And others have done the like, and the things have all come true.

And she is not a wicked woman neither, for she cures agues and fevers, and the leeches themselves ask her simples of her.

There may be wicked women plying this trade too; I know not how that may be.

But this dame is not wicked; Rachel goes to her still, and she has never deceived her yet.

But she liveth very secretly now, as a wise woman must needs to in these times; for the King, they say, is very wroth against all such, and in the country men are going about from him and burning all who practise such arts, and otherwise cruelly maltreating them.