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Rh ſtock, in which place the chirurgions made ſeveral inciſions, and he felt it not, his privities, hips, thighs, and legs were terribly burnt, yet not his ſtockings, Iris feet were alſo burnt, and indeed no part was free, ſo that he was a woful ſight: After the patient was dreſt and had got a little breath, both he and his wife gave a full account of the following paſſages upon oath; upon the 15th of June at evening, this Dowee Sitſes came drunk into a tavern, where he with the man of the houſe, and another drank three quarts of wine, and coming home at ten at night, he lay down to ſleep upon cuſhions in the kitchen, and fell into a dream about a ſtory he had read in a book of Simon de Uries, of a certain company that danced in maſquerade, with every one a lighted torch in their hand, wherewith they burnt one another; whereupon he waked, and ſtood up, thinking to go into the yard to make water, and of a ſudden be found himſelf of a light flame in the midſt of the room, which burnt him thus dreadfully, and ſome part of his cloaths; upon which he cried out for help, but none came; then he began to faint, and in his diſtreſs cried out; O God, be gracious unto me poor ſinner, and thereupon the flame ceaſed in the twinkling of an eye; but he growing faint, laid his head upon a cuſhion in the room. About two in the morning his wife came down and found him in that ſad condition, and felt ſomething under her feet, which was like a parcel of red aſhes and burnt rags, and taking hold of her huſband, had only a burnt piece of his ſleeve in her hand, whereupon ſhe cries out, O Lord, Dowee, thou art grievouſly burnt: he anſwered, The devil hath brought me in this caſe, upon which ſhe called in the neighbours and chirurgions; his wife ſaid he had been much given to drunkenneſs, and often reproved in vain