Volume 2

Wonderful characters : comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation. / collected from the most authentic sources by Henry Wilson.

  • Wilson, H. (Henry), 1864-1934.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wonderful characters : comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation. / collected from the most authentic sources by Henry Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Fully impower'd to treat about Finding revolted witches out ? And lias not he within a year, Hang'd threescore of them in one shire ? Some only for not being drown'd : And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights upon their breeches, And feeling pain were hang'd for witches : And some for putting knavish tricks Upon green goose and turkey-chicks, Or pigs that suddenly deceas'd Of griefs unnat'ral as he guess'd, Who after prov'd himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech. Hudibras, P. II. Canto III. In an old print of this execrable character he is re- presented with two witches. One of them named Holt is supposed to say: My Impes are 1. Ilemauzyr; 2. Pye-wackett; 3. Pecke in the Crown; 4. Griezell Grie- diegutt. Four animals attend ; Jarmara, a black dog : Sacke and Sugar, a hare ; Newes, a ferret; Vinegar Tom, a bull-headed greyhound. This print is in the Pepysian library. EDWARD ALLEYN. Edward Alleyn, a celebrated actor in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James, and founder of the College at Dulwich in Surry, was born in London, in the parish of St. Botolph, September 1, 1566, as appears from a memorandum in his own writing. Dr. Fuller says, that he was bred a stage-player; and that his father would have given him a liberal education, but that he was averse to a serious course of life. He was, however, a youth of excellent capacity, of a cheerful temper, a tenacious memory, a sweet elocution, and in