The
Dutch
Coppy
of
the
relation
of
Eue
Fliegen
of
Meurs
in
the
County
of
Meurs
,
a
maiden
(
now
aged
36
yeares
)
who
hath
neither
eate
nor
drunke
,
any
manner
of
Sustenance
,
by
the
space
of
14
yeares
,
translated
into
English
as
followeth
.
THe
Omnipotent
Creator
of
the
world
,
hath
not
in
times
past
onely
expressed
the
glory
of
his
power
,
in
his
wonderfull
composition
,
framing
and
presenting
to
the
eye
of
Man
all
sorts
of
creatures
,
both
in
heauen
,
earth
,
and
the
waters
:
But
euen
now
at
this
day
,
is
the
same
his
miraculous
hand
working
still
.
Amongst
infinite
numbers
of
which
his
excellent
peeces
,
able
to
bold
man
in
astonishment
,
this
of
a
Maiden
is
well
worthy
of
admiration
,
of
whom
(
because
the
true
body
and
shape
cannot
in
substance
bee
sent
vp
and
downe
the
world
)
this
picture
or
counterfeit
(
so
neere
as
words
can
expresse
her
)
shewes
her
drawne
to
the
life
.
This
Maiden
(
by
name
Eue
Fliegen
)
liues
at
this
present
within
the
towne
of
Meurs
,
she
was
borne
in
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1575
,
within
a
little
of
that
towne
at
a
place
called
Fliegen-house
,
wherupon
she
takes
her
name
:
of
meane
and
very
poore
parents
.
So
that
in
her
yonger
dayes
(
they
being
not
able
better
to
maintaine
her
)
she
was
compelled
to
keepe
swine
for
the
country
people
,
enduring
(
by
that
hard
course
of
life
)
the
bitternesse
of
much
hunger
,
as
she
her selfe
confesseth
.
Liuing
in
this
extremity
of
misery
,
she
often
(
so
well
as
she
could
,
seeing
no
other
wayes
nor
hope
of
comfort
)
made
earnest
prayers
to
God
,
that
he
would
take
pitty
of
her
wretchednes
,
and
relieue
her
,
from
that
daily
hunger
,
by
which
her
body
was
tormented
&
consumed
:
her
prayers
were
heard
,
according
to
her
request
:
And
such
compassion
tooke
the
Almighty
of
her
miseries
that
in
the
yeare
1594
,
her
desire
of
feeding
,
which
in
former
times
she
had
grew
to
be
faint
,
&
very
small
.
Insomuch
that
euery
2
,
3
&
4
daies
,
she
tooke
little
sustenance
or
none
at
all
.
From
the
4
day
she
began
voluntarily
to
fast
til
the
●0
day
&
so
did
forbeare
,
or
rather
had
no
stomacke
to
meate
,
the
space
of
fourteene
dayes
together
,
which
abstinence
of
hers
grew
in
the
end
end
to
such
a
custome
,
that
shee
vtterly
refused
the
tast
either
of
meate
or
drinke
,
and
in
that
manner
hath
her
body
(
by
Gods
prouidence
)
bene
preserued
euer
since
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
1597
to
this
present
yeare
1611
(
being
full
14
yeares
)
This
strange
wonder
continuing
thus
long
,
drew
not
onely
many
people
to
see
her
,
but
also
many
tryals
to
be
put
vpon
her
,
amongst
which
,
this
was
one
,
In
the
yeare
1599
,
the
Noble
Countesse
of
Meurs
with
her
waiting
Gentlewoman
,
hauing
brought
this
Eue
Fleigen
into
a
garden
,
with
much
importunity
to
haue
her
eate
somewhat
,
so
preuailed
that
shee
plucked
a
cherry
and
tasted
it
,
and
had
no
sooner
eaten
it
downe
,
but
that
the
Lady
with
her
seruants
were
in
feare
shee
would
there
presently
haue
dyed
,
shee
fell
into
so
sodaine
and
violent
passion
of
an
extreme
sickenesse
:
in
the
which
she
continued
a
long
time
,
but
in
the
end
with
much
ado
recouered
her
health
.
Which
a
yeare
after
the
said
Eue
falling
againe
into
a
greater
sickenes
,
it
was
held
fit
(
by
the
opinion
of
Docters
)
to
haue
her
drinke
a
spoonefull
or
two
of
the
thin
whey
,
which
comes
from
Buttermilke
,
being
sodden
:
shee
made
offer
to
tast
it
,
but
could
by
no
meanes
take
it
downe
.
At
another
time
of
sicknes
,
shee
her selfe
thought
she
could
sup
the
broth
of
a
chicken
,
but
no
more
then
a
spoonefull
being
offered
to
her
,
shee
fell
into
a
more
extreme
fit
of
sickenes
then
before
,
so
that
finding
her
body
afflicted
by
these
tryals
,
shee
vtterly
abandoned
the
vse
of
any
food
,
or
nourishment
,
by
the
full
space
now
of
14
yeares
.
In
all
which
time
,
through
no
disposition
of
the
season
or
time
of
the
yeare
,
hath
shee
bene
seene
or
knowne
either
to
complaine
of
thirst
or
hunger
:
yet
vntill
her
age
of
20
or
22
yeares
,
shee
tooke
her
food
(
where
by
her
labour
or
other
honest
meanes
it
could
be
gotten
)
as
other
people
commonly
vse
to
do
.
This
her
forbearance
to
take
the
due
nourishment
that
should
maintaine
life
,
hath
brought
her
body
to
a
weaknes
,
and
her
face
to
an
exceeding
palenes
.
She
saith
that
euery
second
day
an
exceeding
cleere
light
shineth
round
about
her
body
;
the
common
light
or
brightnes
of
the
day
,
being
nothing
comparable
to
it
:
which
light
when
she
beholdeth
and
(
as
she
saith
)
feeleth
shining
vpon
her
,
she
hath
likewise
a
feeling
on
her
tongue
of
a
strange
and
extraordinary
delicate
sweetenes
,
the
moisture
of
which
strengthens
her
(
to
her
seeming
)
for
her
eies
can
behold
no
other
thing
but
only
that
perfect
and
vnusuall
light
.
The
Preacher
of
Meurs
(
by
name
,
Conradus
Felthnijsen
)
could
not
a
long
time
be
perswaded
that
this
was
truth
,
which
hee
heard
reported
of
this
maiden
:
to
giue
therefore
not
onely
content
to
himselfe
,
but
satisfaction
in
this
matter
to
others
his
friends
who
were
of
his
beleefe
likewise
,
he
tooke
the
said
Eue
(
being
come
to
heare
the
euening
Sermon
)
home
with
him
to
his
owne
house
,
&
there
kept
her
in
a
chamber
by
the
space
of
13
daies
,
watched
day
and
night
by
sundry
other
persons
his
friends
,
candles
burning
euery
night
,
and
she
neuer
being
suffered
to
be
alone
without
company
the
space
of
one
minute
,
in
all
which
time
shee
neuer
tasted
foode
,
and
(
at
the
end
of
13
daies
and
nights
)
being
demanded
whether
she
where
then
either
hungry
or
thirsty
,
she
answered
no
:
so
that
the
Preacher
now
hauing
by
the
experience
of
his
owne
eyes
,
found
out
that
which
he
could
not
before
beleeue
,
is
now
inforced
with
admiration
to
acknowledge
to
be
true
.
To
whose
testimony
,
a
thousand
persons
(
both
honourable
and
of
other
condition
)
can
witnesse
,
and
there
is
she
liuing
at
this
day
,
in
the
towne
of
Meurs
to
be
seene
,
and
spoken
with
daily
and
hourely
,
&
her
manner
of
liuing
being
obserued
with
the
narrowest
eyes
,
&
seuerest
circumspection
,
so
that
it
is
impossible
,
she
should
be
an
imposter
or
deluder
:
and
the
better
to
confirme
the
truth
of
this
,
a
worthy
Magistrate
of
the
same
towne
hath
giuen
liberall
and
ample
approbation
to
certaine
Citties
,
&
to
seuerall
persons
of
worth
,
with
his
certificate
and
the
seale
of
the
towne
thereunto
annexed
:
if
all
these
testimonies
of
her
,
cannot
perswade
and
win
credit
to
our
report
,
the
maiden
(
of
whom
it
is
made
)
is
yet
to
be
seene
,
in
the
towne
of
Meurs
.
Nor
shall
it
be
amisse
,
the
better
to
strengthen
this
short
discourse
,
to
set
downe
in
a
few
lines
more
what
some
histories
of
our
present
times
do
mention
of
persons
who
in
the
like
manner
haue
fasted
long
(
beyond
the
ordinary
strength
&
custome
of
mans
body
)
and
liued
(
as
this
maiden
does
now
)
without
eating
.
Franciscus
Citesius
(
Doctor
in
the
vniuersity
at
Poitiers
)
witnesseth
(
in
his
booke
written
in
Lattine
&
imprinted
at
Montpellier
in
Anno
1602
)
that
for
certaine
yeares
,
one
Catherine
of
Colberghen
liued
in
Spires
7
yeares
together
,
without
meate
or
drinke
.
Also
within
the
town
of
Conflans
in
France
lying
vpon
the
borders
of
Limosin
vpon
the
riuer
Vien
,
A
Smith
(
by
name
,
Iohn
Balam
)
begot
of
his
wife
(
Lucrece
Chambelle
)
in
the
yeare
1588
,
a
daughter
named
Ione
Balam
,
who
for
the
space
of
two
yeares
,
did
neither
eate
or
drinke
,
in
publication
of
which
wonder
,
that
famous
and
eloquent
Doctor
,
Iacobus
Viuerius
wrote
certaine
verses
,
which
are
thus
Englished
.
How
many
wonders
great
before
our
eies
appeares
,
Whereof
no
reason
firme
to
you
can
shewed
be
.
Behold
,
〈◊〉
in
health
,
indures
at
womans
yeares
Twise
a
moneths
long
to
fast
,
for
sustenance
none
takes
she
.
The
Lords
and
neighbours
there
,
to
her
had
good
regard
,
That
dwelt
in
Conflans
towne
,
on
that
Vienish
fare
.
No
meate
no●
drinke
in
all
that
time
so
long
she
mard
,
Her
throate
so
narrow
was
,
her
victuals
she
did
spare
.
Full
strange
it
was
to
see
,
her
belly
was
so
flat
,
The
passages
were
shut
,
no
entrance
there
was
found
,
She
voyded
nothing
forth
,
nothing
at
all
she
ate
,
Her
priuy
parts
were
cleane
,
thence
nothing
fel
to
ground
,
But
yet
she
speakes
,
she
sighs
,
she
goes
,
she
feeles
I
know
,
Mine
eies
are
witnes
sure
,
here
of
you
need
not
doubt
:
Which
wondrous
work
doth
teach
,
that
nature
here
below
By
God
alone
is
rul'd
,
who
gouernes
all
about
.
To
whom
all
things
that
were
,
or
euer
yet
shall
be
,
Must
stoope
their
lofty
tops
,
their
heads
also
must
bend
,
Whose
wisdom
,
might
&
power
,
ô
man
doth
teach
to
thee
To
praise
his
name
for
aye
:
And
so
I
make
an
end
.
Ouer
the
picture
of
the
maiden
in
the
Dutch
Coppy
,
stood
these
Lattine
verses
,
viz.
Meursae
haec
(
quam
Cernis
)
decies
tor
,
sexque
peregit
Annos
,
bis
septem
prorsus
non
vescitur
Annis
.
Nec
potat
,
sic
sola
sedet
,
sic
pallida
vitam
Ducit
,
&
exigni
se
oblectat
floribus
Horti
.
Thus
Englished
.
This
Maid
(
of
Meurs
)
hath
thirty
sixe
yeare
spent
.
Fourteene
of
which
she
tooke
no
nourishment
,
Thus
pale
and
wan
shee
sits
(
sad
and
alone
)
A
garden
is
all
she
loues
to
looke
vpon
.