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"I dare not tell you that; but I fear Ady's away with him, without hat, or cloak, or box, or supper." "To where?" "Nor that, lad. But I fear you will hear more of this Scotch tragedy some day. Get you gone; there is Fletcher." Aminadab obeyed. And Fletcher did see her. Some time after the departure of Aminadab he crossed the green.
He felt that a great part of the evidence used was worth little or nothing. Thomas Ady's Candle in the Dark was published three years later. Even more than Filmer, Ady was a disciple of Scot. But he was, indeed, a student of all English writers on the subject and set about to answer them one by one.
It was not strange that he should smile quizzically when told these weird stories from the country. He may not have pondered very deeply on the abstract question nor read widely perhaps he had seen Ady's book or glanced over Scot's but, when he met keen men in his group who were laughing quietly at narratives of witchcraft, he laughed too.
Our memories are quite fresh about Bianca and her sorrows, because an accommodating tourist, who had Mrs. Ady's "Beatrice d'Este" with her, has loaned it to us for reading in the evenings at least for as much time as we can afford to spend in-doors when the out-door world is so beguiling. August 12th.
In Ady's second edition, A Perfect Discovery of Witches , 134, Gaule's book having meanwhile come into his hands, he speaks of Gaule as "much inclining to the Truth" and yet swayed by traditions and the authority of the learned. He adds, "Mr. Gaule, if this work of mine shall come to your hand, as yours hath come to mine, be not angry with me for writing God's Truth." Ibid., 129.
Guid faith, ane's mair than eneugh here, if the Nawab's daughter's in her cradle." "No, no, no, ye fool." "'And I shall cut off the multitude of No, Ezekiel thirtieth, fifteen." "An ayah is a servant; and Ady's a good black soul as ever foolishly washed her face when there's no occasion for the trouble. And yet these black creatures are for ever washing themselves.
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