185, and Morley,
_Memoirs
of Bartholomew Fair_.
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_ 2.
190 (ed.
1896):
Stranger . . .
Than Afric's monsters, Guiana's rarities.
Brome, _Queen's Exchange_, _Wks. _ 3. 483: 'What monsters are bred
in _Affrica_? ' Glapthorne, _Hollander_, _Wks. _, 1874, 1. 81: 'If
_Africke_ did produce no other monsters,' etc. The people of London
at this time had a great thirst for monsters. See Alden, _Bart.
Fair_, p.
185, and Morley, _Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair_.
=1. 5. 17 for hidden treasure. = 'And when he is appeared, bind him
with the bond of the dead above written: then saie as followeth.
I charge thee N. by the father, to shew me true visions in this
christall stone, if there be anie treasure hidden in such a place N.
& wherein it now lieth, and how manie foot from this peece of earth,
east, west, north, or south. '--Scot, _Discovery_, p. 355.
Most of the conjurers pretended to be able to recover stolen
treasure. The laws against conjurers (see note 1. 2. 6) contained
clauses forbidding the practice.
=1. 5.
Stranger . . .
Than Afric's monsters, Guiana's rarities.
Brome, _Queen's Exchange_, _Wks. _ 3. 483: 'What monsters are bred
in _Affrica_? ' Glapthorne, _Hollander_, _Wks. _, 1874, 1. 81: 'If
_Africke_ did produce no other monsters,' etc. The people of London
at this time had a great thirst for monsters. See Alden, _Bart.
Fair_, p.
185, and Morley, _Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair_.
=1. 5. 17 for hidden treasure. = 'And when he is appeared, bind him
with the bond of the dead above written: then saie as followeth.
I charge thee N. by the father, to shew me true visions in this
christall stone, if there be anie treasure hidden in such a place N.
& wherein it now lieth, and how manie foot from this peece of earth,
east, west, north, or south. '--Scot, _Discovery_, p. 355.
Most of the conjurers pretended to be able to recover stolen
treasure. The laws against conjurers (see note 1. 2. 6) contained
clauses forbidding the practice.
=1. 5.
