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"The Moorish nigromancer," observes the worthy Fray Antonio Agapida, "remained shut up in a tower of the Gibralfaro devising devilish means to work mischief and discomfiture upon the Christians. He was daily consulted by Hamet, who had great faith in those black and magic arts which he had brought with him from the bosom of heathen Africa."
The mechanic resumed sullenly, "I seek no quarrel with lass or lover. I am a plain, blunt man, with a wife and children, who are dear to me; and if I have a grudge to the nigromancer, it is because he glamoured my poor boy Tim.
A certain great necromancer, or nigromancer, had once a pupil of considerable rank, who professed himself extremely desirous for once to have the gratification of believing himself an emperor. The necromancer, tired with his importunities, at length assented to his prayer.
"Tush, William!" replied the king, more gently, "thou hast more than once wearied me with application for the pardon of the nigromancer Warner, the whole court is scandalized at thy love for his daughter. I know thee too well not to be aware that love alone can make thee neglect thy king, thy time has been spent at the knees or in the arms of this young sorceress!
But, sith the friar is so noted and influential, and sith there is a strong fancy that the winds which have driven back Margaret obeyed his charm, the soldiers clamour out for him to attend us, and, on the very field itself, counteract the spells of the Lancastrian nigromancer. The good friar, more accustomed to fight with fiends than men, is daunted, and resists.
But no sooner had Sibyll raised her face than she was recognized. "Ho, the wizard and the wizard's daughter! Ho, the girl who glamours lords, and wears sarcenet and lawn! Ho, the nigromancer who starves the poor!" At the sound of their leader's cry, up sprang, up climbed the hellish sisters! One after the other, they darted through the lattice into the chamber.
"Tush, William!" replied the king, more gently, "thou hast more than once wearied me with application for the pardon of the nigromancer Warner, the whole court is scandalized at thy love for his daughter. I know thee too well not to be aware that love alone can make thee neglect thy king, thy time has been spent at the knees or in the arms of this young sorceress!
Oh, have I not heard enough of the sorcerer from my brother, who works in the Chepe for Master Stokton, the mercer! and Master Stokton was one of the worshipful deputies to whom the old nigromancer had the front to boast his devices." "It is true," said the friar, suddenly.
Don't ye mind, neighbours," he added rapidly, eager to change the conversation, "how he made us leave off when we were just about burning Adam Warner, the old nigromancer, in his den yonder? Who else could have done that? But an' we had known Robin had been a rebel to sweet King Edward, we'd have roasted him along with the wizard!"
But the peculiar distinction showed by the earl to Warner confirmed the reports circulated by Bungey, "that he was, indeed, a fearful nigromancer, who had much helped the earl in his emprise."
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