Thursday, January 1, 2004

The Hand Of Glory, : The Nurse's Story Comments

Rating: 2.6

Malefica quaedam auguriatrix in Anglia fuit, quam demones horribiliter extraxerunt, et imponentes super equum terribilem, per aera rapuerunt; Clamoresque terribiles (ut ferunt) per quatuor ferme miliaria audiebantur.

Nuremb. Chron.
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Richard Harris Barham
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Stephen Gray 31 May 2020

I much enjoyed re-reading this poem, which I first met in school; but some of the end is missing. Sadly I cannot remember much of it, but it included the fragments: " that.........of adages: 'murder will out" and " In vain may the murderer double and fly, " In vain even witchcraft and sorcery try" . Anybody know the rest?

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