of that land vpon the waters into _Iudea_. But many following his
counsell, perished: the rest admonished by that destruction, turned
back, accusing their folly; and when they made enquiry for this guide,
to haue rewarded him according to his desert, was no where to be found,
whereof they conceiued hee was a Diuell in Mans likenesse. And such an
one [m]was that merry (but malicious) spirit, who walked for a long time
in Saxony, and was very seruiceable, clothed in country apparrell, with
a cappe on his head, delighted to conuerse and talke with the people, to
demaund questions, and answer what he was asked, hurting none, except
iniured before, and then declared himselfe a right diuell in reuenge.

[Footnote l: _Socrates Histori[e,] ecclesiast. lib. 7. cap. 38. &
historia Tripar. lib. 12. cap. 9._]

[Footnote m: _Chronicon Hirsangiense._]

[n]The late Discoueries and Nauigations made into the west Indies, can
furnish vs with abundant testimonies hereof, in which the mindes of the
inhabitants are both terrified & their bodies massacred by his visible
sight, and cruell tortures; yet (which is the opinion of many learned)
he cannot so perfectly represent the fashion of a mans body, but that
there is some sensible deformity, by which hee bewrayeth himselfe; as
his [o]feete like those of an Ox, a Horse, or some other beasts, clouen
houed, his hands crooked, armed with clawes, or talants like a vulture:
or some one misshapen part, wherein (though hee delight in the shape of
man, as most fitting for company and conference) is demonstrated, the
great and tender loue of God toward vs, who hath so branded this
deceiuer, that hee may bee discerned euen of those who are but of meane
capacity, and so consequently auoyded. And as in his body assumed, so in
his speech there is a defect, for it is weake, small, whispering,