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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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