However, the word witch came to be applied almost exclusively to women who were believed to achieve their power by making a blood pact with the Devil, sealed with their blood. They were usually old and ugly, and for this reason many unfortunate old ladies, whose only crimes were loneliness and a lack of beauty, went to the stake.

The legislature can’t fight corruption when the politicians are Exhibit A.

O thou art a perpetuall triumph, an euerlaſting bonefire light, […]

[…] I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.