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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>Witchcraft di&s;covered and puni&s;hed.</HEAD>
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<P>Or, the Tryals and Condemnation of three Notorious Witches, who were Tryed the la&s;t A&s;&s;izes, holden at the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Exeter,</HI> in the County of <HI>Devon:</HI> where they received Sentance for Death, for bewitching &s;everal Per&s;ons, de&s;troying Ships at Sea, and Cattel by Land, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, Doctor <HI>Fau&s;tus:</HI> or, <HI>Fortune my Foe.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>Now li&s;ten to my Song good People all,</L>
<L>And I &s;hall tell what lately did befall,</L>
<L>At Exeter, a place in <HI>Devon&s;hire,</HI></L>
<L>The like whereof of late you nere did hear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At the la&s;t A&s;sizes held at <HI>Exeter,</HI></L>
<L>Three Aged Women that Impri&s;oned were</L>
<L>For Witches, and that many had de&s;troy'd;</L>
<L>Were thither brought in order to be try'd.</L>
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<LG>
<L>For Witchcraft, that Old Wicked Sin,</L>
<L>Which they for long time had continued in:</L>
<L>And joyn'd with Satan, to de&s;troy the good,</L>
<L>Hurt Innocents, and &s;hed their harmle&s;s blood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now it mo&s;t apparent does appear,</L>
<L>that they will now for &s;uch their deeds pay dear:</L>
<L>For Satan having lull'd their Souls a&s;leep,</L>
<L>Refu&s;es Company with them to keep.</L>
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<LG>
<L>A known deceiver he long time has been,</L>
<L>To help Poor Mortals into dangerous Sin;</L>
<L>Thereby to cut them off, that &s;o they may,</L>
<L>Be plung'd in Hell, and there he made his Prey.</L>
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<LG>
<L>So the&s;e Malicious Women at the la&s;t,</L>
<L>Having done mi&s;chiefs, were by Iu&s;tice ca&s;t:</L>
<L>For it appear'd they Children had de&s;troy'd,</L>
<L>Lamed Cattel, and the Aged much annoy'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Having Familiars always at their beck,</L>
<L>Their Wicked Rage on Mortals for to wreck:</L>
<L>It being prov'd they u&s;ed Wicked Charms,</L>
<L>To Murther Men, and bring about &s;ad harms.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And that they had about their Bodys &s;trange</L>
<L>And Proper Tokens of their Wicked Change:</L>
<L>As Pledges that to have their cruel will,</L>
<L>Their Souls they gave unto the Prince of Hell.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Country round where they did live came in,</L>
<L>And all at once their &s;ad complaints begin:</L>
<L>One lo&s;t a Child, the other lo&s;t a Kine,</L>
<L>This his brave Hor&s;es, that his hopeful Swine.</L>
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<LG>
<L>One had his Wife bewitched, the other his Friend,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e in &s;ome things they the Witch offend:</L>
<L>For which they labour under cruel pain,</L>
<L>In vain &s;eek remedy, but none can gain.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But Roar in cruel &s;ort, and loudly cry,</L>
<L>De&s;troy the Witch, and end our mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>Some u&s;ed Charms by <HI>Mountabanks</HI> &s;et down,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e cheating <HI>Quacks,</HI> that &s;warm in every Town.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But all's in vain, no re&s;t at all they find,</L>
<L>For why? all Witches to cruelty are enclin'd:</L>
<L>And do delight to hear &s;ad dying groans,</L>
<L>And &s;uch laments, as wou'd pierre Marble Stones.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now the Hand of Heaven has found them out,</L>
<L>And they to Iu&s;tice mu&s;t pay Lives, pa&s;t doubt:</L>
<L>One of these Wicked Wretches did confe&s;s,</L>
<L>She Four Score Years of Age was, and no le&s;s.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And that &s;he had de&s;erved long before,</L>
<L>To be &s;ent packing to the <HI>Stigian</HI> &s;hore:</L>
<L>For the great mi&s;chiefs &s;he &s;o oft had done,</L>
<L>And wondered that her Life &s;o long had run.</L>
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<LG>
<L>She &s;aid the Devil came with her along,</L>
<L>Through Crouds of People, and bid her be &s;trong:</L>
<L>And &s;he no hand &s;hould have, but like a Lyer,</L>
<L>At the Pri&s;on Door he fled, and ne're came nigh her.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The re&s;t aloud, crav'd Mercy for their Sins,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e the great deceiver her Soul gains;</L>
<L>For they had been lewd Livers many a day,</L>
<L>And therefore did de&s;ire that all would Pray</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To God, to Pardon them, while thus they lie</L>
<L>Condemned for their Wicked Deeds to Die:</L>
<L>Which may each Chri&s;tian do, that they may find</L>
<L>Re&s;t for their Souls, though Wicked once inclin'd.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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