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in them to bear him up any longer, and he seeing himself wounded in the breast, he roared and cast forth poison out of his mouth upon my head; but I having the helmet of salvation upon my head, the poison could not touch not so much as an hair of my head; so as he put forth his tongue again, thinking to pour out his poison upon my face, I smote him with the sword in my hand another blow, and cut off great part of his venomous tongue, so that he departed from me, being wounded, into the thick bushes, among the serpents and adders in the wilderness, as we go to the heavenly Canaan, and there this dragon died about a year and a little more after he was wounded. This great red dragon it was Richard Farnsworth, Quaker, as may be read in "The Neck of the Quakers Broken," and of the battles fought between him and me, this was in the year 1663.189: op dor e famsal After this it came to pass, as I journeyed a little further in the wilderness, in the year 1664, there came forth out of the mossy ground, a speckled serpent, and when he heard the sound of my feet he came out of his hole, and would have stung me by the feet, for he clinged or winded round my feet, but could not get his sting to enter, so I smote him upon the head with my two-edged sword, and as I lifted up my sword from off his head, the edge that was uppermost cut off his sting, so he crept away, with the wound in his head and his sting, out into his hole or dunghill again; so I heard no more of him to this day; this speckled serpent was Thomas Taylor, Quaker, who was then in prison in Yorkshire; it may be seen, his serpentine nature, and wicked poisonous sting he put forth against me, and the truth declared by me, in the letter I writ to him, which is joined to The Neck of the Quakers Broken."

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After this, as I was journeying a great way further in the wilderness of England, something near the Land of Promise, in the year 1667, there came out of the wood a great old fat fox; this fox had no horns, but, however, he had ears, and they stood both upright, as stiff as if his ears had been borns; also this fox had two teeth before as sharp as needles, that what duck or goose-neck he set these two fore-teeth in were sure to be carried away, in that he threw their bodies upon

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his back, and kept their necks between his two sharp teeth like needles, and his ears being strong and stiff, they could not roll off his neck this fox seeing me travelling in the wilderness marvelled that I should pass through so many dangerous places, where dragons, serpents, and several other venomous beasts did inhabit, and yet not slain, nor wounded no where so this fat fox leaped at my neck, thinking his two sharp teeth should have met together, as formerly they had in several others but I bare him off my neck with the shield in my left hand, and with the sword in my right hand, I smote him upon one ear, which makes it hang down, and cannot stand up stiff like the other. Again, this fox leaped at my breast, and as he was leaping up I smote him upon the two sharp teeth with the edge of the sword, and brake them in pieces, which made him raging mad, because he cannot now bite me nor nobody else more, for his two sharp teeth like needles, are broken to pieces, and his ears that stood so stiff like a horn,sit now hangs down, it only hangs by the skin. This fat fox I fought with in the wilderness, it was old George Fox the Quaker, as may be seen in that book of mine, called," A Looking-Glass for Quakers, how they may see themselves to be right Devils."ed to disid ed 2uites of movig doum gaied corobliw odt ni atased bliw Afterwards in the year 1668, I journeyed further in the wilderness, where the wild beasts of divers kinds were very thicky grazing in the barren wilderness; some fed upon moss and short grass, others upon the dust in the wilderness, some upon acorns, haws, and sloes, and such things as the wilder ness would afford; this part of the wilderness it was some thing near Jordan, as London, something near the land that flows with milk and honey and before I did encounter with any wild beasts any more, I thought to be still and rest a while; but as soon as I laid down my sword and shield, thinking to have a little rest after the battle I had fought with the great fox aforementioned, and knowing that I must fight with several wild beasts in this place; but as soon as ever I thought to take a little rest, there came suddenly upon me wild bull, I never saw him or thought of him till he roared at me, his noise gave a great sound in the air, as if it had thundered,

and he was almost apon me before I could take up my sword and shield: his horns were short but very sharp and strong, and his sharp horns were running full butt at my breast, thinking to run them through my heart before I could take up my sword and shield to defend myself; but I laid my two hands upon his two horns, and by that strength which was given me, I slang him about, and he burst asunder and died in less than three weeks after so was I delivered from this fierce wild bull, who would have destroyed me with his sharp horns at one push, had he entered my breast; but by the strength of my God, whom I served, be burst in sunder, and so died, and I received no harm: this wild bull who roared at me, and ran his horns at my breast, it was Thomas Lee, speaker of the Quakerslo suba edt driw dłest gisile out sät

Afterwards, in the year 1668, I journeyed a little further in the wilderness, near Jordan-London; there came forth, out of the dirty mire, a wild boar; his bristles were all off his back, and he was so besmeared and daubed with his own dung that his flesh could hardly be seen, also he stank, that a man might have smelt him at a great distance before he came near; he was very giddy in the head, as if he were phrensy in the brain, for he could live with less food than any of the wild beasts in the wilderness, being much given to fasting, which made his head to totter or joggle, and his eyes dazzle, and his brains to hang loose; sure he fattened in his own dung, which made him so to glory in his shame; for he would run among many clean beasts, as if he were as clean as any, when as the clean beasts could not endure the smell of this wild boar this wild boar had two long tusks stuck out of the two sides of his mouth, and with these he did hurt many, for where he smote with his tusk he made a wound so be hearing the sound of my feet as I was travelling in the wilderness, this wild boar came gruntling with a few bristles about his neck, stood upright with his two great tusks a great way out of his mouth; he seeing me, he made at me with all his might, thinking to have smote his tusk into my leg, but I smote him with the two-edged sword between his two ears, which made him shake his head, for his ears are loose; and he finding his head very dizzy, but his tusks yet

sound, he made at me again, thinking to have wounded me in the leg so as he was throwing his head aside, as boars used to do, I smote him upon that tusk next to me, and the sword went through his mouth, and brake the other tusk also, so that he is now disabled for ever for doing any more hurt, either with his head or with his teeth: this wild boar is one Solomon Ecle, a Quaker, spoken of in that book, called, "A Looking Glass for George Fox the Quaker.”

After this, in the year 1668, it came to pass, that many vipers who leaped upon me with poisonous stings, but I cast them off me into the fire of hell; but there came two vipers above all the rest, which leaped upon my breast, thinking to venom my heart, so as to make my breast swell; but I having a breast-plate of double righteousness, as aforesaid, their venomous tongues could not enter, so I wiped them off my breast, and they fell on the ground; so they recovered themselves again, and they both together leaped upon my head; but the helmet of salvation being upon my head, for that was never off me night nor day this seventeen years, so their venomous tongues could not enter there neither; so I cast them down upon the ground again; then immediately one of these vipers leaped at my face, with great venom in his tongue, against me and my God; I seeing this, I smote him with the edge of the sword, even through and through his venomous tongue, and cast the body of him into that eternal fire of hell, where he can in no wise get out; the other viper seeing his fellow viper thus smitten, and thus sentenced by me, he also leaped at me, so I smote him with the edge of the sword also, even the sentence of eternal death; then they were both enraged, and in a flame with the fire of hell, and so departed from me, casting out abundance of poison, and foam of venom out of their mouths at me at their departure and a matter of five days after this battle was fought with these two strange vipers, I heard that one of these two vipers was going out of the body, but it was a matter of twelve weeks after he received his deadly wound, before he did quite depart or go out of his body. These two vipers I fought with, it was upon the 7th day of October, in year 1668; and these two vipers, George Whitehead and

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Josiah Cole, two Quakers, and speakers of the Quakers; and since Josiah Cole is gone out of the body, as they do vainly imagine, but I say he is gone through the first death into the second death, where George Whitehead shall go in his time, where they shall never see light more to eternity: these were two such vipers as came to John's baptism, Matt. iii. 7.

After this it came to pass, as I was journeying in the wilderness near Jordan, there came forth of the wilderness a young spruce serpent, he was very quick and nimble; he was hardly a year and a half old, his sting was hardly grown to perfection, for he knew not well whether his sting was in his head or in his tail; if he had, he would have had a care of leaping upon the sword's point as he did; he had been in the wilderness but a year and a half, or thereabouts, amongst some old serpents, foxes, dragons, vipers, boars, bulls, and other wild beasts; and he hearing so many of these serpents and wild beasts to be overcome and beaten before me, and yet I received no wound; he was conceited, being young and nimble, to leap at the first leap upon my head, thinking if he could sting me there, he might trample me under his belly, or that I might fall under his belly; and as he drew near me, or crept near me, he put forth his sting out of his mouth, it was sharp and long, but very small and slender, but it was poisonous enough for the time of its growth; and as he began to raise himself up to leap at me, I smote him upon the head with the edge of the sword, and the point of the sword went through his sting, so that his sting cannot hurt now at all, though he hath endeavoured since; so he went among the wild beasts in the wilderness again, and lieth in some hole in the earth. This young serpent it was William Penn the younger Quaker, who newly peeped into the Quakers' anti-christian principle, being a scholar, grew so proud, and full of conceited wisdom, that he would trample me and my God under his feet as dirt, for which thing's sake hath the wrath and vengeance of that God-Man, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom I own, pursued and overtaken several of that cursed crew of anti-christian Quakers, who despiseth such a God that is in the form of a man. I have his own writing to show the truth of this.

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