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Here then she comes. -I'll have a bout with thee: Devil, or devil's dam! . Blood will I draw on thee-thou art a witch! And straightway give thy soul to him thou serv'st! -SHAKESPEARE (_Henry VI._)
The next morning, at an hour unwontedly early for such a ceremony, they laid Master Simon's remains to rest in the family vault. The discontent in the village, aroused by the series of mishaps attendant on the simpler's last experiments and fostered of late by Margery's subtle calumnies, had been fanned to fury by her last round of farewell visits. The death of the warlock himself had little effect in assuaging the new-risen hatred which now was aimed at his living daughter.