lez de la
nuict pour faire le voyage si desire, & le poinct ou les heures pour y
aller trop lentes, & y estant, trop courtes pour vn si agreable seiour
& delicieux amusement.--En fin il a le faux martyre: & se trouue des
Sorciers si acharnez a son seruice endiable, qu'il n'y a torture ny
supplice qui les estonne, & diriez qu'ils vont au vray martyre & a la
mort pour l'amour de luy, aussi gayement que s'ils alloient a vn
festin de plaisir & reioueyssance publique.--Quand elles sont preuenues
de la Iustice, elles ne pleurent & ne iettent vne seule larme, voire
leur faux martyre soit de la torture, soit du gibet leur est si
plaisant, qu'il tarde a plusieurs qu'elles ne soi[~e]t executees a
mort, & souffr[~e]t fort ioyeusement qu'on leur face le procez, tant
il leur tarde qu'elles ne soient auec le Diable. Et ne s'impatientent
de rien tant en leur prison, que de ce qu'elles ne lui peuuent
tesmoigner c[=o]bi[~e] elles souffrent & desirent souffrir pour
luy.'[21]

Bodin says, 'Il y en a d'autres, ausquelles Satan promet qu'elles seront
bien heureuses apres cette vie, qui empesche qu'elles ne se repentent, &
meurent obstinees en leur mechancete'.[22]

Madame de Bourignon's girls at Lille (1661) 'had not the least design of
changing, to quit these abominable Pleasures, as one of them of Twenty-two
Years old one day told me. _No_, said she, _I will not be other than I am;
I find too much content in my Condition_.'[23] Though the English and
Scotch witches' opinions are not reported, it is clear from the evidence
that they were the same as those of the Basses-Pyrenees, for not only did
they join of their own free will but in many cases there seems to have been
no need of persuasion. In a great number of trials, when the witches
acknowledged that they had been asked to become members of the society,
there follows an expression of this sort, 'ye freely and willingly accepted
and granted thereto'. And that they held to their god as firmly as those de
Lancre put to death is equally evident in view of the North Berwick
witches, of Rebecca West and Rose Hallybread, who 'dyed very Stuburn, and
Refractory without any Remorss, or seeming Terror of Conscience for their
abominable Witch-craft';[24] Major Weir, who perished as a witch,
renouncing all hope of heaven;[25] and the Northampton witches, Agnes
Browne and her daughter, who 'were never heard to pray, or to ca