about midnight
were handled by Witches . In speaking these words , and devising with my selfe of our departing the next morrow , lest Meroe the witch should play by us as she had done by divers other persons , it fortuned that Socrates did fall asleepe , and slept very soundly , by reason of his travell and plenty of meat and wine wherewithall hee had filled him selfe . Wherefore I closed and barred fast the doores of the chamber , and put my bed behinde the doore , and so layed mee downe to rest . But I could in no wise sleepe , for the great feare which was in my heart , untill it was about midnight , and then I began to slumber . But alas , behold suddenly the chamber doores brake open , and locks , bolts , and posts fell downe , that you would verily have thought that some Theeves had been presently come to have spoyled and robbed us . And my bed whereon I lay being a truckle bed , fashioned in forme of a Cradle , and one of the feet broken and rotten , by violence was turned upside downe , and I likewise was overwhelmed and covered lying in the same . Then perceived I in my selfe , that certaine affects of the minde by nature doth chance contrary .