 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 422 pages
...green geese and turkey-chicks, Or pigs, that suddenly deceased Of griefs unnatural, as he guessed ; Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech, i55 Did not the devil appear to Martin Luther in Germany for certain? And would have gulled him with... | |
 | Edward John Lupson - 1881 - 278 pages
...Finding revolted witches out ? And has he not within a year Hang'd threescore of them in a shire ? Who after proved himself a witch And made a rod for his own breech." And he justly suffered for the crime of which he had so extensively accused others, and caused them... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 416 pages
...Upon green geese or turkey chicks ; Or pigs that suddenly deceased Of griefs unnatural, as he guess'd, Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech." * The understanding reader will easily conceive, that this alteration of the current in favour of those... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 430 pages
...green geese and turkey-chicks, Or pigs, that suddenly deceased Of griefs unnatural, as he guessed ; i Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech, ,55 Did not the devil appear to Martin Luther in Germany for certain? And would have gulled him with... | |
 | 1888 - 600 pages
...act or effect of witchcraft. That execrable witch-finder, Matthew Hopkins, who, as Butler says — after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech, being regularly tried in his own way, condemned, and, as it seems, executed, was the means of bringing... | |
 | 1893 - 362 pages
...to one of his own tests, was condemned and executed for witchcraft. This is alluded to by Butler : " Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech." Aldersbrook was the residence and Little Ilford Church the burialplace of the antiquary Smart Lethieullier.... | |
 | Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon - 1893 - 226 pages
...1766, and the forty persons hanged at Bury in 1644, under the ban of Hopkins, the " witch-finder,"— " Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech " — no doubt suffered here. Murray. " Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire,"... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 1474 pages
...Finding revolted witches out 1 And has he not within a year Hang'd three score of 'era in one shire 1 Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech. — Canto HiA Scotchman, who was sent for by the Newcastle in 1650 to help them in detecting witches,... | |
 | 1896 - 708 pages
...country fellows who believed him to be a wizard. Hudibras refers to the miscreant's fate in these lines: Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech. Hopkins' method was to probe all parts of the woman's body with pins or needles until he found the... | |
 | George Ives - 1914 - 498 pages
...which showed him up, delivered to the devil ; and, in the caustic words of Samuel Butler, as one " who after proved himself a witch, and made a rod for his own breech." ' But now, dismissing this particular parasite, we may review the course of thought upon the question.... | |
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... 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... 
