Our young
gentlemen ran immediately into the apartment from whence this
clamour seemed to proceed, and found a thin, meagre, swarthy figure,
gasping, in all the agony of fear, under the hands of a squat, thick,
hard-featured man, who collared him with great demonstrations of
wrath, saying, "If you was as mighty a magician as Owen Glendower
or the witch of Entor, look you, ay, ay, or as Paul Beor himself,
I will meke pold, by the assistance of Got, and in his majesty's
name, to seize and secure, and confine and confront you, until such
time as you suffer and endure and undergo the pains and penalties
of the law, for your diabolical practices. Shentlements," added he,
turning to our adventurers, "I take you to witness, that I protest,
and assert, and avow, that this person is as pig a necromancer
as you would desire to behold; and I supplicate, and beseech, and
entreat of you, that he may be prought pefore his petters, and
compelled to give an account of his compact and commerce with the
imps of darkness, look you; for, as I am a Christian soul, and
hope for joyful resurrection, I have this plessed evening seen
him perform such things as could not be done without the aid and
instruction and connivance of the tevil.
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