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Full fifty pieces, broad and bright,
My bullies bring me home to-night.
My trap is baited!--Springs it well,
I get the kernel, thou the shell!
"From thy loving,
"BARNABUS HARDCASTLE, _Armiger_."
FOOTNOTES:
[19] "Johan Glaston," vol. ii. fol. 535.
[20] _Vide_ Casaubon's folio concerning Dee's intercourse with spirits.
[21] Casaubon.
[Illustration: THE SEER.]


THE SEER.

"_Petruchio_. Pray, have you not a daughter
Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous?
_Baptista_. I have a daughter, sir, call'd Katharina,"
_Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene_ I.
"What sudden chance is this, quoth he,
That I to love must subject be,
Which never thereto would agree,
But still did it defie?"
_King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid._
"Yet she was coy, and would not believe
That he did love her so;
No, nor at any time would she
_Any countenance to him show_."
_The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington_.
The wonderful exploits of Edward Kelly, one of which is recorded in the
following narrative, would, if collected, fill a volume of no ordinary
dimensions.


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