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and thereby to recover her senses. When the whole fairy company was come upon the table, that the brims of every dish seemed filled with little horsemen, she saw the prince coming toward her, [who] hearing she had not done what she promised, seemed to go away displeased. The lady presently fell into a fit of melancholy, and, being asked by her friends the cause of these alterations and astonishinents, related the whole matter; but, notwithstanding all their consolations, pined away, and died not long after.[1]
- ↑ Pleasant treatise of witches, &c. London, 1673, p. 64.
