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perſonage, that ſhe reſembled rather ſome heauenly Helfin then any mortall creature, ſo farre her beauty exceeded the choiſeſt ſorte of women, and with her as with his harts delight, he kept company the ſpace of ſeuen yeeres, though in the end ſhe proued and was found indeed no other then a ſhe Deuil, notwithſtanding, this lewd ſinne of lecherye did not any thing aſſwage his cruell and bloody minde, but continuing an inſatiable bloodſucker, ſo great was the ioye he took therin, that he accoūted no day ſpent in pleaſure wherin he had not ſhed ſome blood not reſpecting ſo much who he did murder, as how to murder and deſtroy them, as the matter enſuing dooth manifeſt, which may ſtand for a ſpeciall note of a cruell and hard hart. For hauing a proper youth to his ſonne, begotten in the flower and ſtrength of his age, the firſte fruite of his bodye, in whome he took ſuch ioye, that he did commonly call him his Hartes eaſe, yet ſo farre his delight in murder exceeded the ioye he took in his only Sonne, that thirſting after his blood, on a time he inticed him into the feeldes, and from thence into a Forreſt hard by,
