But in a lesser degree, the witches of Middleton are fine creations.

Their power, too, is, in some measure, over the mind.

They raise jars, jealousies, strifes, "like a thick scurf" over life.
* * * * * WILLIAM ROWLEY,--THOMAS DECKER,--JOHN FORD, ETC.
_The Witch of Edmonton_ .-- Mother Sawyer, in this wild play, differs from the hags of both Middleton and Shakspeare.

She is the plain, traditional old woman witch of our ancestors; poor, deformed, and ignorant; the terror of villages, herself amenable to a justice.

That should he a hardy sheriff, with the power of the county at his heels, that would lay hands on the Weird Sisters.