Page:The Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter.djvu/5

 In the townes of Cperadt and Bedbur neer vnto Collin in high Germany, there was continually brought vp and nourihed one Stubbe Peeter, who from his youth was greatly inclined to euill, and the practiing of wicked Artes euen from twelue yeers of age till twentye, and o forwardes till his dying daye, inomuch that urfeiting in the Damnable deire of magick, negromancye, and orcery, acquainting him elfe with many infernail pirites and feendes, inomuch that forgetting God that made him, and that Sauiour that hed his blood for mans redemption: In the end, careles of aluation gaue both oule and body to the deuil for euer, for mall carnall pleaure in this life, that he might be famous and poken of on earth, though he lot heauen thereby. The Deuill who hath a readye eare to liten to the lewde motions of cured men, promied to give vnto him whatoeuer his hart deired during his mortall life: wherupon this vilde wretch neither deired riches nor promotion, nor was his fancy atified with any externall or outward pleaure, but hauing a tirannous hart, and a mot cruell