these that Truth transcendeth all The King 's inthron'd his Peeres about him stated To heare this strife betwixt them three debated The first begins O men who can define Vnto the full the pow'r and strength of Wine For needs must that be said to tyrannise Which tames the Strong and doth deceiue the Wise. The minde it alters and 't is that alone That makes the Scepter and the Sheep-hooke one For you in Wine no difference can see Betwixt the Poore and Rich the Bond and Free It glads the heart and makes the thoughts forget Trouble and sorrow seruitude and debt It doth inrich the minde in ev'ry thing That it remembers Gouernor nor King And causeth those who are in state most weake Not thinking of their wants of Talents speake It puts a daring in the cowards brest To loue those Armes he did before detest To draw his sword in fury and to strike Opposing his best friends and foes alike But from the Wine and when the tempest 's o're He soone forgets all that had past before Then ô you men for I 'le not hold you long Thinke Wine that can do these things is most strong He ceast the next began and thus O men Are not you strongest first by land and then By sea Are not all things in them contain'd Yours as at first vnto your vse ordain'd But yet the King is greater he rules all And is the Lord of these in generall Such as negotiate by sea or land Are but meere Vassals and at his command If he shall bid them war with least facilitie They take vp armes and run into hostilitie And if he send them against forrein Powers They breake downe Citadels demolish Towers Mountaines they with the vallies shall make ev'n Or in the dales raise structures to braue heav'n They kill or they are slaine in ev'ry thing They do not passe the precept of the King And if they ouercome by right or wtong The spoile and honour doth to him belong Nay those which do not to the battell go But stay at home to plow to till to sow The fruits of all their labours and increase They bring vnto the King to keepe their peace Yet he is but one man If he bid kill There is no sauing then much bloud they spill But if the word passe from him they shall spare To shed least bloud who 's he so bold that dare If he bid smite the smite or if he frowne And bid demolish all things are torne downe If he say Build they build or if destroy All goes to hauocke and yet he in ioy Meane time sits downe doth eat doth drinke doth sleep And all the rest a watch about him keepe Neither can any tend his owne affaires But the Kings only ev'ry man prepares To do him seruice reason too for they Dare not but his great potencie obey Then aboue others is not he most strong This hauing said the second held his tongue The third reply'd O men neither confine Strength to the potent Monarch nor to Wine Nor to the Multitude 'gainst their opinion Hath not the Woman ouer these dominion Woman into the World the King hath brought And all such people as haue Empire sought By land or sea from them had Being first Bred from their wombes and on their soft knees nurst Those that did plant the Vine and presse the juice Before that they could taste it to their vse Had from them their conception they spin they weaue Garments for men and they from them receiue Worship and honour needfull th' are no doubt As being such men cannot liue without If he hath gath'red siluer or got gold Or found out ought that 's pretious to behold Doth he not bring it to his choice Delight Her that is faire and pretious in his sight Leaues he not all his bus'nesse and affaire To gaze vpon her eyes play with her haire Is he not wholly hers doth he not bring Gold to her siluer and each pretious thing Man leaues his Father Mother Countrey all What he esteemes most deare to become thrall In voluntary bondage with his Wife To leade a priuat and contented life Which life for her he hasardeth and her 'Fore Father Mother Countrey doth prefer Therefore by these you may perceiue and know Woman to whom Man doth such seruice owe Beares rule o're you Do you not trauell sweat And toile that of your labors they may eat Man takes his sword regardlesse of his weale And Madman-like goes forth to rob and steale He sailes the seas sounds Riuers nothing feares He meets a Lion and his way he steares Through darknesse and what purchase spoile or boot Is got he prostrats at his mistresse foot This shewes his Woman is to him more deare Than he that got or she that did him beare Some haue run mad some Slaues to them haue bin Others haue err'd and perisht in their sin Do I not grant the King in pow'r is great And that all Nations homage to his seat Yet I haue seene Apame her armes twine About his necke the Kings lov'd Concubine And daughter to the famous Bartacus I haue beheld her oft times vse him thus From the Kings head to snatch the Royall Crowne And smiling on him place it on her owne Then with her left hand on the cheeke him smite Yet he hath gap'd and laught and tooke delight To see himselfe so vs'd If she but smil'd As if all pow'r from him were quite exil'd He laught on her If angry he was faine To flatter her till she was pleas'd againe 'T is you ô men whom I appeale vnto Are they not strongest then who this can do At this the King and Princes in amase Began each one on others face to gase When he proceeded thus Say ô you men Resolue me Are not Women strongest then The Earth is spatious and the Heav'n is hye And the Sun swiftly in his course doth flye For in one day the Globe he wheeleth round And the next morning in his place is found Him that made these things must we not then call Great and Truth therefore great'st and strong'st of all All the Earth calls for Truth Heav'n doth proclaime Her blessed all things tremble at her name For Truth no vniust thing at all can doo The Wine is wicked so the King is too Women are wicked all the sonnes of men Most wicked are and such must needs be then Their wicked works there is no Truth therein And wanting Truth they perish in their sin But Truth shall abide strong and still perseuer For it shall liue and reigne euer and euer With her of persons there is no respect She doth to this way nor to that reflect She knowes no diffrence what is just she loues But what 's impure and sinfull she reproues And all men fauor her good works because Her judgements are vpright and iust her lawes Shee 's the Strength Kingdome Power Dignitie And of all Ages Sov'raigne Majestie Blest be the
them faint and fly Away they ran And by this means the gods the battell wan For which those Asses which so loud had bray'd Lights though but dull were then for Cancer made Leo whose looke doth bend vnto the West Seems as he did vpon the Hydra rest Not far from Cancer in his Sphere so put His middle doth the AEstiue Circle cut And is amongst the Signes the Noblest held In greatnesse too to haue the rest excel'd Him in Nemea Iuno's said to breed In constant hope that he should after feed On Hercules whom sternly she did hate Him seeking by all means to insidiate But when they came to grapple he before Scarce thought of vnaffrighted at his rore Gaue him a braue encounter and so faire That one hand tangled in his curled haire His other on his throat he fastned sure And thus they wrestled who should long'st endure His clawes he fixt vpon Alcides Brawnes And roar'd so that he shooke the Woods and Lawnes He tore the flesh till the bare bone was seene Still the bold Heroë swell'd with noble spleene Kept fast his hold nor could the Lions grin Though terrible the least aduantage win But that he shooke him by the throat the beard Gnasht teeth 'gainst teeth and was no more afeard At length the Lion almost spent began To'abate his rage when this Heroicke man Redoubled ire on fury till asham'd A Beast by him should be so long vntam'd Although invulner'd he put all his strength Into one gripe so strangled him at length Then cast him on the ground scarce seene to sprall Being said to make an earthquake in his fall Iuno when she beheld her Lion slaine Willing his memory should still remaine Prepar'd him place in the high Architect Where to this day he keepes his sterne aspect The Virgin hath beneath Boötes sted Who seemes to driue his Chariot o're her head Towa'rds the backe part of Leo she doth shine And with her right hand touch the AEstiue Line She doth part of her body seene by chance Aboue the Crow and Hidra's head aduance Now who she was 't is fit we should enquire From Iupiter and Thetis some desire To claime her birth Some thinke and those of name She from Ascraeus and Aurora came Some that shee 's Altergatis are assur'd And others Fortune since her head 's obscur'd Some Ceres on whom Proserpine was borne As holding in her hand fresh eares of corne Others her life from Iove and Themis giue And say she in the golden World did liue As then call'd Iusta And in her yong dayes Nation'gainst Nation did not forces raise To'inuade each other no man then for gaine Dar'd in a thin rib'd barke to crosse the maine No craft was knowne no fraud was vnderstood The vdders of their cattell leant them food The Fleece their garment only to defend From winde and weather for no other end Was cloathing made Pride was a Monster then Vnheard vnthought one fashion was to men Women another for no change they knew One garb they kept and studied nothing new None idle was but liv'd by his owne sweat The brooke their drinke the herbs and roots their meat And in those dayes did Iustice reigne sole Queene Through all her Court no vice was knowne or seene The graue Nobilitie that her attended Were from the first most antient House descended And all ally'd Wisedom the Kingdome guided And for the Houshold Industry prouided Good Prouidence a man well strook in yeeres Ey'd the whole State and sate amongst her Peeres Labour was then a Lord in great request Saw nothing want and claim'd place with the best Sinceritie and Puritie in heart In Counsell sate and these did claime a part In all her iust proceedings nothing past The Table but by them was first and last Consider'd of Her Women that did wait Were faire but simple and immaculate Humilitie was one Chaste Loue another And Bashfulnesse a third These from their Mother Vertue a most vnblemisht breeding had All bent on Good as knowing nothing bad Zeale and Innocuous Truth became the State For none but such did on her person wait But when Pride first made her ascent from hell To take the Worlds suruey she 'gan to swell And in her tumerous thoughts presum'd to raigne O're the whole Earth the Aire and boundlesse Maine With insolent vaine hope to atchieue at last by force that high place whence she first was cast Of most assured victorie she vaunts When she behold her six Concomitants Gluttony Wrath Sloath Envy Auarice Lust and no one but a notorious Vice And able in their owne power to subdue Mankinde at once when they shall come in view These setting forward in this proud ostent Began to fight and conquer'd as they went Few scap'd their fury sauing those that fled And Pride since domineeres in Iustice stead Who when she saw those Fiends began to sway For all her subiects were now made their pray The earth quite left vp to the Heauen she soar'd Where by some good men she is still ador'd But reigning there in such high eminence She by no prayers can since be drawne from thence Some say Apollo did beget this Maid Of Chrisotheme and her Name is said To be Parthenon but we are not bound To credit such as write vpon no ground Others the daugher to Icarius Erigone whose story I reade thus When Bacchus trauell'd in an humane shape To reach men know the sweetnesse of the Grape And so to'encourage them to plant the Vine As then vnknowne his course he did encline After a tedious long itineration To where Icarius had his habitation With his faire Daughter he being one of qualitie Receiv'd him with such liberall hospitalitie That Liber Pater at his parting thence To shew his gratitude in recompence Left with him certain vessels fill'd and bad When he and his their full contentment had He the Grapes vertue should to others tell And by the taste shew wherein't did excell So left him After his obsequious Host From his owne Countrey to the Atticke coast Made expedition with a Cart or Waine Laden with Wine with no more in his traine Than she and his Dog Mera Those he met First with were certaine Shepheards newly set To a spare dinner Here he thought to rest But first because he would augment their feast He sent his daughter to a village by What in his Scrip was wanting to supply The Swaines all bad him welcome in a word And told him what their bottles could afford He might command coole water from the Well He thank'd them first and then began to tell What a sweet tasted juice he had in store Presuming such they neuer dranke before So bad them try and not the vertue doubt They did so and the Mazer went about No one but now on this new liquor dotes And sweares the like went neuer downe their throtes They from a taste a deeper
comming towards the bed with purpose as I thought to kill this my young Nephew pointing to a childe in the cradle but shee was hindred by finding mee here Who no sooner saw mee but shee began grieuously to threat me and came neere to strike me In which feare I began to call vpon God to helpe me whose name I had no sooner vttered but she vanished instantly and I am left here euen as you found me Whereupon her kinseman the Master of the house writ downe and keeping the Maid still with him sent to the Father Inquisitor of the place where the mother of the Guirle his Kinswoman liued in good reputation and no way suspected before whom shee was called and questioned and as the manner of that Countrey is vpon the like probabilitie and suspition put to the mercy of the Tormentor and at length shee confessed euerie particular before mentioned To which she added That she had no lesse than fifty sundry times been transported by the Diuel only with a malicious intent to kil that yong childe but she found him alwayes at her arriuall so protected by the blessings prayers of his deuout and religious Parents that she had no power at all ouer him c. To this story the Author addeth a second of one Antonius Leo a Collier by profession and dwelling in the city of Ferrara who greatly suspecting his wife to be a Witch by reason that diuers of his Neighbours informed him That she was reputed to be one of those who had nightly conuentions with the Diuel he therefore kept all to himselfe and one night aboue the rest snorting and counterfeiting a deepe and profound sleepe with which his wife being deluded rose softly from the bed and as in the former discourse daubing her selfe with an vnguent leapt out at the easement which was some three stories high and he could set no more sight of her At which he grew first strangely amased as fearing shee had desperately done it to breake her necke but hearing no cry nor apprehending any noise by her fall he then began to confirme his former suspition and in a foolish curiositie tooke the same box and did to himselfe in all respects as hee had seene her to practise before him and was immediately in the same manner hurried out at the window and in an instant found himselfe in a Noble Counts Wine-sellar where hee saw his wife with diuerse others of that Diuellish sister hood merrily gossipping and carousing deepe healths one to another who no sooner beheld so vnexpected a guest but they all suddenly vanished and the poore Collier was left alone with the cellar dore fast locked vpon him and early in the morning being found there by the Butler hee called other his fellow seruants who apprehended him as an House-breaker and Felon and brought him before their Lord. Who at length by great importunitie obtaining libertie to speak for himselfe he opened vnto the Count all the manner of the particular circumstances before related which though at first they appeared incredible yet vpon more mature consideration hee was dismissed but conditionally That he call his wife in publique question with the rest of her Associats Which he accordingly did and brought them before the Inquisitor to whom after examination they confessed not onely that but many other more notorious and diabolical acts the least of them sufficient to bring them to the stake and faggot Barthol Ronfaus telleth a strange story of a Witch in Osburch Antonius Torquinada deliuereth the like who was by Nation a Spaniard and Paulus Grillandus in his Book De Sortilegis remembreth diuers to the same purpose one of which I thought good to transferre from him and expose to your free view and censure In the yeare of Grace saith he 1524 when I was chiefe Inquisitor many of these Inchantresses and Witches were brought before me Amoâ—gst whom a certaine woman Dioecis Sabensis was a practiser of that diabolicall art of which her husband had been long suspitious and watched her so narrowly that he took her in the manner when she was busie about her infernall exercise Notwithstanding which she impudently denied it and out-faced him that she was no such woman But he as obstinat on the contrary and resolued withall not to be so deluded with a good sound cudgell fell vpon her and so be laboured her sides and shoulders till with incessant beating hee forced the truth from her and brought her vpon her knees most submissiuely to intreat his pardon which after some entreaty he seemed willingly to grant but vpon condition That she would bâ—ing him to be present and an eye-witnesse of their abhominable ceremonies vsed in their nightly Conuentions which shee faithfully promised and so they were reconciled At the next night of their meeting hee hauing ingaged his word for secrecie she brought him to the place appointed where he freely beheld the manner of their adoration done to the Diuell their sports and their dances full of many beastly postures and figures with many other strange pastimes and merriments there practised All which being ended there was a long Table couered and furnished with sundry dishes and he seated amongst them and as he saw the rest do he began to fall heartily to his victuals which somwhat distasted him as not being wel seasoned therefore looking about him for salt but spying none vpon the table he called to one that attended to fetch him a little salt But he not seeming to regard him he began to grow importunate and somewhat loud at length he brought him a small quantitie vpon the corner of a trencher which hee seeing and seeming glad thereof Mary God be thanked said he for I haue now got some salt Which words were no sooner vttered but the Table Meat Dishes Diuels Witches and Lights all vanished and hee was left there naked and alone in a desolate place But in the morning spying certaine Shepheards and demanding of them what countrey hee was in they told him In the prouince of Beneventanus belonging to the kingdome of Naples which was more than an hundred miles distant from his owne house The man though he was of a faire reuenue yet was forced to beg all the way homeward But after his tedious and difficult journey arriuing at his owne village he summoned his wife before the Magistrate with others whom he had espied and knowne at the Feast Who vpon his testimonie were conuicted and suffered according to the extremitie of the Law prouided for offences of that execrable nature I haue read of another guilty of the like curiositie who was hurried so far in one night that it cost him three yeares tedious trauell before hee could come to see the smoke of his owne Chimney To shew that these Magicall sorceries haue beene from great antiquitie and not lately crept into the world by the proditious insinuation of the Diuel me thinks I heare Medaea thus speaking Ovid Metam lib. 7. Tuque triceps Hecate
One God before the World began XIX Father Vnborne the Sonne Begot Spirit Proceeding let vs not Through their procurements And sly allurements Be stain'd with Sinne but keepe vs without spot XX. O Thou the glorious Trinitee Whose pow'rfull Works inscp'rable be Support and aid What Thou hast made And keepe our Soules from their Temptations free XXI Thou President of an vnequal'd Parity Thou Plurall Number in thy Singularity Those Diuellish Foes Still to oppose Grant vs firme Faith strong Hope and constant Charity XXII Whom Father thou hast Made do not forsake Of whom thou hast redeem'd Son pitty take Good Spirit guyde Those sanctify'd And keepe vs from the euer-burning Lake XXIII That We with Saints and Angels may Thy Honour Pow'r and Praise display Thy Glory bright Mercy and Might Within Thy New Ierusalem for ay Deus est indivise vnus in Trinitate inconfuse Trinus in Vnitate Leo Pap. THE VERTVES Ex Sumptib Gulielmi Beescom Generos THE ARGVMENT of the fifth Tractate THe Consonance and Sympathy Betwixt the Angels Hierarchy The Planets and Coelestiall Spheres And what similitude appeares 'Twixt One and Other Of the three Religions that most frequent be Iew Christian and Mahumetist Vpon what Grounds they most insist Ridiculous Tenents stood vpon In Mahomets blinde Alcaron Where he discourseth the creation Of Heav'ns and Angels A relation What strange notorious Heresies By â—the Prescillians and Manechies Were held The truth made most apparant By Text and holy Scriptures warrant The second Argument WE aime at the Coelestiall Glory Below the Moone all 's Transitorie The Vertues THree things hath God shew'd in this Worlds Creation Worthy mans wonder and great admiration In making it his Power most exquisit In ord'ring it his Wisedome infinit And in conseruing it his Goodnesse such As neuer can by man be'extold too much The Angels in the next place we confer Wi'th ' second part of this Worlds Theater Namely what reference the Seraphim Hath with the Primum Mobile Then what kin The Cherub from the Starry Heav'n doth claime Or Thrones with Saturne in what consonant frame With Iupiter the Dominations trade What 'twixt the Vertues can and Mars be made The neere similitudes that hourely run In league betwixt the Potestates and Sun With Venus how the Principates agree And with the great Arch-Angels Mercurie Last how the holy Angels are accited To be in friendship with the Moone vnited First as the Seraphims in Loues pure heate Next God himselfe in his supernall seate Still exercise their faculties and turne By that inflaming zeale by which they burne Towards His Essence so in a swift motion The Primum Mobile shewes his deuotion To the First Mouer from whence it doth take Those Vertues which the Heav'ns inferior make Go round with it the Seraph's feruor's great So That hath lasting and perpetuall heat By benefit of whose swift agitation The Heav'ns are wheel'd about it wondrous fashion Maugre of that huge Machine the great force And magnitude that still resists his course The Seraphims are sharpe so needs must be The needle-pointed Primum Mobile Which by transfusing influence we know Doth penetrate inferior Orbs below And as the Seraphims most feruent are To them in that we fitly may compare The Primum Mobile whose feruor's such And so incessant that where it doth tuch And is in hourely motion it no doubt The other Heav'ns doth whirle with it about Inflexible the Seraphims motion is So likewise is the turning round of This Which though it be as swift as thought can thinke Yet in it's course doth neither quaile nor shrinke As at a becke by power that God them gaue The Seraphims all other Angels haue So by the motion of that Primum all The motions of the Heav'n in generall Are gouern'd and vnited Seraphs be Actiue Exemplars call'd This Mobile Beares the same stile because it not alone Incites the Heav'ns to motion one by one But as a Guide least they should take the wrong Still goes before and hurries them along And as the Seraph's with Loues fire inflam'd A zeale so hot that neuer can be nam'd Ev'n so this fierie globe still without cease Gyring about doth grow to that encrease Of sultry heate the feruor by reuerses A warmth into all other things disperses But with this difference that as they their might Immediatly take from the God of Light From the twelue Revolutions it receiues What power and vertue to the rest it leaues And purg'd by labour winding in a frame Returnes still to the place from whence it came The Seraphs haue no creature that can vaunt To be aboue them as predominant Ev'n so this Orbe is next th' Imperiall Throne Gods proper Mansion and aboue it none The Seraphims for their vicinity To God are full of Diuine purity And such a fulgence through their Essence runnes That they are brighter than ten thousand Sunnes So this Orbe to the Imperiall Heauens so neere Shines by the light of that incredi'bly cleere And as these Spirits with flaming ardor burne And at no time from their Creator turne So this high Orbe by the celeritie And inextinguishable claritie Prodigall of it's Vertues doth bestow them To purge and to make perfect things below them So that all dregs and drosse consum'd and wasted They new refyn'd are in swift motion hasted Vnto their first beginning where in sweet And most mellodious harmonie they meet As Those from God immediately are Without the interpose of Minister Ev'n so from the first Moâ—er it doth take Immediate force which doth it's motion make Herein the Diuine Wisedome doth appeare That so the Angels with the Heav'ns cohere Heav'ns with the Elements conour and then These Spirits are in such a league with men And all so conjoyn'd and concatinate A Picture euery way immaculate Cherub doth in the Chaldaean tongue imply What picture fairer or more pure hath eye Beheld than the Coelestiall Firmament Imbelished and stucke with th' ornament Of so'many bright Stars luminous and cleare Incorruptibly decking euery Sphere All full of influent vertue in their places So the Cherubicke Spirits are stucke with Graces And Diuine gifts so many that indeed In countlesse number they the Stars exceed And as this Orbe is circumgyr'd and wheel'd As to the Primum Mobile forc'd to yeeld So doth the Cherubs second order moue From the first Seraph next to God in Loue. 'Twixt Saturnes Sphere and the Thrones eminence Is the like semblance and conuenience By Thrones the Seats of Monarchs are exprest On Saturnes seuenth day God himselfe did rest From his great Worke. Now Saturne is a word Which in th' Originall nothing doth afford If we together shall compare them both Saue Cease from Labor or a Sabaoth The Thrones on Loue and Veritie consist And so the Planet Saturne who so list Giue credit vnto Firmicus endues Man both with Loue and Truth prompts him to chuse Vertue good Manners Diuine Contemplation Iudgement
opinion of mans wit No certaine principle at all th' haue lent Grounded on firme and sollid argument Which Principles no sooner are deny'de But all their doctrine 's ruin'd in it's pride Therefore these Academicks did inact A Maxim held amongst themselues exact Let none dispute or into termes arise With any that the Principles denies Obserue but the Philosophers inuentions And amongst them the Fencer-like contentions Concerning the Creator of vs allâ— The Angels and the Worlds originall Some impiously and foolishly deny That there 's to gouerne vs â— Deity Others that say there is a God there are But he of humane actions takes no care And some remaine in doubt and will not know At least confesse there is a God or no. Who in his best conceptions doth not storme At their Idaea's Atoms Matter Forme Full Empty Infinite first Essence Beeing With thousands more and all these disagreeing Touching the Soule hath been more strange opinions Than now beneath the great Turke are dominions One That man hath no Soule at all will proue And that the Body of it selfe doth moue Some grant a Soule but curiously desire To haue th' essence thereof deriv'd from Fire Of Water some others of Aire compound it And some as brain-sicke as the rest would bound it In Earthly humor other Sectists dare Affirme the substance to be Fire and Aire One Heat or an hot constitution he Saith in 's great wisedome it of force must be Of the foure Elements the pure complexion Others will haue it Light or Lights reflexion One calls it restlesse Motion he a Number Mouing it selfe c. Thus one another cumber Warring with contradictions infinite As vainly too of the Soules seat they write To the braines ventricle some one confines it Come to anothers censure he assignes it Vnto the Epicranion 'Mongst the rest Epicurus makes her mansion in the brest In the Hearts arteries some say it dwells Another in the Heart and nowhere els Empedocles would haue it vnderstood The sole place she resides in is the Bloud In the whole Body others seeke to place it And with no seeming arguments out-face it Like diffrence hath amongst them been to know Whether the Soule immortall be or no. Democritus and Epicurus they Beleev'd the Soule was mortall Others say And it seemes better warranted incline To make the world beleeue it is Diuine The Stoicks held opinion with the breath All bad Soules are extinguisht ev'n in death But that the better are exalted hye To place sublime and neuer more to dye Some so ambiguous in their censures were Nothing saue doubt in all their Works appeare Then to conclude Studies that haue foundation Like these vpon mans meere imagination Than the Chamaelions are more variable Lighter than winde than the sea more vnstable Than th' Elements th' are at more deadly hate And than the Labyrinth more intricate Than th' Moon more changing Darknesse more obscure Than Women more inconstant and vnsure He then that in his best thoughts doth desire After the Truth ingeniously t' inquire And to the perfect path to be conducted May it please that man to be thus instructed Seeke not from Man but God that can dispose Who all things not from him that nothing knowes Of Truth the Scriptures plenally report Of which our weake and dull conceit comes short Note what our Sauior saith to end all strife I am the Way I am the Truth and Life Againe he saith Into the world I came To declare truth and testifie the same No wonder then if ev'n the Wisest dote Who from the Scriptures were so far remote And that the more they labour'd Truth to finde The more they were made stupid dull and blinde By muddy streames it is an easie thing To know a troubled and vnhealthfull Spring By bright and Chrystall rivelets we are sure By consequence the fountaines head is pure And in this water so refin'd and cleare Our blessed Sauior makes himselfe appeare When he thus saith as Iohn doth plainly tell To the Samaritan at Iacobs Well Who so shall of the Water drinke that I Will giue him shall no more thirst till he dye The water that I giue in him shall be A Well of water euerlastingly Springing to life eternall Now if any Of the great Doctors differ as th' are many Retire we to the Scriptures the true test To know of their opinions which sounds best Nor let their works further authoris'd bee Than punctually they with the Text agree Neither let any of his knowledge proud Dare further search than is by them allow'd From the wise men heav'ns secrets are conceal'd And vnto Infants and to Babes reveal'd Therefore let Arrogance no man delude Whilest humbly with Saint Austin I conclude Whoso shall reade this Worke where he shall finde Truth certaine let him ioyne with me in minde Where he shall doubt with me I next desire That he with me will labour to enquire If he haue err'd in iudgement and finde here To be resolv'd from hence his error cleare If he my error finde with some respect Of my good meaning let him mine correct Explicit Metrum Tractatus Noni Eatenus rationandum est donec veritas invenitur Cum inventa est Veritas ibi figendum est Iuditium in victoria Veritatis soli Veritatis inimici pereans S. Chrisost. Theologicall Philosophicall Poeticall Historicall Apothegmaticall Hierogâ—pâ—icall and Emblematicall Obseruations touching the further illustration of the former Tractat. THese Spirits of the earth or vnder the earth hauing charge of the Mines and Treasures below meethinkes should deterre men from the base sin of Auarice Aurelius calleth it the root of euill or a fountaine of euils whence as from an inundant streame flow injurie injustice Briberie Treason Murder depopulation strage ruine of Commonweales ouerthrowes of Armies Subuersion of estates wracke of Societies staine of conscience breach of amitie confusion of minde with a thousand other strange enormities The propertie of a couetous man saith Archimides is to liue all his life time like a Beggar that he may be said at his death to die rich who as he is good to no man so is hee the worst friend to himselfe and as hee passeth great trouble and trauell in gathering riches so hee purchaseth withall great danger in keeping them much law in defending but most torment in departing from them and in making his Will hee for the most part findeth more trouble to please all than hee tooke pleasure to possesse all In the purchasing of which as one ingeniously said he gets carefulnesse to himselfe enuy from his neighbour a prey for theeues perill for his person damnation to his soule curses for his children and Law for his heires Nay euen in his life time he wanteth as well what he hath as what hee hath not Moreouer all euil-gotten gaine bringeth with it contempt curses and infamy The Gluttons minde
to euery sundry Planet 445. The vainnesse of these superstitions discovered 446 All Magicke condemned at Paris 447. Of wilfull ignorance 448. Salomon of wilfull Ignorance 449. The excellencie of Knowledge 450. Of the Knowledge of our selues 451. The Poets of Selfe-knowledge 452. The difference betwixt knowledge and wisdom 453. The etymologie of Wisedome ibid The excellencie of Wisedome 454. The wisedome of the Iust ibid. The Poets of Wisedome 455. Wise and witty sayings 457. Ianus Vitalis of antient Rome 459. Sundry Apothegmes of Orators Captaines and Emperors 460. Of things prodigious 462. Of Prodegies hapning before the death of Princes 463. God made not death 464. Adam Eve and the Serpent 465. Of Spirits that challenge to themselues Diuine worship 466. The Sarronides of Gaul 467. Humane Sacrifices performed at Rome 468. The antiquitie of Magicke as being before the Floud 469. The seuerall sorts of Magicke ibid. Of the Witch Hercyra and the Magition Artesius 470. All Magicke includes a compact with the diuell 471. A strange historie of one Theophilus ibid The manner of homage done to the Diuell 472 Of Pythagoras and the Magition Iamnes 473 A story of the Count of Vestravia 474. The Witch Oenoponte and others 475. Of Spirits called Paredrij inclosed in Rings and of such as vsed them 476. Of women that haue changed their sex 477. Histories to that purpose 478. The history of Machates and Philemium 479. Spirits that haue possessed dead bodies 480. A discourse of Astrologie 481. Philosophers concerning it 482. Against Iudicatorie Astrologie 483. Of Mathesis or Mathema 484. An Emblem 485. A Meditation 488. THE CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH TRACTAT OF Daemons in generall 495 Homer Tresmegistus and others of Daemons 496 Their power and practise 497. Powers and Potestates of the aire 499. Spirits called Incubi and Succubae 500. A story of an Incubus and a Succubus 501. Spirits of the foure Elements 502. Spirits of fire and strange prodegies 503. Of Ignes fatui Ambulones c. 505. Spirits of the aire strange prodegies wrought by them 506. Spirits of the water 507. A strange historie of two Scottish noblemen 508 Of diuers great Magitions 509. Spirits of the earth Genij Lares Larvae Lemures c. 510. Discourse of Spectars 511. Further of Paredrij or Familiar Spirits 512. A pleasant story of Iohn Teutonicus ibid. A strange story of a familiar Spirit 514. Of Galeatius Sforza and others 515 c. Of Pride 519. The effects of Pride 520. Of Pambo and the pride of Domitian Caesar 522. Of Sapor King of Persia and others 523. Of Ingratitude 525 c. Of Michael Traulus and others 528. Scripture and the Poets of Ingratitude 529. Of Humilitie 530. The Fathers of Humilitie 531. The Poets of Humilitie 532. Of Gratitude 534. Histories of Gratitude 535. An Hierogliphycke 536. An Emblem 537. The Poets extolling Gratitude 538. The story of a Votaresse called Christian 539. Of the Mahumetan Neffesoglij 540. A strange accident hapning in the Diocesse of Cullein 541. A strange and miraculous Birth ibid. Diuers other strange relations ibid c. Spirits haue no power of the heauens nor starres 543. A strange tale of Spectars 544. Stories of the Spirits of the aire and of the Indian Magi 545. Strange prodigious things in the aire 546. Of Bruno Bishop of Herbipol 547. The manner how the Duke of Venice yearly marieth the Ocean ibid. A strange story of Hotherus king of Suetia and Daciae 548. Strange things of watry Spirits 549. Diuers sorts of Spirits of the earth 550. A strange disease as strangely cured 551. Of Spectra Meridiana or Noone-Diuels ibid. Discourse of Alastores 552. The Lamiae or Larvae and stories concerning them 553. A desperat aduenture of two Bohemian knights 554. An Emblem 555. A Meditation 558. THE CONTENTS OF THE NINTH TRACTAT THe power and strength of Wine 564. Of the King ibid. Of Women 565. Of Truth 566. Of Zijm Ohim Satyrs Ostriches c. 567. Of Subterren Spirits called Cobali 568 Spirits the cause of earth-quakes 569. Of treasure kept by Spirits 570. A strange attempt of a Botcher 571. A strange story of Cabades King of Persia 573. Of Spirits called Luci-fugi Hob-goblins Robin Good-fellowes Fairies c. 574. A strange story reported by Fincelius 575. Of Dacius Bishop of Mediolanum ibid. A strange story of one recouered to life 576. A pleasant story of a Spirit of the Buttry 577. Certaine marks to know good Spirits from bad 580. What shape Diuels may assume and what not ibid. How euill Spirits may be knowne 581 Of Musicke and the velocitie of the heauens and Planets 582. The ambition of man to search into hidden secrets 583. Seueral opinions of Philosophers touching God ibid. Their opinions of the Soule 585. And the immortalitie thereof 586. Of Couetousnesse 589. The Poets of Couetousnesse 590. The sordidnesse thereof 591. The power of Gold 592. The Fathers of Auarice 594. Historicall examples of Auarice 595. Couetous Emperors 596. An Hierogliphycke Emblem c. of Couetousnesse 597. The Witches of Warboys 598. Of seuerall kindes of Spirits 599. A strange story of a Nobleman of Silesia 600. Diuers stories of Sylvan Spirits 601 c. The seuen Sleepers 606. A strange story of a Spirit 607. Anton. Laverinus and the Diuell 609. Miserable ends of sundry Magitions 610. Empedocles Michael Sidecita and others 613 614. The miserable end of Cornel. Agrippa 615. An Emblem 616. A Meditation 619. FINIS Errata PAg. 9 Lin. 21. reade effect p 12 l. 4. r. one p. 14. l 13. r. Theognis p. 30. l. 4. r. summus p. 51 l. 18. adde puella p. 61 l. 20. a mistake in the star p. 148. l. 16. r. tenent p. 188. l. 1 r. Vrbem p. 190 l. 30. r. blessed p. 200 l. 7. for two r. three p. 203. l. 26 r. the other p. 212 l. 20 r. or p. 242 l. 1. then r when p. 263 l. 35. r globus p. 264 larco r. lurco nique r inque ni r. in p. 283 l. 28. r. symptoms p. 297 lâ— 31. r. flouds p. 349 l. 22 r. tye p. 382 l. 18. r. terram p. 400. l. 30. r. Acherontis p. 433 l. 10. alasâ—e r. a losse p. 439 l. 19. aine r. paine p. 485 l. vlt. r. cupessas p. 506 l. 11. r. tunnes p. 538 l. 17. r. rependere l. 24. r. medullis p. 557 l. 4. r. meus p. 574 l. 3 adde sends God in the Conscience In the Stars The Sun The Moon The Earth The Beasts Riuers Fields Seas The globe of the Earth Man Homo microcosmus Hermes Tresmâ—gist Cicer. de Nat. Deor. lib. 2. Arist. Metaph. The Poets concerning God Tit. Calphur. Eglog 4. Hor. lib. 3. Od. 4. Lucan lib 3. de Bel. Ciuil Metamor lib. 8 Petron. Arbit in Fragm Stat. Sylv. ti 5. Meaning the Angels Arist. ad Antip. AEneas Numa Pompil Virg. AEnead Epirus Brennus Sacriledge punished Religion from the beginning The multiplicitie of gods among the Gentiles * As twice borne Priap god of
Philosophy In Magick Lucius Apul. de Deo sacrat ex Beat Thom. part 1. G. 41. Art 1. Homer Arnob. in Ps. 36 Hermes Thermegistus Cipr. de Idoler vanitat Div. Thom. 3. Met. lib. 12. Tex 10. Dr. Strozâ— l. de Spir. lucant Iob. cap. 1. Meaning his Wife whom some Rabbies thinkâ— to be Dinab the Daughter of Iacob rauished by Sychem c Acts. Apost Eustr â— 1. moral 1. Cor. c. 2. v. 7 8 Ambr. sup Cor. cap. 2. Meaning the Daemons or Potestats of the Aire Simplicis ergo viae Dux est Deus Ille per vnum Ire jubet mortale genus quam dirigit Ipse c. Lib. 2. Cont Symach Spirits called Incubi Succubae Scotus These were Henricus Iustitor Iacobus Sprangerus Rottemb a Towne in vpper Germanyâ— A History of an Incubus Vincent lib. 3. Hist. An History of a Succubus Of that kind of Spirits you shall read in the Sequell Seuerall kinds of Spirits according to Marc. sup Psel Spirits of Fire Three Moones seene at once with a bearded Comet This appeared Annâ— 1514. A strange History of fiery Spirits Anno 1536. Mar. 21. This hapned after the mouÌ„taine had lest burning Ignes Fatui or Ambulones Helena Castor and Pollux Okumantâ—ia Onichomanteia Libonomantia Capnomantia Pyromantia Thurifumia Of the Spirits of the Aire Wooll tained This hapned Anno 931. Fish Graine fel froÌ„ the aire Two straunge Tombes Of Sepater the Magitian Iob cap. 1. Of the Finnes and Laplands Ericus King of the Goathes Of the Archimage Zoâ—oaster AEromantia Terotoscopeia OrnithomaÌ„tea Of the Spirits of the Water Fatae Feé Sybils white Nymphs Night-Ladies The Feasts of Numa Pompil The Nymphe AEgaerea The Feasts of Scotus Parmensis The Feast of the Brackmana and of Pet Albanus Pasaetis two famous Magitians A strange hist. of two Scotch Noblemen Mackbeth and Banco Stuart These were Names of Honor which Mackbeth had afore receiued Banco Stuart slain by Makb Ollarus the Magitian Othim Magus Oddo Magus Spirits the cause of Deluges Alex. the 7 This hapned anno 1515. Of the Spirits of the Earth The Spirits called Genij Lares Familiars Larvae or Lemures The Hist. of an euill Genius Spirits called Spectars Origen apud Celsum The History of a Spectar Card. ex Boeth Spiritus familiores Macr. de satur Olaus Magu A pleasant History of Iohn Teutonicus A place in high Germany Iobus Reply This was done Anno 1612. A strange History of one of these familiar Spirits Barn Arlun sec. 1. Hist. Med. The Letter Gilbert Cogn lib. 8. Narrat Of Pride Isiod l. Etimolâ— Epist. ad Diosâ— Aug in Reg. Hug. lib. â— de Anim. Cass. supr Ps. 18. Philosophicall Sentences Artabanus to Xerxes Apothegmes Pambo The Pride of Domitian Caesar Of Sabor K. of Persia. Lib. 2. cap. 1. de devin Institut advers gentes Prov. 17. Psal. 102. Valer. lib. 5. de Iâ—gratis Of Humility Cap. 5. Math. 18.19 Aug. ad Diosc. Lib 3. Similitudines Of Gratitude Lib. 7. cap. 3. Apothegmes Lib. 12. cap. 24. De vâ—ria Hist. lib. 4. Sabell Exemp lib. 7. cap. 1. Hierogliphick Emblem D. Strozza In vitis Patr. A Woman of Constance Miraculous Stories A strange and miraculous Birth Alcippe Hist. Scotia l. 8. A strange History of a Scotch Lady Anno 1586. A straunge thing of a woman at Sea Of the Spirits call'd Succubi A strange thiÌ„g of a French Gentleman Bonfinâ—us Iordan Gothus Of the Spirits of Fire Aug. Cont. Manichees de Agon Christ. Deuination from Thunder Lightning Cardanus A strange tale of Spectars The maner of Deuination by Pyromancy Diuination by the sacrificing Fire Of the Spirits of the Aire Iob. 1. Remigius Delrius Of a countrey Maid Gasp. Spitellus The Indian Magi. Hier. Mengius A prodigious noise in the Aire Diod. Sicul. Olaus Magnus Their power in the CirciuÌ„ sea Vestrabor Norway Boâ—hnia Bonauentum and Narbon Vincentius Vincentius Auentinus Bruno Bishop of Herbipol Of the Spirits of the Water Villamont l. 1. Peregrin c. 34. Sabel Dec. â— l. 7. A strange History of Hotheruâ— K. of Suetia and Dacia The Emperor Pertinax Sâ—heâ— lib. â— Zonarus Isaaccius Comnenes A strange Water in Finland A Lake neere Cracouia Alex. ab Alex. Sabell lib. 7. Of the Spirits of the earth Man consisting of 3 parts The Genius of Constantine Emperor A strange History of a Melancholy man A strange Disease as straÌ„gely cured Noon-Diuâ—ls S. Bartholmew Simon Iude. Alastores Pet. Diac. lib. 9. rerum Romanarum Egob in Chronic. An Alaster like an old Woman Apparitions before Henry the 7. emperor Cassius Parm. The Lamiae or Laruae Dion of Syracusa Drusus Consul of Rome Iacobus Donatus Venetus Stephanus Hubnerus Nider lib. vltim Formic The desperat aduenture of two Knights of Bohemia Nature hath giuen to man no better thing than Death Pliny Degeneres Animos timor arguit Virg. AEnead lib. 4. Quantumquisque timet tantum fâ—git Petr. Arbit Satyr Tunc plurima versat Pessimus in dubijs Augur Timor Stat. lib. 3. Theban Miserimâ—m est timere cum Speres nihil Seneca in Troad * The Houres 1. Esdr. c. 3. v. 10. The Power Strength of Wine The Power and Strength of the King The Power and Strength of Women The Power Strength of Truth aboue all things Esay 13.21 Cap. 34.11 This is a Marginall note in the Geneua translation Zijm Iijm Okim c. Subterren Spirits Olaus Magnus lib. â— cap. 10. Cobali The diuel called Anneberg The Diuel Snebergius Spirits the cause of earthquakes Strange earthquakes In Constant. In DyrrachiuÌ„ In Rome Anno 361. In the Eastern parts In Antioch In Illiria Pannonia Dalmatia Morauia Bauaria Dacia Auentinus reports this of Bauaria superior Conrad Medenb Philos. Mathem Of Treasure hid in the Earth kept by Spirits As Psellius As Laureat Ananias This is the opinion of D. Vlatius Treuirensis A strange attempt of a Botcher This place is called Angusta Raura Cora. Peke-hils in Darby-shire Ouky hole in Summerset shire So reported by Luciginus and Philostratus And. Theuerus A strange History of Cabades King of Persia. D. Faustus and Cornel. Agrip. Of spirits called Lucifugi Iohn Milesius Pugs Hobgoblins Robin good-fellow Fairies Reported by Sueton. Tranq Plin. in Epist. A strange story reported by Fincelius Georg. Tauronensis of Datius Bishop of Mediolanum A strange History of one recouered to Life Enapius remembred by Plutarch A strange History of the Spirit of the Buttry Certain marks by which good Spirits are distinguished from the bad What shapes diuels may assume what they cannot Their actions A special mark to know euill Spirits by Athanasius Lactantius Of Musicke A Coelo Symphonia The velocitie of the heauens and planets The ambition of Man to search into hidden Arts. Plenâ—i vâ—cuâ—â— Iob cap. 38. Cor. cap. 3.16 Iob 5.13 Eccles. 8. The Academicks The Pyrhonicks Contra negantem principia non est disputandum c. Diag Milesius Theod. Cyrenus Epicurus Protagoras Opinions concerning the Soule Crâ—â—es Theban Hypocrates Lysippus Hippâ—as Anâ—xag Diâ—g Hâ—siodus Epic. Boethius Ant. Cleantâ—es Zeâ—â— Diarch Galenus Chrisip Archel Heraclitus Thales Xenocrates Of the Seat of the Soule Hippocrates Hierophilus Erasiâ—tratus Diogen Chrisip Cum Stoicis Emped Arist. Plato Concerning the Immortality of the Soule Pythagoras Plato The Stoicks Aristotle He that would find the truth let him search the Scriptures Aug. de Trinitat lib. 1. cap. 3. Aurel. Imperat. Against Couetousnes The Poets of Couetousnes Prov. cap. 11. Cap. 15. Cap. 28. Eccles cap. 5. Ibid. 14. The Fathers of Avarice Historicall Examples Brusonius lib. 1. c. 1. ex Plut. Stob. serm 10. Max. serm 12. Caligula Comnodus Hierogliphick Emblem 85. Apologus The Witches of Warboys in Huntington shire Macrob. lib. 1 satur cap. 18. A straÌ„ge story of a NoblemaÌ„ of Silesia A strange Vision of Syluane Spirits Sabell lib. 1. c. 4. A stranhe History of a Syluane Spectar Another recorded by Fincelius Gaspin Meng in CompeÌ„dio Mantuae A yong man beloued of a Spirit A yong Maid beloued of a Spirit Of another Maid of Bonnonia Onomonteia Arithmanteia Stoicheiomanteia This History I receiued from D. Strozza lib. de Incant These questioÌ„s haue been diuersly argued The names of the 7 sleepers Paulus Diac. Necessary obseruations D. Strozza Remedâ—es against the teÌ„ptations of the Diuell Anton. Lauer. Tobit c. 8. v. 3. The miserable ends of notorious Magitians Simon Magus Nicenus of Simon Magus Zito the Bohemian a cuÌ„ning Iugler A triall of skill betwixt two Magitians This story is reported by an ItaliaÌ„ Doctor Of Zedech a Iew a great Magitian Polidor Virgill The miserable end of Empedociss Mich. Sidesita a Sorcerer Of Eumus an English Magitian and his wretched end Scafius the Magition A Magition of Nuburch The miserable end of Cornel. Agrippa Levit. 20. v. 6. SERAPH Vriel CHERVE Iophiel THRONES Zaphkiâ—l DOMINAT Zadkiel VERTVES Haniel POWERS Raphael PRINCIP Chamael ARCHANGELL Michael ANGELL Gabriel
griefe cherish And in his minde growes witty how to perish But Wretch remoue the Visard and that terror Before so horrid thou shalt finde vaine error A Meditation vpon the former Tractate I. TO rip vp Gods great Counsels who shall striue Or search how far his hidden works extend Into the treasure of his wonders diue Or thinke his Maiestie to comprehend These things are granted vnto none aliue For how can such as know not their owne end Nor can of their beginning reason show Presume his Pow'r aud Might vnspeakable to know II. If He should say Weigh me the weight of Fire Or striue to call backe Yesterday that 's past To measure out the Windes I thee desire Or search the dwellings of the Ocean Vast How the Seas flow or how their Ebbes retyre Or in what moulds the Sun and Moone were cast Whence thou hadst life and fashion in the wombe Or wherfore born thence now to seek a second tomb III. Sure thou wouldst answer Fire cannot be weigh'd Or if What ballance can the heat sustaine And of the Windes what measure can be made For I shall striue t' imprison them in vaine And how the chambers of the Depth are layd Which none hath seene that hath return'd againe Or who the Houres already past can summe Or by his art preuent those seasons are to come IV. How should I frame a Modell so capatious In which to cast the body of the Sunne Or of the Moone so infinitely spatious Or truly tell the courses that they run Neither can humane wit proue so audatious To question of his end e're he begun Neither with our weake sence doth it agree To find how meere from nothing we first came to bee V. If of the Fire which thou dost hourely try If of the Winde which blowes vpon thy face If of the Day which dayly passeth by And what is now to morrow hath no place Or those bright Planets mouing in the sky Which haue Times Daughters in perpetuall chase Or if the Seas abisse thou canst not sound To search whose chanels yet there neuer line was found VI. If of thy selfe thou canst no reason show By all the vnderstanding thou canst claime How in the wombe thou first beganst to grow Or how thy life into thy body came Yet all these things to be we see and know They lie before vs and we giue them name But if we cannot show the reason why How can we search the mysteries of the most Hye VII Number we may as well the things to come Gather the scatter'd drops of the last raine The sands that are vpon the shore to summe Or make the wither'd Floures grow fresh againe Giue the Mole eyes or speech vnto the Dumbe Or with small Vessels th' Ocean striue to dâ—aine Tell all the glorious stars that shine by night Or make a Sound or Voice apparant to the sight VIII The Forrest of it's lofty Cedars prowd Whose spatious boughes extended neere and far And from the earth the Sun aid seeme to cloud Much glorying in it's strength thinks none should bar His circumscribed limits therefore vow'd Against the mighty Ocean to make war Calling a Councell of each aged Tree Who with vnanimous consent thereto agree IX Like counsell did the curled Ocean take And said Let vs rise vp against the Land Let 's these our spatious borders larger make Nor suffer one tree in his place to stand The Earths foundations we haue pow'r to shake And all their lofty mountaines countermand Much honour by this conflict may be had If we to these our bounds can a new Countrey add X. Yet was the purpose of the Forrest vaine For a Fire came and all the Woods destroy'd And 'gainst the raging practise of the Maine Sands interpos'd and it 's swift course annoy'd Some Pow'r there was which did their spleens restrain For neither of them their intents enioy'd 'Twixt these I make thee Vmpire vse thy skill Which canst thou say did well or which of theÌ„ did ill XI Both their intents were idle thou wilt say And against Nature that they did deuise The Woods were made within their bounds to stay And therefore to transgresse them were vnwise The Seas that quiet in their channels lay And would so proud an action enterprise Be thou the judge betweene each vndertaker Whether they both rebelled not 'gainst their Maker XII For as the Earth is for the Woods ordain'd Fixt there not to remoue their setled station And as the Flouds are in their shores restrain'd But neither to exceed their ordination So must all Flesh in frailty be contain'd For so it hath been from the first Creation And only the things heauenly vnderstand Who are in heav'n and prest at Gods almighty hand XIII If then things supernaturall we finde The depth whereof we cannot well conceiue So abdite and retruse from Mans weake minde Them we into our frailty cannot weave As what 's aboue Capacitie assign'd Those to the first Disposer let vs leaue What 's common amongst men is knowne to all But we may faile in those things metaphysicall XIV But be it euer our deuout intention To be so far remote from all ambition That whatsoeuer's aboue apprehension If it be true and of Diuine condition To quarrell with it in no vaine dissention But rather yeeld hereto with all submission Man made of earth to Earth God did confine Grace from aboue is the free gift of Pow'r Diuine XV. This Grace is the third Person in the Trinitie The second Wisedome and the first all Power To whom that we may haue more free affinitie Let vs submit vs henceforth from this hower And that we may attaine to true Diuinitie Pray That they will their mercies on vs shower Here in this life from Sathan vs defend And after bring vs to that joy which hath no end Crux pendentis est Cathedra docentis S. Augustine THE ANGELL Thom Hammon Armig Rich Gethinge M of the pen. THE ARGVMENT of the ninth Tractat. TO Spirits call'd Lucifugi From shunning Light I next apply My neere-tyr'd Pen of which be store In Mines where workmen dig for Oare Of Robin Good-fellow and of Fairies With many other strange Vagaries Done by Hob-goblins I next write Of a Noone-Diuell and a Buttry-Sprite Of graue Philosophers who treat Of the Soules essence and her seat The strange and horrid deaths related Of learn'd Magitians animated By Sathan the knowne truth t' abiure And study Arts blacke and impure Of Curious Science last the vanity Grounded on nothing but incertainty And that no Knowledge can abide the Test Like that in Sacred Scripture is exprest ¶ The second Argument THe Angell vnto Man knowne best As last of Nine concludes the rest The Angell THree Yong-men of Darius Court contend What thing should strongest be One doth commend Wine to haue chiefe dominion The other sayes The King hath prime place And the third doth praise The pow'r of Women to make others thrall But aboue