The Universal Anthology
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217616911
Paperback|9780217616911
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: God hath not the power that I conceive; and if I be conceived with child in this hour, I give it to the devil, body and soul. And this same hour that this duke and duchess were thus moved, the said lady was conceived with a man child, which in his life wrought much mischief, as ye shall hear after this, but afterwards he was converted, and did great penance, and died a holy man, as is showed hereafter. How Robert the Devil was born, and what great pain his mother suffered in his birth. This lady could not be delivered without great pain, for she travailed more than a month; and if good prayers had not been, and almsdeeds, good works, and great penance done for her, she had died of child. When this child was born, the sky waxed as dark as though it had been night, as it is showed in old chronicles, that it thundered and lightened so sore, that men thought the firmament had been open, and all the world should have perished. And there blew so much wind out of the four quarters of the world, and was such storm and tempest, that all the house trembled so sore, that it shook a great piece of it to the earth, and in so much that all they that were in the house weened that the world had been at an end, and that they, with the house and all, should have sunken. But in short time it pleased God that all this trouble ceased, and the weather cleared up, and the child was brought to church to be christened, which was named Robert. This child was large of stature at his birth as he had been a year old, whereof the people had great wonder; and as this child was a bearing to the church to be christened and home again, it never ceased crying and howling. And in short space he had long teeth wherewith he bit the nurse's paps in such wise, that there was no woman durst give him suck, for h...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217616911 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217616917 |
| Weight | 1.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.86 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 388 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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