 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 1036 pages
...cleared of him, and this circumstance also is alluded to by Hudibras, who, speaking of Hopkins, gays: Who after, proved himself a witch, , And made a rod for his own breech. In this town also occurred about the year 1650, the ludicrous circumstance adverted to by Butler, in... | |
 | James Caulfield - Great Britain - 1813 - 174 pages
...Upon green geese and turkey chicks, Or pigs that suddenly deceast Of griefs unnat'ral as he guest, Who after proved himself a witch And made a rod for his own breech." Hud, Part ii. Canto 3. 127 ton to Lord Whitlock, mention is made of another fellow, a Scotsman, of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1817 - 728 pages
...to one of his own tests, was condemned and executed for witchcraft. This is alluded to by Bnilcr: ** Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech." Aldersbrook was the residence, and Little liford church the burial -place, of the antiquary Smart Lethieullier.... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Suffolk (England) - 1818 - 480 pages
...cleared of him, and this circumstance also is alluded to by Hudibras, who, speaking of Hopkins, says : Who after, proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech. In this town also occurred about the year 1650, the ludicrous " circumstance adverted to by Butler,... | |
 | Eccentrics and eccentricities - 1819 - 280 pages
...Upon green geese and turkey chicks, Or pigs that suddenly deceast Of griefs unnat'ral as he guest, Who after proved himself a witch And made a rod for his own breech." The last instance of ducking people forwitchcraftry, we have on record, is that of John Osborne and... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...Upon 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. HUDIBRAS, p. ii. canto 3. Although witchcraft was scarcely, if at all, known here, till after the Church... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...Upon green geese and turkey-chicks, Or pigs that suddenly deceast Of griefs unnatural, as he guest ; Who after proved himself a witch, And made a rod for his own breech '. Did not the devil appear to Martin Luther in Germany, for certain ? And would have gull'd him with... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...Upon 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. HUDIBRAS, p. ii. canto 3. Although witchcraft was scarcely, if at all, known here, till after the Church... | |
 | John Henry Druery - Great Yarmouth (England) - 1826 - 476 pages
...empower'd to treat about " Finding revolted witches out ? '•And has he not within a year " Haug'd threescore of them in a shire ? " Who after proved...expedient of these humane gentlemen, completely driven out of the connty. reproach to the great character who presided, they were severally executed. Upon... | |
 | John Henry Druery - Great Yarmouth (England) - 1826 - 488 pages
...Fully empowered to treat about " Finding revolted witches out? " And has he not within a year " Hanged threescore of them in a shire? " Who after proved...made a rod for his own breech." Ambassador Hopkins, an Butler ludicrously names him, was by the above expedient of these humane gentlemen, completely driven... | |
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And some for sitting above ground Whole days and nights, upon their breeches, And feeling pain, were... 
