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The Lancashire Witches

CHAPTER IX
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But I know they are all fancies engendered by your heated brain, which in your calmer moments you will discard, as I discard them now.

If I have any weight with you, I counsel you to drink no more, or you will commit some mad foolery, of which you will be ashamed hereafter.

The discreeter course would be to retire altogether; and for this you have ample excuse, as you will have to arise betimes to-morrow, to set out for Pendle Forest with Master Potts." "Retire!" exclaimed Nicholas, bursting into a loud, contemptuous laugh.
"I like thy counsel, lad.

Yes, I will retire when I have finished the old monastic Rhenish which Gregory is bringing me.

I will retire when I have danced the Morisco with the May Queen--the Cushion Dance with Dame Tetlow--and the Brawl with the lovely Isole de Heton.


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