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LIght (a) of the] Some read law. (b) Sister] Dido vnto hir sister Anna, when Aeneas was departed: This Virgill grounds vpon the Romaines lawes, who for all their supersti∣on, yet condemned Magick. Seruius. (d) At{que} satas] Uirg. Pharmaceute. Plin. l. 18. Duod. Tab. Hee that Enchants the corne, &c. and so in diuerse places. Pliny saith, that Uectius Marcellus, * 1.1 Nero's Harbinger had an Oliue-yeard in the Marucine fields, that remooued quite ouer the high-way, and that the whole farmes went out of their places and seated them-selues else∣where. Magick (saith Apuleius) was forbidden of old by the twelue tables because of the in∣credible bewitching of the corne. (d) Was not] So were many, by the Romaine lawes: Apollo∣nius Tyaneus by Domitian, and Apuleius by Claud. Maximus Praefect of Africa not the C•…•…∣stian. (e) Now extant] His two Apologies concerning Magicke: wherein hee leaueth all his luxurious phrase, and his fustian tearmes, and goeth to it like a plaine lawyer: yet not so well but he flies out here and there and must bee Apuleius still. (f) For all these] How could men know (saith Eusebius) how to call and compell the Deuils, but by the deuills owne teaching them? This Porphyry confesseth, and alledgeth Hecates prescription how shee should bee cal∣led out. De Orac.