Chap-books of the eighteenth century . y. After he had perfected his famous brazen head, which wasto speak at some time or other unknown, within two monthsafter being finished, and required careful watching, this manMiles had his turn of guard. WTien the head uttered the wordsTime is, instead of at once informing his master, he chaffedthe head, and it said Time was. He still went on bantering,when the head called out, Time is past, and then, with ahorrible noise, it fell down and broke in pieces. Bacon andBungay rushed in, and on questioning Miles he told them thetruth, and was punished by his
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . y. After he had perfected his famous brazen head, which wasto speak at some time or other unknown, within two monthsafter being finished, and required careful watching, this manMiles had his turn of guard. WTien the head uttered the wordsTime is, instead of at once informing his master, he chaffedthe head, and it said Time was. He still went on bantering,when the head called out, Time is past, and then, with ahorrible noise, it fell down and broke in pieces. Bacon andBungay rushed in, and on questioning Miles he told them thetruth, and was punished by his enraged master with the loss ofspeech for the space of two months. Cimrlg Warning To Rash and Disobedient CHILDREN. Being a strange and wonderful RELATION of a youngGentleman in the Parish of Stepheny in the Suburbs of London,that sold himself to the Devil for 12 Years to have the Powerof being revenged on his Father and Mother, and how hisTime being expired, he lay in a sad and deplorable Conditionto the Amazement of all Edinburgh: Printed Anno 1721. BatemanS Tragedy, OR THE ^erjuretr JSiitic justly rtUjarticti; BEING THE HISTORY OF THE UNFORTUNATE LOVE OF German s Wife and Young Bateman.
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