But now to come
nearer home: he cures all patients of all complaints. No person asking
his assistance need ever be sick, unless when they happen to be unwell.
His insight into futurity is such that, whenever he looks far into it,
he is obliged to shut his eyes. He can tell fortunes, discover hidden
wealth to any amount, and create such love between sweethearts as will
be sure to end in matrimony. He is complete master of the fairies,
and has the whole generation of them under his thumb; and he generally
travels with the king of the fairies in his left pocket closed up in a
snuffbox. He interprets dreams and visions, and is never mistaken; can
foretell whether a child unborn will be a boy or a girl, and can also
inform the parents whether it will be brought to the bench or the
gallows. He can also foretell backwards, and disclose to the individual
anything that shall happen to him or her for the last seven years. His
philters, concocted upon the profound science of alchemistic philosophy,
have been sought for by persons of the highest distinction, who have
always found them to produce the very effects for which they were
intended, to wit, mutual affection between the parties, uniformly ending
in matrimony and happiness.
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