Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity.

  • Fulke, William, 1538-1589.
Date:
1670
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Credit: Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on May day, when many young folk went abroad early in the mofning, 1 remember by fix of che clock in the forenoon, there was news come to London, that the Devil,the fame mor- ning, was feen flying over the Thames: afterward came word that he lighted atStratford,, and there was taken and fet in the Stocks, and chat though he would fain have diflembled thematter, by turning bimfelf into the likenefs of aman, yet was he known well etiough by his cloven foot, I knew fome then living that went to fee him,and retura- ing, affirmed, that he was feen fly- ing inthe air, but was not taken pri- | | foner. _ I remember alfo, that: fome withed he had been fhot at with Guns Thus do ignorant,men judge of thefe things that they know nor. As for this Devil, I fuppofe it was a flying Dra- gon, whereof we fpeak, very fearfull | to look upon, asthough he had life, becaofe he moveth, whereas it is nos thing elfe but clouds and fmoak : fo mighty is God, that he can fear his enemies with thefe and fuch like ope- | rations,