MEMOIRS OF 



it grows among the mouldering bones 

 and decayed coffins of Sleaford Church, 

 I^icolniliire, and that it was celebrated in 

 the myfteries of witchcraft, and for the 

 purpofe of raifmg the devil. 



As the Tremella is the moft beautiful, 

 fo is Circea the fublimeft transformation 

 of the four Cantos. Her marriage with 

 the two Fiends ; it's portentous figns which 

 precede the fatanic nuptials ; the fcream- 

 ing bats, the owls, and the dog of midnight 

 howling the epithalamium ; the burfting 

 ground ; the afcending Demons ; their pro- 

 grefs with the grim Bride to the violated 

 temple ; thofe fhapelefs fpeclres, which, 

 by glimpfes of the moon through the co- 

 loured glafs, are feen to quiver on the walls, 

 as Circea and her horrid bridegrooms pafs 

 along the ailes, that difmally echo their 

 fteps ; the unbleffed wine with which they 

 pollute the chalice ; their hideous laugh 



which 



