An olde womans Charme wherewith she did much
good in the cuntrie and grew famous
thereby.
An olde woman that healed all deseases of cattell (for the which she
neuer tooke any reward but a penny and a loafe) being seriously
examined, by what words she brought these things to passe, confessed
that after she had touched the sick creature, she alwaies departed
immediately saying.
_My loafe in my lap,
My penie in my purse:
Thou art neuer the better,
And I am neuer the worse._
A slouenly Charme for sore eies.
The Deuill pull out both thine eies,
And _etish_[*] in the holes likewise.
[Sidenote: spel this word backward and you shall see what a
slouenly charme this is _etish_.]
A Miller that had his eeles stolne by night, made mone to the priest
of the parish, who indeede was the principall of the theeues that
stole the eeles, Sir Iohn willed him to be quiet, for said he I will
to curse the theeues, and their adherents with bell, booke, and
candle, that they shall haue small ioy of their fish, and therefore
the next sonday Sir Iohn gotte him vp to the pulpit with his surplis
on his back, and his Gole about his neck, and pronounced these words
following, in the audience of the people.
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