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eyes liked or his hart luſted after, he would waite their iſſuing out of y͏ͤ Cittie or town, if he could by any meanes get them alone, he would in the feeldes rauiſhe them, and after in his Wooluiſhe likenes cruelly murder them: yea often it came to paſſe that as he walked abroad in the feeldes, if he chaunſte to ſpye a companye of may dens playing together, or elſe a milking of their Kine, in his Wooluiſhe ſhape he would incontinent runne among them, and while the reſt eſcaped by flight, he would be ſure to laye holde of one, and after his filthy luſt fulfilled, he would murder her preſentlye, beſide, if he had liked or knowne any of them, look who he had a minde vnto, her he would purſue, whether ſhe were before or behinde, and take her from the reſt, for ſuch was his ſwiftnes of foot while he continued a woolf: that he would outrunne the ſwifteſt greyhound in that Countrye: and ſo muche he had practiſed this wickednes, that y͏ͤ whole Prouince was feared by the cruelty of this bloody and deuouring Woolfe. Thus continuing his diueliſhe and damnable deedes within the compas of fewe yeeres, he had murdered