that she resembled rather some hea∣uenly Hellin then any mortall creature, so farre her beauty excéeded the cheifest sorte of women, and with her as with his harts delight, he kept company the space of seuen yeeres, though in the end she proued and was found indeed no other then a she De∣uil, notwithstanding, this lewd sinne of le∣cherye did not any thing asswage his cruell and bloody minde, but continuing an insati∣able bloodsucker, so great was the ioye he took therin, that he accoūted no day spent in pleasure wherin he had not shed some blood not respecting so much who he did murder, as how to murder and destroy them, as the matter ensuing dooth manifest, which may stand for a speciall note of a cruell and hard hart. For hauing a proper youth to his sonne, begotten in the flower and strength of his age, the firste fruite of his bodye, in whome he took such ioye, that he did com∣monly call him his Hartes ease, yet so farre his delight in murder excéeded the ioye he took in his only Sonne, that thirsting after his blood, on a time he inticed him into the feeldes, and from thence into a Forrest hard
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