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" I pray you to interrupt you one worde, which yee haue put mee in memorie of, by speaking of Women. What can be the cause that there are twentie women giuen to that craft, where ther is one man? "
A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight ... - Page 52
edited by - 1820 - 183 pages
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 9

1820 - 746 pages
...following queries are worthy of «ote. — Vide page 116. " But before going farther," says Philotnathes, " permit me, I pray you, to interrupt you one word,...speaking of women. What can be the cause that there are twenty women given to t/uit craft (witchcraft) where there is one man ?" Ans. Epislemon. " The reason...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 9

Europe - 1820 - 742 pages
...following queries are worthy of note. — Vide page 116. " But before going farther," says Philoraathes, " permit me, I pray you, to interrupt you one word,...ye have put me in memorie of by speaking of women. Whit can be the cause that there are twenty women given to that craft (witchcraft) where there is one...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 9

Walter Scott - Europe - 1820 - 748 pages
...following queries are worthy of note.— Fide page 116. " But before going farther," says Philomathes, " permit me, I pray you, to interrupt you one word, which ye have put me in memorie of by »peaking of women. What c;m be ths cause that there are twenty women given to that craft (witchcraft)...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 9

Walter Scott - Europe - 1820 - 748 pages
...worthy of »ot».~-Kirff page 116. " But before going farther," says Philomathcs, " permit me, I pr v you, to interrupt you one word, which ye have put me in memorie of by shaking of women. What can be the cause that there are twenty women given to iiat craft (witchcraft)...
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Women in English Life from Mediæval to Modern Times, Volume 1

Georgiana Hill - Women - 1896 - 382 pages
...magicians, the persecution of witches was far greater. King James I., in his " Demonology," asks, " What can be the cause that there are twentie women given to that craft where there is only one man ? " And he gives as his reason that women are frailer than men, quoting the fall of Eve...
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The Devil in Britain and America

John Ashton - Demonology - 1896 - 386 pages
...yee goe further, permit me, I pray you, to interrupt you one worde, which yee haue put mee in memory of, by speaking of Women. What can be the cause that there are twentie women giuen to that craft, where there is one man ? ' Epistemon. The reason is easie, for, as that sexe is...
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A Royal Rhetorician: A Treatise on Scottis Poesie, a Counterblaste to ...

James I (King of England) - Nicotine addiction - 1900 - 176 pages
...question which gives King. James an opportunity for one of his most characteristic sentences:— PHI. What can be the cause that there are twentie women...EPI. The reason is easie, for as that sexe is frailer then man is, so is it easier to be intrapped in these grosse snares of the divell, as was overwell...
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Demonology

King James I. - Religion - 2002 - 134 pages
...But before yee goe further, permit mee I pray you to interrupt you one worde, which yee haue put mee in memorie of, by speaking of Women. What can be the cause that there are twentie women giuen to that craft, where ther is one man? EPI. The reason is easie, for as that sexe is frailer then...
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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England

Kathryn M. Moncrief, Kathryn Read McPherson - History - 2007 - 270 pages
...Press, 1992), 46. 98 Summit. 110. Chapter 9 Male Mothering and The Tempest Suzanne Penuel PHILOMATHES. What can be the cause that there are twentie women given to [witch]craft, where ther is one man? EPISTAMON. The reason is easier, for as that sexe is frailer then...
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