Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.
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Charm, and (laying a Barometer or Weather Glaſs on the Table) it is with this, ſays ſhe, that I have taught my Neighbours to know the State of the Weather. All the Company laughed, and Sir William Dove, who was on the Bench, aſked her Accuſers, how they could be ſuch Fools, as to think there was any ſuch Thing as a Witch. It is true, continued he, many innocent and worthy People have been abuſed and even murdered on this abſurd and fooliſh Suppoſition; which is a Scandal to our Religion, to our Laws, to our Nation, and to common Senſe; but I will tell you a Story.
There was in the Weſt of England a poor induſtrious Woman, who laboured under the ſame evil Report which this good Woman is accuſed of. Every Hog that died with the
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