Zekiel’s did; nor did his well-ſcratched Face leſs denote her Talents (or rather Talons) of a different Kind.
No longer bore this Amazon the ſhameful Flight of her Party. She ſtopt ſhort, and calling aloud to all who fled, ſpoke as follows: ‘Ye Somerſetſhire Men, or rather ye Somerſetſhire Women, are yet not aſhamed, thus to fly from a ſingle Woman; but if no other will oppoſe her, I myſelf and Joan Top here will have the Honour of the Victory.’ Having thus ſaid, ſhe flew at Molly Seagrim, and eaſily wrenched the Thigh Bone from her Hand, at the ſame Time clawing off her Cap from her Head. Then laying hold of the Hair of Molly, with her Left Hand, ſhe attacked her ſo furiouſly in the Face with the Right, that the Blood ſoon began to trickle from her Noſe. Molly was not idle this while. She ſoon removed the Clout from the Head of Goody Brown, and then faſtening on her Hair with one Hand, with the other ſhe cauſed the ſame bloody Stream to iſſue forth from the Noſtrils of the Enemy.
When each of the Combatants had bore off ſufficient Spoils of Hair from the Head of her Antagoniſt, the next Rage wasagainſt
