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14 times, wherewith he was burnt and conſumed to aſhes.

XV. There was alſo in the time of Alphonſus king of Arragon and Sicily, in an iſle toward Africa, a certain profane hermit, called Antonius, who impudently and impiouſly belched out blaſphemous ſpeeches againſt our bleſſed Saviour, and the Virgin Mary his mother; but he was ſtruck with a moſt grievous and tormenting diſeaſe, even to be eaten and gnawn to pieces with worms till he died.—AEneas Sylvius.

XVI. Neither hath divine vengeance left itſelf without witneſs againſt curſers, and thoſe who by denying God give themſelves to the devil; as may plainly appear by the following dreadful examples. A ſoldier travelling through Murcia, a county of Almaign, and finding himſelf not well, went to an inn, where he lay to recover his health, and delivered to his hoſteſs a certain ſum of money which he had about him: a while after being recovered of his ſickneſs, he demanded his money again; but the woman, upon conſultation with her huſband, denied the receipt of any, and accuſed him of wronging her, in demanding what ſhe never received: on the other ſide, the ſoldier was much enraged, accuſing her of cheating him: when the man of the houſe heard the noiſe, though he was privy to all before, yet he diſſembling the matter, took his wife's part, and thruſt the ſoldier out of the houſe; who ſeeing himſelf thus unjuſtly abuſed, drew his ſword, and ran againſt the door with the point thereof, whereat the landlord began to cry out, Thieves, Thieves; affirming, That he would have entered his houſe by force, and have robbed him; whereupon the poor ſoldier was taken and caſt into priſon,