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"Deborah Lockwood, of the age of 17 or thereaboute, sworne & examined, saith as followeth, that she being present when goodwife Knapp was goeing to execution, betweene Tryes & the mill, she heard goodwife Staplyes say to goodwife Gould, she was pswaded goodwife Knapp was no witch; goodwife Gould said, sister Staplyes, she is a witch, & hath confessed had had familiarity wth the Deuill.
Now which was the wisest of these three persons, I leave you to judge. Allusions to these tales are of frequent occurrence in our literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "And he that tryes to doe it might have bin One of the crew that hedged the cuckoo in,"
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