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28 when he perceived it puttinge on his hoe, and had touched it with his fote, he being odenly amaed aked of her what it was, and he bad him kil it and he was forthwith taken with a lamenes wherof he can not healed.

After all this when hee had kept this Cat by the pace of xv or xvi yeare, and as ome aye (though vntruly) beinge wery of it, he came to one mother Waterhoue her neyghbour (a pore woman) when he was going to the oven and deired her to geue her a cake, and he wold geue her a thing that he hould be the better for o long as he liued, and this mother Waterhoue gaue her a cake, where vpon he brought her this cat in her apron and taught her as he was intructed before by her grandmother Eue, telling her that he mut cal him Sathan and geue him of her bloude