A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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thing, no not so much as to hurt one[ee] bristle of a Swine. And if the
Diuell had not seduced the minde of the wicked woman, no such matter would haue beene attempted. And againe, if hee had not the Witch to bee his instrument, the Diuell were debarred of his purpose. [Footnote t: _Vlcus pessim[~u] extensiue quia per totum corpus diffusum, & intensiue, quia in eo omnis morbi & doloris comprehensio vide Mercerum in cap. 2. Iobi._] [Footnote u: _Regula Theologorum Quecunque possunt D[e,]mones possunt etiam magi & malefici eius opera, hinc & illi tempestates exitant Virgilius Ecologa 4ª._ Carmina vel c[oe]lo possunt deducere Lunam: Carminibus Circe socios mutauit Vlyssis, Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur Anguis, &c. _Et de se Iactans Medea apud Ouidium Lib. 7. Metamorphose+ô+n._ Cum volui ripis ipsis mirantibus; amnes In fontes rediere suos, concussaque sisto, Stantia concutio cantu freta, nubila pello, Nubilaque iudico. _Apud Virgilium Dido Annam sororem alloquitur._ --Mihi Massilæ gentis monstrata sacerdos, Hæc se carminibus promittit soluere mentes Sistere aquam fluvijs, & flumina vertere retro. _Et Brachmanius Nonnus Dionysiacon, lib. 36. +ouranothen katagontes epharmaxanto Selênên, astatheos phaethontes anestêsanto pareiên+ De Marco heretico & mago stupenda referunt Irenæus contra hereses. lib. * cap. 9. & Epiphanius 3. tom. lib. 1._] |
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