch,

As would to God I had beene for his sake,

I would haue claw’d him where hee did not itche,

I would haue playde the lady of the lake,

And as Merline was, cloasde him in a brake,

Ye a meridian to lul him by day light,

And a night mare to ride on him by night.

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