& did thinke oftentimes in her sleepe, that she did
see this
Marie Smith standing before her.
And this fit continued sixteene houres, during which
passion
Edward Drake her father came to the
Towne, touched with griefe for this torture of his
daughter (as parents hearts are relenting and tender,
and naturall compassion is soone stirred vp in them)
tooke her vrine, went to one for his aduice (whose
fact herein is no way iustifiable, and argued but
a small measure of religion, and the knowledge of
God in him) who first tolde vnto him the cause of his
comming, that is, to seeke help for his daughter, and
then added, that she was so farre spent, that if hee
had stayed but one day longer, the woman who had wronged
her, would haue spent her heart, and so become vnrecouerable,
and thereupon shewed him her face in a Glasse; and
further, opened the beginning cause of falling out,
which was for a hen, which before this,
Drake
neyther knew nor heard of, and then gaue his counsell
for remedy, which was the matter sought for & desired,
& that was in this order. To make a cake with
flower from the Bakers, & to mix the same instead
of other liquor, with her own water, and bake it on
the harth, wherof the one halfe was to be applyed
and laid to the region of the heart, the other halfe
to the back directly opposit; & further, gaue a box
of ointment like triacle, which must be spread vpon
that cake, and a powder to be cast vpon the same,
and certaine words written in a paper, to be layd
on the likewise with the other, adding this caueat,
that if his daughter did not amend within six houres
after the taking of these receits, then there was
no health or recouery to be looked for: & further,
wished silence to be kept herein, for the woma who
had done this, would know any thing.
And being thus furnishing with instructions, and returning
home, as shee alighted from his horse to enter into
that house where his daughter lay (being the next
vnto Mary Smiths) shee then stood leaning ouer
her shop window, whom hee knew to be that person,
which was shewed vnto him, and she cursed him passing
by, and told his daughter that her Father had beene
with a Wisard. And the next day following after
they had put in practise the directions giuen, she
affirmed to diuers of the neighbours, that Drake
the afflicted womans father, had beene to aske counsell,
and made a Witch Cake, but shee would learne how they
came to haue that knowledge: yet for the present
she found helpe, and was freed from the languishing
and other conflicts wherewith she was assaulted by
the space of sixe weekes.