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R229199 1 Aim not too high Fortune my Foe Aim Not Too High OF things most strange we every day do hear, / Yet things more strange than usual do appear, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 41 A MIRACULOUS CURE / FOR / VVITCHCRAFT / OR / Strange News from the Blew-Boar in Holburn A MIRACULOUS CURE FOR WITCHCRAFT OR Strange News from the Blue Boar in Holborn ?-?

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OF things most strange we every day do hear, Yet things more strange than usual do appear, As by my storie which I shall relate, I'le let you know without the least deceit. Wizzards and Witches have too well been known By hellish arts to trouble many a one: Some by sad torments sorely were opprest, And some to death bewitch'd, this is no Jest. Not far from London as the storie tells, A Girl that was bewitch't, in health now dwells: Who while the witch surviv'd, no ease could find But vext in Body, and perplext in mind. Her friends were troubled for to see her so, But how to help it they no means did know: Nature oblidg'd them for this Girl to grieve, And try all wayes how they might her relieve. They try'd and try'd, but no way could they find, Her torments they increast, her strength declin'd, Her pains too great, they thought for to endure, Yet they poor souls for her could find no cure. From one unto another they were sent, Untill at last they to a Chymist went, Who was well known to have great art and skill, And strove the minds of patients to fulfill. When they to him their business had made known Quoth he, I pray you let me now alone: My greatest skill and art I now will show, To ease this Girl of this tormenting woe. This Girls own Urine then he bid them take, And with some other things a mixture make: Which being put into a bottle then, He ordered them the manner, place, and when. They should this Bottle in in a Dung-hill put, Which he believ'd the witches Charms would cut This thing they then were all resolv'd to try, Hoping to find some help immediatly.
The 27th of March they did begin To try this fancy at the Blew-boar-Inn: A place in Holburn known exceeding well, Near this we may conclude these people dwell. So coming to this place they straight way went To try this thing was wholly their intent: And in the Dung-hill there a hole was made, The Bottle with the Ingredients in it laid. This being done, they fill'd it up again, And by this Dung-hill they did all remain, As if no other thing they had to do, But to divert the time to work they go. And their intent was carefully to see After this Bottle, that it there might be, And not be touch'd or medled with at all, This thing admir'd was by great and small. All night they sat and carefully did watch, And in the morning came this wicked wretch, Who did this Girl bewitch, and presently Askt for the Bottle, which they did deny. Much swelled then she did appear to be, And hellish looks she had undoubtedly: This Bottle she was forc'd to go without; Her hellish curses then she thundered out. But of her curses they were not afraid; Nor nothing seem'd at her to be dismay'd: But in short space it was cerain said, And tydings brought them that this Witch was dead As soon as this witches life did end, The Girl immediatly began to medd: And they that question what's inserted here, To Holburn go, the truth you'l find appear. O GOD preserve us from such wicked Fiends, Protect our persons and our nearest friends, From Cursed witches, and such fiends of Hell, Who joy when they in wickedness excell.
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