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pering Hoods which cover’d their Heads, leaving
only two Holes diredtly opposite to their Eyes:
Some of these Penitents were cloath’d in white,
others in Violet-colour, blue, and yellow, and se-
* 'Tit well veral other Colours. Some * lash’d their own na-
which made more Noise than they did execution:
these are only the puny Scholars of the Druids
and Brachmans, or, is you will, of the Indian
Faquirs; but they come very far short os the Sco-
topitre or Circumcelliowes of the Fourth Age, who
were wont to burn themselves, to cut their own
known that fe- ped Backs with Whips of small twitted Cords,
’Veral of 'em - - - - . - . —
are hir'd to
play these
Tricks.
t The second
City in
Poiftou.
Throats, or to break their Necks for the Love
of God. There are , and always have been,
Fools of all Professions: This puts me in mind
of an Accident that I cannot forbear relating to
you, and of which I was an Eye-Witness. In
sstme 1683. there was an unhappy Creature bang'd
at s Nicrt, for murdering her own Child. Im-
mediately after the Execution was over, a certain
comical Fellow started out of the Crowd. He
was about Thirty Years old, and wore the Ha-
bit of a Franciscan Hermit; he lodg’d in Holes un-
der Ground, where he liv’d on Roots and Wild-
Il Call'd La Li-uit, and was the Son of a II poor Man in the
Vallee. Town. He went straight up to the Top of the
Ladder,which was not yet taken away, and unty-
ing the Rope that serv’d him for a Girdle, he put
it about his Neck with a running Knot, and fa-
tten'd it to the Gibbet: After which he began
very gravely to harangue the Spectators, alledging
several Reasons to excuse the^dead Wench, for
whose Ransom he said he had osfer’d his Life.
He added, that his Crimes exceeded hers, and
that he was iesolv’d to expiate ’em by a sudden
and voluntary Death : In the mean time the Peo-
ple laugh’d at him, not imagining that he was
Fool enough to hang himself; for he was gene-
rally
pering Hoods which cover’d their Heads, leaving
only two Holes diredtly opposite to their Eyes:
Some of these Penitents were cloath’d in white,
others in Violet-colour, blue, and yellow, and se-
* 'Tit well veral other Colours. Some * lash’d their own na-
which made more Noise than they did execution:
these are only the puny Scholars of the Druids
and Brachmans, or, is you will, of the Indian
Faquirs; but they come very far short os the Sco-
topitre or Circumcelliowes of the Fourth Age, who
were wont to burn themselves, to cut their own
known that fe- ped Backs with Whips of small twitted Cords,
’Veral of 'em - - - - . - . —
are hir'd to
play these
Tricks.
t The second
City in
Poiftou.
Throats, or to break their Necks for the Love
of God. There are , and always have been,
Fools of all Professions: This puts me in mind
of an Accident that I cannot forbear relating to
you, and of which I was an Eye-Witness. In
sstme 1683. there was an unhappy Creature bang'd
at s Nicrt, for murdering her own Child. Im-
mediately after the Execution was over, a certain
comical Fellow started out of the Crowd. He
was about Thirty Years old, and wore the Ha-
bit of a Franciscan Hermit; he lodg’d in Holes un-
der Ground, where he liv’d on Roots and Wild-
Il Call'd La Li-uit, and was the Son of a II poor Man in the
Vallee. Town. He went straight up to the Top of the
Ladder,which was not yet taken away, and unty-
ing the Rope that serv’d him for a Girdle, he put
it about his Neck with a running Knot, and fa-
tten'd it to the Gibbet: After which he began
very gravely to harangue the Spectators, alledging
several Reasons to excuse the^dead Wench, for
whose Ransom he said he had osfer’d his Life.
He added, that his Crimes exceeded hers, and
that he was iesolv’d to expiate ’em by a sudden
and voluntary Death : In the mean time the Peo-
ple laugh’d at him, not imagining that he was
Fool enough to hang himself; for he was gene-
rally