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the sayd fire with holy water, casting the idols into it 

 the second time, and with that the devils fled in the like- 

 nesse of blacke smoake, and the idols still remained till 

 they were consumed unto ashes. Afterward, this noise 

 & outcry was heard in the ayre : Beholde and see how 

 I am expelled out of my habitation. And by these 

 meanes the friers doe baptise great multitudes, who 

 presently revolt againe unto their idols : insomuch that 

 the sayd friers must eftsoones, as it were, underprop 

 them, and informe them anew. There was another 

 terrible thing which I saw there ; for passing by a 

 certaine valley, which is situate beside a pleasant river, 

 I saw many dead bodies, and in the sayd valley also 1 

 heard divers sweet sounds and harmonies of musike, 

 especially the noise of citherns, whereat I was greatly 

 amazed. This valley conteineth in length seven or eight 

 miles at the least, into the which whosoever entreth, dieth 

 presently, and can by no meanes passe alive thorow the 

 middest thereof: for which cause all the inhabitants 

 thereabout decline unto the one side. Moreover, I was 

 tempted to go in, and to see what it was. At length, 

 making my prayers, and recommending my selfe to God 

 in the name of Jesu, I entred, and saw such swarmes of 

 dead bodies there, as no man would beleeve unlesse he 

 were an eye witnesse thereof. At the one side of the 

 foresayd valley upon a certaine stone, I saw the visage 

 of a man, which beheld me with such a terrible aspect, 

 that I thought verily I should have died in the same 

 place. But alwayes this sentence, the word became flesh, 

 and dwelt amongst us, I ceased not to pronounce, signing 

 my selfe with the signe of the crosse, and neerer then 

 seven or eight pases I durst not approch unto the said 

 head : but I departed & fled unto another place in the 

 sayd valley, ascending up into a little sandy mountaine, 

 where looking round about, I saw nothing but the sayd 

 citherns, which me thought I heard miraculously sounding 

 and playing by themselves without the helpe of musicians. 

 And being upon the toppe of the mountaine, I found 



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