The Boke of the Divill by Reggie Oliver

Author:Reggie Oliver [Oliver, Reggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Regions Press
Published: 2017-11-29T07:00:00+00:00

To make SOLOMON’S RING by which ye may passe unseen through crowdes and make your way unharmed to any place. Take unto you two ounces of pure gold and an ounce of silver and make thee a seal ring, and on the bezel thereof let there be engraved this signe or sigil.

And thereupon that very signe was inscribed in the booke.

And on taking this ring, let the wearer speake the wordes: Abrax Abraxas, and he shall pass safely on his way.

Then I removed the booke from the tower and concealed it in the church of St. Paul’s without Mr. Bowles’s knowing, for I dare not put it in my own rooms, knowing the mistress of my lodging house to be a prod-nose, a busy-legges, and a most arrant prattler and teller of tales. In the morning I took me to a jeweller, Master Gotobed in the towne whom I knew to be most discreet and greedy withall, so that I might stop his mouth with gold. And I had him make the ring according to my instructions.

Now the time for the assizes when Mother Durden was to be tried approached, whereupon she did send for me once more. And I went unto her very secretly, passing money to the gaoler to let me in unseen. And she lay in her cell on the foul straw and groaned, for she greatly feared the paines that awaited her in this life and, I doubt not, the next. And when she saw me, she crawled to me and grasped my gowne and asked me when was the hour of her deliverence. I told her a little of what had passed and said it would be soon, but yet I did not tell her by what contrivance it might be done.

The next day she was brought before Sir Digby Fell in the assizes, and I crepte into the assizes and saw her stricken face as she stood accused by that clamorous array of vermin that were her accusers. And ever and anon I saw her eyes, red with rage and distress, search among the crowd, doubtless for me, her supposed deliverer. And I stole away so as not to be seene by her. So I went to Master Gotobed, and he said he had made the ring and would know what it signified. I said that as I had paid him a fair price, what was it to him what it signified? But he said that there was much talk abroad of the Devill being loose in the land and of Mother Durden and her cursed imps, and he would not be seduced to being a party to some act of damned witchcraft in making the said ring. Then I said, what would you? And he asked for further recompense for endangering his immortall soule. Then I cursed him for a damned canting hypocrite, a whited sepulchre and a pharisaicall turde. And I picked up a moulding iron from his array of instruments and struck him over the mazzard that he fell down dead.

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