He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat.

I knew that He laid upon me less than I deserved

Then also I took my Bible to read, but I found no comfort here neither, which many times I was wont to find.

forgetting where I was, and what my condition was

and I considered their horrible addictedness to lying,

He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat.

she found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors.

It was upon a Sabbath-day-morning

I told them the skin was off my back

Then one of the company drew his sword, and told me he would run me through if I did not go presently.

I found six acorns, and two chestnuts, which were some refreshment to me.

who seemed to me the best friend that I had of an Indian

she found me sitting and reading in my Bible; she snatched it hastily out of my hand, and threw it out of doors

a very generous Token of his Favour.

they must be Stript, and Scourg'd, and run the Gantlet through the whole Army of Indians

Nor did their praying Friends among our selves, forbear to Pour out Supplications for them.

which were from Two to Seventeen years of Age

he would Ride away with That which he should in this Extremity find his Affections to pitch most upon, and leave the Rest unto the care of the Divine Providence

that he found it impossible for him to Distinguish any one of them from the rest; wherefore he took up a Courageous Resolution to Live and dy with them all.

Little Army of Unarmed Children

they dash'd out the Brains of the Infant, against a Tree;

were soon sent unto their Long Home

Indeed these Idolaters were like the rest of their whiter Brethren, Persecutors; and would not endure, that these poor Women should Retire to their English Prayers, if they could hinder them.

That they are the vanity of vanities, and vexation of spirit, that they are but a shadow, a blast, a bubble, and things of no continuance.

Affliction I wanted, and affliction I had, full measure (I thought), pressed down and running over.

Still the Lord went along with us

Portsmouth

thanksgiving

thinking how it suffered with its wounds, and I was no way able to relieve it; and how it was buried by the heathen in the wilderness from among all Christians.

The twenty pounds, the price of my redemption, was raised by some Boston gentlemen

I met with my dear husband

In my travels an Indian came to me and told me, if I were willing, he and his squaw would run away, and go home along with me.

Now the heathen begins to think all is their own

yet triumphed and rejoiced in their inhumane, and many times devilish cruelty to the English.

I was with the enemy eleven weeks and five days,

They would eat horse’s guts, and ears, and all sorts of wild birds which they could catch; also bear, venison, beaver, tortoise, frogs, squirrels, dogs, skunks, rattlesnakes; yea, the very bark of trees

They could go in great numbers over, but the English must stop.

I told them, they had as good knock me in head as starve me to death.

but lay sucking, gnawing, chewing and slabbering of it in the mouth and hand.

and one of them my own sister’s.

I saw an Englishman stripped naked, and lying dead upon the ground, but knew not who it was

Some of the Indians ran one way, and some another.

“No,” said he, “none will hurt you.” Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas;

pagans

“I shall not die but live, and declare the works of the Lord: the Lord hath chastened me sore yet he hath not given me over to death”

he Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord

my son Joseph unexpectedly came to me.

I told them it was the Sabbath day, and desired them to let me rest, and told them I would do as much more tomorrow; to which they answered me they would break my face.

yet they were sweet and savory to my taste.

to get down their filthy trash

they boiled an old horse’s leg

I carried only my knitting work

On the Saturday they boiled an old horse’s leg which they had got, and so we drank of the broth, as soon as they thought it was ready, and when it was almost all gone, they filled it up again.

One of the Indians that came from Medfield fight, had brought some plunder, came to me, and asked me, if I would have a Bible, he had got one in his basket. I was glad of it, and asked him, whether he thought the Indians would let me read? He answered, yes.

Oh, the hideous insulting and triumphing that there was over some Englishmen’s scalps that they had taken

hooping

which was at that time twenty-three

my son came to me, and asked me how I did.

And as I was going along, my heart was even overwhelmed with the thoughts of my condition, and that I should have children, and a nation which I knew not, ruled over them.

and afterward sold for a gun

I must and could lie down by my dead babe, side by side all the night after

About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb departed this life on Feb. 18, 1675.

but as they carried him

and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.

I then remembered how careless I had been of God’s holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God’s sight

now merciless enemies)

from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water.

One of the Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him, with my poor sick babe in my lap

nd she very big with child, and had but one week to reckon, and another child in her arms, two years old

where I saw the ground was newly digged, and there they told me they had buried it.

I may see the wonderful power of God

and having no Christian friend near me, either to comfort or help me.

there being no furniture upon the horse’s back,

“I shall die, I shall die.”

It is not my tongue, or pen, can express the sorrows of my heart, and bitterness of my spirit that I had at this departure: but God was with me in a wonderful manner,

There remained nothing to me but one poor wounded babe, and it seemed at present worse than death that it was in such a pitiful condition, bespeaking compassion, and I had no refreshing for it, nor suitable things to revive it.

a lively resemblance of hell.

those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

barbarous creatures

Platoes Commonwealth

Salvages

According to humane reafon, guided onely by the light of nature, thefe people leades the more happy and freer

From this place for England failed mine Host in a Plimmouth ship, (that came into the Land to fish upon the Coast,) that landed him safe in England at Plimmouth : and he stayed in England until the ordinary time for shipping to set forth for these parts, and then returned

and would bring bottles of strong liquor to him

But when he was brought to the ships for that purpose, no man durst be so foolhardy as to undertake carry him.

for they were now to fit in Counsel on the cause

some of them were so violent that they would have a slice with scabbard and all for haste

Yet, to save the effusion of so much worthy blood, as would have issued out of the veins of these nine worthies of New Canaan, if mine Host should have played upon them out at his port holes

this Supposed Monster, (this seven headed hydra, as they termed him,

there he prepared powder, three pounds dried, for his present employment, and four good guns for him and the two affirmants left at his house. He provides bullets of several sizes, three hundred or there- Zs. ume ‘ about, to be used if the conspirators should pursue him there

Captain Shrimp

up gets mine Hoft and got to the fecond dore that hee was to paffe, which, notwithstanding the lock, hee got open, and fliut it after him with fuch violence that it affrighted fome of the confpirators. The word, which was given with an alarme, was, he ‘s gon, he ‘s gon, what fhall wee doe, he ‘s gon !

feafted their bodies

mine hoft muft indure to be their prifoner untill they could contrive it fo that they might fend him for England,

become Mailers

that he would not say whether he had, or he had not done as they had been informed.

who it was that was author of that information, that seemed to be their ground for what they now intended.

which they divulged should be consumed with fire

accounting of him as of a great monster.

envying the prosperity and hope of the Plantation at Ma-re Mount,

of the precise Separatists

that lived in hope to have wifes brought over to them, that would save them a labour to make a voyage to fetch any over,

To cure the hart opprejl with greife,

Make greene garlons, bring bottles out And fill fweet Neclar freely about. Vncover thy head and feare no harme, For hers good liquor to kccpe it warme.

knowinge the wine would make them Proteftants

hee would put in to an Ifland neere, and make fome flay where hee thought to tempt his Mafter to walke the woods, and fo be gone

that they fell upon him as if they would have eaten him : some of them were so violent that they would have a slice with scabbard and all for haste

The Captain ripped and tore his clothes for anger, to see the empty nest, and their bird gone.

he illiterate multitude,

he as peremptorily replied, that he would not say whether he had, or he had not done as they had been informed.

give me a man hath the guiftes of the fpirit, not a booke in hand

Facilis defcenfus avemi

stabbers, or Cutthroats: and this name was received by those that came thereafter for good, being then unacquainted with the signification of it, for many years following…

ey did creepe and winde into the good opinion of the illiterate multitude,

are therein fo compaffionate that, rather than one mould ftarve through want, they would ftarve all.

will not be troubled with fuperfluous commodities. Such things as they finde they are taught by neceffity to make ufe of, they will make choife of, and feeke to purchafe with induftry

They leade a life, being voyde of care

A bifket cake given to one, that one breakes it equally into fo many parts as there be perfons in his com- pany, and diftributes it.

they buy many commodities of our Nation

are all the capital crimes that can be imagined; all other are nothing in respect; of those

become an Englishman ; and then he would be a good man.

Kytan

house of Kytan,

get children

they are not altogether without the knowledge of God

hanging salvages about their necks,)

many commodities of our Nation, yet they keepe but fewe, and thofe of fpeciall ufe

savages‘ where they imagine is the habitation of the Devil) the other,

and made God so angry that he let in the sea upon them, and drowned the greater part of them

arth hath enough of what you will. Then let not go what thou maist find For things unknown only in mind.

Earth hath enough of what you will. Then let not go what thou maist find For things unknown only in mind."

Doth Contemplation feed thee so Regardlessly to let earth go? Can Speculation satisfy Notion without Reality?

One Flesh was call'd, who had her eye On worldly wealth and vanity; The other Spirit, who did rear Her thoughts unto a higher sphere.

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Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance-- They'll say it was stolen, or else it was by chance.

Who says my hand a needle better fits.

A weak or wounded brain admits no cure

But simple I according to my skill.

For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance-- They'll say it was stolen, or else it was by chance.

Nor perfect beauty where's a main defect: My foolish, broken, blemished Muse so sings; And this to mend, alas, no art is able, 'Cause nature made is so, irreparable.

which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

to my own Religion again

That admitt this bee the true God whom we worship, and that be his word, yet why may not the Popish Religion bee the right? They have the same God, the same Christ, the same word; they only interprett it one way, wee another. This hath sometimes stuck with me, and more it would, but the vain fooleries that are in their Religion,

Have I not found that operation by it that no humane Invention can work upon the Soul?

for in Truth, it is the absence and presence of God that makes Heaven or Hell.

either in granting the thing I prayed for, or else in satisfying my mind without it; and I have been confident it hath been from him, because I have found my heart through his goodnes enlarged in thankfullnes to him.

If at any time you are chastened of God, take it as thankfully and Joyfully as in greatest mercyes, for if yee bee his yee shall reap the greatest benefit by it.

sometimes he hath smott a child with sicknes

he hath never suffered me long to sitt loose from him, but by one affliction or other hath made me look home, and search what was amisse

ost mee many prayers and tears before I obtained one

into this Contry

I changed my condition and was marryed

my Condition

I could not be at rest till by prayer I had confest it unto God

but that you may gain some spiritual Advantage by my experience. I have not studied in this you read to show my skill, but to declare the Truth — not to sett forth myself, but the Glory of God.

much lesse to All

But as I grew up to bee about 14 or 15 I found my heart more carnall, and sitting loose from God, vanity and the follyes of youth take hold of me.

not to sett forth myself, but the Glory of God.

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is't gone?

Ph{oe}nix Queen

Yet for our Queen is no fit parallel

(Pallas)

The rude untamed Irish

Protectrix

Was ever people better rul'd than hers? Was ever Land more happy, freed from stirs? Did ever wealth in England so abound? Her Victories in foreign Coasts resound?

The Salic Law

She hath wip'd off th' aspersion of her Sex, That women wisdom lack to play the Rex.

No memories, nor volumes can contain, The nine Olymp'ades of her happy reign, Who was so good, so just, so learn'd, so wise, From all the Kings on earth she won the prize.

Eliza's

So great's thy glory, and thine excellence, The sound thereof raps every human sense That men account it no impiety To say thou wert a fleshly Deity.

(though out of date)

If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;

I wash'd thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.

My rambling brat (in print)

At thy return my blushing was not small,

Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain,

And for thy Mother, she alas is poor, Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos'd to public view,

The very thought of any joy arising in me, on any consideration of my own amiableness, performances, or experiences, or any goodness of heart or life, is nauseous and detestable to me.

ineffably

Matt. 18:3

Matt. 18:3

Psal. 119:28

vehement

pretty much

From about that time, I began to have a new kind of apprehensions and ideas of Christ. and the work of redemption, and the glorious way of salvation by him.

how happy I should be, if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to him in heaven, and be as it were swallowed up in him for ever!

in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased

our corrupte natures,

long used it in old England

for first the mare, and then ye cowe, and ye rest of ye lesser catle, were kild before his face, according to ye law, Levit: 20. 15. and then he him selfe was executed.

others with them were brought before him, and he declared which were they, and which were not.

but sundrie times before, and at severall times with all ye rest of ye forenamed in his indictmente; and this his free-confession was not only in private to ye magistrats, (though at first he strived to deney it,) but to sundrie, both ministers & others, and afterwards, upon his indictmente, to ye whole court & jury

I forbear perticulers.

kill their katle, and lye in ambush for them as they went abroad upon their occasions; and all this they might easily doe without any or litle danger to them selves

t may be thought strang that these people should fall to these extremities in so short a time,

and spoke to them in broken English

[T]hey that before had been boone companions in drinking & joyllity in ye time of their health & wellfare, begane now to deserte one another in this calamitie, saing they would not hasard ther lives for them, they should be infected by coming to help them in their cabins, and so, after they came to dye by it, would doe litle or nothing for them, but if they dyed let them dye…

Northerne parts of Virginia,